Helmut Bräutigam (composer)

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Helmut Bräutigam (born February 16, 1914 in Crimmitschau , Saxony, † January 17, 1942 near Veliky Novgorod , Russia) was a German composer .

Life

Helmut Bräutigam was a son of Paul Bräutigam, who was the cantor at the Johanniskirche in Crimmitschau. He began taking instrumental lessons at the age of seven. Ultimately, he could play the violin , piano , organ , viola , cello and some wind instruments. Sometimes he was singing, playing and directing himself in his father's concerts. His real talent was only recognized in 1930, at a concert in the St. Marien Church in Zwickau .

Helmut Bräutigam passed his Abitur in 1934 at the Julius-Motteler-Gymnasium Crimmitschau as the best in his year. In the same year he began studying music at the Leipzig State Conservatory . One of his teachers was Johann Nepomuk David . From 1936 he worked with the youth radio of the Reichsender Leipzig and with the Saxon folk song archive. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . From 1938 he was head of the HJ radio game group at Leipziger Rundfunk. In addition, he worked from 1938 to 1939 as a teacher at the music school for youth and people. On May 25, 1938, his Drei Gesänge for six-part choir based on ancient Greek poems was premiered by the National Socialist Student Association as part of the Reichsmusiktage . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he became a single leader on behalf of the OKW and finally had the rank of non-commissioned officer. He was in France until the end of 1941, but was transferred to the Eastern Front and took part in the war against the Soviet Union . In January 1942 he was killed in the war.

Works

Overall, Helmut Bräutigam created over 480 musical works, mainly between 1930 and his death, as well as poems and extensive collections of folk songs.

Honors

A street in Crimmitschau was named after Helmut Bräutigam.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 690–691.
  2. a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 71.
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