Herbert Baumann (composer)

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Herbert Karl Wilhelm Baumann (born July 31, 1925 in Berlin ; † night from January 20 to 21, 2020 in Munich ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

As the son of a businessman, Baumann graduated from the Schillergymnasium in Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1943. After attending school, Baumann was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the age of 18 and hit by shrapnel during the war. He experienced the end of the war in Bavaria . When he returned to his hometown Berlin, he followed his father's wish to study architecture . With his consent, he moved a short time later to the "International Music Institute Berlin". His basic studies ended in 1947 with an engagement as director of incidental music at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . He continued to study composition with Paul Höffer and later with Boris Blacher . He became a theater musician and remained so for thirty years. In 1970 Baumann made the leap to Munich to the Residenztheater .

By 1963 he had written 45 music for the stage. Today there are more than 500 in total. In addition, between 1957 and 1983 he composed the music for six feature films and 30 television films, including multi-part series. Even if stage and film music form the center of his musical activity, he has also made a name for himself as an instrumental composer . In 1998 the "Herbert Baumann Foundation" was set up to promote music.

The entire oeuvre (manuscripts, printed works, CDs, etc.) can be viewed at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and some can also be borrowed. Furthermore, in the German National Library (Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt / Main) all printed works u. a. to find. See also Bielefeld catalog . A monograph has been published by Hans-Schneider-Verlag, Tutzing, in the series “Composers in Bavaria”. In May 2013, Allitera-Verlag published “Duetto Concertante / Herbert and Marianne Baumann - a composer's life” by Daniele Weidenthaler.

Honors

Works

  • Chamber Concerto No. 1 for flute , oboe and string instruments , 1948 (Verlag Edition 49)
  • Spanish dances for orchestra, 1950
  • Music for orchestra, 1951 (Verlag Edition 49)
  • Chamber Concerto No. 2 for violin, string orchestra and harpsichord, 1951 (Verlag Edition 49)
  • Sonata for 3 recorders , 1953 (Verlag Lienau)
  • Italian Suite for Orchestra, 1955 (Edition 49)
  • Rotor for orchestra, 1956 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Mexican Suite for Orchestra, 1959 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Duetto concertante per flauto dolce e chitarra (1959), arranged by Siegfried Behrend
  • String quartet in C, 1961 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Robin Hood for orchestra, 1961 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Saarland plucked music, 1962 (Trekel, Hamburg)
  • Allegro capriccioso for piano and orchestra, 1963 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Cantata for Peace (previously: Berlin cantata, text; Mattias Braun) (commissioned for the opening of the new theater of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin)
  • The Thieves' Ball, 1965 (Bote & Bock / Boosey & Hawkes)
  • Romeo and Juliet in the village for orchestra, 1968 (Edition 49)
  • Zupfmusik '73, 1973 (Trekel, Hamburg)
  • Toccata concertante for orchestra, 1974 (Edition 49)
  • Introduction and Allegro for violone (double bass) and guitar, 1979
  • Alice in Wonderland, Ballet , 1984 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Variations on a Theme by Handel, 1985 (Bärenreiter, Kassel)
  • Rumpelstiltskin, Ballet, 1986 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Verses for two cellos, 1989 (Sikorski, Hamburg)
  • Concerto Capriccioso for solo mandolin and plucked orchestra, 1989 (Edition 49)
  • Syncopation for string orchestra, 1988 (Verlag Kral)
  • Würzburg Concerto for 2 Guitars and String Orchestra, 1991 (Edition 49)
  • Sequences for plucked orchestra, 1993 (Edition 49)
  • Birds, Fruits and Wind for guitar and plucked orchestra, 1995 (Edition 49)
  • Sydney Overture for plucked orchestra, 1998 (Edition 49)
  • Gioco per due for oboe and bassoon, 2014 (Verlag Neue Musik)
  • Con un corale - for organ, 2005 (Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin)
  • Con un 'arietta, 2015 (trumpet solo, Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin)
  • Fratelli (for two cellos, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin)
  • Polyhedron (plucked orchestra - Verlag Edition 49)
  • Fiamme (Mandola and Plucked Orchestra - Verlag Edition 49)
  • Prisma (flute and plucked orchestra - Edition 49)
  • The Blue Rabbit (a modern fairy tale for speakers and plucked orchestra - Text: Herbert Baumann - Edition 49)
  • The dissatisfied snowman (speaker and plucked orchestra - text: Herbert Baumann - Grenzland-Verlag)
  • About the miller's boy from whom a farmer took his horse, 1968 (speaker and plucked orchestra - text: Herbert Baumann - Verlag Trekel, Hamburg)
  • The cheap roast goose, 1966 (speaker and plucked orchestra - text: Herbert Baumann - Verlag Trekel, Hamburg)
  • Divertimento in D "In my father's garden" (Plucked orchestra - Trekel Verlag, Hamburg)
  • Japanese Impressions (Plucked Orchestra - Edition 49)
  • Cantata for Peace (commissioned for the opening of the New Theater of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin <1965> Words: Mattias Braun) (original title: Berliner Cantata WP 1965)
  • Further works at Sikorski Hamburg; Edition 49; New Music Publishing House, Berlin; Trekel and other publishers (see list in Volume 32 / Herbert Baumann of the series of monographs "Composers in Bavaria" and in the publication of Allitera-Verlag "Duetto Concertante - Herbert and Marianne Baumann, a composer's life" <Author Daniela Weidenthaler>)
  • Numerous CDs: Bella musica / Thorofon, Vogt & Fritz and various others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Herbert Baumann. Retrieved January 10, 2014 .