Hugo Daffner

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Hugo Daffner (born June 2, 1882 in Munich ; † October 9, 1936 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German composer, musicologist, writer, doctor and journalist.

Life

The son of the chief medical officer Franz Daffner and his wife Josefine Brandstetter attended high school. He initially studied medicine, then at the Academy of Music in Munich the subject of music with Ludwig Thuille and privately with Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862–1914) and Max Reger (1873–1916) and finally at the university with Theodor Kroyer and Adolf Sandberger. There he received his doctorate in 1904. phil. with the work The Development of the Piano Concerto to Mozart , published in 1906.

His first professional work as a musician was as a conductor - volunteer . At the Munich Festival and the Court Theater he worked from 1904 to 1906 as a musical assistant and solo repetiteur . In 1907 he worked as an editor for music at the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1908 Hugo Daffner became editor for music and the feature pages of the Dresdner Nachrichten . In the same year he married the royal Saxon court actress Alice Politz. In 1912 and 1913 he toured Italy and France. He then lived in Berlin for two years. In September 1915, Daffner wrote a review of Franz Marc's solo exhibition in the Sturm Gallery in Berlin for the Frankfurter Zeitung . It is the last and probably the most comprehensive tribute to the expressionist who fell before Verdun in March 1916.

As an unused he had to move out into the First World War . From 1917 he studied physics, then he resumed his medical studies. In 1920 he passed his medical exam and obtained his doctorate as Dr. med. In the same year he founded the Bund für neue Tonkunst with the businessman Paul Hölzer († 1951) .

At the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung he then resumed the position of editor for the features section and the music editor. He lived in Berlin from 1922 to 1933, in Berlin-Friedenau in Rubensstrasse. 23. Then he moved to Munich.

As a composer he left behind numerous works, including more than 600 songs, piano sonatas, compositions for piano and violin as well as for piano and cello, two piano trios, two piano quintets and three symphonies for large orchestra.

As a writer, he was instrumental in the founding of the German Dante Society in 1914 . From 1914 to 1927 he was its chairman and edited the Society's yearbooks. He also published reviews as well as academic treatises on music and theater. He broke with the German Dante Society and after his return to his hometown Munich in 1933 only worked as a composer. Since the National Socialists did not like his works, he was sent several times to the Dachau concentration camp for "re-education", where he died in 1936 under unexplained circumstances. In his memory, on July 26, 2019, at his last place of residence, Munich, Ickstattstr. 17, a memorial plaque attached.

Works

Compositions (selection)

  • "Sonata for Organ", op. 1, 1911
  • "3 pieces for piano 4 hands", op. 9, 1910
  • "Sonata for Piano", op. 15, 1913
  • "Sonata for violoncello and piano", op. 18, 1909
  • "Symphony No. 2", op. 20, 1913
  • "Piano Trio in F major", op. 10, 1909

Fonts

  • The development of the piano concerto up to Mozart . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1906
  • University and Musicology. A memorandum . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1910
  • Friedrich Nietzsche's marginal glosses on Bizet's Carmen . Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1912
  • Salome . Your figure in history and art. Poetry - Fine Arts - Music . Hugo Schmidt Verlag, Munich 1912
  • On the psychopathology of Königsberger Mucker , in: Archive for Psychiatry, Volume 67, Issue 2 and 3, 1923
  • A Munich value heriad. Fanni von Ickstatt's fall from the Munich women's tower in 1785 . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1928
  • Shakespeare's suicide . Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1928

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? , Berlin 1935
  • Art. Daffner, Hugo . In: Music in the past and present
  • Walter Goetz: History of the German Dante Society and the German Dante research . Weimar 1940, pp. 45-55.
  • Ruppert Rentz: Hugo Daffner: Traces beyond the middle of life. 'A German Requiem' . In: Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 84, 2009, pp. 8–24.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Zeitung of September 30, 1915, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Hans Huchzermeyer: Contributions to the life and work of the church musician Ernst Maschke (1867–1940) and to the history of the church music institutes in Königsberg / Prussia (1824–1945) . Diss. University of Paderborn, 2012, p. 102.
  3. ↑ Joachim Leeker: 85th Annual Meeting of the German Dante Society in Mainz (2008) , accessed on September 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Journal Index (PDF; 389 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Daffner, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, writer, doctor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1936
Place of death Dachau concentration camp