Hugo Röhr

Hugo Röhr (1905)

Hugo Röhr (born February 13, 1866 in Dresden , † June 7, 1937 in Munich ) was a German composer .

Life

The student of Franz Wüllner , A. Blaßmam and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden Conservatory first worked as a solo coach at the court opera there in 1886 and as a conductor at the Augsburg City Theater in 1887/88 . In 1888/89 he worked at the Hoftheater Kassel, then at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague and from 1890 to 1892 in Breslau , where he married the later famous soprano Sophie Röhr-Brajnin and, especially from 1897, accompanied her piano recitals in Munich. From 1892 to 1896 he was the first Kapellmeister at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, from where he was appointed to the Munich Court Theater in 1896 as the successor to Hermann Levi and in 1899 was appointed Hofkapellmeister. There he made himself known as a composer through his secular oratorio "Ekkehard", which he performed in 1901 and 1902 in the famous concerts of the "Musical Academy". In 1904 he launched his first opera "The Lord's Prayer" based on a text by Ernst von Possart at the Munich Court Theater. In 1922 he was appointed to the Academy of Music, where he received the title of professor after a year and worked as a conducting teacher until 1934 and directed the opera school and orchestra exercises. There included Otto Schulman , Heinz Schubert , Paul Kühmstedt , Henry Suter champion and Paul Ben-Haim to his students. Between 1911 and 1914 he headed the Munich teachers choir.

He composed three operas , vocal and chamber music .

Operas

• The Lord's Prayer , premiered May 14, 1904 Munich
• Frauenlist , WP 1917 Leipzig
• Coeur-Dame , Premiere 1927 Munich

Vocal works; secular oratorio "Ekkehard" 1900 WP Innsbruck (very successful)

Web links

• Works by Hugo Röhr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Hugo Röhr in the International Music Score Library Project

student

• Fanny Pracher