Ignaz Roar

Ignaz Roar

Ignaz Brüll's grave in Vienna's central cemetery

Ignaz Brüll (born November 7, 1846 in Proßnitz , Moravia , † September 17, 1907 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and pianist .

Life

Ignaz Brüll came from a highly musical family: his father was a trained baritone , his mother a pianist. Since around 1854 Brüll has been taking piano lessons from his mother. Other teachers of Brüll were Julius Epstein (piano), Johann Rufinatscha and Felix Otto Dessoff (composition).

In 1860 Brüll made his debut as a pianist in Vienna and enjoyed immediate success. But after touring abroad with his own compositions, he gave up the career of a concert pianist in favor of composing. Between 1872 and 1878 he worked as a pedagogue at the Horak piano schools . In 1881 he was appointed artistic director there. In 1882 Brüll married the banker's daughter Marie Schosberg. With her he had two daughters. He had a lifelong friendship with Johannes Brahms . His grave, designed by Oskar Marmorek , is in the Vienna Central Cemetery and there in the old Jewish cemetery.

With Brüll's composition Das goldene Kreuz , an opera that was a great success, the rest of his oeuvre takes a back seat.

Compositions

Stage works

• The beggars of Samarkand . Opera. Libretto : Otto Prechtler. Premiere 1864 Vienna
• The golden cross . Opera in 2 acts (op.27). Libretto : Salomon Hermann Mosenthal . Premiere December 22, 1875 Berlin ( Royal Opera House )
• The peace . Opera (op. 30). Libretto: Salomon Hermann Mosenthal. Premiere October 4, 1877 Vienna ( Court Opera )
• Bianca . Opera. Libretto: Adolf Schirmer. Premiere 1879 Vienna
• Queen Mariette . Opera (op. 40). Libretto: Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée . Premiere 1883 Vienna
• A girl from Champagne . Ballet. Libretto: Alfred Maria Willner . Premiere 1886
• The stone heart . Opera (op.55). Libretto: Joseph Victor Widmann . Premiere 1888 Vienna
• Gringoire . Opera (op.66). Libretto: Victor Léon . Premiere March 19, 1892 Munich ( Court Opera )
• Chess to the king . Opera (op. 70). Libretto: Victor Léon. Premiere 1894 Munich
• Gloria . Opera. Libretto: Guido Menasci. Premiere 1896 Hamburg (conductor: Gustav Mahler )
• The hussar . Opera (op. 79). Libretto: Victor Léon. Premiere 1896 Vienna

Other works

• 2 piano concerts
• Chamber music works

literature

• Werner Bollert:  Roar, Ignaz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 664 ( digitized version ).
• Hermine Schwarz: Ignaz Brüll and his friends. Memories of Brüll, Goldmark and Brahms. Foreword by Felix Salten , Rikola, Vienna 1922, DNB 940590336 .
• Hartmut Wecker: The Epigone. Ignaz Brüll - a Jewish composer in the Vienna Brahms circle Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1994, ISBN 3-89085-919-4 (also dissertation at the University of Marburg 1991).

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Brüll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ignaz Brüll in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Website dedicated to Ignaz Brüll
• Roar, Ignaz . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Literature by and about Ignaz Brüll in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Ignaz Brüll in the International Music Score Library Project