Józef Koffler

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Józef Koffler (1931)

Józef Koffler (born November 28, 1896 in Stryj , Austria-Hungary ; died 1944 in Krosno ) was a Polish composer , music teacher and music journalist .

Life

Koffler studied from 1914 to 1916 in Lemberg and from 1918 to 1924 music in Vienna . His teachers were Paul Graener and Felix Weingartner . In 1923 he received his doctorate from Guido Adler with his thesis On orchestral coloristics in the symphonic works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy . From 1928 to 1941 he taught in Lviv, which had belonged to Poland since 1918 . As a twelve-tone composer at the Lemberg Conservatory, he was given an extraordinary chair for atonal harmony and composition. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was one of his students from 1937 to 1940 . Koffler was a protagonist of Polish avant-garde music. Koffler also orchestrated, for example the Goldberg Variations by JS Bach for chamber orchestra.

The exact date of death is not certain. In June 1941, the Germans invaded eastern Poland. Koffler and his family were arrested and taken to the Wieliczka ghetto . When the ghetto was dissolved in 1944, Koffler went into hiding, but was found and murdered with his family by a German task force in the Krosno area.

Many of Koffler's works have been lost as a result of the events of World War II.

List of compositions by date and opus number

  • Slavic chants ("Chanson Slave") (before 1918)
  • Two songs for soprano and piano op.1 (1917)
  • Overture Hanifa Op. 2 (lost)
  • Oriental Suite op.3 (lost)
  • Idyll ("Sielanka") for chamber orchestra op. 4 (lost)
  • String Quartet op.5 (lost)
  • 40 Polish Folk Songs, Op. 6 (1925)
  • Ballet music ("Musique de ballet") op. 7 (1926)
  • Music. Quasi una sonata op.8 , dedicated to Karol Szymanowski (1927)
  • 15 variations on a twelve-tone series ("15 variations d'après une suite de douze tons") op. 9 (1927)
  • String trio op.10 (1928)
  • 1st Symphony op.11 (1930)
  • Sonatina op.12 (1930)
  • 15 variations on a twelve-tone series op.9a, string version of Opus 9 (1931)
  • Piano concerto op.13 (1932)
  • Cantata Die Liebe for voice, viola, violoncello and clarinet op. 14 with a text from the 1st Corinthians "Ode to the love of the saint" Paulus (1931)
  • Ballet oratorio Alles durch MOW for dancers, soprano and baritone solo, choir and orchestra op.15 (1932)
  • Divertimento ("Little Serenade") for oboe, clarinet and bassoon op. 16 (1931, lost)
  • 2nd Symphony op.17 (1933)
  • Capriccio for violin and piano op.18 (1936)
  • Piano Sonata op.19 (1935, lost)
  • String Quartet op.20 (1934, lost)
  • 3rd Symphony op.21 (1935)
  • Quatre poèmes for violin and piano op.22 (1935)
  • Variations on a Waltz by Johann Strauss op.23 (1935)
  • Arrangement of Polish Christmas carols for choir (1934–1936)
  • Polish Suite for Chamber Orchestra op.24 (1936)
  • Small suite based on the sheet music for Anna Magdalena Bach by JS Bach (around 1937, lost)
  • Instrumentation of the Goldberg Variations by JS Bach for small orchestra (1938)
  • Handeliana , 30 Variations on a Passacaglia by Handel (before 1940, lost)
  • Joyful Overture op.25 (1940, lost)
  • 4th Symphony op.26 (1940)
  • Four pieces for children ("Cztery utwory dziecięce") for piano (before 1940)
  • Ukrainian sketches ("Szkice ukraińskie") op. 27 for string quartet (before 1941)
  • Music for a scenic drama (lost)

Discography

  • Józef Koffler, Musique de ballet, Op. 7, Steffen Schleiermacher - piano, MDG MDG6131433, 1996, The Viennese School - Teachers and Followers
  • Józef Koffler, Sonatina for piano op.12, Joseph Holt, piano , Darkness & Light, Vol. 2, JDT 3086, 1182819, music in the concert of the chamber music series in the Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997.
  • Józef Koffler, Piano Works I , Sternlicht Elzbieta, piano, Acte Préalable, AP0123, 2005, front page: prof. Boguslaw Schaeffer (Polish, English French), time: 52'11 "
  • Józef Koffler, Piano Works II , Sternlicht Elzbieta, piano, Acte Préalable, AP0122, 2005, front page: prof. Boguslaw Schaeffer (Polish, English French), time: 40'32 "
  • Józef Koffler, Piano Concerto op.13, Two Songs op.1, String Quartet No. 2 op. 27 "Ukrainian Sketches", Quatre poèmes op. 22, Symphony No. 2 op. 17 , Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Christoph Slowinski, Deutschlandfunk Kultur EDA

See also

bibliography

  • Maciej Gołąb :  Koffler, Józef. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9 , Sp. 425-428 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Jerzy Freiheiter, "Józef Koffler." Muzyka 7-8 (1936): 85-86.
  • Zygmunt Folga, "Józef Koffler's twelve-tone serialism" (Dodekafonia Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 4 (1972): 65-83.
  • Maria Zduniak, "Music and Activities of Józef Koffler in the Interwar Period" (Twórczość i działalność Józefa Kofflera w okresie 20-lecia międzywojennego). Zeszyty naukowe Akademii Muzycznej we Wrocławiu, (Wrocław, 1983): 37-59.
  • Leszek Mazepa, "The Soviet Period in the Life and Works of Józef Koffler" (Okres radziecki w życiu i twórczości Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 1 (1983): 67-100.
  • Maciej Gołąb, “Twelve-tone technique with Józef Koffler. A Polish Contribution to the History of Dodecaphony in the First Half of the 20th Century “, Music of the East. 10: 167-179 (1986).
  • Maciej Gołąb, "Twelve-tone serialism. Study of theory and composition of the first half of the twentieth century." (Dodekafonia. Studia nod teorią i kompozycją I polowy XX wieku.) Bydgoszcz, 1987.
  • Maciej Gołąb, “The Creation of Józef Koffler - Problems of Style Design”. Ostracized music. Composers in the dictatorships of our century. Ed. J. Braun, V. Karbusicky, HT Hoffmann. Frankfurt am Main, 1995, pp. 205-217.
  • Józef Koffler, score of the cantata "Die Liebe" for voice, viola, violoncello and clarinet Op. 14, PWM, Cat. No: 8719, 1995, in Polish and German.
  • Maciej Gołąb, "Józef Koffler", Kraków: Musica Iagellonica, 1995. English translation by Maksymilian Kapelański, Marek Żebrowski and Linda Schubert, Los Angeles: Polish Music Center, 2003.
  • Maciej Gołąb, "Józef Koffler and the Viennese School" (Józef Koffler i Szkoła Wiedeńska). Muzyka 2 (1996): 3-16.
  • Iwona Linstedt, "Twelve-tone serialism in the symphonies of Józef Koffler (Dodekafonia w symfoniach Jozefa Kofflera), Muzyka 2 (1996): 17-74.
  • Iwona Lindstedt, "Form and instrumentation in the symphonies of Józef Koffler" (Instrumentacja a forma w symfoniach Jozefa Kofflera). Muzyka 2 (1996): 75-130.
  • Muzyka 2 (1996). Special edition for J. Koffler's 100th anniversary
  • Leszek Mazepa, "The Lviv press on the execution of Józef Koffler's compositions" (Relacje prasy lwowskiej o wykonaniach utworow Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 2 (1996): 139-158.
  • "Rejected music", Editor Pfau, Saargebiet, 1998, vol. 18: "Persecution and Re-discovery". Lecture concerts by "musica reanimata" about the composers Max Brand, Alfred Goodman, Józef Koffler and Ursula Mamlok

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personal data
SURNAME Koffler, Józef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koffler, Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Stryj
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Krosno (Poland)