Jean-Siegfried Blumann

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Jean-Siegfried Blumann (born February 2, 1887 in Osnabrück , † 1965 ) was a German conductor and composer .

Life

Blumann was born in Osnabrück, according to other information in Hamburg . At the age of four he showed an interest in music and played the harmonica . At the age of seven he received music lessons, and when he was 13 he performed in public for the first time. Blumann attended the Kapellmeister class at the Hamburg Conservatory . His studies also took him to the conservatory in Vienna . On October 5, 1906, he conducted an orchestra for the first time in an exam concert in the convent garden . The Adagio, which he himself instrumentalized, was performed by Ludwig van Beethoven . He then led a small amateur orchestra and a women's choir until he went to the Schwerin Court Theater as a repetitor in 1908 . Two years later he became choir director and conductor in Lübeck . Further engagements took him to Braunschweig , Breslau and the Kroll Opera in Berlin .

In 1912 he went to the Stadttheater Magdeburg , where in 1924 he became the municipal conductor. He worked as an opera conductor and also conducted popular concerts, for example in the circus, in the Kristallpalast and in the Magdeburg city hall . He also performed as a pianist . As a composer, he created two ballet pantomimes , two Christmas tales, a suite for orchestra, several etudes , songs, orchestral pieces, a concert piece for cello , drama and cheerful pieces. At least around 1916 he lived in Magdeburg at the address Hindenburgstrasse 17 (today Albert-Vater-Strasse ) in the Wilhelmstadt district .

On April 7, 1933, Blumann, who presumably came from a Jewish family, was given leave of absence by the newly appointed National Socialist theater management. Between 1933 and 1938 he fled Germany and went to France , where he lived during World War II as well as in the post-war period. At least in 1960 he lived in Tours and conducted orchestras in La Rochelle and Niort . In 1960 he received support from the Artists Aid of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk .

Works

  • Harlequinade , for salon orchestra, Magdeburg: Heinrichshofen, 1929.
  • Menelaus , Foxtrot for salon orchestra, Magdeburg: Heinrichshofen, 1929.
  • On the yellow river , for trumpet, piano and organ, no year
  • Robert and Bertram , revision of the folk piece in four images for song and dance by Gustav Raeder and Robert Adolf Stemmle , Berlin, 1930.
  • Well goodbye little alley , humorous variations on the folk song of the same name, without a year

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Matthias Pasdzierny: Jean-Siegfried Blumann, in: Lexicon of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era, Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (ed.), Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2009
  2. ↑ a b c corner Siegfried Blumann 25 years conductor In: Volksstimme . October 6, 1931.
  3. ^ Magdeburg address book 1916 , Part I, Verlag August Scherl, page 28
personal data
SURNAME Blumann, Jean-Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH 1965