Johann Neuner (composer)

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Johann Rudolf Neuner , also Hans Neuner (born December 10, 1867 in Großsteinbach , † May 9, 1931 in Graz ) was an Austrian composer and civil servant .

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Johann Neuner was born on December 10, 1867 in the village of Großsteinbach. While still at school he learned the piano , violin and flute and put together an orchestra at the age of 16 . With this he was able to celebrate his first successes. During Neuner's military service, his first compositions, which consisted mainly of marches, waltzes and polkas, were performed by the Graz military music of infantry regiments No. 7, 27, 47 and 87. These compositions were later played with great success at various balls in Graz. On a professional level was Neuner worked as a civil servant and was last Governing Council of the Postal and Telegraph Administration . Neuner pursued his wish to compose more serious pieces by taking lessons in music theory and counterpoint from Erich Wolf Degner , the then director of the Musikverein für Steiermark , when he was still a young civil servant . His oeuvre includes over 230 compositions consisting of operas , operettas , songs , melodramas , piano and violin sonatas , piano trios and orchestral works. In 1911 his stage work The Roman Equalization (Op. 56) celebrated its premiere at the Graz Opera and was consistently well received by both the audience and theater critics .

From the 1920s onwards, numerous chamber music works could be heard at club concerts, events by the Graz Urania and radio broadcasts, which made Neuner even more popular. His compositions were always characterized by a traditionally harmonious set of notes. Other notable operas from the pen of Hans Neuner included Cervantes (Op. 108) or Flint and Bombst (Op. 111). He also worked with the writer Bruno Ertler and composed melodramas based on texts by Ottokar Kernstock ( A Winter Night's Dream (Op. 107) ) or by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Op. 167) ). Furthermore, he was also responsible for instrumental program music and character pieces; including Suite in the Seetaleralpen (Op. 53) or the piano work Die Spieldose (Op. 55) . His daughter Margarethe "Grete" Hedwig Neuner († December 15, 1980) was born on February 18, 1896 and trained as a pianist later in her life. Neuner, who later married the teacher, music critic and composer Hans Weitzer (1895–1945), taught, among other things. Hans Neuner died on May 9, 1931 at the age of 63 in Graz.

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SURNAME Neuner, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuner, Johann Rudolf (full name); Neuner, Hans (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Großsteinbach , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1931
Place of death Graz , Austria