Johannes Brockt

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Johannes Brockt (born January 15, 1901 in Brieg , Silesia , † 1980 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian musicologist and composer.

Life

Johannes Brockt wanted to become a painter and was already accepted into the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau , but turned to music after graduating from high school. Brockt studied musicology, art and literary history and philosophy in Wroclaw , Vienna and Leipzig and then in Berlin . In 1927 the doctorate to Dr. phil. with the dissertation topic Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Life and Works about Ernst Wilhelm Wolf . He received musical training from Camillo Horn and Leopold Reichwein in Vienna and Sigfrid Karg-Elert in Leipzig. This was followed by positions as theater conductor in Stettin and Breslau and as musical assistant at the Bayreuth Festival , later as head of the chamber music department at Radio Cologne.

Brockt worked as a song accompanist, conductor and lecturer for several broadcasters. After the Second World War he worked as a freelancer in Vienna. In 1956 he was awarded a working grant by the Federal Ministry of Education for his operas "Paracelsus". He created seven operas (" Gobseck ", "Morphium", "The Two Masks", "The Brothers", "Pandaimonion", "Paracelsus", "The Experiment"). From 1959 Brockt was appointed professor. In addition to his hobby painting (especially landscapes in oil and watercolor), he also had literary skills and wrote all of the opera texts himself.

He was buried on August 25, 1980 in the Baumgartner Friedhof .

Compositions

  • Four miniatures for six brass instruments (op.10)
  • Nine canons after Friedrich Logau (op.31)
  • Summer trip. Cycle of 24 songs after Johannes Müller-Schönhausen for tenor and piano (op.50)
  • Eight three-part a cappella choirs (op.54)

Editing

first complete translation into German

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (Life and Works) A contribution to the history of music in the 18th century , at www.worldcat.org
  2. ↑ Austrian music magazine, 16th year, issue 2, 1961. P. 86
  3. ↑ H. Simbriger: Catalog of works of contemporary composers from the German eastern regions. 6th supplementary volume. 1977.
  4. ^ Austrian Society for Contemporary Music - former members
  5. ↑ Vienna cemeteries search for the dead

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personal data
SURNAME Brockt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Brieg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1980
Place of death Vienna