Johannes Hannemann

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Johannes Hannemann, around 1938.

Johannes Hannemann (born April 20, 1902 in Stolp , † after 1945) was a German composer and cellist.

Life

On his mother's side, he came from a family of organists based in Stolp. Hannemann attended the municipal high school in Danzig, studied at the Conservatory in Leipzig from 1919 to 1921 a. a. with Sigfrid Karg-Elert (composition) and Juzlius Klengel (violoncello). He returned to Danzig, where he was principal cellist in the orchestra of the City Theater (since 1935: State Theater) and played in various chamber music ensembles. The years 1935/1936, when the Danzig Orchestra was dissolved due to financial problems, he spent in Berlin and played at the Volksoper . After Danzig was captured by the Red Army, he was arrested as a medic and disappeared on the march into captivity near Danzig. Hannemann was a member of the NSDAP.

Johannes Hannemann in the quartet of the Danzig State Theater (2nd from left, approx. 1943)

Hannemann was initially open to modern musical trends, composed post-romantic expressionist works and was also open to musical experiments. From the beginning of the 1930s he turned to Buddhism under the influence of reading Arthur Schopenhauer and became a member of the "Old Buddhist Community" led by Georg Grimm . This was accompanied by a musical turn towards baroque polyphony and especially towards Johann Sebastian Bach . Some of his technically sophisticated works were described by music critics as stylistically indistinguishable from Bach (about the Concerto da Camera: " One would almost like to give him the honorary title" Seventh Brandenburg Concerto "!  ").

Hannemann was married, his son Harald died in April 1945, his son Anando lived in Halle / Saale after the war.

Awards

  • 1st prize at the composition competition of the Danzig Senate (1937, for concertante suite )
  • Art Prize of the NSDAP, Gau Danzig (1939)

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Orchestral works

  • Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Franz Schubert (1931, premiered December 11, 1931 on Danziger Rundfunk)
  • Piano Concerto for Neo-Bechstein Grand Piano and Orchestra (1932)
  • Concerto grosso in E minor (1934, premiered December 5, 1934, Gdansk State Theater)
  • Three preludes to own chorales (1938)
  • Suite for small orchestra in E minor (1938)
  • Baroque Festival Overture (premiered January 16, 1939, national broadcaster Danzig)
  • Symphonic Fantasy on BACH for organ, brass and timpani (premiered in 1942 in Danzig-Langfuhr)

Concerts

  • Concerto grosso [No. 2] in the Doric key for solo viola, harpsichord and orchestra (1936)
  • Concerto da Camera in D major for solo oboe and orchestra (1939, premiered March 29, 1940, Reichssender Danzig)
Evening program by the Hannemann Quartet, October 30, 1941

Chamber music

  • String Quartet (1923)
  • Variations and fugue on "Fuchs you hast die Gans stolen" for 4 cellos (1927)
  • Trio for flute, saxophone and viola (1928)
  • Passacaglia for four cellos and double bass (1929)
  • Suite for two cellos, A minor (1934)
  • 2 trio sonatas
  • Concertante suite for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and piano in A minor (1937)
  • Small Suite in A minor for oboe, English horn and bassoon (1939)
  • Prelude and Fugue on BACH in G minor for violin and violoncello (1939)
  • Gastreiner Serenade - musical travel diary for violin, viola and cello (1942)
  • Concertante Suite in A minor for violin, viola, cello and double bass (1943)
  • Prelude and Fugue in D minor for violoncello (1943)
  • Chamber serenade for concertante oboe and string quintet (1943, premiere: November 11, 1943, Kurhaus Soppot)
  • Six chorale variations for violin and violoncello "From deep need" (1945)

Piano music

  • Sonata in F major

Organ music

  • 3 organ symphonies (F major [1937], C major [1938], A minor [1940])
  • Organ Sonata in F major (1940)
  • Variations and Fugue on a Theme for Organ, D minor (1936)
  • Preludes to own chorales (1936)
  • Prelude, Passacaglia, Choral and Fugue in C minor (1936)
  • 2 trio sonatas for organ (D major [1938], E minor [1942])
  • Choral fantasy and fugue in B minor on "I want to go home, am fed up with your suffering, you terrible wrong world" (1942)

Songs

  • Danzig, Proud Watch in the East
  • Eternal suffering. Baroque sonnets for alto and chamber orchestra ("Cantata", 1940)
  • Chamber ballads for Barton, cello and piano (1941) on texts by Baroque poets
  • Three serious chants for voice and harpsichord (1942)
  • From the songs of Gotamo Buddho's nuns. A cycle of aesthetic poetry for soprano and piano (1943, premiere: June 17, 1943, Oliva Palace Concerts)

Choral works

  • Long is the Night (1929)
  • Weichsellied (1930)
  • Exotic chants for male choir, 2 clarinets, 2 trumpets, bassoon and banjo (1930)
  • Sailors Choir (1933)
  • Words of truth. Based on texts from the ancient Indian Dhammanâdam "(1944)

Cantatas, oratorios

  • Buddha cantata based on texts from the Buddhist Pali canon for 4 voices and instruments (1935, premiered May 25, 1935)
  • Buddhist oratorio "The Four Holy Truths of Suffering" for solos, choir, speaker and orchestra (1933–1936)

various

  • Little fateful revue (Text: Alice Eckert-Rotholz) (1931)
  • Music for the radio play "Man take" by Paul Schiller and Leo Krasa (1932)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Hannemann: Johannes Hannemann. Portrait of a composer from Gdańsk. In: Our Danzig . tape 28 , no. 6 , 1976, p. 14 .
  2. ^ Helmuth Sommerfeld: Danzig composers . In: The German in the East . tape 6 , no. 4 , 1943, pp. 185-191 .
  3. ↑ Hellmuth Hecker: Life pictures of German Buddhists. A bio-bibliographical handbook . 2: The successors. Constance 1997, p. 99 f .
  4. ↑ Erich Lindow: (concert review) . In: Danzig outpost . No. 62 , March 3, 1941.
personal data
SURNAME Hannemann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and cellist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH after 1945
Place of death near Danzig