Josef Achtélik

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Josef Achtélik
at the age of 24

Josef Achtélik (born April 7, 1881 in Bauerwitz , Upper Silesia , † December 30, 1965 in Leipzig ) was a German composer , music theorist and teacher .

Life

Josef Achtélik grew up as the third of eleven children of the hat factory owner Franz Achtélik in middle-class circumstances in Bauerwitz. His father was a hatter and mayor of this Upper Silesian town. Josef Achtélik received his first music lessons in the Bauerwitzer Kantorei. He took piano and organ lessons. After his mother's death, he went to boarding school in the Netherlands at the age of thirteen , where he graduated from high school. From 1901 to 1906 he studied at the Conservatory in Cologne . His teachers in Cologne were Franz Wüllner , Fritz Steinbach , Otto Klauwell , Arno Kleffel (1840–1913) and Waldemar von Baußnern . After completing his studies, he was initially director of the Philharmonic Society in Wiltz .

Afterwards he had engagements as Kapellmeister at the Cologne Opera and at the city theater in Glogau in Lower Silesia . In 1911 he came to the Leipzig City Theater as conductor and composer . Here in 1912 the fairy tale play Peterchens Mondfahrt was performed with music by Josef Achtélik. It was based on a fairy tale by Gerdt von Bassewitz , which he had given to read as assistant director of the Cologne Theater Achtélik during its time in Cologne.

In the last year of the First World War , Akhtélik was drafted to the western front. After his return to Leipzig, he worked as a choir director, private lecturer and author of musicological writings. His two-volume music theory work Der Naturklang as the root of all harmonies , in which he critically dealt with atonal music , among other things, received special attention .

He was given a special honor in 1926 with a professorship for music at Frederic University (South Dakota, USA).

Achtélik's daughter Eva married the Leipzig choir director Friedrich Rabenschlag .

plant

  • Ten songs (after Heinrich Heine et al.) For voice and piano (1904/1905)
  • Seven boys songs (based on Victor von Scheffel , Gottfried Keller and others) for voice and piano (1912)
  • Peterchens Mondfahrt (Gerdt von Bassewitz), fairy tale op.27 (1912 Leipzig, Altes Theater).
  • Bajazzo and Colombine (Albert Otto), vocal scene for soprano, baritone and large orchestra op.20 (1916)
  • Wagner parody: The concentrated Wagner: 10 operas in one act , for soprano, tenor and large orchestra (1929)
  • Songs, male choirs and arrangements
Fonts
  • The natural sound as the root of all harmonies - an aesthetic music theory in two parts . Verlag CF Kahnt, Leipzig 1922 and 1928 ( part 2 online )
  • Simplified notation . Verlag Notenreform, Leipzig-Gohlis 1919
Recordings
  • Little Peter's journey to the moon. CD recording of the MDR

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Achtélik, Josef . In: Alfred Einstein (ed.): The new music lexicon . Max Hesse, Berlin 1926, p. 2 ( archive.org [accessed October 17, 2017]).
  2. ^ Konstanze Freudenberg, Peter Schmiedel:  Achtélik, Josef. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 1 (Aagard - Baez). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1111-X  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. Leipzig biography. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  4. Loan material catalog. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 8, 2017 ; accessed on March 7, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edition-peters.de
  5. 08 Peterchens Mondfahrt - RundfunkSchätze. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .