Josef Fresh

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" Professor Josef Frischen";
Portrait drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Josef Frischen (also: Joseph Frischen ; * July 6, 1863 in Garzweiler ; † 1948 in Voigtei ) was a German conductor and composer with the title " Professor ".

Life

Born in the Rhineland studied Josef refining in the early days of the German Empire first law at the University of Bonn , but then moved in 1884 to Cologne , where he arrived to 1888 music the Conservatory studied.

After a managerial position as the municipal music director of the Lucerne Theater , Frischen switched to the Hannoversche Musikakademie as a conductor in 1892 , which at that time was chaired by the architect Theodor Unger for many years .

While Josef fresh in winter with the since 1892 he led Hanover Oratorienchor works in the club tradition brought to the performance, he led in the summer "[...] the famous Symphony - Concerts of the State spa orchestra in Norderney ". At the same time, he also directed the Braunschweig teachers' choir .

In the years from 1905 until the Weimar Republic , Josef Frischen also directed the Hanover men's choir until 1922 , as well as the Philharmonic concerts there in Braunschweig , as conductor who has meanwhile been promoted to Royal Music Director .

After the first radio broadcasts could be heard in Hanover in early 1924, first in Café Continental , then also in the NORAG subsidiary station Hanover , the Dutch opera singer Cornelis Bronsgeest wrote Frischen's composition Thalatta. A sea symphony for solos, choirs and large orchestra based on the words of Heine , Goethe and the composer in 1928 for the radio .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists composed Fresh example, the music for the operetta Puszta blood of Ralph Kordik and Berthold Books . The premiere took place on March 15, 1936 in the Bremen State Theater .

Compositions

“As a composer of late romantic style ”, Josef Frischen expressed his love for the sea in the choir - orchestral work Thalatta :

  • Thalatta. A sea symphony for solos, choirs and large orchestra based on the words of Heine, Goethe and the composer.
    • "Set up for radio by Cornelis Bronsgeest" (= Broadcasting Games, Volume 4, Issue 27), Funk-Dienst, Berlin 1928.

In addition to chamber music and men's choirs , Frischen also left works such as

  • Vineta
  • Athenian spring dance
  • Limits of humanity

as well as symphonic poems like

  • Semele
  • Night hike .

After 1933, too

  • Push blood. Director's book. Operetta in 3 acts by Ralph Kordik and Berthold Büche. [Not for sale. Bühnen-] Ms. , Harmonie, Glarus / Bühnenvertrieb Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1934

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the DBE (sd) names the Steyerberg area in the Nienburg district as the place of death of Frischens.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frischen, Josef in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated February 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.), Bruno Jahn (Red): Frischen, Joseph , in ders .: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Vol. 3: Einstein - Görner. KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25033-0 and ISBN 3-598-25033-9 , p. 572; online through google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g N.N. : Professor Josef Frischen. In: August Heitmüller (drawings): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature. (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929, without consecutive page numbering
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Unger, Theodor. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 634f .; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : The radio. In: Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Klaus Mlynek (Hrsg.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , p. 471f .; online through google books
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Leonhardt : "Norag", the beginnings of the Hanoverian radio. In: ders .: Hanoverian stories. Reports from different parts of the city. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , pp. 35-42; online through google books
  7. ↑ a b Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library (DNB)
  8. ↑ a b Compare the information from the DNB
  9. ^ Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. A chronicle. 1st edition, Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86741-373-2 , p. 96; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Fresh, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fresh, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, theater and music director as well as Kapellmeister, composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Garzweiler
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death Voigtei