Julius Kopsch (conductor)
Julius Kopsch (born February 6, 1887 in Berlin ; † March 5, 1970 there ; born / actually Julius Eugen Kopsch ) was a German conductor and composer .
Life
Julius Kopsch was the son of the teacher and later member of the Reichstag, Julius Kopsch . At the request of his parents, he first studied law in Berlin and Lausanne ; in Heidelberg he did his doctorate as Dr. jur. He also received his musical training at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. His teachers were Wilhelm Klatte , Arnold Kleffel and Josef Stránský . In 1911 he gave up his legal career and devoted himself entirely to music.
Julius Kopsch was employed as Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper in Berlin, the city theaters of Krefeld and Lübeck and at the Friedrich Wilhelmstädtisches Theater in Berlin. During the First World War he was active in Łódź and Warsaw , from 1920 to 1924 as general music director of the State Orchestra and State Theater in Oldenburg . He then conducted the Berlin Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1926 , after which he worked as a freelance composer, conductor and guest conductor in numerous orchestras until his death. He composed symphonic poems, symphonies, chamber music, song cycles and a piano concerto. For the 1937 German version of the film Reineke Fuchs (1937) by Władysław Starewicz and his daughter Irène, he took over the artistic direction and wrote the film music. Julius Kopsch was very committed to the copyright of artists and in 1926 was chairman of the German sound composer cooperative , a forerunner of what would later become GEMA . From 1925 to 1964 he was the conductor of the Berlin Doctors Orchestra . Shortly before the Second World War , he founded the Berliner Rechtsswahrer -Orchester , which later merged with the Doctors Orchestra to form the Berlin Doctors and Jurists Orchestra . In 1964, a further merger with the Berlin orchestra community resulted in the Berlin Doctors Orchestra in its current form. In 1951 he founded the International Richard Strauss Society and was its president until 1964. He died on March 5, 1970 in Berlin.
literature
- Kopsch, Julius Eugen, in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie
- Berlin address book 1941: Kopsch, Julius Dr., composer, Berlin-Schmargendorf , Karlsbader Str. 12ᵇ
- Art dealer Ralph R. Haugwitz, Berlin. Catalog No. II, 1994-1995, Karl Gatermann d. Ä. : Portrait (1915) of the Kapellmeister Dr. Kopsch. Virtuoso and quickly laid down portrait ...
- Simon Apel , Louis Pahlow , Matthias Wiessner : Biographical Handbook of Intellectual Property , Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-154999-1 , Julius Kopsch pp. 173–180
Web links
- Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Berlin Doctors Orchestra
- Film: Reineke Fuchs (1937)
- German biography
- Julius Kopsch's estate at BSB Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Painting by Karl Gatermann , including a portrait of Kapellmeister Dr. Kopsch. In: Von Lübecks Türmen, entertainment sheet of the Lübecker Generalanzeiger , No. 17, April 24, 1915, pp. 132-135
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopsch, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kopsch, Julius Eugen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5th 1970 |
| Place of death | Berlin |