Karl Bleyle

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Karl Bleyle (born May 7, 1880 in Feldkirch , Vorarlberg , † June 5, 1969 in Stuttgart ) was an Austrian musician and composer who also lived and worked in Germany.

Life

In the parents' house of the young Karl - his father was the textile manufacturer Wilhelm Bleyle - music was played hard and the joy of music was awakened in him from an early age. His first music lessons on the violin he received from Feldkirch music director Karl Linke, who came from the Hungarian Barth field and had been appointed to teach at the newly built music school in Feldkirch 1888th Karl moved to Stuttgart with his parents at the age of nine. At the local conservatory he received his first lessons in music theory and counterpoint from Hugo Wehrle and Samuel de Lange from 1894 to 1897 and from Edmund Singer from 1897 to 1899 . After his military service, 1904–1907 he studied music with Ludwig Thuille in Munich , where he lived as a composer until 1919.

In his first year of study in Munich, Bleyle composed his Symphony No. 1 in C minor, which was premiered by the court orchestra in Stuttgart on December 7, 1905 and was highly praised by the press. On February 25, 1910, the Munich concertmaster Bruno Ahner played his Violin Concerto in C major op. 10 in the concert of the Musical Academy. After fruitful compositional years in Cannstatt (1919–1923) and Stuttgart, he moved to Graz (Austria), where his first opera Der Teufelssteg , a Requiem and the Trilogy of Passion were written. Another station in his life was the National Theater Weimar , of which he was musical director for two years. After a short stay in Veldes , he moved back to Stuttgart, where he worked until his death. He never gave up his Austrian citizenship because of his ties to his hometown Feldkirch.

Works (selection)

  • Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1904/05)
  • Symphony No. 2 in F major, op.6 (1906)
  • Flagellants procession, op.9 - Symphonic poem (1907)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra in C major, op.10 (1908)
  • Gnome Dance (1909)
  • Descent into Hell (1910)
  • Chorus mysticus (1910)
  • A harp sound (1910)
  • Prometheus (1912)
  • Trilogy of Passion
  • requiem
  • Der Teufelssteg - Opera
  • The wedding - opera
  • Overture to Goethe's Reineke Fuchs , op.23 (1914)
  • Sonata for violin and piano, G major, op.38 (1923)
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in D minor, op.49 (1934)
  • Minnelieder after Heinrich von Morungen, op.44 (1936)
  • Snow White Suite, op.50
  • Bacchantes Overture, op 52 (1937)
  • Sonata for violin and piano in E minor, op.56 (1943)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Schneider: Vorarlberg composers. Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt, Dornbirn 1973, pp. 123–164.
  2. ^ New magazine for music from January 3, 2006, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Bleyle, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldkirch , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1969
Place of death Stuttgart