Karl Gleitz

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Karl Gleitz (born September 13, 1862 in Hitzerode ; † June 1920 in Torgau ) was a German composer , conductor and music teacher .

Life

Karl (also Carl) Gleitz was first instructed by a city music director and then studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and at the Music Academy in Munich with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger . Later he went to Berlin , where he took private lessons and was also able to celebrate successes as a composer. In the season 1898/1899 the conductor Arthur Nikisch Gleitz performed the symphonic poem Fata Morgana in the Philharmonie.

From 1902 Gleitz worked as a music teacher in Hamburg and Kiel . In 1912 his Symphonia masonica was performed in Hamburg in three movements for large orchestra, choir and solos, which compositionally takes up the Masonic theme of the “striving man” and the “inner temple building”.

Works (selection)

  • Six character pieces for piano op.1
  • Twelve songs for voice and piano op.2
  • Sonata in A major for violin and piano op.3
  • Two Morceau for Organ op.6
  • Will-o'-the-wisps. Fantasia for piano and orchestra op.9
  • Venus and Bellona. Symphonic poem for large orchestra op.10
  • A musical joke. 9 variations on the theme of a layman for piano op.11
  • Eight songs for voice and piano op.12
  • Joss Fritz. Symphonic poem for large orchestra op.13
  • Four girls' songs for mezzo-soprano and piano op.14
  • Four little fantasy pieces for piano op.15
  • Four songs for medium voice and piano op.20
  • With wine. Five songs for baritone and piano op.21
  • Two songs for medium voice and piano op.22
  • Five salon pieces for piano op.25
  • Four piano pieces op.26
  • Four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano op.27
  • Four songs for voice and piano op.28
  • Three piano pieces op.29
  • Hafbur and Signild for solos, choir and orchestra op.34
  • Ahasver. Symphonic poem for large orchestra
  • Alberich's threat. Symphonic poem for large orchestra
  • Mirage. Symphonic poem for large orchestra
  • Spring awakening. Symphonic poem for large orchestra
  • Samson. Symphonic poem for large orchestra

Literature / sources

  • Art. Gleitz, Karl , in: Paul Frank and Wilhelm Altmann , Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler Lexikon. For musicians and friends of the art of music founded by Paul Frank, reworked by Wilhelm Altmann , Leipzig (Carl Merseburger) 1927, p. 124.
  • Art. Gleitz, Karl , in: Spemann's golden book of music , Berlin & Stuttgart (W. Spemann) 1904, no. 855.
  • Wilhelm Mauke : composer and factory worker. Also a social picture of the time , in: Sozialistische Monatshefte , Vol. 1 (1897), H. 12 (December 1897), pp. 660–662.
  • Art. Gleitz, Karl , in: Hessische Heimat 64th year 2014, issue 3, pp. 3–7 (Friedrich Frick)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Schuler: Music and Freemasonry. Studies, facts, biographies. Forian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2000, p. 170.

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personal data
SURNAME Gleitz, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleitz, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Heat electrode
DATE OF DEATH June 1920
Place of death Torgau