Karl Bone Hauer
Karl Kniehauer (born April 13, 1888 in Leipzig , † December 8, 1965 in Dresden ) was a German composer and cellist .
Karl Kniehauer, chamber virtuoso at the Staatstheater Schwerin , was born as the son of the Gdansk pharmacy owner and city elder Hermann Kniehauer. He attended the Kgl. High school in Gdansk and received his first music lessons at the age of six. At the age of seventeen, Kniehauer attracted the attention of the Joachim quartet cellist Robert Hausmann , on whose advice and mediation he spent three years at the Kgl. Academic University of Music in Berlin .
After that, Kniehauer received engagements with various ensembles of classical music and at German theaters: 1910/11 Berlin Blüthner Orchestra, 1912/14 German Opera House in Charlottenburg, 1914/16 Danzig chamber music trio with the composer and pianist Fritz Binder (* 1873) and the violinist Max Wolfsthal (* 1896), 1916/17 chamber music association of the industrialist Albert Henkels in Barmen (today part of Wuppertal). In 1917, Kniehauer was appointed solo cellist at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Schwerin (Mecklenburg) and was the cellist of the Schwerin String Quartet.
From 1921 on, he went public as a composer. He wrote, among other things, a song cycle of 18 songs based on poems by Maria Wollwerth for a high voice with piano (Schwerin 1921), songs based on texts by Nikolaus Lenau , Christoph Dittmer, Jovan Ducic, the Danziger Heimatlied (text by Paul Enderling), and several performance pieces for Violoncello and piano, a cello suite, melodramatic music for a play by Bruno Gelleiske-Danzig, cello quartet movements and a larger symphonic work, the lieder symphony from the artist's Traumwelt op.34 for sopranos, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra. The lieder symphony caused a sensation when it premiered on October 4, 1926 in the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin.
Concert tours have taken him within Germany to Aachen, Altenburg, Bayreuth, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bremen, Breslau, Dresden, Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal), Halle, Hamburg, Hanover, Herford, Cologne, Leipzig and Posen. Within Denmark he gave concerts in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Vordingborg.
Kniehauer was accepted as a member of the German Tonsetzers Cooperative in Berlin in 1922. In 1924 he was a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He was appointed Mecklenburg Chamber Virtuoso. He died on December 8, 1965 at the age of 77 in Dresden .
His estate is kept in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Chamber virtuoso Karl Kniehauer (1888-1965) - solo violon cellist and répétiteur at the Schweriner Landestheater , from: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on April 20, 2016
- ^ Nachlass Karl beinhauer , in: Kalliope-Verbund, accessed on April 20, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonechauer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and cellist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1965 |
| Place of death | Dresden |