Karl Landgrebe

Karl Martin Landgrebe (born May 28, 1889 in Hoof ; † August 13, 1974 in Herborn ) was a German composer, music teacher at a university and a National Socialist official.

Life

Karl Landgrebe trained as a primary school teacher and passed the church music examination. At first he worked as a pianist and accompanist. From 1909 to 1912 he worked as a teacher and conductor in Eisemroth near Siegbach , then until 1919 in Barchfeld. From 1921 he taught at the Realgymnasium in Potsdam . Then he became a lecturer at the Berlin Music Academy . In 1935 he took over the management of the College for Music Education and Church Music (before 1933 Academy for Church and School Music ) in Berlin, where church musicians and school musicians were trained. He particularly encouraged the oratorio singer Adele Stolte , a daughter of the pastor of the Friedenskirche. He was a member of the NSDAP and was appointed Reich clerk for music education in the Nazi teachers ' association, a kind of top music teacher in the Reich. His song books reflect Nazi ideas. In the summer of 1936 he was appointed municipal music commissioner by the mayor Hans Friedrichs of Potsdam. Landgrebe was cantor and organist in the Friedenskirche in Sanssouci until 1957. From 1925 to 1945 he conducted the Potsdam Men's Choir eV , from 1947 the Singakademie Potsdam eV and other choirs in Potsdam. For a short time he got into trouble because of his proximity to the Nazi regime. As a pensioner he moved to Herborn.

He composed works for wind orchestra , vocal music, chamber music and wrote music pedagogical literature.

Compositions

Works for harmony orchestra

• 1939: Prelude
• 1940: Festive music for a rural celebration

Vocal music

Works for choir

• 1933: Red Eagle: Märkisches songbook
• 1937: Potsdamers sing songs of the time for joint celebrations in Potsdam, following the annual cycle

Works for piano

• 1943: New music book for young people who play the piano

Song books

• 1939: Germany sings: A songbook for the Berlin elementary schools (with: Walter Rein )
• 1941: The bright sound: songbook for middle schools

Fonts

• New paths in the training of private music educators. Reich conference for music educators in schools and teacher training colleges. Org. By the training office of the State University for Music Education and Church Music from January 24th to 29th, 1937 in Berlin.

literature

• Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : The New Lexicon of Brass Music. 4th edition. Blasmusikverlag Schulz, Freiburg-Tiengen 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1 .
• Paul Frank, Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon - Part Two: Additions and Extensions since 1937. Volume 1: A – K. 15th edition Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1974, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 ; Volume 2: L-Z. 1976, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5 .
• Hedwig Mueller von Azow, Erich Hermann Mueller von Azow: Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954, Second Edition of the German Musicians Lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, pp. 1702f.

Web links

• Karl Landgrebe's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)