Konrad Friedrich Noetel

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Konrad Friedrich Noetel (born October 30, 1903 in Posen , † April 9, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German arranger and composer .

Life

Noetel moved with his parents to Dortmund in 1920 and shortly afterwards began studying law , just as other representatives of his family had chosen this profession before him. These studies ended in 1925 and, according to Erwin Kroll , he suffered "severe internal struggles and a dangerous illness" during this time. On the other hand, there were strong family contacts with musicians. For example, his grandmother's sister, Mathilde Wendt - wife of Gustav Wendt - was related to the Furtwänglers family, who had achieved a certain fame as a student of Clara Schumann in Karlsruhe. In 1927 he switched to piano , composition and music history at the Königsberg Conservatory. At the same time he also worked for radio during this time. Further studies followed from the early 1930s in composition with Paul Hindemith . With Hindemith he found the recognition of a "fellow striving, [who] appreciated his dealings and his special instruction."

After the Second World War he became a professor of composition at the Berlin Conservatory . Noetel died in a traffic accident in April 1947 at the age of 44. The violinist Siegfried Borries gave his funeral speech.

His death fell at a time in which, regardless of the bleeding of the German musical landscape due to the Second World War, other representatives of the avant-garde such as Hugo Distler , Helmut Bräutigam , Edmund von Borck and Leo Justinus Kaufmann had left. The critics agree that Noetel, at a relatively young age, was still ahead of his great career.

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Catalog raisonné

Choral works

  • Three women's choirs , Lobeda singing book for women's choir. Hanseatic Publishing House, 1936
  • That your heart is firm , a cycle for mixed choir (based on Hermann Claudius ). Kistner and Siegel, 1936
  • Two time songs , movements for three-part choir, instruments ad. lib. Litolff , 1938
  • Six choirs , the country choir. Kistner and Siegel, 1938
  • Five daily songs , for four-part mixed choir. Kistner and Siegel, 1939
  • Choirs in the Geselligen Chorbuch II , Bärenreiter , 1941
  • Choir cycles: 5 joke songs based on texts by Matthias Claudius , green print from Kistner and Siegel, 1941

Cantatas

  • The ages , 1932
  • Christoph Columbus , 1933, duration 1 ½ hours
  • Small sacred cantata , undated
  • Praise to Joy , 1937
  • The migration , 1938
  • Peasant cantata , undated
  • Landsknecht cantata , undated
  • Our country , 1939

Songs with piano accompaniment

  • Song and piano settings for foreign songs , 1946/47
  • Own songs , 1946

Piano music

  • Five little pieces , Bärenreiter, 1935
  • Variations for piano , Bärenreiter, 1936
  • Piano sonata in d , Bärenreiter, 1942
  • Piano Sonata in G , Willi Müller, 1946 (p.p.)

Chamber music

  • String quartet , Schott , 1938
  • Small suite for string quartet , Hinnenthal, 1939
  • Trio for violin, violoncello and piano , Müller, undated
  • Little music for string quartet , Schott, 1942
  • Sonata for violin and piano , Müller, 1943
  • Sonata for cello and piano , Bärenreiter, 1941
  • Sonata for flute and piano , Bärenreiter, 1942
  • Suite for recorder and piano , Hinnethal, undated
  • Suite for cello and piano , Hinnethal, 1945
  • String trio , Müller, 1946
  • Sonatina for violin and piano , Müller, 1946

Orchestral music

  • Piece for strings 'Pro Musica' , Hansen (Copenhagen), 1932
  • Suite for chamber orchestra , 1934
  • Introduction and Rondo concertante for large orchestra , Müller, undated
  • Concertino for flute, violin and string orchestra , Bärenreiter, 1942
  • Concert music for string orchestra , Bärenreiter, 1944
  • Concerto for flute, oboe and string orchestra , Müller, 1947
  • Symphony , manuscript (posthumous)
  • Orchestral suite , manuscript (unfinished)

Craft apprenticeship

  • Werklehre , introduction to the design of instrumental forms, in: Hohe Schule der Musik, ed. von Müller-Blattau / Volume 1, Potsdam 1935, pages 456-502

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erwin Kroll : Konrad Friedrich Noetel . In: Musica , Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel, 11th year, issue 1, 1948, pages 25-30
personal data
SURNAME Noetel, Konrad Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German arranger and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1947
Place of death Berlin