Kurt Beythien
Adolf Ernst Kurt Beythien (born September 12, 1897 in Dresden ; † September 4, 1974 there ) was a German composer and teacher .
Life
Kurt Beythien was the son of Adolf Beythien, the director of the city's chemical investigation office in Dresden . After attending secondary school in Dresden and voluntarily participating in the war in World War I, he studied music with Theobald Werner in Dresden from 1919 to 1924 , with Karl Hogrebe in Göttingen and with Hermann Poppen in Heidelberg, from 1920 to 1928 chemistry in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Dresden, From 1927 music studies with Kurt Striegler in Dresden and piano playing studies with Karl Fehling . He also heard lectures from Eugen Schmitz (music and opera history) and Theobald Werner (theory). After receiving his doctorate in 1929, he married the violinist Marianne Selle (1897–1971) in Dresden . Both taught private students in their apartment.
From 1929 he was chairman of the trade association in the trade building on Ostra-Allee (until 1945 home of the Dresden Philharmonic ).
From 1946 to 1965 he was a teacher (without pedagogical training) for chemistry and music at the Oberschule Dresden-Süd (today's Gymnasium Dresden-Plauen ).
His grave is in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz.
The estate is kept in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library.
Works (selection)
- Wind quintet in F major for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, op.7 (1930)
- Viola Sonata in D major for viola and piano, op.13, Hofmeister Verlag (1930)
- String Quartet in E minor
- Variations and fugue on a folk song for piano, violin and cello, op.22 (1937)
- Folksong variations on “ Ein Heller und ein Batzen ” for four violins, also with choral instrumentation
literature
- Günter Herrmann: Kurt Beythien - building blocks for a biography . NORA-Verlag Berlin, 2013, 332 pages, ISBN 978-3-86557-325-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Beythien in the catalog of the German National Library
- Beythien, Kurt ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Person-Wiki of the SLUB Dresden
- Kurt Beythien's estate in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
Footnotes
- ^ Härtwig, Dieter: The Dresden composer Kurt Beythien , in: Dresdner Latest News, No. 169, July 23, 2013, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beythien, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beythien, Adolf Ernst Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 1974 |
| Place of death | Dresden |