Kurt Janetzky

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Kurt Joseph Johann Janetzky (born September 9, 1906 in Breslau ; † 1994 ) was a German horn player .

Life

Kurt Janetzky was born in 1906 as the son of the businessman Johann Isidor Janetzky and his wife Margarete née Janetzky. He graduated from secondary school with an excellent Abitur. His urge to music led to a falling out with his parents. He left home and went to Dresden .

From 1926 to 1930 he studied there at the orchestral school of the Saxon State Orchestra, first with 1st horn player Adolf Lindner and later with Hans von Schuch . He gained practical orchestral experience by helping out in the Dresden professional orchestras (stage and church music). With music writing and a lively horn quartet activity with the Ziller Quartet (five years) there was additional income. After graduating from orchestral school, he immediately got a job as a trainee with the Saxon State Orchestra as a low horn player.

From 1933 to 1935 he was a member of the Dresden Philharmonic and from 1935 until the war-related closure of the State Theater in Stettin , where he also married in 1937.

After a short time as a marine and in captivity, he spent a few months in the orchestra of the Rostock City Theater and also a few months back in the Dresden Philharmonic.

From 1946 to 1971 Kurt Janetzky was a member of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra . In 1952 he was appointed chamber virtuoso .

He was a co-founder of the Schaffrath Horn Quartet and the Ensemble for Early Music Pro Arte Antiqua Lipsiensis , where he worked as a lutenist.

Kurt Janetzky discovered more than 200 works on his many concert tours in various libraries and archives and made them accessible again to the world of music. He published more than half of these pieces in print.

In 1972 he retired and moved to Wiesloch, from where he continued to edit pieces and was a permanent employee of the magazine Das Orchester . In 1978 Kurt Janetzky was made an honorary member of the International Horn Society .

He made important contributions to horn research. Through his discoveries and editions of solo and chamber music with horn, he has significantly enriched the repertoire for horn players. If you want to deal with the horn, its music and its cultural background, its essays and books are among the basics.

Publications

  • Kurt Janetzky: About the problem of harmony facilities. From Haydn's “Ritter Roland” to Weber's “Der Freischütz” . Published in the series Alta Musica ( AM ), Volume 4, pp. 121 to 155. Ed. By the International Society for Research and Promotion of Brass Music (IGEB).
  • Kurt Janetzky: On the history of the horn quartet . In: AM , Volume 7, pp. 145 to 155.
  • Kurt Janetzky: Richard Wagner's relationship to horns and horn players - today's horn players relationship to Richard Wagner's horn parts . In: AM , Volume 8, pp. 105 to 115.
  • Kurt Janetzky / Bernhard Brüchle: The horn. A short chronicle of his development and work . Bern and Stuttgart, 1977.
  • Kurt Janetzky / Bernhard Brüchle: Cultural history of the horn . Tutzing: Hans Schneider 1980.
  • Kurt Janetzky: Serious curiosities on the fringes of instrument science. A cheerful picture book . Tutzing: Hans Schneider 1980.
  • Michael Nagy (ed.): From the workshop of a horn player. Collected essays by Kurt Janetzky . Vienna 1983, Vom Pasqualatihaus. (There is also a list of the printed sheet music editions by Kurt Janetzky)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c registry office Breslau I: birth register . No. 2446/1906.
personal data
SURNAME Janetzky, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janetzky, Kurt Joseph Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horn player
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 1994