Kurt Lissmann

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Kurt Lissmann (born September 29, 1902 in Elberfeld as Jan Friedrich Lißmann ; † May 4, 1983 in Wuppertal - Vohwinkel ) was a German composer and choir director .

Life

Lissmann graduated from school in 1918 with secondary school leaving certificate. At the age of 17 he already appeared as a conductor with his own chamber orchestra. After completing his commercial training with the title of Höhere Handelsschule, he began studying music three years later with Hermann Inderau and Wilhelm Wiltberger . Lissmann later got to know the organist, pianist and composer Hubert Pfeiffer .

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Liessmann wrote lively, often humorous light music and art songs with piano accompaniment and serious spiritual choruses and cantatas with orchestra . Some of his pieces have become folk songs . He created more than 350 works in a wide variety of styles. Due to his professional experience as a choir director, he was able to harmonize voices and orchestra and knew what is possible in a performance.

Artists like Heino , Günter Wewel , Stefanie Hertel , Rudolf Schock and Andrea Jürgens interpreted his songs as well as the Tölzer Boys Choir and The Westphalian Nightingales . He is considered one of the most frequently performed German composers.

Awards

For his life's work, Lissmann received various awards. These include the Conradin Kreutzer badge and the Federal Cross of Merit Lissmann is an honorary member of the Association of German Professional Choir Directors .

Works

Some of his most sung songs and choral movements:

  • Cowardly thought (after Goethe )
  • Who really wants to wander in joy
  • At the Kronenwirt
  • A woman went to shake nuts (nursery rhyme)
  • " Canticle of the Sun" (after Dante Aligheri )
  • O you beautiful rose garden
  • When all the fountains flow
  • The birch
  • Whoever is here with us wants to be happy
  • The dance floor king
  • Come on, pour one only pure wine
  • My girl has a rose mouth
  • Wine delights the human heart
  • Drive to the loved one
  • The cat doesn’t let it moult
  • The Pied Piper
  • And we're not fools
  • "Come to the dance" (after Goethe)
  • Media vita
  • Petrushka
  • Wine song
  • All here on green heather
  • May trip
  • Song of the mountain shepherds
  • Trojka bells
  • summer
  • From people

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c LISSMANN, Kurt. In: komponistenlexikon.de. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Lissmann, Kurt (1902-1983) - Biography in Musica. In: musicanet.org. Retrieved August 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 25th anniversary of death in 2008: Kurt Lissmann. In: tonger.de. Retrieved August 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lissmann, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lißmann, Jan Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1983
Place of death Wuppertal