Kurt Noack (musician)

Kurt Noack (born February 13, 1893 in Stettin , † January 1, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German composer and conductor .

Career

Noack was born on February 13, 1893 in Stettin in western Pomerania, today Szczecin / Poland. After attending school, he began studying music , which he completed as Kapellmeister . For many years he led the house chapel in the hotel “Preußenhof” in Stettin. Later he lived and worked in Berlin.

As a composer, he switched to light music; Salon and character pieces formed a special focus .

His most famous composition is probably the character piece “Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade” op. 5 in D major, the original version of which for piano for two hands was published in Stettin in 1912 by the Baltic publishing house (Wilhelm Hofmeister).

In the depiction of an unknown graphic artist, which adorns the title page of the original edition for piano for two hands, three white-bearded dwarfs in green robes and red hats walk from left to right in front of a cloudy blue sky along a path lined with seven toadstools. They hold a rather misshapen looking rifle in their left hand, which is largely concealed by their body, and lift their right leg while walking.

Even at the time of publication, the piece was recorded on gramophone records by prominent salon orchestras such as Dajos Béla , Ferdy Kauffman and Géza Komor . Not only because of this, it was also spread abroad and soon became extremely popular.

That the contemporary music journalism Noack's composition "Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade". judged rather derogatory than “trivial” and “shallow”, has in no way harmed their popularity. It is still played with pleasure; To this day, numerous arrangements for various instruments and scoring are available.

Noack was also active as an arranger, among other things he arranged the march “In Treue fest” by the military musician Carl Teike , whose march composition “Alte Kameraden” is known to this day, for salon orchestras. Noack's arrangement was relocated to Friedrich Mörike in Stettin in 1925. Noack's character piece “Goldelfchen's Wedding Day” op. 40 for piano was also published there in 1933

Noack's son Heinz was born in Berlin on May 31, 1936. Like his father, he also became a musician; later he worked as an artist intermediary.

Kurt Noack died on January 1, 1945 at the age of 51 in Berlin.

Works (selection)

The DNB music catalog lists 34 entries for Kurt Noack (30 of them for his hit “Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade”):

• Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade, op. 5: Character piece
• Act of the Clowns, op. 39: Intermezzo characteristique
• Goldelfchen's wedding day, op. 40: character piece

WorldCat.org further lists:

• Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade: Kurt Noack, f. Zither I, arranged by P. Renk. Publisher: Mainz: B. Schott's Sons, [19--]
• Moon night. Intermezzo, op.13 / Kurt Noack. Published by Friedrich Mörike Nachf. Stettin, cop. 1925.
• Puppets at midnight. Dance Intermezzo [op. 54] = Marionettes à minuit / Kurt Noack. Publisher: Mainz ua: Schott ua, 1935 (= Domesticum series, No. 392)
• Old comrades: March / C. Teike; arr .: Kurt Noack. Voor harmonieorkest - Partijen voor: 2 violas, cello, bas, fluit, clarinet, 2 hobo's, trumpet, 2 trombones, harmonium, slagwerk. Szczecin: Mörike, [approximately 1920]
• Marionette Parade, op. 7: character piece
• Ingeborg. Valse scandinave op.10

Processing:

• Stuck in faithfulness! March. Edition for salon orchestra. Arrangement: Kurt Noack. Stettin: Friedrich Mörike Nachf. [1925]
• Castle on the lake. Waltz song. Words and music: Willy Kaiser-Eric. Arr .: Kurt Noack. Edition for salon orchestra. Berlin: Imperator Musik-Verlag 1936.

Audio documents

Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade: Character piece / Kurt Noack. Artist Orchestra Dajos Béla. Odeon AA 79832 / O-7128 (Matr. XxBo 7628-II), format 30 cm

Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade: Character piece / Kurt Noack. Take Banescu with his artist orchestra. Homocord B 172 (Matr. M 16 799), in wax : A 4 3 27

Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade: Character piece / Kurt Noack. Salon-Orchester Géza Komor from the Hotel "Excelsior" Berlin. Tri-Ergon TE 5083 (Matr. 0926), Berlin-Marienfelde, around the end of 1927

Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade / Kurt Noack. Ferdy Kauffman and his orchestra. Electrola EH 45 / 4-040542 (Matr. Cw 760-I), format 30 cm

Marionette parade. Character piece (K. Noack) artist orchestra Gregor von Akimoff, Stuttgart. Vox 8537 (Matr. 1935 BB) - 1928

Guldalfens Bryllupsdag; Klovnenes Optog: Characteristic Intermezzo [= Goldelfchen's wedding day, Clown's procession: Characteristic Intermezzo] (Kurt Noack); Xylophone-Kunstner-Orkester. Odeon, Forlagsnummer: R. 160918

Audio CDs

• Carillon concert from the tower of the Marktkirche Wiesbaden by HU Hielscher. Wergo 1996, contains, among other things, Heinzelmännchens Wacht parade.
• Rendezvous in the coffee house. Bremen coffee house orchestra. Sony Music 2000, contains among other things Heinzelmännchens Wacht parade.

Audio samples

• youtube.com In fidelity firmly. March. Dragspelsduett med Malmqvist och Lindqvist på Beka no. 31 343, inspelad i Berlin 10-11 June 1920.
• youtube.com In fidelity firmly. March. “Polyphon” Orkester København på Nordisk Polyphon S 40 050, inspelad 1920.
• youtube.com Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade, character piece (Kurt Noack op. 5) Salon Orchestra Dajos Béla , Odeon O-2101 a (Be 5627). 1927
• youtube.com Nissernes Vagtparade (Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade) (Kurt Noach - Schrayh - Holck). Jens Warny and Hans Orkester. With Danish refrain. His Masters Voice X 3760. København, Copenhagen, Denmark approx. 1930.
• youtube.com Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade, character piece (Kurt Noack op. 5) Michael Lanner with s. Soloists. Polydor 48 526-A, 1950s
• youtube.com Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade, as an accordion solo
• youtube.com Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade, played by a “Ruth 38” concert organ owned by Heinz Ricke from Bassum, Diepholz.

literature

• Anita Brandtstäter: Plucked music - anything but boring. Mandolin concert of the orchestra »Festklänge«, (online at: werbekurier.de )

• Albrecht Dümling: Refused home. Léon Jessel (1871–1942), composer of the "Schwarzwaldmädel". (= Studies and documents on everyday life, persecution and resistance under National Socialism. Volume 1). Revised edition. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-127-3 , pp. 37, 190.

• Teresa Hirschberg: Passions of an all-rounder - concert and vernissage of the Torday family in the Obermain district hospital. In: Obermain-Tagblatt. Bad Staffelstein, April 8, 2013. (online at: obermain.de )

• kr: Back to the beginnings of brass music. In: Badische Zeitung. June 15, 2011. (online at: badische-zeitung.de )

• Jana Pozar: Musicians let the audience pull on the garter. In: Märkische Oderzeitung. Eisenhüttenstadt, April 1, 2014. (online at: moz.de )

• Stefan Schmöe: Light pleasure. In: on line. Music magazine (review of “Rendezvous im Kaffeehaus”. Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester, recorded 7/2000. Sony 498193-2) (online at: omm.de )

• Spielmannszug 1950 Dreis-Tiefenbach: List of 'Composers / Marches' (online at: sz-1950-dreis-tiefenbach.de )

• Eckhard Wendt: "Hôtel de Prusse" in Stettin. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 1/2002, ISSN  0032-4167

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Eckhard Wendt: Hôtel de Prusse. P. 15.
2. ↑ “The composer calls a" character piece "" Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade ", and the" Marche en miniature "exudes humor and a good mood right from the start - you can almost imagine the scurrying of the Heinzelmännchen! The second part of the trio offers an ironic and very effective ending with its flattering harmonies and surprising effects. " (Description of the music publisher Schott), cf. schott-musik.de ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , there order no .: ED0 9797 
3. ↑ cf. Copy in the Schloss Wahn Collection Inv.-No. M 1510 schloss-wahn.de ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ cf. Image of the note title at dreiraaben.de ( memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ cf. the memories of “The old gramophone” by Hans Fander from Kiel fander-kiel.de ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Sheet music and record editions are z. B. from Scandinavia verifiable, cf. worldcat.org
7. ↑ Proof of the popular nature of the composition are ridiculous verses that the audience rhymed with the catchy melodies, cf. Pozar April 1, 2014: “The lines" Let me pull on your garter belt "or" I know that you love me "are familiar to almost everyone. But hardly anyone knows that they come from "Heinzelmännchens Wacht Parade". "The composer Kurt Noack didn't think these lines were that great," Scheitzbach knew. The audience sang along with the once unloved lines. "
8. ↑ sometimes incorrectly given as "Heinzelmännchens Wach parade", z. B. at Schmöe
9. ↑ “... even if" Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade "sounds like a nice little piece of music, this salon music by Kurt Noack is extremely difficult, the high" sensitive "registers dominate." writes "kr" in the Badische Zeitung on Wed., June 15, 2011. And Stefan Schmöe says in his review of the Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester: "Unlike the Eroica , Heinzelmännchen's guard parade [sic] can also be accepted by the educated middle class without detailed knowledge enjoy the composer's biography with a clear conscience. Provided that the music is played properly. "
10. ↑ z. B. for accordion, alto saxophone, violoncello, cf. Apollo-Verlag alle-oten.de , mandolin, cf. Edwin Mertes, New Favoritner Mandolinen-Orchester mandolinen.at (June 29, 2012) and Anita Brandtstäter from Cologne: “Well-known and popular melodies rang out after the break:" The Mill in the Black Forest "by Richard Eilenberg and" Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade "by Kurt Noack ” Werbekurier.de , or zither, cf. erzgebirgische-zithermusik.de re no. 126 erzgebirgische-zithermusik.de ( memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , even the organ, cf. Ursula Hauser: on: vkjk.de 
11. ↑ for wind quintet, piano trio, salon orchestra, etc., cf. Apollo-Verlag alle-oten.de and stretta-music.com (woodwind quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon)
12. ↑ cf. worldcat.org
13. ↑ Fig. Of the title at buchfreund.de
14. ↑ “Heinz Noack was born on May 31, 1936 in Berlin as the son of musician and composer Kurt Noack, from whose pen 'Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade' comes from, which in turn was arranged for the singing group by Heinz Noack and provided with a text. Heinz Noack studied music: majoring in singing, but he also plays four instruments (piano, organ, accordion and trumpet). Before he could start as a singer, he got the offer to work as a conductor at the Theater des Westens. There he studied 'My Fair Lady', the first musical to be performed in Germany. He worked in the theater for several years and studied operettas and musicals until at some point he was tired of the touring life of touring theater. He started a family, retrained and placed artists, especially musicians, on behalf of the Federal Employment Agency. Heinz Noack came to Stuttgart in 1971 through his work as an “artist mediator”. If, Art. "Honor coin of the city of Stuttgart for Heinz Noack" honored on March 31, 2011 in the Cannstatter Zeitung Ziehvater des Singkreises, Neugereut: honor coin of the city of Stuttgart for Heinz Noack , cannstatter-zeitung.de, March 31, 2011
15. ↑ Result of the search for: "noack," and "kurt". DNB , accessed June 15, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Search results for 'au: Noack, Kurt,'. In: WorldCat . Retrieved June 15, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Akimoff, Gregor von (born September 9, 1880 in Vienna; † January 22, 1932); 2nd concert master, cf. Hof- / Staatstheater Stuttgart: Personnel files, in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Department State Archive Ludwigsburg, E 18 VI Bü 301 Personnel files  in the German Digital Library and Rainer E. Lotz: Vox Künstlerdiskographie (pdf)
18. ↑ cf. worldcat.org
19. ↑ cf. amazon.de
20. ↑ Sony 498193-2, cf. www.sonyclassical.de