Kurt Schwaen

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Kurt Schwaen
Memorial plaque on 7 Wolności house in Katowice

Kurt Schwaen (born June 21, 1909 in Katowice , Silesia , † October 9, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

Life

Schwaen came from an Upper Silesian merchant family, his father was a grocer . From 1923 he was taught piano , organ and music theory with Fritz Lubrich , a Reger student . From 1924 he attended the mathematical and natural science high school in Katowice. From 1929 to 1933 he studied German , musicology , art history and philosophy at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin . His teachers were Friedrich Blume , Curt Sachs , Arnold Schering and Walther Vetter . He became a member of the Red Student Group and attended seminars with Hanns Eisler at the Marxist Workers' School (MASCH) in Berlin . In 1933 he broke off his studies. After taking an external piano exam with Kurt Schubert in 1934, he lived as a piano teacher in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen from 1934 .

In 1935 Schwaen, who had worked for the KPD since 1932 and for the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition since 1934 , was arrested by the Gestapo and in 1936 for three years in prison (in Luckau and Osterstein Castle ) for resistance work against the Nazi regime. sentenced. After his release in 1938, he worked as a répétiteur in Gertrud Wienecke's dance studio on Kurfürstendamm. From 1939 he accompanied the dancers Manon Ehrfur , Ilse Meudtner and Oda Schottmüller on the piano. From 1943 he was a répétiteur with Mary Wigman in Leipzig. In February 1943 he was appointed as conditionally defense worthy of the Criminal Division 999 convened the Wehrmacht. After training in Germany and Poland, he was deployed in France, Greece and Czechoslovakia. From Brno he was posted to Berlin-Marienfelde in 1945 because of illness, but he did not report there. From April to May 1945 he lived illegally in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Memorial plaque on Haus Wacholderheide 31, in Berlin-Mahlsdorf

After the war ended, Schwaen became the companion of the dancer Marianne Vogelsang . In June 1945 he organized the first art exhibition in Berlin with works by the painter and draftsman Emil Stumpp , whose daughter Hedwig he had been married to since 1942 and whose estate they looked after together. In 1946 he became a member of the SED . From 1947 he took an active part in the development of folk music schools in Berlin. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as a répétiteur with Ernst Busch and Kate Kühl and from 1948 to 1953 he worked as a music consultant at the Bund Deutscher Volksbühne (later Deutsche Volksbühne ). From 1950 to 1951 he was also a lecturer for composition and piano at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Freelance from 1953, he worked with Bertolt Brecht until 1956 . He later set many texts by Günter Kunert to music . Schwaen created compositions in many genres , including music for children such as the cantata King Midas and his opera Pinocchio's Adventure . In 1973 he founded a working group for children's music theater in Leipzig , which he directed for almost ten years.

In addition to his work as a composer, Schwaen did a variety of voluntary work and received numerous awards. From 1953 to 1962 he was the second secretary in the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . From 1951 to 1961 he was deputy chairman, from 1961 to 1979 chairman and from 1979 honorary chairman of the advisory board of the institute for the maintenance of performance and reproduction rights in the field of music . In 1961 he also became a member of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin and secretary of the music section (1965–1970), from 1962 to 1978 he was president of the GDR national committee for folk music and in 1986 vice-president of the GDR music council .

In 1980 Schwaen married the music teacher Ina Iske, who has been running the Kurt Schwaen Archive since then. Kurt Schwaen last lived in Berlin-Mahlsdorf . There he died in his house at the age of 98 and found his final resting place in the municipal cemetery in Berlin-Mahlsdorf.

style

Schwaen was a very versatile and extremely productive composer who composed for almost all genres and groups of instruments. Larger orchestral works and operas are also mostly chamber music, clearly structured and sparse in their cast. This makes the score transparent and often leads to the misconception that the music is easy to play.

The basis of his work was a neoclassical attitude; Béla Bartók , Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith can be named as role models . He kept the reference to the tonality , but handled it quite freely and liked to incorporate sometimes very sharp dissonances . But even when Schwaen used more modern techniques, his music remained relatively easy to receive. He was often based on German and Slavic folk music, which meant that many of his themes were catchy and song-like.

Schwaen was also interested in folk ensembles and composed works for accordion or plucked instruments and assigned them to chamber music on an equal footing. Many of his works can be described as utility music. He preferred miniature, concentrated pieces to large shapes. Often his music seems elegant and playful, but sometimes also lyrical and thoughtful. Characterized by his work in the dance studio, he had a pronounced preference for music with a dance-like gesture. Many of his works are therefore characterized by concise, dance-like rhythms. Perhaps that is what makes his music particularly popular with children and young people.

Schwaen is considered a "modern classic". Stylistically, the composer understood how to filter out from the abundance of possibilities that the 20th century had to offer and to use for himself what suited his nature and proved to be useful for his artistic concerns. The secret of Schwaen's tonal language lies in the seamless amalgamation of old and new material, which is “good and usable” and promises durability.

His works were played a lot in the GDR and made him one of the most important personalities, especially in the field of music education. Schwaen always wanted to write music that was understandable for the listener. All in all, his works are characterized by great clarity, lightness and joy of playing - Schwaen has always remained true to his principle "Everything easy is unusually difficult".

Catalog of works (selection)

  • Orchestral works
    • 3 dance suites (No. 1 KSV 14, 1947; No. 2 KSV 67, 1952; No. 3 KSV 200 ( Polonäsen-Suite ), 1960)
    • Ostinato 56 , four movements for orchestra KSV 122 (1956)
    • Concerto piccolo for jazz orchestra KSV 137 (1957)
    • Sinfonietta KSV 142 (1957)
    • Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann ( Schumann Variations ) KSV 268 (1964)
    • Chamber concert (Divertimento) for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion and string orchestra KSV 298 (1968)
    • Promenaden , Suite for large orchestra KSV 337 (1971)
    • Variations on a Dutch folk song ("Hear the drumbeat") for string orchestra KSV 356 (1972)
    • Sinfonietta piccola KSV 374 (1974, rev. 1977)
    • Hommage à JS Bach for string orchestra KSV 480A (1984/86)
    • Jeu parti for string orchestra KSV 482 (1985)
    • Tre danzi for string orchestra KSV 637 (1956/2002)
  • Concerts
    • Concerto for clarinet, trumpet and orchestra KSV 174 (1959)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 KSV 259 (1963, 2nd version for piano, wind instruments, timpani, percussion and double bass 1964)
    • Concertino for violin and string orchestra KSV 310 (1968)
    • Four Intermezzi for trombone and string orchestra KSV 351 (1972)
    • Violin Concerto KSV 433 (1979)
    • Balletto for flute and plucked orchestra KSV 440 (1980)
    • Concerto grosso for string quartet and string orchestra KSV 462 (1982)
    • Concerto da camera for accordion and string orchestra KSV 494 (1985)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 Vietnamese Concerto KSV 515 (1987)
    • Concert divertimento for violoncello and plucked orchestra KSV 588 (1995)
    • Concert pour la jeunesse for piano and string orchestra KSV 620 (1999)
    • Divertissement for 4 harpsichords and 7 woodwind instruments KSV 634 (2001/02)
  • Piano music
    • 5 dance pictures KSV 8 (1940)
    • First Toccatina / Second Toccatina KSV 10/12 (1942, 1946)
    • 3 capriccios for 2 pianos KSV 15 (1947/99)
    • Concertino Apollineo for 2 pianos KSV 138 (1957/2000)
    • (17) Intermezzi KSV 339 (1971)
    • Bulgarian Rhythms KSV 346 (1972)
    • Movimenti , Seven Movements for Piano KSV 457 (1957–82)
    • Minh , Nocturne de loin KSV 511 (1) (1987)
    • Nocturne lugubre KSV 568 (1992)
    • Preludio patetico KSV 598 (1996)
    • Due carattere , 3 movements for 2 pianos or for piano four hands KSV 601 (1997)
    • Contrasts , 6 pieces for piano four hands KSV 621 (1994/2000)
    • Tanzbüchlein , cycle for piano KSV 625 (2000)
    • Lyric Pieces KSV 627 (2001)
    • Toccata appassionata 2 KSV 650 (2004)
    • Rumba 2 KSV 659 (2005)
  • Chamber music (various line-ups)
    • Small Suites for Violin Solo KSV 3 (1932)
    • Suite classique for violin and piano KSV 441 (1980)
    • Capriccio. Hommage à Stravinsky for violin and piano KSV 497 (1986)
    • Concertino. Hommage à Bartók for violoncello and piano KSV 558 (1991)
    • Sequences in E- flat for violoncello and piano KSV 591a (1996)
    • Volksliederstreichquartett KSV 143 (1958)
    • Night scenes for string quartet KSV 590 (1996)
    • 5 piano trios (No. 1 KSV 319, 1969; No. 2 KSV 413, 1969/78; No. 3 KSV 469, 1982; No. 4 KSV 474, 1983; No. 5 en miniature KSV 509, 1987)
    • L'oiseau sans repos. Poème pour flûte et piano KSV 600 (1997)
    • Burlesque for clarinet and piano KSV 521.1 (1988)
    • Sonatina for bassoon and piano KSV 274 (1965)
    • Moravian woodwind quintet for flute (also piccolo), oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon KSV 149 (1958)
    • Serenata facile , 3 pieces for woodwind trio (flute, oboe, clarinet, also arranged for flute, oboe and bassoon) KSV 391 (1976/94)
    • Suites for saxophone quartet or two clarinets and two bassoons KSV 569 (1992) ( I. Kaleidoskop. Tanzsuite / II. La Forêt sombre )
    • On the carousel for wind quintet KSV 533a (1988)
    • Sonata (F minor) for trumpet and piano KSV 313 (1969)
  • Didactic play, operas and ballet
    • Die Horatier und die Kuriatier , A teaching piece for choir and small orchestra KSV 104, text: Bertolt Brecht (1955/56)
    • Leonce and Lena . Chamber opera KSV 204, libretto: Kurt Schwaen based on the comedy by Georg Büchner (1960/61)
    • Ballade vom Glück , ballet in four pictures KSV 282, libretto: Edith Dörwaldt-Kühl (1966)
    • Pinocchio's Adventure , opera for children KSV 322, libretto: Wera and Claus Küchenmeister KSV 322 (1969/70)
    • The jealous old man , chamber opera in six scenes KSV 429, libretto: Kurt Schwaen based on an interlude by Cervantes (1978/79)
    • The play by Doctor Faust , opera in a prologue and nine pictures KSV 445, libretto: Kurt Schwaen using old sources (1980/81)
    • Craqueville or The Innocent Sinner , Komische Oper KSV 480, Libretto: Claus and Wera Küchenmeister (1984)
    • The poor Kalifah , Singspiel KSV 567, libretto: Kurt Schwaen based on a fairy tale from 1001 Nights (1992)
  • Children's vocal music
    • Who doesn't want to stay in life KSV 158, text: Wera Küchenmeister (1958)
    • Practice makes perfect , 115 proverbs for school choirs a cappella KSV 343 (1971/72)
    • A bridge to all children for children's choir and piano KSV 369, text: Alfred Könner (1974)
    • König Midas , (scenic) cantata KSV 144, text: Günter Kunert (1958)
    • The world tour in a room , children's opera KSV 213, text: Günter Kunert (1960)
    • An animal that isn't one , children's opera KSV 225, text: Günter Kunert (1961)
  • Solo songs with instruments
    • (25) German folk poems for voice and piano KSV 88 (1953/54). Selection as: 15 Pfennig songs. Heiter-Lyrisch-Derbes based on German folk poems for voice and piano
    • Spanish love songs for soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano (also arranged for soprano and piano) KSV 176, text: Rafael Alberti (1959)
    • Loving occupation , 11 songs for voice and piano KSV 207, 256, 283, 329 and 437, text: Günter Kunert (1957–79)
    • Parabolisch , four songs based on poems by Johann Wolfgang Goethe for voice and piano KSV 293 (1967)
    • Through the Eye Glass of Love , Five Songs based on poems by Johann Wolfgang Goethe for voice and piano KSV 593 (1996)
    • To an Icarus , four songs based on new poems by Günter Kunert for voice and piano KSV 618 (1999)
    • Through the night , (8) love songs based on poems by Uwe Berger for voice and piano KSV 640 (1972/2003)
    • Trip, trip, trop , seven songs for voice and piano based on poems by Peter Hacks KSV 665 (2006)
  • Choral music a cappella
    • Come again to the future night , eight cheerful love songs based on German folk poems for solos, mixed choir a cappella or (No. 5) women's choir KSV 184 (1959/60)
    • Under heaven, under the stars , four songs based on Romanian folk poems for a cappella choir KSV 205 (1957/60)
    • Take on wisdom , cycle based on the Proverbs of Solomon for mixed choir a cappella KSV 506 (1986)
    • It tingles and tingles for a cappella male choir KSV 543, text: Theodor Fontane (1990)
  • Choral music with instruments
    • Our beautiful homeland , cantata for solo voices, speaker and orchestra based on texts by German poets and folk song texts KSV 83 (1953)
    • The new Columbus , musical poem for solos, speaker, mixed choir, speaking choir and orchestra KSV 231, text: Heinz Rusch (1961)
    • Shakespeare scene for tenor, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (also arranged for two pianos and six woodwind instruments) KSV 265, text: William Shakespeare (1964)
    • Tagwerke , choir cycle for speaker, mixed choir, clarinet, bassoon, piano and percussion KSV 300, text: Günter Kunert (1968)
    • Praise of the music , musical scene based on words by Martin Luther for speaker, mezzo-soprano, oboe, viola da gamba and harpsichord KSV 465 (1982)
    • Berlin - Potsdamer Platz , literary-musical chronicle for two female and two male voices, speaker, clarinet, percussion and piano KSV 610, text: Helmut Baierl / Kurt Lutz (1998/99)
  • Music for plucked orchestra
    • Evening music , (Vier Canzoni) for plucked orchestra KSV 33 (1949)
    • Four national dances for plucked orchestra KSV 72 (1953)
    • Dance impressions for plucked orchestra KSV 522 (1988)
    • Far and near. New National Dances for Plucked Orchestra KSV 556 (1) (1991)
  • Music for different plucked instruments
    • Vision orientale for mandolin and piano KSV 548 (1990)
    • Los compañeros for three guitars KSV 368 (1974)
    • Concert piece for balalaika and piano KSV 392 (1976)
    • Tre pezzi per arpa for harp solo KSV 597 (1996)
  • Music for radio, television and film
    • The memorial of the unknown aviator , radio play music KSV 146, text: Günter Kunert (1958)
    • They called him Amigo KSV 158, DEFA studio for feature films (1958)
    • Fetzers Escape , Funkoper KSV 146, Libretto: Günter Kunert (1959)
    • The lost ball , DEFA studio for feature films (1959)
    • Life begins KSV 194, DEFA studio for feature films (1959)
    • The case of Gleiwitz KSV 227, DEFA-Studio for feature films (1961)
    • Christine and the Storks KSV 233, DEFA-Studio for feature films (1961)
    • Fetzers Flucht , TV film opera KSV 242, screenplay: Günter Kunert / Günther Stahnke (1962)
    • Vom König Midas KSV 249, production: DEFA color film of the artistic working group Solidarity Babelsberg (1963)
    • Kurt Schwaen - A long journey , documentary 2001. KSV various. A cesar film production. Script, camera, sound Director: Jochen Kraußer. Section DANI

His compositions have mainly been published by Verlag Neue Musik , Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag and Bärenreiter-Verlag . A detailed catalog raisonné by Rosemarie Groth is available in printed form in the Kurt Schwaen Archive ( ISBN 978-3-00-035722-0 ).

Discography (selection)

Most of the CDs with works by Schwaen were published by kreuzberg records.

  • Movimenti. Kurt Schwaen - piano music from five decades. To Nu Nguyet Minh, piano. kreuzberg records, 1994.
  • Kurt Schwaen. Miniatures • Late Piano Pieces. Falko Steinbach, piano. Valve Hearts, 2001
  • Due carattere. Piano music for four hands. Piano duo "Four hands crazy". kreuzberg records, 2000.
  • "Accelerando". Piano trios and duos. Trio Vistèl. kreuzberg records, 2000.
  • Saxophone square. Dances. Raake - Schwaen - Piazolla. This includes: kaleidoscope. Dance suite for saxophone quartet. harp Berlin, edition platform, 2007.
  • Solo concerts. This includes: Piano Concerto No. 1. Siegfried Stöckigt (piano), Großes Rundfunkorchester Leipzig, Adolf-Fritz Guhl. Piano concerto No. 2. note Nu Nguyet Minh (piano), Hallesche Philharmonie, Olaf Koch. Violin concerto. Wolfgang Hentrich (violin), Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, Dieter-Gerhardt Worm. Hastedt, 1997, series contemporaries east (2) .
  • Jeu parti. Music for string orchestra from four decades. "Orpheus" Chamber Ensemble Sofia, Raitscho Christov. kreuzberg records, 2002
  • Pinocchio's adventure. Harald Pilar von Pilchau (speaker), Unter den Linden Chamber Orchestra, Andreas Peer Kähler. kreuzberg records, 2000.
  • Interludes. New music for plucked instruments by various soloists, Badisches Plucked Orchestra, Wolfgang Bast. Plucked music disco Manfred Herzog Siebeldingen, 1995.
  • Loving occupation. Songs from various composers. Jana Reh (vocals), Elena Bregman (piano), Walter Thomas Heyn (guitar), Katrin Plümer (flute), Antje Gloede (clarinet), Annegret Marek (horn), Ulrike Buhlmann (bassoon). kreuzberg records, 2000.
  • Elements. A composer's life in song and word. Jana Reh (vocals), Anna Kirichenko (piano), wind quartet, Jörg-Peter Malke reads from texts and letters by Kurt Schwaen, Günter Kunert, Wera and Claus Küchenmeister, Thomas Heyn, Günther Rücker, Uwe Berger and Axel Bertram. Kurt Schwaen Archive, 2003.
  • Kurt Schwaen - Music for Choir. Chamber choir of the Belgian ensemble AQUARIUS, Marc M. De Smet. MEGADISC classics, 2009.
  • Education in music 1950–1980. Tradition and departure. Documentation Music in Germany 1950–2000 - series of the German Music Council. This includes: King Midas. (Scenic) cantata for children's solo voices, speaker and children's choir with instrumental accompaniment. BMG Ariola Classics GmbH, 2001.
  • The Horatians and the Curiatians. kreuzberg records, 1999.
  • Leonce and Lena. Cheerful chamber opera in three acts. Acquisition of the shortened version of the opera for the record by Schwaen (ETERNA 8 25 969 our new musik 38  / NOVA 8 85 1137, 1968). Hastedt, 2011, contemporary series . Music of the time (38) .

Writings and literature

Writings by Kurt Schwaen

  • Tones are ways of thinking. Contributions on music as a social function, Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1949
  • About folk music and amateur music. Dresdner Verlag, Dresden 1952
  • Children's musical theater in school. Experiences and suggestions. Central House for Cultural Work, Leipzig 1979
  • Emil Stumpp - Over my heads. Texts, portraits, landscapes, Kurt Schwaen (Hrsg.), Berlin: Buchverlag Der Morgen, 1983
  • Music between innocence and severity. Sinn und Form Berlin, H. 1 (Jan./Febr.) 1984, pp. 127-132
  • To hell with the opera. A fictional dialogue. Kurt Schwaen in conversation with Kurt Schwaen. In: Belkius, Gerd / Liedtke, Ulrike (Ed.): Music for the opera? In conversation with composers. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 268-277
  • Levels and intervals. A composer between society and grading systems. Autobiography. 3. update Edition. Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1996, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89924-264-5 .
  • My way to the children's opera. In: Isolde Schmid-Reiter (ed.): Children's opera. Aesthetic challenge and educational obligation. Anif / Salzburg: Mueller-Speiser, 2003. (Writings of the European Music Theater Academy, Vol. 6)
  • Memories of the dancer Mary Wigman. Diary entries, experiences, correspondence. Kurt Schwaen Archive 2006
  • The Horatians and the Curiatians. Encounters with Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble. Kurt Schwaen Archive 2007
  • You lovely art. A colorful collection of quotes from the composer's library, selected and commented on by him. Ed. Ina Iske, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7333-0525-3 .

A detailed list of sources of written and oral statements by the composer, ed. 2010 by Ina Iske-Schwaen, printed in the Kurt-Schwaen-Archiv, ISBN 978-3-00-036751-9 .

Literature (selection)

  • Association of composers and musicologists of the GDR : composers and musicologists of the German Democratic Republic. Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1959, p. 171 ff.
  • Kaden, Christian: Themes and Motifs. Comments on Kurt Schwaen and his music. Epilogue to Kurt Schwaen: Levels and intervals. Memories and mishaps. Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1976, ²1978
  • Brennecke, Dietrich: Kurt Schwaen . In: Dietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (eds.): Musicians in our time. Members of the music section of the GDR Academy of the Arts . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1979, p. 135 ff.
  • Iske, Ina: Kurt Schwaen - portrayed for you , Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984
  • Lucchesi, Joachim / Shull, Roland K .: Music with Brecht. Henschel Verlag, Berlin / Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt / M. 1988, pp. 37, 58, 521-635
  • Hanke, Wolfgang: Kurt Schwaen . In: H.-W. Heister, WW Sparrer (Ed.): Composers of the Present (KGD). edition text + kritik, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88377-810-9 , nachschlage.net
  • Ochs, Ekkehard / Schüler, Nico (Hrsg.): Festschrift. Kurt Schwaen on his 85th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-631-47552-7 (= Greifswald contributions to musicology , 1)
  • Schweinhardt, Peter (Ed.): Kurt Schwaen for his 90th birthday. Colloquium Berlin May 10-12, 1999. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2000, ISBN 3-631-35596-3 . (= Greifswalder Contributions to Musicology , 7) The font combines nine papers on Schwaen's works by well-known musicologists.
  • Reiss, Gunter (ed.): Theater and music for children . Peter Lang Frankfurt / M. 2001. Therein by Mechthild v. Schoenebeck: Kurt Schwaen and the children's music theater
  • Tabbert-Jones, Gudrun: The Collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Schwaen. Communication from the International Brecht Society, vol. 34 (2005), pp. 73-79
  • Köster, Maren: Kurt Schwaen. In: Music in past and present , 2nd edition (MGG²), person part vol. 15, Bärenreiter + Metzler, Kassel 2006
  • Musial, Torsten:  Schwaen, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Kellerbauer, Johanna: Kurt Schwaen's film music for “The Gleiwitz Fall” (1961). Master's thesis (Matr. No. 209110). Institute for Musicology, focus on historical musicology, Technical University Berlin 2010. Extract from the master's thesis. Special issue of the Kurt Schwaen Archive 2014
  • Hennenberg, Fritz: Encounters with Kurt Schwaen and his music. Work comments - excerpts from letters - radio essay - memory splinters. Kurt Schwaen Archive, Berlin 2011
  • Devos, Laetitia: L'opėra en RDA. Sous le signe de Presses universitaires de Rennes 2012, ISBN 978-2-7535-2068-4 . Investigations of the different opera settings of Büchner's Leonce and Lena by Kurt Schwaen, Paul Dessau and Thomas Hertl
  • Thiel, Wolfgang: Fetzer's flight - much controversial, forbidden, forgotten ... In: Kieler contributions to film music research 11, 2014, pp. 222–234. Also in the Kiel online magazine 11th edition online version
  • Gugisch, Peter: Kurt Schwaen. A composer. And a homme de lettres! Kurt Schwaen Archive 2014
  • Schoenebeck, Mechthild by: Kurt Schwaen. In: Maurer Zenck, Claudia / Petersen, Peter / Fetthauer, Sophie (eds.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. Hamburg: University of Hamburg 2014. Online lexicon of the University of Hamburg. Online version

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Kurt Schwaen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Message on Ad-hoc-News.de.
  2. ^ The composer Kurt Schwaen has died . ( Memento from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 10, 2007.
  3. ↑ Kurt Schwaen famous and ninety . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 22, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Schwaen, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2007
Place of death Berlin