Leopold Suchsland

Leopold Suchsland (born September 13, 1871 in Vacha , † September 27, 1943 in Graz ) was an Austrian music teacher and composer .

Life

Leopold Suchsland studied music in Weimar with Erich Wolf Degner , ED Götze, K. Müller-Hartung, Friedrich Grützmacher and in Leipzig with J. Klengels.

He then belonged to the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra as solo cellist and traveled with the Munich Kaim Orchestra .

Suchsland came to Styria in 1894 . He initially taught at the music school in Pettau, today Ptuj , Slovenia , and from 1899 at the school of the music association in Graz. Suchsland originally taught cello and piano here, and from 1908 also music theory . In 1919 he took over the artistic direction of Urania.

As a teacher (including the composer Hermann Grabner ), as a concert conductor and head of the Singverein, but above all as the supervisor of the Urania Quartet , Suchsland made a significant contribution to the concert life of Graz between the two world wars.

Works

Bianca Notar keeps the musical estate in Graz. Here is an exemplary excerpt from the approx. 170 works:

Chamber music:

• String sextet in D major No. 2, op.117
• String quintet in c minor, op.136
• Piano trio in F major, op.55
• Piano Trio in G major No. 9, op.168

Songs:

• 6 songs op.18 (moon night, summer evening, morning, wild roses, April, midsummer)
• 3 chants for mixed choir, op.43
• Praise the Lord, cantata for children's choir op.142
• Greetings from Styria - for male choir

Sonatas:

• Sonata for violoncello and piano, op.143
• 3 easy pieces for violoncello and piano, op.16
• Sonatina for piano, A major op.10

swell

• Wolfgang Suppan: Styrian Music Lexicon . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1962–1966
• Monika Kornberger: The Urania String Quartet (1919–1938) . Musicology Proseminar III: Research papers, summer semester 1992. University of Music and Performing Arts .

literature

• Suchsland Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–,ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0, p. 28 f. (Direct links on p. 28 , p. 29 ).

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Leopold Suchsland in the International Music Score Library Project