Leopold Weninger

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Leopold Weninger (born October 13, 1879 in Feistritz am Wechsel ; † February 28, 1940 in Naunhof ) was a German composer of Austrian origin, conductor and arranger .

Life

Leopold Weninger, son of a senior teacher, attended grammar school in Wiener Neustadt . From 1896 to 1899 he studied composition and piano at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. a. with Robert Fuchs . He completed further studies from 1899 to 1901 in Bad Kissingen and from 1909 to 1912 in Dresden and Leipzig . From 1902 to 1909 he worked as a theater music director in Bautzen , Görlitz , Liegnitz and Erfurt . From 1914 he was a consultant and arranger for various music publishers (e.g. Anton J. Benjamin Hamburg / Leipzig) and arranger for salon orchestras.

Weninger had been a member of the NSDAP since February 1, 1932 (party number 906,408). During the time of National Socialism , he worked for the cultural office of the NSDAP in the Leipzig district and for the local association of the National Socialist cultural community in Leipzig. In the music department he organized the series of colorful chamber music evenings together with Pg. Fritz Müller-Krippen .

He composed various pieces conforming to the system and arranged many Nazi songs, including 1933 Jung-Deutschland. March potpourri for large orchestra , a melodrama with piano accompaniment Die Fahne hoch. In the crimson east of the residence. A melodrama from the difficult time of the German turning point based on a text by H. Marcellus, an arrangement of the Horst Wessel song for piano with voice, also for violin and mandolin, or Sieg Heil! 43 SA marching and fighting songs , compiled and edited by L. Weninger. In 1934 a Sturmführer march followed , as well as a Hitler anthem God be with our Führer on a text by L. von Schenkendorf. In 1938 he arranged various SA marches for harmony music , including Ehre am Rhein , SA march No. 3, and The Storm Department of the Edelweiss , SA march No. 4.

As a music writer, he praised Otto Emil Schumann's newly published opera guide in the newsletter of the Nazi cultural community in 1935 with the following words: "[...] The main advantage of the opera book is its clear language, which every national can understand [...]", whereby he also incorporated anti-Semitic considerations : "[...] If Meyerbeer , Offenbach , Schönberg , Korngold , Krenek were recorded at all, this was only done for the purpose of making everyone understand why these works are to be rejected today, and this is demonstrated in the explanations with compelling logic . [...] "

Leopold Weninger published many of his compositions under the pseudonym Leo Minor. Weninger lived in Naunhof, the place where he died, from 1937. He was the father of the film producer Manfred Otto (Otto Manfred) Weninger.

Weninger's best-known arrangement is that of the Radetzky March , with which the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert ended every year - for the last time in 2020 - just as every Vienna orchestra usually plays Weninger's arrangement at the end of a Strauss concert; Austrian conductors also continue to regularly call for people to clap along to this Nazi falsification, even on the Austrian national holiday.

Works

  • Incidental music to F. Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau" 1907
  • Orchestral piece 1915
  • Spring in the Vienna Woods, waltz
  • Memory of Verdi's Aida, Fantasy 1932
  • Pastorale for violin and organ 1932
  • Pifferari (Die Querpfeifer), Intermezzo caratteristico 1937
  • Rococo serenade for violin and piano
  • Operetta Das Bärmädel

Fonts

  • Leopold Weninger: The "editor" in the course of time , in: The golden book of the Kapellmeister , Düsseldorf 1931, pp. 23–24.
  • Leopold Weninger: Reviews: personal notes of the well-known German arranger a. Composers , Leipzig 1940.

Documents

  • Autographs (letters and music) by Leopold Weninger are in the holdings of the music publisher AJ Benjamin / Hans C. Sikorski KG as well as in other holdings of music publishers in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives .

literature

  • Rudolf Flotzinger (ed.), Austrian Music Lexicon, Vienna undated, entry on Weninger.
  • Franz Josef Ewens, Lexicon of German Choirs, Mönchengladbach 1954.
  • Ingrid Bigler-Marschall (ed.), Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, Vol. VI, Berlin 2013.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, keyword: Weninger, Leopold . Pp. 7665-7668

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 7666
  2. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 7667
  3. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 7668
  4. ^ Quotations from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 7667, source: Mitteilungsblatt der NS-Kulturgemeinde Leipzig XV / 3, Julmond 1935, p. 7–8
  5. ↑ Jeroen HC Tempelman: On the Radetzky March ( Memento from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 221 kB), page 5
personal data
SURNAME Weninger, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Feistritz am Wechsel
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1940
Place of death Naunhof