Leopold van der Pals

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Leopold van der Pals around 1920

Leopold van der Pals (born July 4, 1884 in Saint Petersburg , † February 7, 1966 in Dornach ) was a composer . His main work are the Oberuferer Christmas Games . He is the brother of Nikolai van Gilse van der Pals .

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Leopold van der Pals was the son of the consul and entrepreneur Henri van der Pals and his wife Lucie, b. Johannsen. He attended high school in his native Saint Petersburg and studied philosophy at the university there. He received his first lessons in music theory from his grandfather Julius Johannsen (1826–1904), director of the Petersburg Conservatory. He continued his studies with Blumberg (piano), Leocadie Kaschperow (piano), Herrbeck (singing) and Vokoloff (theory).

In 1904 he moved to Lausanne . There he became a student of Alexandre Denéréaz , who taught him the piano, harmony and counterpoint . In 1906 he married Maria von Behse, with whom he had a daughter. From 1907 to 1915 he lived and worked in Berlin, where he learned composition with Reinhold Moritzewitsch Glière for the first two years , then in Arlesheim near Basel . From 1934 he lived in Dornach, where he died in 1966.

His work includes orchestral works in the neo-romantic style, operas (including the legend of the princess and the bound youth ), piano pieces and songs.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pals, Leopold van der In: Hugo Riemann: Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon. Berlin 1929. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, Part 2, p. 201.
  2. ^ Pals, Leopold van der In: Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon. Limpert, Dresden 1929. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, Part 2, p. 200.
personal data
SURNAME Pals, Leopold van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1966
Place of death Dornach