Ludwig Kusche

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Ludwig Kusche (born March 31, 1901 in Mainz ; † September 5, 1982 in Munich ) was a solo pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, conductor, composer and writer and co-designer of radio broadcasts.

Life

Kusche, the son of a private scholar, was a student of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen . After studying music, he was committed to the Munich Chamber Opera in 1925 , where he worked as musical director and pianist. In 1930 Ludwig Kusche founded the literary cabaret The Onion Fish together with Peter Paul Althaus and Wolfgang von Weber in Munich .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 and was registered under the party number 1,664,696. In the same year he began working as a freelance film and radio composer. In addition to radio play music, he wrote various system-compliant compositions during the National Socialist era and directed radio broadcasts in line with the regime, including the 1938/39 broadcast Eine Saat aufbruch. Hitler Youth find a song , he wrote the music for the Nuremberg broadcast . A festive Aufklang the Nazi Party in 1939 , which was brought on 30 August 1939, shortly before the planned Nazi Party because of Germany on Poland raid was canceled. In 1942 he also wrote the music for the military film Melder durch Beton und Stahl , as well as for the short films Space Ship I Starts and Teutons Against Pharaohs .

After the war he began in 1950 with the Bavarian Radio with the mission of The Musikaleum , which was taken over in 1956 from television and from other stations and later. This program was designed as an entertaining introduction to music and cultural history. At first Kusche only wrote the manuscripts for the Musikaleum, but later also spoke the texts himself and played the examples on the piano.

A later series of musical speech plates, Happy Music History by and with Kusche, followed the concept of radio broadcasts.

His compositions include settings of poems by his friend Peter Paul Althaus .

In 1966 Ludwig Kusche received the Schwabing Art Prize and in 1981 he was awarded the Bavarian Poet Thaler by the Munich tower writers .

Works

Compositions

  • Adaptation of Mozart's opera fragment The betrayed bridegroom (1928)
  • Sulfur, Tree Oil and Chicory or The Three Soulful Spice Shoppers , comedy with songs based on Nestroy (Munich 1934)
  • The Magic of the Voice , Grotesque Comedy (Cologne 1936)
  • also orchestral works such as the dance symphony Herzdame (Munich 1937), chamber music, piano pieces, songs and a choral ballad with orchestra.

Fonts

  • Karl Ganzer, Ludwig Kusche, four hands, 1954
  • Ludwig Kusche, Jürgen Dieter Waidelich, Music and Theater in Bavaria, 1955
  • Two hundred years of love for Mozart, 1956
  • Robert Schumann, Ludwig Kusche, the poet speaks, 1956
  • The pensive musician, 1958
  • Secret invitation to Richard Strauss, 1959
  • Frédéric Chopin, 1960
  • Music as Pleasure and Discomfort, 1960
  • Franz Liszt, 1961
  • Franz Schubert, 1962
  • Music and musicians in Baiern, 1963
  • Richard Strauss in the culture carousel from 1864–1964, 1964
  • Is that also true ?, 1966
  • Richard Wagner and the cleaner, 1967
  • Dr. Riesling's Handling of Wines, 1967
  • On musical secret routes, 1968
  • Music, 1968
  • Love for Mozart, 1969
  • Mothers make music history. The genius in conflict, 1972
  • Frau Musica, the misunderstood woman. Luck and the late 19th century, 1974
  • I saw it in 1982

Discography

  • Happy music history by and with Ludwig Kusche - Joseph Haydn , Bertelsmann 11 368
  • Happy music history by and with Ludwig Kusche - salon music for higher daughters, Ariola 1961
  • Happy music history by and with Ludwig Kusche - Franz Schubert, a melodic miracle, Ariola 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4.040.
  2. ↑ Examples from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, pp. 4.040–4.041.
  3. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 4.041.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Kusche in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
personal data
SURNAME Kusche, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German solo pianist, conductor and co-designer of radio broadcasts
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1982
Place of death Munich