Manfred Heyl

Manfred Heyl (born December 26, 1908 in Friedberg / Oberhessen ; † January 3, 2001 in Worms ) was a German composer .

Life

Manfred Karl Johannes Heyl was born as the son of the student councilor Karl Heyl (1892–1970) and his wife Friderike geb. Jordan (1883–1973) was born in Friedberg / Oberhessen and grew up in Worms. He received his first piano lessons from his father, later he was instructed in organ and piano playing by the local music teacher and organist Lutz Heinemann (1901–1992). In 1930 Heyl went to Mannheim and studied composition with Friedrich Eckart and piano with Willy Rehberg at the music college there . When he returned to his hometown in 1933, he worked as a freelance composer and private music teacher. In 1940 Heyl was drafted into the war in Norway and later became a French prisoner of war. From 1946 he lived again in Worms and worked as a teacher at the youth music school. When Manfred Heyl died in Worms at the age of 92, he left for posterity an extensive oeuvre of compositions, comprising almost all genres of instrumental and vocal music .

The composer's estate is in the Worms City Archives.

Works

With opus number

• op. 1: Three songs based on poems by Walther von der Vogelweide
• op. 2: Concerto Grosso in the old style for flute, violin, harpsichord and string orchestra (1931)
• op. 3: Suite of variations in the old style for harpsichord
• op. 4: Suite 1932 for chamber orchestra
• op. 5: Happy people. Six songs based on pictures by Ludwig Richter
• op. 6: Two songs for high voice ( Otto Ernst )
• op. 7: Marienlied und Mondlicht for cello and piano
• op. 8: Piano piece in E minor
• op.9: Festive Prelude for large orchestra (1937)
• op.10: Spanish dance piece for flute and piano (1936)
• op.11: Oh I loved you all so much ( Wiener Lied )
• op.12: Two songs for medium female voice ( Eichendorff , Hebbel )
• op. 14: Songs ( Weinträger , Rilke )
• op.15: Songs (Rilke, Morgenstern , Karl Bröger )
• op. 16: Twilight ( Goethe ) for male choir and orchestra
• op. 17: Thoughts on the Nocturnal Stream ( Kurt Kluge ). Song for voice and chamber orchestra
• op.18: Burlesque for piano (1945)
• op. 19: In the temple of the Buddha. Music for a dance pantomime (Buddha and the demon) (1946, WP 1946 Langres, conductor: Rolf Kleinert )
• op. 20: The night watchman in love. Singspiel (1934)
• op.21: Songs ( Georg Herwegh )
• op. 23: Symphonic Prelude for Orchestra (1947)
• op. 24: Celebration of Humanity for baritone and orchestra
• op.25: Der Weber ( Heine ) for choir and large orchestra (1948)
• op.26: Quintet in C major for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1950)
• op. 28: Hirtenweise for love flute and piano
• op. 29: Dance towards beautiful May. Singing and moving game for young people (1948)
• op. 30: Requiem ( Hebbel ) for male choir and wind instruments (1950)
• op. 31: In the fairytale garden. Suite for piano (1950)
• op. 32: Songs in German and French (duets) ( Mallarmé , Fritz Usinger , Verlaine , Dehmel )
• op. 33: Little play music for string orchestra (1951) [also as play music for chamber orchestra]
• op. 34: Two three-part female choirs
• op.35: Counterpoint Variations for flute, oboe and bassoon (1951)
• op. 36: Two songs ( Uhland )
• op. 37: Six children's songs for 2 choral voices
• op.38: Cantate Licht must become again for soprano solo and mixed choir (1952)
• op. 39: Hühnerlied (The Five Chickens) for children's choir
• op. 40: Beherzigung (Goethe) for voice and piano
• op. 41: Twilight and Great Evening for Male Choir and Orchestra
• op. 42: journeyman's song for a cappella choir
• op. 43: Vom Ackern for male choir
• op.44: Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1949)
• op. 45: The Perchtholsdorf Wedding. overture
• op. 46: A little wedding music for flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano
• op. 48: Sonatina for treble recorder and piano
• op. 49: Pantomime [new version of op. 19]
• op.50: Prelude to the consecration of the new (festival) house (1961)
• op. 51: Shadows for treble recorder and cello
• op. 53: Quartet in F (Lydian) for recorders
• op. 54: From the life of a little Hosenmatz for various instruments [fragment]
• op. 55: Grotesque dance for 9 instruments and bassoon
• op. 56: Among Indians, Trappers and Cowboys. School opera
• op. 57: Concertante suite for flute, clarinet, bassoon and strings
• op. 58: Rhapsodic Fantasy for piano and orchestra
• op. 61: Colloquium (Colloquium) for five recorders
• op. 61 b: Figures. 4 pieces for 4 recorders
• op. 62: Improvisations for 4 woodwinds
• op. 63: Variskische Suite. Wind quintet
• op. 64: The embarrassing mistake of the pharmacy manager Mickefett. Komische Oper (after Julchen by Wilhelm Busch )
• op. 65: Echoes of Spain for piano
• op. 67: Impressions from the South of France for large orchestra
• op. 68: Nights on the Rio de la Plata for orchestra (concert tango)
• op. 69: Hermenaion for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano
• op. 71: The lonely Christ (morning star) for voice and piano
• op. 72: Two songs (Morgenstern)
• op. 73: Fantasy Sonata (Ghost Sonata) for piano
• op.74: Funeral music for the death of a Spanish grandee ( Don Juan d'Austria )
• op. 75: Five Impressions In Memoriam Ingeborg Bachmann for oboe d'amore and orchestra
• op. 77: Variations in Blue for piano
• op. 78: Trio Das Pferd for violin, cello and piano
• op. 80: Tartuffe . Chamber Opera ( Molière ) (1984)
• op. 81: Three songs based on poems by Ingeborg Bachmann
• op. 82: Strindberg. Dramatic-musical experiment
• op. 83: Extemporale e Fughetta piccola for soprano recorder solo
• op. 85: Arcadian suite for two treble recorders and piano
• op. 86: Sonata piccola for soprano recorder and piano
• op. 88: Concerto for piano and orchestra
• op. 90: Roman impressions for oboe d'amore and organ
• op. 92: Concerto for flute and orchestra in the old style
• op. 94: 5 pieces for flute and harp
• op. 95: Dithyrambos for baritone and orchestra
• op.96: Adagio ( Hesse ) for female voice and harp (1990)
• op. 98: reflections. Symphonic studies for large orchestra and concert harp
• op.106: A Festival Day in the Country (New Table Music)
• op. 108: Bio-Quintet (easy) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
• op.108: Autumn Thoughts for high male voice and harp (1991)
• op. 157: Think back, human! for orchestra [arrangement and extension of op. 57]
• op. 175: Seven Impressions In Memoriam Ingeborg Bachmann for oboe d'amore and large orchestra [extension of op. 75]
• op. 188: Kaleidoskop '88 for viola, cello and double bass

Without opus number (alphabetically)

• 2nd Piano Sonata Carneval
• Peasant dance for orchestra
• Chaotikon for 2 instruments
• Dante. Great Opera (1934–1936)
• The chalk circle. Opera in 5 acts ( Klabund ) (1946–1971)
• The rascal as a philosopher. Farce with music ( Ernst Elias Niebergall )
• The trial of the donkey's shadow. Opera ( Christoph Martin Wieland ) (1962–1966)
• The bear wedding. School Opera (1995–1996) ( Eva Becker )
• Indian legend ( Sakuntala ) for orchestra
• Intermezzo from the opera Der Kreidekreis for orchestra
• Jung Olaf ( Ernst von Wildenbruch ). Melodrama, speaker and piano
• Cantata ( Max Reuschle )
• Small prelude and fugue for accordion solo
• Marienlied for cello and piano
• Odenwälder Bauernpolka for accordion quartet
• Spanish dance piece for flute and piano
• Jungle Night and Dance of the Negroes for piano
• Variations on Es tanzt ein Bi-, Ba-, Butzelmann for soprano recorder (s) and piano
• Prelude to the opera Der Kreidekreis (concert version)
• Two songs (Goethe, Eichendorff) for voice, flute and piano

Fragments

• op. 54: From the life of a little Hosenmatz for various instruments
• The violinist from Schwäbisch Gmünd . Opera fragment (Karl Heyl)
• The Japanese fan. Musical [sic!]
• Diogenes. Opera fragment (Hubert Fuchs)
• Opera fragment without title

Literature / sources

• Heyl, Manfred . In: Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1954, column 491.
• Ursula Genähr: The composer Manfred Heyl , Mainz 1985 [Written homework as part of the state examination for music school teachers and independent teachers].
• Fritz Reuter: Manfred Heyl (1908-2001) - A contemporary composer and his works, in: Der Wormsgau 23 (2004), pp. 166-185.

Web links

• Works by and about Manfred Heyl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Finding aid of the Stadtarchiv Worms with information on Manfred Heyl's estate (under musicians' bequests)