Marcel Rubin

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Vienna Central Cemetery

Marcel Rubin (born July 7, 1905 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † May 12, 1995 there ) was an Austrian composer , conductor , music critic and music official.

Life

Marcel Rubin attended a course in harmony with Richard Stöhr at the Vienna State Academy while still at school , where he studied counterpoint with Franz Schmidt and piano with Richard Robert after graduating from high school . 1925-27 he took private composition lessons with Darius Milhaud in Paris . In addition, he studied law at the University of Vienna and completed both studies with a doctorate, Dr. phil. 1933 and Dr. iur. 1934.

Rubin then worked in a law firm and, in addition to other concerts, led the highly regarded concert series “ Contemporary Music ” with Friedrich Wildgans from 1936 onwards .

On the day of the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, Rubin had to emigrate as a Jew . First he fled to Paris to his sister. In September 1939 he was interned as an "enemy alien". He was later deported first to the Meslay-du-Maine internment camp and, in February 1940, to the "suspect camp" in Damigny near Rennes . Here he composed the music for Jura Soyfer's " Dachau-Lied ", at that time he had no knowledge of the now known version by Herbert Zipper . Before the capitulation of France, the English-run camp was closed and the internees released. In the autumn of 1940 Rubin managed to get to his family, who had since fled to Marseille . There he became a member of the KPÖ and remained so until 1969, when he resigned in protest against the crackdown on the Prague Spring .

In 1942 Rubin was able to continue his escape to Mexico. In Mexico City he became a répétiteur at the opera, where Karl Alwin , who had also fled Austria, worked as a conductor. As head of the “Choir of the Free German” he performed his own works and was a board member of the “Heine Club” founded by emigrants.

In February 1947 he returned to Austria. He lived as a freelance composer and earned his living as a music critic for the "Österreichische Tagebuch" and until 1969 for the " Volksstimme ". From 1948 to 1965 he also worked on a voluntary basis as secretary of the Austrian Composers' Association and in 1949 founded the ÖGZM (Austrian Society for Contemporary Music) with like-minded people. From 1957 he held various positions in the AKM , 1975–84 he was its president. He held the same office from 1974-78 at CISAC .

On June 2, 1995, Rubin was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Ehrenhain Gruppe 40, No. 170).

Awards

Works

His oeuvre includes an opera Clothes make the man , ten symphonies, seven concerts, chamber music and songs. His unconventional style was initially influenced by the Groupe des Six and in particular by Milhaud and in the rhythm and instrumentation of Stravinsky and Shostakovich .

A comprehensive catalog of works is contained in the web links.

literature

  • Otto Mayer-Serra: Musica y musicos de Latinoamerica . Atlante, Mexico City 1947.
  • Rudolph Franz Brauner: Austria's new music. A guide and overview for the music lover . Hollinek, Vienna 1948.
  • Storm Bull: Index to biographies of contemporary composers . Scarecrow Press, New York 1964.
  • Walter Szmolyan : Grand State Prize for Marcel Rubin . In: Austrian music magazine . 25 (1970), pp. 767f.
  • Hartmut Krones : Marcel Rubin. A study . Lafite, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-85151-059-3 (series Austrian composers of the 20th century; vol. 22).
  • Walter Pass, Gerhard Scheit, Wilhelm Svoboda: Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1995, p. 205; ISBN 3-851-15200-X .
  • Miguel Fischer, John M. Furman, Martha Furman-Schleifer: Latin American Classical Composers. A Biographical Dictionary . Scarecrow Press, Lanham (Md) 1996.
  • Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 382, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 1.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1160.
  • Austrian music lexicon . Volume 4. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 , p. 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ outstanding artist award - music ( memorial from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 28, 2012
  2. ↑ Honoring Austrian freedom fighters. In:  The new reminder call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , issue 11/1977, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dnm.
personal data
SURNAME Rubin, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1995
Place of death Vienna