Marco Frank

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Marco Frank (actually Markus Fränkl , April 24, 1881 in Vienna - April 29, 1961 there ) was an Austrian violist , composer and music teacher .

life and work

Marco Frank studied music in Naples from 1893 to 1897, with Eusebio Dzworzak and Enrico Bossi . Then he went to Paris, where his debut opera The Three Musketeers caught the attention of Jules Massenet . He then took lessons in instrumentation and dramatic composition from Massenet, and finally from Claude Debussy .

In 1900 he founded a string quartet which made guest appearances in Italy, France, Spain and the Middle East. He played as concertmaster in various Italian theaters. From 1904 to 1934 he was a violist in the Volksoper orchestra.

In 1931 he was appointed professor, in 1935 he completed the oratorio Stabat mater . He wrote four operas, including:

  • Eroica , world premiere at the Volksoper, 1919
  • The Portrait of the Madonna , first performance in the Vienna State Opera , 1925
  • The Stranger Woman , first performance at the Vienna State Opera, 1937, re-enacted in Graz, Trieste, Warsaw and Riga

In 1939 he had to emigrate to the United States , where he earned his living as a music teacher and at the same time propagated contemporary Austrian music. In 1948 he returned to Vienna and worked as a teacher at the Vienna Conservatory until 1951 . From 1952 he was a freelance composer. He composed three symphonies, other orchestral works, chamber music and songs. He was married, his wife's name was Berta.

His estate is in the manuscript collection and the music collection of the Vienna Library in the Vienna City Hall. He was buried in the central cemetery. His grave is in group 33E / 17/2; it was taken into care by the City of Vienna on March 9, 1970.

Award

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss: Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. International biographical dictionary of Central European émigrés 1933–1945. Edited by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich and the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration. Saur, Munich [u. a.] 1980-1999.
  • Ferdinand Lettmayer (ed.): Vienna around the middle of the XX. Century. A cross-section through landscape, history, social and technical facilities, economic and political position and through cultural life. Vienna 1958, p. 857.
  • Town hall correspondence. Press and Information Service, Vienna April 20, 1951; April 27, 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZVAB: auth. musical album sheet with U. , accessed on June 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fränkl, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, violist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1961
Place of death Vienna