Martin Friedland (composer)

Martin Friedland (born December 9, 1881 in Stargard in Pomerania , † May 14, 1940 in Rotterdam ) was a German composer and music writer.

Friedland came from a wealthy Jewish family. He was a son of the factory owner Bernhard Friedland and had three younger siblings. When he was two years old, the family moved to Stettin , and a little later to Berlin. From the age of eight he received violin lessons . After finishing school he tried in vain to be accepted into Joseph Joachim 's violin class . He reoriented himself and from 1902 studied music theory and composition at the Stern Conservatory . His teachers were Max Julius Loewengard and Philipp Rüfer. In 1903 he switched to the same subjects as a master student of Friedrich Gernsheim at the Royal University of Music, also in Berlin . During this time he composed chamber music , songs, orchestral and choral works.

After graduating, Friedland got a job as a lecturer in music theory at the Hagen Conservatory in 1908 . He stayed there until 1922; that year he went to Berlin and became a music advisor at the Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung . In 1926 he switched to the Kölner Tageblatt and developed into one of the leading music and theater critics. At the same time he remained a freelancer (music correspondent) for the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt until 1933 , before he was fired because of his non-Aryan origins. He then wrote articles for the Kulturbund newspaper of the Jewish community in Cologne.

Friedland began a doctoral degree at the university in Berlin and completed it in 1930 at the University of Cologne with the title “Dr. phil. "

Martin Friedland emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife in 1938. He was killed in the German air raid on Rotterdam in 1940 .

For the first time since 1933 a composition by Martin Friedland was performed publicly in 2005 in the parish church of St. Laurentius in Bergisch Gladbach .

Works (selection)

In addition to his books and newspaper articles, Friedland also composed various things for choirs and orchestras .

• The concert book . Verlag Muth, Stuttgart 1931 (together with Paul Schwers )

1. Symphonic works .
2. Instrumental solo concerts .

• Time style and personality style in the variation works of musical romanticism . Kraus-Reprint, Nendeln 1976 (reprint of the dissertation, University of Cologne 1930).

literature

• Stefan Kames: suppressed, pursued, concealed, forgotten. The composer, music scholar and critic 'Dr. Martin Friedland ' . In: Birgit Bernard u. a .: Media and music journalism in Cologne around 1933 . Merseburger Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-87537-306-5 .
• Walther Killy (term): German biographical encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 1990.
• Pomeranian musicians of the present. Autobiography. In: Music in Pomerania. Newsletter. Association for the maintenance of Pomeranian music (ed.), Issue 2, spring 1933, p. 60 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Roger Hillman: On the edge of the Heine reception. In: Dietmar Goltschnigg, Charlotte Grollegg-Edler, Peter Revers (ed.): Harry ... Heinrich ... Henri ... Heine: German, Jew, European. (= Philological studies and sources. Volume 208), Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-09840-8 , pp. 263-264 ( Google Books ).