Max Baumann (composer)

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Max Baumann (born November 20, 1917 in Kronach , Upper Franconia ; † July 17, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

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Max Baumann's birth house, Martinsplatz 10 in Kronach

Max Baumann was born the son of a music teacher. He received his first music lessons at home. He began his music studies in Halle , continued as a private study with Otto Dunkelberg in Passau . He then studied conducting , piano and trombone as well as composition with the Hindemith student Konrad Friedrich Noetel , later with Boris Blacher in Berlin under the conditions of National Socialism at the Hochschule für Musik .

From 1947 to 1949 he was chorus master and assistant conductor at the opera in Stralsund . From 1946 until his retirement in 1978 Baumann initially taught piano and later mainly composition at the Berlin Music Academy . In 1960 he was appointed professor .

Baumann also appeared as a conductor and choirmaster and after Karl Forster's death in 1963 he was interim director of the choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral . In 1955 he converted to the Catholic faith. The encounter with the French organist Jean Guillou in Berlin in the early 1960s prompted Baumann, who had not previously composed for the organ , to deal with this instrument, and in 1962 he wrote Invocation op.67 no.5 , Trois pièces brèves op. 67 No. 6 and Psalmi op. 67 No. 2. These three works were premiered by Jean Guillou on January 20, 1963 in a concert in St. Matthias in Berlin-Schöneberg . He lived in Berlin until his death.

Baumann's compositional oeuvre encompasses almost all genres of music , but organ music and especially sacred vocal music occupy a large space in his work. The latter ranges from simple songs of equal voices to a cappella masses and double choirs to full-length choral works such as the Passion op. 63 (1959) or the oratorio Resurrection op. 94 (1980) based on texts from the Holy Scriptures and the liturgy .

Max Baumann died on July 17, 1999 at the age of 81 in Berlin. The music department of the Berlin State Library had already acquired his extensive artistic estate three years earlier. A few months after his death, the Max Baumann Society was founded in Berlin with the aim of keeping the composer's work alive. It supports planned concert performances and reprints in music publishers, CD recordings and scientific work on Baumann. The co-founder and president of the society is the musicologist and composer Adelheid Geck , who was already co-editor of the Festschrift for Baumann's 75th birthday in 1992 .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Arrival of the Lord op. 66 (1959), Advent cycle for 4-8 voices according to Choir
  • Invocation op. 67 No. 5 for organ
  • Trois pièces brèves op.67 no.6 for organ
  • Psalmi op.67 no.2 for organ
  • Resurrection op. 94 (1980) for soprano , baritone , bass , speaker, speaker, speaking choir, choir and large orchestra
  • Change of Scenes op.83 (1968) for flute and piano
  • Concertino for recorder , guitar and plucked orchestra, op.38, No. 2
  • Deutsche Vespers op. 64 (1960) for soprano, speaker ad lib., Choir and orchestra
  • Duo op.62,1 (1958) for violoncello and guitar
  • Three Duos op. 40 (1953) for 2 violins
  • Three Little Piano Pieces op.35 (around 1954)
  • Five songs op. 9 (1947) for baritone and piano
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra op.36 (1953)
  • Concerto for Organ , Strings and Timpani, op.70 (1964)
  • Libertas cruciata . Dramatic cantata , op. 71 (1963) for solos, speaker, speaking choir, choir and large orchestra
  • Octet for strings, clarinet , bassoon and horn op.72 (1964)
  • Orchestra Variations op.29 (1951)
  • Pater Noster op. 51 (1955) for mixed choir
  • Pélleas and Mélisande . Ballet (after Maurice Maeterlinck ) op.44 (1954)
  • Perspektiven I op. 55 (1957) for large orchestra
  • Guardian Angel Mass op. 50 (1955) for gem. Choir (organ ad lib.)
  • Serenata danzante italiana for plucked orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1 op.14 (1949)
  • Symphony No. 2 op.15 (1950)
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano op.8 (1947)
  • Sonatina op. 13 (1949) for violin and piano
  • Sonatina for Organ op.74 (1963)
  • String Quartet No. 3 op.33 (1953)
  • Table music for plucked orchestra

literature

  • Adelheid Geck-Böttger, Johannes Overath (ed.): Te decet hymnus. Ceremony for Max Baumann on reaching the age of 75. Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1992, ISBN 3-88345-373-0 .
  • Michael Kubik: Obituary for the BDZ member Max Baumann. In: Zupfmusikmagazin , born 4/99, p.154..
  • Johannes Laas: The sacred choral work of Max Baumann. Church music in the area of ​​tension of the Second Vatican Council. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77720-1 (Diss., University of the Arts Berlin, 2012).
  • Michaela C. Hastetter: Light flows in the sky. For the 100th birthday of the composer Max Baumann (1917–1999). Edition Sankt Ottilien, Sankt Ottilien 2019, ISBN 978-3-8306-7940-0 .
  • Ludger Stühlmeyer : Profiles: Max Baumann. In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg . Periodical of the Archbishop's Ordinariate, Bamberg December 2017.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Maria Löffler: Memory of Kronach's great son. Neue Presse Coburg, November 17, 2019, accessed on November 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Laas: The sacred choral work of Max Baumann. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 29–32.
  3. ↑ Johannes Laas: The sacred choral work of Max Baumann . Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 37.
  4. ↑ Johannes Laas: The sacred choral work of Max Baumann. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 54–55.
  5. ^ Adelheid Geck-Böttger: Max Baumann. Way and work. In: Adelheid Geck-Böttger, Johannes Overath (ed.): Te decet hymnus. Ceremony for Max Baumann on reaching the age of 75. Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1992, pp. 27-77, here 56.
  6. ↑ Oliver Hilmes: Berlin "corner of Nollendorfplatz". In: Jörg Abbing (ed.): The rhetoric of fire. Commemorative publication Jean Guillou. Music publisher Dr. J. Butz , Bonn 2010, pp. 100-111.
  7. ↑ On the Passion (op. 63) see Johannes Laas: Das Geistliche Chorwerk Max Baumanns . Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 133–154, on the resurrection (op. 94) see ibid. Pp. 327–350.
  8. ↑ Baumann, Max. In: staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. November 20, 1917, accessed August 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ About us. In: max-baumann-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronach
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1999
Place of death Berlin