Max Donisch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Donisch (born July 17, 1880 in Graudenz , † February 1, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German composer and music writer.

Life

After attending a humanistic grammar school in Berlin, he began a military career in 1900 in the 3rd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 . From 1914 to 1918 he took part as battalion and regiment commander, last with the rank of major in the First World War. After studying music with Florián Zajíc in 1900 and with Philipp Scharwenka , Hugo Riemann and Hugo Kaun in 1908/09 , he worked as a composer and music writer in Berlin from 1919. He composed chamber music, orchestral and choral works, songs and a comic opera. He also wrote music-political articles in “Tag” (“in the fight against the music politics of the Marxist system”) and in other newspapers and magazines. In 1919 he became a member of the German National Freedom Party , then in the Nordic Ring and in 1930 a member of the NSDAP . At the instigation of the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft in 1933 he was appointed head of the music department of the German broadcaster (succeeding Prof. Hans Mersmann ). In 1934 he became a member of the leadership council of the composer profession. He was also the secretary of the General German Music Association and a member of the Association of German Music Pedagogues. He was married to Luise Freiin von Müffling.

Donisch received the title of professor in 1937 through Adolf Hitler .

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Works

  • Nordic Capriccio (1914)
  • Soleidas bunter Vogel , comic opera in one act, text by Curt Böhmer based on a fairy tale from 1001 Nights (1922, first performance 1927 in Rostock)
  • The parable, lyric cantata, based on a poem by Alfred Holst (1933)
  • 5 songs to poems by Minna Bachem-Sieger (1934)
  • String Quartet in A minor (1938)
  • Announcement of dreams, text by Rudolf G. Binding (music printing / s. A.)
  • Resonance (music print / s. A.)

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
  • Erich Hermann Müller: German Musicians Lexicon, Dresden 1929, p. 538.
  • The German Leader Lexicon, Berlin 1934/1935, p. 516.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Donisch, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1941
Place of death Berlin