Max Ettinger
Max Ettinger (born December 27, 1874 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † July 19, 1951 in Basel ) was an Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor .
Life
Ettinger was the grandson of the chief rabbi of Lemberg and the son of the landowner Herz Ettinger. His mother Ernestine Landau enabled him to have his first musical education. He was tutored by private tutors on his parents' estate and passed the Matura as an external student at the old-language German-Polish high school in Lemberg. In Berlin he tried to get accepted at the Hochschule für Musik, but was not admitted. He received private lessons there in 1899 from Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Heinrich van Eyken in harmony and composition. From 1900 to 1903 he studied at the Academy of Music in Munich with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger , Viktor Gluth and Ludwig Thuille , with the latter then privately until 1905. He worked as Kapellmeister in Saarbrücken in 1906 and in Lübeck in 1910 , but gave up and lived for health reasons from 1911 back as a composer in Munich, where he married Josephine Krisack in 1913.
In the 1920s he celebrated several successes as a composer, his literary operas were performed in Nuremberg, Hamburg, Munich, Kiel and Leipzig. He was also active again as a conductor in Leipzig (1920–1929) and Berlin (1929–1933). In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland because he was born in Lemberg with Austrian citizenship and settled in Ascona , where he already owned a house. With the annexation of Austria he became a German, his German citizenship was revoked with the expatriation of Jewish emigrants. He lost his house through a bankruptcy and received support from the Swiss Israelite Poor Care. Ettinger created orchestral works and chamber music, as well as music for cultural films. Ettinger died in Basel in July 1951 and was buried in Zurich. His wife died a few days after his death.
Ettinger's estate is now in the library of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zurich .
Works (selection)
- Rialon Pantomime op.11 , Munich, 1911
- Judith (Libretto: Max Ettinger after Hebbels Judith ), Musical tragedy in 3 acts op.28 (1920; 1921 Nuremberg)
- The jealous drinker (libretto: Friedrich Freksa after Boccacio's Decamerone ), musical tragicomedy in 1 act op.14 (1925 Nuremberg)
- Juana . Opera in one act, op. 33. Poem by Georg Kaiser . (1925 Nuremberg)
- Clavigo . Opera in two acts, Op. 34 (six pictures). Poetry by Max Ettinger after Goethe's Clavigo . (1926 Leipzig)
- Spring Awakening (Libretto: Max Ettinger based on Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening ), Opera 3 acts op.36. (1928 Leipzig)
- Dolores (Libretto: Max Ettinger after Émile Zola ), Opera in 3 acts op.40 (1930/31; 1936 Vienna)
- The song of Moses. Oratorio. (1939) First performance on December 10, 1939 in the community hall of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zurich under the direction of Alexander Schaichet with a mixed choir (composed of the choral society "Hasomir" and "Jüdischer Damenchor") and the reinforced Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
- Der Dybuk , ballet (1946/47)
- Yiddish Requiem with texts by Lajzer Ajchenrand and Chaim Nachman Bialik . First performance in 1948 (in the Tonhalle Zurich by the «Hasomir» choir under Alexander Schaichet ).
literature
- Ivana Rentsch : Max Ettinger. An annotated catalog of works . Bern publications on music research, Volume 2. Bern 2010. ISBN 978-3-0343-0349-1
- Ivana Rentsch: "Jewish" music from exile in Switzerland: Max Ettinger in Ascona. In: La musica nella Svizzera italiana, ed. by Carlo Piccardi, Novalles 2003 (Bloc Notes 48), pp. 259–266, Online ( Memento of May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.6 MB).
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Ettinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Ettinger , entry at operone
- Max Ettinger , information from the Trais Giats music publisher
- The Yiddish Requiem by Max Ettinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivana Rentsch: "Jewish" music from exile in Switzerland: Max Ettinger in Ascona. In: La musica nella Svizzera italiana, ed. by Carlo Piccardi, Novalles 2003 (Bloc Notes 48), p. 260, Online ( Memento from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.6 MB).
- ↑ Ettinger, Max in: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 2001
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ettinger, Max |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ettinger, Max Markus Wolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1874 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1951 |
Place of death | Basel |