Max Feiereis

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Feiereis (born February 27, 1882 in Gusteutschel near Hermsdorf , Silesia, † February 16, 1960 in Dresden ) was a German military musician, music director and conductor.

Portrait in uniform ...
... and private.

Life

Max Feiereis was born in Gusteutschel (Glogau district, today Głogów ), Lower Silesia, in 1882 . From 1896 to 1899 he completed a musical training with the town music director Edwin Gottlöber in Wehlen / Saxon Switzerland, who sent him to the Kgl. Dresden Conservatory arranged where he was trained as a flautist. During this time Feiereis was already performing as a soloist in the Dresden "Gewerbehauskonzerten" . In 1901 he completed his studies with the highest distinction, the award certificate, and then entered the music corps of the 2nd Kgl. Saxon. Grenadier Regiment No. 101 a. In addition, he took lessons from well-known conductors in the city for further improvement. Based on this, he was appointed assistant oboist at the Kgl. Commanded the Conservatory for training as Kapellmeister . In 1910 he successfully completed his studies, received the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Foundation Prize for excellent performance and took over the music corps of Grenadier Regiment No. 101 as music master on August 1, 1910.

In addition to his military duties in parades, guard parades, etc., Feiereis performed with his music corps in almost all of Dresden's concert venues known at the time. His performances were received with much applause. The director of the Dreyssig Singing Academy performed Hector Berlioz's Requiem with the well-prepared band for the first time in Dresden , and the well-known gymnastics reformer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze opened his school for music and rhythm in Hellerau with this orchestra.

The First World War brought the music corps with its regiment to France. On April 23, 1915, the Saxon King Friedrich August III. Feiereis zum Kgl. Music director. To support the troops he brought u. a. also demanding titles, such as the symphonies No. 1 to 8 by Ludwig van Beethoven in the original cast.

After the war, Feiereis had to retire from military service by reducing the army to 100,000 men because of his low seniority. In 1920 he founded the Feiereis Chapel, which was becoming popular. Opera and operetta melodies, waltzes and songs were just as much a part of his repertoire as titles of entertainment, dance and military music. In 1925 he opened the first Dresden Opera Ball with his band. In the period from 1921 to 1932 he also conducted the Dresden Philharmonic at Sunday concerts and recorded a large number of shellac records (verifiably 27 titles for three companies).

After reactivation in autumn 1934, Max Feiereis became chief musician of the newly established Döberitz regiment (IR 48). On April 1, 1936, he was able to return to Dresden, where he took over the music corps of Infantry Regiment 10 (later Pz.-Gren.-Reg. 108) as staff music master. In addition to his military duties, he had numerous public appearances with his military musicians, from plaza music to large concerts. In the first years of the war he accompanied his unit on operations and took an active part in looking after the troops. In 1942 the now 60-year-old returned to Dresden to join his replacement troop, where he worked as a musician until the end of the war (last public concert in January 1945).

Released from captivity after the Second World War, bombed out in the air raids on Dresden in 1945, the new beginning was not easy for him. He first gave piano, flute and violin lessons and was able to conduct again from 1950. With the Dresden Concert Orchestra he played until 1958 in the cultural sites of the city that were spared from the war, but also on ships of the “ White Fleet ”. Max Feiereis died on February 16, 1960 in Dresden.

literature

  • Dieter Härtwig : The Dresden Philharmonic: a chronicle of the orchestra from 1870 to 1970 , VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1970 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

swell

  • Dietrich Buschbeck: Unforgettable - the "Feiereis-Kapelle" 125 years ago. Elbhang-Kurier, Dresden 2007.
  • Saxon Main State Archive Dresden , holdings General-Kommando XII, file 1491: Commandations for training.
  • Anneliese Zänsler: The Dresden town music, military music corps and civil bands in the 19th century. Series of publications Music in Dresden of the Academy of Music "Carl Maria von Weber", Volume 2. Laaber, Regensburg 1996.
  • Newspaper clippings “ Dresdner Nachrichten ” (period 1920–1945).
  • Max Feiereis - A Life for Military Music. In: Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz: Military bands in Germany. Fox on 78, No. 24, Summer 2007.
  • Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz: Max Feiereis - A life for military music . Booklet for CD: Max Feiereis conducts marches of the Royal Saxon Army - original recordings of shellac records 1914–1929 from the archive of his daughter Edda Feiereis-Schulz. With discography of his recordings. Dresden 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Thiele: The premiere was in 1925: From ball to ball in the opera house ; Dresdner Latest News, February 25, 2008
  2. ^ Siegfried Thiele: The Opera Ball - an old tradition ; Dresdner Neusten Nachrichten, February 13, 2012
  3. ↑ Dagmar Möbius: Premiere for Open Air Classic Night in the SchillerGarten. In: Music in Dresden. July 10, 2010, accessed May 18, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Feiereis, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military musician, music director and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Gusteutschel near Hermsdorf , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1960
Place of death Dresden