Max Georg von Spallart

Max Georg Neumann von Spallart (born April 25, 1897 in Olomouc ; † after 1926) was an Austrian theater bandmaster and composer from the Neumann-Spallart family .

Life

Max Georg Neumann von Spallart was born the son of the Austrian officer Anatol von Neumann-Spallart and his wife Berta Maria (née Hoenig) in Olomouc. His grandmother was the Austrian composer Gabrielle von Neumann-Spallart , his grandfather the Austrian economist and statistician Franz Xaver von Neumann-Spallart .

After attending grammar school, Max Georg Neumann von Spallart first studied philosophy in Vienna . He received his musical training between 1912 and 1914 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and privately with Eugène Thomas (theory and piano). After participating in the First World War , he enrolled at the Geneva Conservatory and received private piano and theory lessons from the famous Swiss composer and organist Otto Barblan . Max Georg von Spallart began his career as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Graudenz in 1920–1921 . Further stations followed: Reichshallentheater and Stadttheater Erfurt (1920–1921), Stadttheater Minden (1921–1922), Schauburg Hannover (1922), Stadttheater Sohlingen and the summer opera in Ballenstedt (1922–1923), Herzogliches Schauspielhaus Gera (1923), theater Gera (1924–1925), City Theater Bautzen (1925–1926). From 1926 he was Kapellmeister at the Zwickau City Theater .

Works

• Music for " Judith " by Friedrich Hebbel for small orchestra (1921, premier Minden 1922)
• Music for " Die versunkene Glocke " by Gerhart Hauptmann for large orchestra (1921–1922, WP Minden 1922)
• 3 songs (Premiere Berlin 1922)
• Music for " Jedermann " by Hugo von Hofmannsthal for large orchestra (Premiere Bautzen 1925)

literature

• Art. Spallart, Max Georg von, in: Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . Berlin (Walter de Gruyter & Co) 1954, Col. 1260-1261.