Max Marshalk

Max Marschalk, 1905.

Hanneles Ascension (1893)

Max Marschalk (born April 7, 1863 in Berlin , † August 24, 1940 in Poberow ) was a German composer and music critic .

Life

Marschalk was the brother of Margarete Hauptmann , the second wife of the playwright Gerhart Hauptmann . He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and took music lessons from Heinrich Urban, among others . From 1885 he worked as a music critic, from 1895 to 1933 for the Vossische Zeitung . He worked as a singing teacher and was director of the Dreililien music publishing house until 1934 .

In addition to operas , Marschalk also composed incidental music , including works by his brother-in-law Gerhart Hauptmann, orchestral works and numerous songs.

Works (selection)

• Melodramatic music for Gerhart Hauptmann's dream poem Hannele , op.13 (1893)
• Music for Gerhart Hauptmann's fairytale drama The Sunken Bell (1896)
• The imp . Opera in one act (around 1900)
• Aukassin and Nikolete: a romantic play of songs (around 1902)
• The evil little princess: fairy tale game for children (accompanying music, 1905)
• Music to Gerhart Hauptmann's Und Pippa dances! , op. 30 (1906)
• A night music: for large orchestra , op.32 (1913)

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition ( Rudolf Vierhaus , ed.), Volume 6, Saur, Munich 2006, p. 751
• Paul Frank and Wilhelm Altmann : Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon . Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen's Verl. 1971, ISBN 3 7959 0083 2
• Helmut Brenner , Reinhold Kubik : Mahler's people. Friends and companions. St. Pölten - Salzburg - Vienna 2014, pp. 163–166, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 .
• Erich Müller: German Musicians Lexicon . Dresden: Limpert 1929

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Eybl (ed.): The liberation of the moment. A documentation. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2004, p. 36, footnote 71. ( Online )
2. ↑ one of his pupils is the contralto Margarete Klose