Max Rhode

This article concerns a German composer; for the pseudonym “Max Rode” see Sebastian Fitzek .

Max Rhode (born November 27, 1884 in Berlin ; died 1945 on the Eastern Front: last letter from Posen on January 26, 1945) was a German composer and trombonist. Some of his works appeared under the names "Günther Royer", "G. Royer "or" Max Royer ".

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From 1908 to 1910 Rhode played the trombone in the military band of the security guards in Berlin . He was then accepted by the composer and music publisher Paul Lincke as a composer and arranger for his music publisher Apollo-Verlag , where he also wrote and published his most famous works.

He composed around sixty works of several genres and arranged around 900 others, the most famous of which are Münchner Kindl (waltz 286 by Karel Komzák sr. ), Orpheus in der Unterwelt (overture to the operetta by Jacques Offenbach ), Nabbuco (selection from the opera by Giuseppe Verdi ) , Bummel Petrus (character piece by Max Werner-Kersten ) and Regina-Marsch (by Ernst Urbach ) are.

Own works

Works for orchestra

• 1916: Sleeping Beauty's Bridal Journey , character piece , op.8
• 1918: In the spinning room , character piece , op.13
• 1919: When the roses bloom! , op.11
• 1919: Gnome-human , characteristic intermezzo, op.16
• 1921: Schieberlottchen - Text: Paul Preil
• 1933: The immortal Verdi
• The Schönbrunners , for orchestra
• Pussi! Pussi , Rhenish Serenade, op.14
• Christmas , for orchestra

Works for wind orchestra

• 1915: Elfengeflüster , Intermezzo, op.10
• 1916: Sleeping Beauty's Bridal Journey , character piece , op.8
• 1919: When the roses bloom! , op.11
• 1921: Barbitonia , Greek serenade, op.27
• 1928: From the Rhine to the Danube , Potpourri, op.76

1. Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine?
2. The trees are blooming again in the Prater
3. From the youth
4. Well still drunk
5. Greetings to home
6. Loving brings great joy
7. Vienna only becomes beautiful at night
8. O old fellow glory
9. I lost my heart in Heidelberg
10. I have to be in Grinzing again
11. Soon I'll be grazing on the Neckar
12. Out there in the Wachau
13. From the Rhine the wine
14. On the Weser
15. This is spring in Vienna
16. O you beautiful German Rhine
17. Under the linden tree
18. Listen, what's coming in from outside?
19. In the Rolandsbogen
20. The heart on the Rhine

• 1933: The immortal Verdi
• Old Viennese operetta sounds
• The mill in the valley
• A millöcker evening
• Entry of the Rose Queen , op.57
• Fridericus Rex , March Potpourri
• Heligoland sailors dance
• Holdie Juchu , op.74
• In the jug with the green wreath , potpourri
• Rosaliebchen , Waltz-Intermezzo, op.20
• Youth is beautiful , potpourri
• Zeller memories

Choral works

• The company marches singing - marching and soldier songs , for male choir and piano
• Good start and happy journey , for male choir
• From Bavaria to the edge of the Danube , for male choir and piano

Chamber music

• Sleeping Beauty Bridal Journey (character piece for 12 horns), op.8

Works for accordion

• Paragraph 11 (Funny drinking songs potpourri for accordion orchestra), op.77

bibliography

• Dietrich Helms, Thomas Phleps: No Time for Losers: Charts, Lists and Other Canonizations in Popular Music , Volume 36 of Contributions to Popular Music Research, transcript Verlag, 2008. 178 pp., ISBN 978-3-899-42983-1
• Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan : The New Lexicon of Brass Music , 4th Edition, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
• Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music: composers and their music , Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7
• Paul Frank, Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon - Part Two: Additions and Extensions since 1937 , 15th edition, Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, Volume 1: A – K. 1974. ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 ; Volume 2: L-Z. 1976. ISBN 3-7959-0087-5
• Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon: for musicians and friends of music , Regensburg: Gustave Bosse, 1936, 730 p.