Max Seeboth
Max Seeboth (born March 14, 1904 in Magdeburg , † November 14, 1967 in Washington, DC ) was a German-American composer and music teacher .
Life
After graduating from high school , Seeboth studied first at the University of Breslau , among others with the composer and cathedral music director Siegfried Cichy, who taught there part-time, and then musicology, art history and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , among others with Hermann Abert and Max Friedländer .
In 1939 and 1940 he was awarded the Magdeburg Music Prize by his hometown. His “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra” met with an enthusiastic reception. Seeboth also set poems by Nazi writers, including Baldur von Schirach and Paul Grabau.
In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .
After the end of the Second World War and his release from captivity , he settled in Emmerke and moved on to Hildesheim in 1949 , where further compositions were created.
In 1951 Seeboth emigrated to the USA and became a professor at Montgomery College in Maryland .
In 1964 Seeboth conducted his last concert .
Compositions (selection)
- Cello sonata
- Sonata for a harp
- Variations for five German folk songs for orchestra
- Suite for seven wind instruments
- Concerto for violin and orchestra , commissioned by Erich Böhlke
- Concerto for piano and orchestra
- Adagio for quartet, horn and piano
- Introduction and ostinato for orchestra
- Sinfonietta for string orchestra
- Sonata for viola and piano
- Symphonic suite
- 2nd Symphony Suite for Orchestra
- Ballad for cello and orchestra
- Requiem for solos, choir and orchestra
- Andreana Suite for string orchestra
- Suite for Seven Brass Instrument , 4 trumpets, 3 trombones
literature
- Fred K. Frieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . 2004
Web links
- Seeboth, Max, Prof. , Wolfgang Greven, Lothar Wedekind, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
- Max Seeboth , English article by Tobias Broeker.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank hutches Pierce: The Washington Saengerbund: A History of German Song and German Culture in the Nation's Capital ., 1981
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seeboth, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1967 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |