Max Steidel

Max Steidel (born March 14, 1891 in Karlsruhe , † September 12, 1957 in Karlsruhe) was a German composer and musicologist .

life and work

After attending elementary school, Max Steidel was a student at the Bismarckgymnasium in Karlsruhe from 1900 , where he received his school-leaving certificate in 1909. He began studying philology in Munich with the subjects German, French and Italian. At the same time, he received composition lessons from Professor Courvoisier and singing lessons at the Munich Music Academy. He then moved to the University of Lausanne to study Romance languages. There he attended the Lausanne Music Academy during his studies. He completed his doctorate on the subject of the Zecher and Schlemmerlieder in German folk songs up to the Thirty Years' War in Heidelberg in 1914. During the First World War he was drafted into the German army and fought on the western front in the Vosges. After the war, Max Steidel became a teaching trainee at the Bismarckgymnasium in Karlsruhe. In 1920 he achieved his first great success as a composer: his opera Walpurgis Night was premiered in the Badisches Landestheater in Karlsruhe. In 1925 he was transferred to the Markgrafengymnasium in Durlach . He has now written music reviews for operas and concerts for the Residenz-Anzeiger. During this time, other musical works were created. During the Second World War, Max Steidel continued to work as a teacher and as a reserve officer in the army. In 1957 he made a major trip to Argentina, from which he returned seriously ill. He died on September 12, 1957 at the age of 66 in Karlsruhe. Max Steidel's estate is kept in the Baden State Library.

literature

• Joachim Draheim: Karlsruhe Music History . Edited by Friedrich Georg Hoepfner. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, p. 58

Web links

• Article about Max Steidel on the website of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Max Steidel's catalog of works on the Baden State Library's website
• Works by and about Max Steidel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Theater ticket for “Over all magic love” by Max Steidel (Badisches Landestheater, 6 June 1931, world premiere) in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Theater ticket for “Orchesterstück” by Max Steidel (Badisches Landestheater, March 11, 1929, world premiere) in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Theater ticket for “Walpurgis Night” by Max Steidel (Badisches Landestheater, June 14, 1921, world premiere) in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Theater ticket for “Jephta's Daughter” by Max Steidel (Kammerspiele of the Badisches Landestheater in the Künstlerhaus, September 23, 1920, world premiere) in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek