Max storm
Max Sturm (born February 25, 1891 in Trautmannshofen , † August 29, 1958 in Lauterhofen ) was a German composer, pianist, choir director and music teacher.
Life
Sturm attended elementary school in Kastl and then the Kgl. Amberg Teacher Training Institute (today Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg ). During the war effort in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 he lost an eye.
After the war he studied from 1918 to 1921 at the Kgl. Akademie der Tonkunst München (today: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München ) composition with Anton Beer-Walbrunn , piano with Hermann Zilcher and organ with Ludwig Felix Maier . In March 1920 he married Johanna Braunsberger. He worked as a study teacher in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate and then as a teacher and later until his retirement in 1948 as a study professor at the Amberg teacher training institute and at the Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg.
He also worked as a choir and orchestra conductor, as a pianist and as a freelance composer. His compositional work included piano songs as well as choral and piano works, whereby he was mainly successful as a conductor and pianist.
Awards
- 1956: Nordgau Culture Prize of the City of Amberg in the "Music" category
literature
- Karl Schwämmlein : Music in Amberg between 1933–1945 , supplementary volume, Amberg 1997, pp. 15–37.
Web links
- Max Sturm in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Heike Nasritdinova: Sturm, Prof. Max . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
- Max Sturm's estate
Individual evidence
- ↑ Double commemoration: Max Sturm († August 29, 1958) - Max Geyer. In: Die Oberpfalz , Volume 46, 1958, p. 290.
- ↑ Max Sturm , PeoplePill; accessed on May 3, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Storm, max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor, composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trautmannshofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1958 |
| Place of death | Lauterhofen |