Max Walter (musician)

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Max Walter in Berlin around 1927

Max Walter (born April 1, 1899 in Myslowitz , Upper Silesia , † 1946 , missing) was a German musician and composer .

Life

In 1914 Max Walter initially worked as a freelance organist in his hometown and studied organ , violin and piano at the conservatory in Beuthen . In 1919 he moved to Berlin for a short time , where he received organ lessons from Carl Thiel . In 1920 he continued his studies in Regensburg , which he completed in 1923. Before his return to Berlin he was last organist in the Upper Bavarian to the Bavarian Congregation belonging Kloster Scheyern .

On June 1, 1925, Max Walter took up the position of organist in the Catholic community of Mater Dolorosa in Berlin-Lankwitz . In Berlin he also worked as a private music teacher. From 1926 to 1928 Arnold Schönberg accepted him as a student in his master class at the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In 1933 Max Walter became a member of the Reichsmusikkammer , but resigned for political reasons the following year. The award of the Mozart Prize was withdrawn because Max Walter was classified as politically unreliable. He held the position of organist in Lankwitz until December 31, 1942 and was then called up for military service. He was taken prisoner of war , died in a prisoner of war camp and has been missing since 1946.

Works (selection)

  • Jesus mass in six parts
  • Piano sonatas
  • Violin sonatas
  • Symphonies
  • String quartets
  • Opera fragments

literature

  • Reichsmusikkammer (Ed.): German musicians calendar. With address directory. Volume 65, Part 1, Hesse, Berlin-Halensee (1943), ZDB -ID 559390-6 , p. 80.
  • Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: 100 Years Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012. Editor: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Mater Dolorosa, self-published, Berlin (2012), p. 156 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Walter , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed online on April 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Hanns-Werner Heister (editor): "Degenerate Music" 1938 - Weimar and the ambivalence: a project of the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar for the City of Culture 1999, Volume 1, Page 184, Verlag Pfau, 2001, ISBN 9783897271265
  3. ↑ 100 Years Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012 , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed online on April 24, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Walter, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Myslowitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1946