Norbert von Hannenheim

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Norbert Wolfgang Stephan Hann von Hannenheim (born May 15, 1898 in Sibiu , Austria-Hungary , † September 29, 1945 near Meseritz ) was a dodecaphonic composer.

Life

The son of German parents attended the German grammar school in Sibiu and received private piano lessons. Hannenheim has been interested in music since childhood and occasionally composed as an autodidact. In 1916 he was supposed to perform a movement of a piano sonata he had composed himself, but was previously drafted. Several tonal settings of poems originate from his early period. Some of them have been self-published.

In 1922/23 Hannenheim went to Leipzig and studied with Paul Graener . Graener created chamber music works for various ensembles, orchestral works, one concerto for violin and one for violoncello with chamber orchestra, a symphony for large orchestra in one movement and a concerto for large orchestra.

In 1925, Hannenheim received the “Second National Prize for Composition” in the competition for the “ George Enescu Prize 1925 ” . The piece listed is the first of six violin sonatas composed this year in a row. It remains a characteristic of Hannenheim's later that he liked to write several works almost simultaneously for the same solo instrument or ensemble. He sent Schönberg a successful application for admission to his master class. Before that he improved his composition training in 1928/29 with Alexander Jemnitz in Budapest. He worked at the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1929 to 1933. He quickly became known.

Arnold Schönberg later classified him in the USA as one of his best students. He was probably also impressed by the fact that Norbert von Hannenheim "was probably the only one who unrestrainedly contradicted Schönberg ." (Erich Schmid). In the early 1930s, Hannenheim composed a large number of different works. During these years he was repeatedly forced to make a living by copying notes and correcting print templates.

He was awarded the Mendelssohn State Prize in 1932. In the same year he suffered a nervous breakdown but quickly recovered. His "2. Piano Concerto with Small Orchestra ” in one movement was a great success and was broadcast by many broadcasters. In 1933 he and others received the Emil Hertzka Prize .

His career ended with the Third Reich and there were only a few performances. During this time he created folk song arrangements. Little is known about Hannenheim from the time after the outbreak of the Second World War.

In July 1944 he suffered a schizophrenic attack and was admitted to the Obrawalde sanatorium. During his stay there, as part of the National Socialist “euthanasia” program, the sick were systematically killed - primarily people who were considered mentally handicapped. Norbert von Hannenheim experienced the liberation of the institution by the approaching Red Army in January 1945, but died shortly after the end of the war (according to the death certificate of heart failure).

Works

Hannenheim has registered approx. 80 pieces for voice and piano with the " Genossenschaft Deutscher Tonsetzer " , with texts by poets such as Rainer Maria Rilke , Friedrich Hölderlin , Max Dauthendey , Otto Erich Hartleben , Hermann Hesse , Friedrich Nietzsche , Christian Morgenstern , Rudolf G. Binding , Arno Holz .

Of 230 works, around 45 are known today. The others were destroyed in the turmoil at the end of the war, have disappeared or, in some cases, were burned to death by Hannenheim himself. In 2016 Aida-Carmen Soanea and Igor Kamenz released a recording of his works (pieces, duos, suites, sonatas) for viola and piano (Challenge Classics).

Literature (selection)

  • Karl Teutsch, Herbert Henck , Ludwig Holtmeier :  Hannenheim, Norbert. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 8 (Gribenski - Hilverding). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1118-7 , Sp. 651–654 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Dieter Acker: Norbert von Hannenheim . In: Melos, magazine for new music . 36th vol., No. 1, B. Schott's Sons, Mainz, 1969, pp. 6-8.
  • Wolf Aichelburg: The arm above the water, the composer Norbert von Hannenheim . In: Transylvanian newspaper . July 15, 1974, p. 4.
  • Peter Gradenwitz: Arnold Schönberg and his master students, Berlin 1925-1933 . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-552-04899-5 .
  • Ludwig Holtmeier (ed.): Arnold Schönberg's “Berliner Schule” (= music concepts , issue 117/118), Munich: edition text + kritik, October 2002, ISBN 3-88377-715-3 .
  • Herbert Henck: Norbert von Hannenheim's day of death. New knowledge about the fate of the Transylvanian composer in Meseritz-Obrawalde . In: Jürgen Wetzel (ed.): Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives 2003 . Editing: Werner Breunig, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 109–135, ISBN 3-7861-2475-2 .
  • Herbert Henck : Norbert von Hannenheim. The search for the Transylvanian composer and his work , Deinstedt: Kompost-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9802341-5-3 , pp. 235–237 table of contents

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SURNAME Hannenheim, Norbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hann von Hannenheim, Norbert Wolfgang Stephan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1945
Place of death at Meseritz