Otto Ebel von Sosen

Otto Ebel von Sosen (born March 26, 1899 in Rendsburg ; † February 6, 1974 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German musician, conductor and composer as well as non-fiction author .

Life

The former Hanomag administrative complex (left) reaching as far as Bornumer Strasse , in which Otto Ebel von Sosen worked as director of NORAG's subsidiary station Hanover in 1926

Otto Ebel von Sosen studied in Munich at the Academy for Music there . From 1920 he was appointed as Kapellmeister at several small German opera houses before joining on 1 April 1926 Hannover was appointed to assist in the NORAG-slave transmitter Hannover , which since its launch on November 20, 1924 in the attic of the administration building of the Hanomag in Bornumer Strasse and had broadcast radio programs from there from December 16 of the same year, to act as conductor and first director of the institution. As such, Ebel von Sosen began building a radio orchestra with initially only three, and in 1927 with 17 musicians. In the following year, 1928, he founded and directed what would later become the Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra , initially under the name of Lower Saxony State Orchestra . During the Weimar Republic , he had the castle concerts held on Mondays with his orchestra from 1931 onwards for more than a decade , initially from the Leineschloss .

After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, personnel and structural changes were made at the Hanover station, with Harry Moss becoming the new station manager . Instead, Ebel von Sosen was given full-time leadership of the radio orchestra of the Reichsender Hamburg in 1934 . With the beginning of the Second World War from September 1939, the in-house productions of the Hanoverian Norag secondary station were banned, but the Monday castle concerts by Otto Ebel von Sosens, which were last broadcast from the Konzerthaus am Hohen Ufer , until these were also broadcast after the air raids on Hanover had to be discontinued in 1943.

Otto Ebel von Sosen, who wrote and composed numerous orchestral pieces , choral works , chamber music and songs , organized the Bad Pyrmont concerts he organized from 1955 to 1964 during the economic boom in the Federal Republic of Germany , before he passed away in 1974 - also in Bad Pyrmont .

Works (selection)

Compositions

Sosen von Ebel: Arioso in the old style for clarinet and string orchestra. Opus 15 (= Collection Litolff , No. 5501: 1.50) (reprint, for clarinet in A with piano; headboard also in English and French), Leipzig: Peters; Leipzig: Litolff, 1958
German interlude. Opus 7 , Leipzig, London, New York: Edition Peters Group, [o. D.]
Evening song. For salon orchestras , Leipzig, London, New York: Edition Peters Group, [o. D.]

Fonts

Otto Ebel v. Sosen: Pyrmont. Small breviary of a world bath , Holzminden: Weserlandverlag, 1953
Otto Ebel von Sosen: Femmes compositeurs de musique. Dictionnaire biographique . Paris, Rosier 1910 (?)

literature

Friedrich Kranich , Käte Steinitz , Kurt Schwitters : "With the help of technology" , texts on Walter Lehnhoff, Walter Gieseking and Otto Ebel von Sosen, Berlin: A. Fürstner, 1928

Web links

Ebel von Sosen, Otto in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online , ed. by Josef Focht (version of August 2, 2012)

Remarks

↑ Deviating from this, Ebel von Sosen is also referred to as "program officer"; compare for example Hugo Thielen: SOSEN, Otto Ebel von. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 339

↑ Deviating from this, 1932 is also mentioned as the first year of broadcast programs of the palace concerts , compare Hugo Thielen: Norddeutscher Rundfunk. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 480f.

Individual evidence

↑ Hugo Thielen : Sosen, Otto Ebel of. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 339.
^ Person entry (GND) on Sosen, Otto Ebel from in the catalog of the German National Library
^ Publications by Otto Ebel von Sosen in the catalog of the German National Library
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hugo Thielen: Sosen, Otto Ebel von. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 571.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hugo Thielen: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 480f.
↑ Oliver Rathkolb: Fuhrerreu und gottbegnadet , p. 173.
↑ cf. Letter from Martin Schönicke (deputy head of the Reichssendeleiter) to Ministerialdirektor Fritzsche dated August 30, 1944, cf. Prieberg: Handbuch , p. 6296.

personal data
SURNAME	Ebel von Sosen, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ebel V. Sosen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1974
Place of death	Bad Pyrmont

[6] Deviating from this, Ebel von Sosen is also referred to as "program officer"; compare for example Hugo Thielen: SOSEN, Otto Ebel von. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 339

[HBL-1] Hugo Thielen : Sosen, Otto Ebel of. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 339.

[2] Person entry (GND) on Sosen, Otto Ebel from in the catalog of the German National Library

[3] Publications by Otto Ebel von Sosen in the catalog of the German National Library

[SLH-4] Hugo Thielen: Sosen, Otto Ebel von. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 571.

[NDR-5] Hugo Thielen: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 480f.

[8] Oliver Rathkolb: Fuhrerreu und gottbegnadet , p. 173.

[9] . Letter from Martin Schönicke (deputy head of the Reichssendeleiter) to Ministerialdirektor Fritzsche dated August 30, 1944, cf. Prieberg: Handbuch , p. 6296.