Paul Daubitz

Paul Daubitz (born January 8, 1881 in Rynarzewo , Poland , † April 10, 1951 ) was a German composer, music teacher and organist.

Daubitz was the son of a teacher and completed an elementary school teacher training course in Meseritz and Bromberg . Then he was a teacher and organist in Berga (Kyffhäuser) . He studied in 1906/07 at the Conservatory in Sondershausen and the Institute for Church Music in Berlin and passed the voice teacher examination for Prussia. From 1908 he was a music teacher (most recently a teacher) at the grammar school in Schwedt / Oder . In 1934 Paul Daubitz was choirmaster of the Angermünde district . From 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP. In 1931 he became a teacher and retired in 1942 for health reasons. In 1944 he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen for a few months, which ruined his health. After the war he lived in Joachimsthal , where he is buried.

He wrote compositions for choral music (for example the Christmas carol Let's listen, holy angels for four-part choir) and piano, and he was also known as a song composer. He played the cello at chamber music evenings in Schwedt. He taught privately, was a choir director and organist in the town church and gave advanced training courses for organists.

He is the father of the pianist Edgar Daubitz, who worked in Ribnitz after the Second World War and received inglorious attention in 1956 when he performed a fake piano sonata by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch in Halle . According to him, this was the German premiere, with Shostakovich's agreement, which Shostakovich immediately denied. On the same occasion he performed forged pieces , allegedly by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninoff .

literature

Paul Daubitz . In: Albert Ernst Wier (Ed.): The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1938
Elfriede Mahler-Daubitz, Arthur Stoeckel: Paul Daubitz. In: Schwedter Heimatblatt, November 1960

Web links

Compositions by Daubitz for Deutsches Lied

Individual evidence

^ Dates of birth according to Wier (Ed.), The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1938
↑ Zeitschrift für Musik, July 1934, p. 712. At that time he won a prize for the best composition of the German Singers Association (Nordmärkischer Sängerbund).
↑ Kiel Institute for Musicology , Fred K. Prieberg Archive , Kalliope
^ Obituary in the Schwedter Heimatblatt 1960
^ Stefan Weiss: Oddities in the unitary society. The GDR pianists Edgar Daubitz and Siegfried Rapp and their handicaps. In: Eckhart Altenmüller, Susanne Rode-Breymann (ed.): Diseases of Great Musicians, Ligatures, Volume 4, Musicological Yearbook of the Hanover University of Music and Drama, Olms 2009, pp. 171–194.

personal data
SURNAME	Daubitz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer, organist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rynarzewo , Poland
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1951

[1] Dates of birth according to Wier (Ed.), The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1938

[2] Zeitschrift für Musik, July 1934, p. 712. At that time he won a prize for the best composition of the German Singers Association (Nordmärkischer Sängerbund).

[3] Kiel Institute for Musicology , Fred K. Prieberg Archive , Kalliope

[4] Obituary in the Schwedter Heimatblatt 1960

[5] Stefan Weiss: Oddities in the unitary society. The GDR pianists Edgar Daubitz and Siegfried Rapp and their handicaps. In: Eckhart Altenmüller, Susanne Rode-Breymann (ed.): Diseases of Great Musicians, Ligatures, Volume 4, Musicological Yearbook of the Hanover University of Music and Drama, Olms 2009, pp. 171–194.