Paul Höffer

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Paul Höffer (born December 21, 1895 in Barmen ; † August 31, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

Life

He first studied with Georgii , Bölsche , and Abendroth at the Cologne University of Music . After an interruption due to the First World War, he continued his studies from 1920 at the Musikhochschule Berlin with Franz Schreker . From 1923 he taught piano there himself . From 1930 on he also taught composition and music theory . In 1933 he was appointed professor.

Although he was put on the list of "Music Bolsheviks" by the Nazi cultural community in 1935 , he received the gold medal for his choral work "Olympic Oath" at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. While Rosenberg's office called him an "atonal composer", Höffer continued to be sponsored by Goebbels and received 5,000 marks in 1939 for the commissioned composition of an orchestral work. In 1944 he wrote the oratorio Mysterium der Liebe on behalf of Goebbels' subordinate Reich Office for Music Arrangements . In the final phase of the Second World War , Hitler added him to the list of most important composers who had been gifted by God in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war.

Grave of Paul Höffer in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In 1945 Höffer became director of the Berlin International Music Institute, where u. a. Sergiu Celibidache taught. In 1948 Höffer became director of the Berlin Music Academy .

Paul Höffer died in Berlin at the end of August 1949 at the age of 53. His grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-W12-245). His third wife, Linde, nee, rests next to him. von Winterfeld (1919–1993).

A plaque at the Olympiastadion Berlin commemorates him.

Compositions (excerpt)

  • 1930:
    • Partita for 2 string orchestras
    • The black sheep, game for children
    • Sailor game, game for children
    • Johann, the lively soap boiler, game for children
  • 1931:
    • Borgia, Opera (Unprinted)
    • Cantata: "I'm sorry about you" (unprinted)
  • 1932:
    • Cantata "I myself must be the sun"
    • Children's songs "We sing today"
    • Small Chamber Music for Electric Instruments (Unprinted)
    • Symphonic music for orchestra (unprinted)
    • Christmas cantata
  • 1933:
    • “The wrong Waldemar”, opera
  • 1934:
    • Evening music for string instruments
    • 4 trios for female voices and instruments (unprinted)
  • 1935:
    • Youth music; "Music of Movements"
    • 8 girl songs
    • Radio play music for “Coriolan. Hamsun "," Faust I "
    • Piano music based on folk songs
    • Flute music with piano
    • Serenade; "Innsbruck, I have to let you"
  • 1936:
    • Olympic oath, for singing soloists, choir and orchestra
    • 100 pieces to German folk songs
    • 3 folk dances for orchestra
    • Old German Suite, for orchestra
  • 1937:
    • Cantata; "And don't commit your life"
    • Choirs and choir arrangements
    • Dance variations for piano
    • Symphony of the big city
  • 1938:
    • Oratorio; "The rich day"
  • 1939:
    • Piano concerto
    • String quartet
  • 1940:
    • Oratorio; “Vom Edlen Leben” for alto solo, male choir and orchestra
  • 1941:
    • Symphonic Variations on a Measure by Bach, for orchestra
  • 1942:
    • Oratorio; “Mysterium Liebe” solo, choir and orchestra
  • 1944:
    • Serenade for string orchestra (unprinted)
  • 1949:
    • "The Last Hour", for solo, choir and orchestra (unfinished)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 253-254.
  2. ↑ Christine Fischer-Defoy: "Art, under construction a stone". The West Berlin art and music colleges in the post-war area of ​​tension . Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-89462-078-1 .
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 488. Werner Bollert:  Höffer, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 310 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Ulrich Bender: Church musician in "Third Reich": Wilhelm Bender . Mauer-Verlag Kriese, Rottenburg am Neckar 2011, ISBN 978-3-86812-246-6 . P. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Höffer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1949
Place of death Berlin