Paul Scheinpflug

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

Paul Scheinpflug (born September 10, 1875 in Loschwitz near Dresden, † March 11, 1937 in Memel ) was a German conductor and composer .

Scheinpflug studied from 1890 to 1894 at the Dresden Conservatory , among others with Felix Draeseke . After a short stay in Kiev in 1897/1898 as a private tutor, he moved to Bremen in 1898 , where he was concertmaster of the Philharmonic and leader of several choirs. From 1909 to 1914 he worked as the conductor of the Musikverein in Königsberg and from 1914 to 1920 in Berlin as the conductor of the Blüthner Orchestra . From 1920 to 1928 he was general music director of the Duisburg Municipal Orchestra and from 1929 to 1932 chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic . After that he often traveled as a guest conductor to the countries of Northern and Eastern Europe.

As a conductor he preferred the composers of the late Romantic period and was particularly committed to the dissemination of Richard Strauss ' works . As a composer, in addition to numerous often very atmospheric songs, he created chamber music , smaller orchestral works ( overture to a comedy by Shakespeare , op.15) and the opera Das Hofkonzert , whereby in his later compositions he moved away from the emotions of his previous works.

Paul Scheinpflug fell ill during a concert tour to Lithuania , which he had started at the end of February 1937. He died of pneumonia on March 11, 1937 in a hospital in Memel at the age of 61 . His grave is in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 20-B-34).

His daughter Marianne (1900–1986) had been married to the composer Ernst Pepping since 1937 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Scheinpflug - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Paul Scheinpflug in the catalog of the German National Library
Half-length portrait of Paul Scheinpflug from the Frankfurt University Library
Sheet music and audio files by Paul Scheinpflug in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

↑ Salzburger Volksblatt . Saturday, March 13, 1937. p. 9. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494.

personal data
SURNAME	Mock plow, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Loschwitz
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1937
Place of death	Memel

[1] Salzburger Volksblatt . Saturday, March 13, 1937. p. 9. Retrieved November 15, 2019.

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494.