Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling

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Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (born May 9, 1904 in Hanover , † December 9, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

life and work

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was born as the son of the chemical manufacturer Carl Schwarz .

He attended the Hanoverian Humanist High School and took piano lessons with Heinrich Lutter and C. Leonhardt , before he began studying music in Munich with Walter Braunfels from 1922 as well as in Florence and Cologne .

From 1927 to 1929 he was a student of the composer Heinrich Kaminski , who also taught Carl Orff . From 1938 Schwarz-Schilling taught at the Berlin Music Academy. His orchestral , chamber , organ and choral music as well as his solo songs are often spiritually inspired and develop a tonal language that follows the compositions of Kaminski and Johann Sebastian Bach . One of his main works is the cantata “The Message” (1979–1982).

Grave in the St. Matthias cemetery in Berlin-Tempelhof

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was married to the Polish-Jewish pianist Dusza von Hakrid, whom he met as a classmate with his mentor Heinrich Kaminski. After a courageous registrar in the Bavarian town of Kochel am See had successfully manipulated their papers, the family in the Third Reich lived in constant danger and was subjected to constant Gestapo interrogations. As a professor at the Berlin University of Music, Schwarz-Schilling never became a party member and remained true to his human and political convictions. His older brother Balduin Schwarz had to emigrate to the USA in 1933 because of his “non-Aryan” wife. His youngest brother Egon Schwarz was an entrepreneur. It was not until almost 20 years after Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling's death that his son Christian Schwarz-Schilling , former Federal Minister, found out. D. and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina , during investigations on site in Poland of the true descent of his mother.

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was buried in the St. Matthias Cemetery in Berlin-Tempelhof .

Selected Works

Orchestral works

  • Work for string orchestra (1928) Arrangement of Heinrich Kaminski's string quintets
  • Partita for orchestra (1935)
  • Polonaise for orchestra (1936)
  • Introduction and fugue for string orchestra (1948)
  • Concert for violin and orchestra (1953)
  • Sinfonia diatonica (1957)
  • Symphony in C (1963)

Organ works

  • Prelude and Fugue (1933)
  • Since Jesus stood at the cross , Canonical chorale arrangement for organ (also with flute and violin) (1942)
  • Twelve Chorale Preludes for Organ (1953)
  • Concerto per Organo (1957)

Chamber music

  • From the youth compositions (1918-20)
  • Quintet, Opus 1 for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano (1926)
  • String Quartet in F minor (1932)
  • Little Chamber Music (1937)
  • Three songs (1944)
  • The Wandering Musician (1944)
  • Sonatina for piano (1947)
  • Piano Sonata (1968)
  • Duo for violin and piano (1976)
  • String Trio (1983)
  • Study on BACH in the string trio movement (1985)
  • Piano music (1985)

Vocal music

  • Christmas Music (1947)
  • Mother's Praise (1950)
  • Mass in Terra Pax (1955)
  • Signum Magnum (1958)
  • O Savior Tear Open the Heavens (1958)
  • "Laetare" for 5- to 6-part choir, strings, 2 trumpets (1958)
  • Four Psalmottets (1964)
  • Lord I'm Not Worth (1964)
  • The words of institution according to Paul (1966)
  • The Lord Eternal God (1967)
  • Our Father (1973)
  • Benedictus (1975)
  • Over the Threshold (1975)
  • "The Message", cantata for mezzo-soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra (1979–1982)

Others

Christian Schwarz-Schilling , the German CDU politician and former Federal Post Minister, is his son.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Thielen : Schwarz-Schilling, Reinhard. 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. 328 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Christian Schwarz-Schilling . Interview in Rolf Steininger , Heribert Schwan : Defeated, occupied, shared. Memories of Germany 1945 to 1949. Olzog-Aktuell GmbH, 2010, p. 181. ISBN 978-3-789-28278-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz-Schilling, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1985
Place of death Berlin