Reinhold Krug

Reinhold Robert Ernst Krug (born August 29, 1926 , † January 27, 1991 ) was a German musician and composer . He was a professor at the Academy of Music to Berlin .

Life

Reinhold Krug was the only son of Walter Krug (1897–1978), who was a trained church musician, piano teacher and piano tuner, and Elisabeth, née. Saturday (1901–1985).

He received his first musical training from his father. After the eighth year of school he attended the orchestra school of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin-Charlottenburg . There he majored in the flute with Professor Gustav Scheck . He was able to complete this study before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943.

Reinhold Krug 1967, on the piano at home

In December 1944, Krug was taken prisoner by the Soviets in Heltau , Transylvania , Romania , was sent to the hospital camp (frostbite on his hands) and did not return home until May 1946. After his return he resumed his studies at the Hochschule für Musik and studied composition with Professor Konrad Friedrich Noetel , a Hindemith student. The early death of this musician hit Reinhold Krug so badly that for the time being he could not accept any other teacher and continued to work alone as a composer.

Thanks to his conducting lecturer, Prof. Theodor Jacoby , Reinhold Krug was given the opportunity to teach himself at an early stage. He accepted a teaching position at the music institute of the Berlin Humboldt University and taught aural training, theory, flute and recorder . Distinguished by this activity, Reinhold Krug received an offer from his former teacher Gustav Scheck to come to Freiburg im Breisgau as a flute teacher at the Hochschule für Musik, but he turned it down. After a few intermediate positions as a program designer at the radio and as an employee of the music desk of the Volk und Wissen publishing house , he was appointed director of the conservatory of the newly founded University of Music, which was later named "Hanns Eisler". There he taught theory, ear training and, above all, the flute and was then vice rector of the university.

In the following period, in addition to his teaching activities, Reinhold Krug was successful as a choir and orchestra conductor in many amateur ensembles. He was also very interested in music from the early days of polyphony around 1000-1400 and led a group of musicians, including his wife Heilwig Krug and son Friedemann, who performed this music on copies of historical instruments . Reinhold Krug had the instruments reproduced by instrument makers in Vogtland based on old models.

Reinhold Krug 1977, orchestra rehearsal

Most of his compositions were created for the practice of his varied activities as a teacher, orchestra and choir director. Reinhold Krug's musical pedagogical talent finally found extensive development opportunities in the artistic direction of the special school for music , which was affiliated with the Hanns Eisler University of Music . In the early 1960s, he had already founded the Pioneer Symphony Orchestra, which was affiliated to the Central House of Young Pioneers in Berlin. For more than 10 years he led this orchestra on a voluntary basis, to which his youngest son Leonhardt, today horn player in the orchestra in Halle an der Saale, also belonged as a student at the special school for music. The orchestra, which is well known and appreciated far beyond Berlin, was later renamed the “Youth Symphony Orchestra”. Reinhold Krug wrote almost all of his orchestral compositions for this orchestra.

Many of the students at the special school at that time now sit in well-known orchestras or teach at music schools themselves. In the middle of his creative life, Reinhold Krug succumbed to a heart attack on January 27, 1991, on the day of the competition for “ Jugend musiziert ”, on which some of his students also played that day .

obituary

A former student of the special school wrote on the occasion of the death of Reinhold Krug in 1991:

I owe my entry into music to Reinhold Krug - like so many, many others. I was allowed to premiere the “Concertino for Cello and Orchestra” (1965) and later had some of my students play it. This not only combines the wonderful experience of being able to play with an orchestra, memories such as tears in the audience, first love in the orchestra, tours, ... excitement, ... overcoming difficulties, ... feeling of happiness. SA (today solo cellist at the Berlin State Opera)

Web links

• http://www.reinholdkrug.com/