Richard Mohaupt

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Richard Mohaupt (New York, 1954)

Richard Mohaupt (born September 14, 1904 in Breslau ; † July 3, 1957 in Reichenau an der Rax in Lower Austria ) was a German - American composer and conductor .

Life

Mohaupt received his musical training in his hometown with Rudolf Bilke and Julius Prüwer . After working as a répétiteur and conductor in Breslau, Aachen and Weimar and a concert tour through the Soviet Union, he settled in Berlin in 1932 . He caused a sensation there in 1936 when his first stage work, The Courasche 's crooks , was premiered at the ballet festival launched as a supporting program for the Olympic Games . The fame only lasted for a short time, however, because soon afterwards the Nazi dictatorship led to denunciations, accusations of “ music Bolshevism ” and expulsion from the Reichsmusikkammer , which in fact meant a professional ban for Mohaupt. In the spring of 1939 Mohaupt fled to New York with his Jewish wife Rosa (née Gottlieb) .

The circumstances at the time in the USA (privately run opera houses without government subsidies) forced Mohaupt to distance himself from his passion, music theater, and to concentrate on symphonic music. This is how, among other things, the Town Piper Music / Stadtpfeifermusik, his most successful work of all and even played worldwide in the 1950s ( Karl Böhm , too, repeatedly advocated this brilliant concert piece ). In exile in the US, Mohaupt worked primarily as a composer for film, television and radio. His orchestral works have been played by well-known orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony Orchestra . He created operatic works primarily with a view to the German market, including z. B. the dance burlesque Max and Moritz (1949) for the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe .

In 1955 Mohaupt returned to Europe and lived in Austria until his death. He did not see the world premiere of his last opera The Green Cockatoo (based on Arthur Schnitzler ).

Mohaupt's style of music is tonal, rhythmically accentuated; modern, but not avant-garde.

Works (selection)

Operas

  • The landlady of Pinsk (premiered in 1938 in Dresden, revised 1956)
  • The Bremen Town Musicians (premiered in Bremen in 1949)
  • Double Trouble or The Twins Comedy (Premiere 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky)
  • The Green Cockatoo (Premiere 1958 in Hamburg)

Ballets

  • Courasche's crooks (based on Grimmelshausen; premiered 1936 in Berlin)
  • Max and Moritz (based on Wilhelm Busch; premiered in Karlsruhe in 1949)
  • The women's strike in Athens (based on Lysistrata; premiered in Karlsruhe in 1957)

Orchestral works

  • Three episodes (premiered in Amsterdam in 1938)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra (premiere 1938 in Warsaw; premiere of the revised version in 1951 at the IGNM festival in Frankfurt)
  • Town Piper Music / Stadtpfeifermusik (Premiere 1941 in New York)
  • Symphony No. 1 "Rhythm and Variations" (premiered in New York in 1942)
  • Concerto for Orchestra (Based on Red Army Themes) (WP 1943 in New York)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (premiere 1954 in New York)
  • Banchetto musicale (premiered 1956 in Berlin)

literature

  • Ulf-Martin Keller: Richard Mohaupt: Concerto for Orchestra (Based on Red Army Themes) (1942–43) - genre context, analysis, reception. Master's thesis University of Hamburg, 2012.
  • Nico Alexander Schneidereit: Richard Mohaupts Choral Music. Master's thesis University of Hamburg, 2010.
  • Friedrich Geiger: America in music theater - music theater in America. The example of Richard Mohaupt. In: Peter Petersen and Claudia Maurer Zenck (eds.): Music theater in exile during the Nazi era. Hamburg 2007.
  • Friedrich Geiger:  Mohaupt, Richard. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Mathias Lehmann: The Thirty Years' War in music theater during the Nazi era: Investigations into political aspects of music using the example of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's “ Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend ”, Ludwig Maurick's “Simplicius Simplicissimus”, Richard Mohaupt's “The crooks of Courasche”, Eberhard Wolfgang Möllers and Hans Joachim Sobanski's “The Frankenburger Würfelspiel” and Joseph Gregors and Richard Strauss ' “ Peace Day ”. Hamburg 2004.
  • Otto Friedrich Regner, Heinz-Ludwig Schneider: Reclam's ballet guide. 8th edition, Stuttgart 1980.
  • Friedrich Herzfeld: The Lexicon of Music. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1976.
  • Kurt Stone: Mohaupt, Richard. In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): The music in past and present. Kassel etc. 1961.
  • Heinrich Lindlar: In Memoriam Richard Mohaupt (3.7.). In: Musica 11 (1957), pp. 581-582.
  • Rudolf Bilke: Richard Mohaupt. In: Musica 4 (1950), pp. 324-326.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Geiger:  Mohaupt, Richard. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ^ Double-Trouble or Die Zwillings-Komödie on biblio.com
personal data
SURNAME Mohaupt, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1957
Place of death Reichenau an der Rax , Lower Austria