Richard Trunk
Richard Trunk (born February 10, 1879 in Tauberbischofsheim , † June 2, 1968 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German composer.
Life
Trunk was born on February 10, 1879 in Tauberbischofsheim. In 1894 he began studying at the Hoch Conservatory with Iwan Knorr in Frankfurt. From 1896 to 1899 he studied at the Munich Academy of Music with Joseph Rheinberger and Berthold Kellermann . He then worked in Munich as a music teacher, répétiteur and conductor of two choral societies, the Citizens' Guild and the Union People's Choir, as well as piano accompanist for Eugen Gura and from 1906 to 1909 as a music advisor for the “Münchner Post” and as a composer. In 1912 he went to New York as head of the Arion Society , where he stayed until the outbreak of the First World War . He then worked again in Munich as a composer and music writer (1916-22 as a speaker for the Bayerische Staatszeitung) and, from 1919, again as a conductor of the citizens' guild and as a companion in Munich. 1925 marriage to the singer Maria Delbran after separating from his first wife, the singer Fanny Echter, who was married in 1909. From 1925 he worked at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne, initially as deputy director, from 1933 as director, after becoming professor there in 1927. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 659.692). In 1934 Richard Trunk became President of the State Academy of Music in Munich (today Munich University of Music and Theater ). 1935–1939 he was the conductor of the Munich teachers' choir. After 1945 he lived withdrawn in Riederau am Ammersee until his death in 1968.
In 1933 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Tauberbischofsheim, in 1952 of Rieden am Ammersee . The Richard Trunk Music School in Tauberbischofsheim bears his name, as does a street.
plant
94 opera, choral works, piano songs (37 cycles with over 200 songs), instrumental music.
National Socialism
As an early member of the NSDAP (“ old fighter ”), Trunk willingly put his talents at the service of National Socialism. In 1932 and 1940 he set texts by Baldur von Schirach (“Celebration of the New Front”, “Adolf Hitler, dedicated to the Führer”) and Hanns Johst to music . The first-mentioned work op. 65 with its parts “1. Hitler; 2. The leader's guardian; 3. O, land; 4. Horst Wessel “was performed many times during the National Socialist era.
literature
- Ernst Klee : Richard Trunk . In: ders .: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
- Horst Ferdinand: Trunk, Richard , in: Bernd Ottnand (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien . New episode. 2. Bandm, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009217-0 , pp. 285-287 ( E-Text )
- Richard Trunk , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 32/1968 of July 29, 1968, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 7259.
- ↑ Honorary citizen of the district town of Tauberbischofsheim ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.tauberbischofsheim.de
- ↑ http://www.riederau.net/index.php/menschen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trunk, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tauberbischofsheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 1968 |
| Place of death | Herrsching am Ammersee |