Robert Ebel
Robert Georg Emil Ebel (born October 12, 1874 in Berlin ; † August 3, 1930 in Krummhübel ) was a German composer .
Life
Robert Ebel was the only son of Georg Richard Ebel, royal chamber musician, oboist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and painter. According to tradition, the family descends from Johann Philipp Kirnberger 1721–1783, a student of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Robert Ebel lost his father at the age of 3½ and was brought up by his mother, who brusquely opposed his musical inclinations, although there was no doubt about his talent, since he made attempts at composition at an early age without having had piano lessons. (Op.1-Three piano pieces)
The historian and contemporary music critic Wilhelm Altmann wrote about Ebel in the Kunstwart :
- “His very sensitive nature suffered greatly from his mother's dislike of music, who nevertheless allowed him to at least go to a music store for commercial training after his confirmation. Only after his mother's death, when he was old, could he learn to play the piano. He stayed four years as an assistant in the music shop, but then he set himself free to live entirely with music. At first he had to make a very poor living through poorly paid hours, but he studied theory with Wilhelm Zeiss, a student of Friedrich Kiel , and piano with Phillip Scharwenka in order to assert himself. Even if today he is still quite far from this goal, at least as a composer, to achieve what is set for him, who is still extremely sensitive and lives away from the military road of his world of thought, he has had a teacher since he became a composer the well-known Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory ( Klindworth ) is no longer starving himself through, as in the first years after he had said the commercial profession valet. "
Works
- Op.1 Three Piano Pieces (4th edition - 4 pages)
- I Tyrolean Song [B flat major]
- II Birds where are they going so quickly? [D major]
- III Tyrolean Song [D major]
- Op.2 Lyric Episodes - Book I
- No.1 Intermezzo [E major - 2 pages]
- No.2 Nordic Song [D minor - 2 pages]
- No.3 arabesque [E major - 3 pages]
- Op.3 Romance [love song]
- for violin and pianoforte [D major - 4 pages]
- for violoncello and pianoforte [D major - 3 pages]
- Op.4 Lyric Episodes - Book II
- No.1 Humoresque [F sharp major - 2 pages]
- No.2 elegiac sketch [E minor - 2 pages]
- No.3 A mill song [G flat major - 3 pages]
- Op.5 Wanderlieder - by Heinrich von Ofterdingen from 'The Wartburg' by Felix Freiherr von Stenglin. Eisoldt & Rohkrämer , Berlin 1930, OCLC 248414986 .
- No.1 Young people go wandering
- No.2 O balm, night, O come OCLC 254500639
- No.3 A beautiful day rises
- No.4 mists lie on the forest
- No.5 Dripped, dripped, dear wet
- No.6 Shout, my heart, and be glad
- No.7 Now I'm riding on the OCLC 254500868 ridge
- No.8 evening silence, evening peace
- No.9 Now I come to the mill in the valley
- No.10 Now it can be whatever it is called
- Op.6 Hyronimus Lorm-Cycle. Eisoldt & Rohkrämer , Tempelhof / Berlin 1910, OCLC 249117229 .
- No.1 winter of life
- No.2 king pain
- No.3 conception of nature
- No.4 The spirit of woe
- No.5 Inner Music
- No.6 deeply saddened bliss
- No.7 My last hours
- No.8 spring evening
- No.9 heart sound
- No.10 awareness
- No.11 silent world
- No.12 in a calendar
- No.13 by the lake
- No.14 two hikers
- No.15 thinker's death
- No.16 spherical song
- No.17 A course in spring
- No.18 last days
- No.19 last
- Op.7 Short piano pieces
- Book I - 6 pages
- Book II - 8 pages
- Book III - 8 pages
- Book IV - 6 pages
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Kunstwart (volume and issue number to be determined), p. 319 f, quoted from http://www.robert-ebel.com/
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebel, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ebel, Robert Georg Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1930 |
| Place of death | Krummhübel |