Robert Reitz

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Robert Karl Friedrich Reitz (born June 17, 1884 in Burgdorf BE ; † April 1951 in Zurich ) was a Swiss violinist and university professor. He was u. a. Concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Weimar , Primarius of the Reitz Quartet and professor at the Weimar University of Music .

Life

Reitz was born in 1884 as the son of Burgdorf music director Georg Friedrich "Fritz" Reitz (1858–1956) in the canton of Bern . He received his first violin lessons from his father and began performing in public at the age of eight. After attending grammar school in his home community, he went to Germany and studied violin with Hans Sitt , theory with Paul Quasdorf and chamber music with Carl Reinecke , Carl Herrmann and Julius Klengel at the Leipzig Conservatory . He also took part in the Gewandhaus Orchestra . In 1906 he went to Felix Berber in Munich. In 1912 he received lessons from Hugo Heermann and Carl Flesch .

He found his first job as concertmaster in 1904 in Majorenhof near Riga. From 1904 to 1906 he was concertmaster, solo violinist and conductor at the Görlitz City Orchestra. In 1906/07 he took up a position as concertmaster and solo violinist with the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Afterwards he was first concertmaster, quartet leader and conductor at the Stadttheater Kiel and with the Orchestra of the Musikfreunde Kiel . He also conducted the spa orchestra in Westerland during the summer months.

In 1909 Reitz took over the post of 1st concert master at the Staatskapelle Weimar , and in 1915 he was appointed court concert master. From 1909 to 1935 he was head of a violin class (from 1926 university class) at the Staatliche Musikschule Weimar (from 1930 music academy ); In 1919 he received a professorship . His students included u. a. Marlene Dietrich , with whom he had an affair at times. Since Reitz had many fields of activity as a musician, Bruno Hinze-Reinhold also hired the Berlin pedagogue Paul Elgers . In 1920 Reitz temporarily left the music school. In addition to his position as concertmaster, he was the primary violinist of the Reitz Quartet from 1909 to 1945. He also formed the Weimar Trio with Eduard Rosé (violoncello) and Bruno Hinze-Reinhold (piano). His successor was the violin virtuoso Max Strub . Although Reitz had become a member of the NSDAP , the Nazis saw him as a competitor and in 1934 he was transferred back from the orchestra to the music college. Reitz arranged violin concertos (Tartini, Pisendel and Stamitz) and Bieber's mystery sonatas. He also reconstructed Bach's Violin Concerto in D minor based on BWV 1052, which he published by Breitkopf & Härtel . During his Weimar years he had a major influence on the city's musical life. The state of Thuringia appreciatively provides him with a Stradivarius from Louis Spohr .

In 1942 he moved back to Switzerland and thus avoided denazification after the war . From 1945 to 1951 he was concert master at the Beromünster broadcaster .

Reitz was married and had three children.

Awards

literature

  • Albert Bruckner : New Swiss Biography . Book printing for the Basel Report House, Basel 1938.
  • Wolfram Huschke: Reitz, Robert. In: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar: Lexikon zu Stadtgeschichte . Metzler, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 364.
  • Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
  • Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski : The violin and its masters . 6th noted edition, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1920, p. 490.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Czaika: Arthur Rösel. Life and work of the Weimar composer . AVM Edition, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95477-046-5 , p. 47.
  2. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , p. 137.
  3. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 202.
  4. ^ Wolfram Huschke: Rosé, Eduard. In: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar: Lexikon zu Stadtgeschichte . Metzler, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 372.
  5. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , pp. 217f.
personal data
SURNAME Reitz, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reitz, Robert Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf BE
DATE OF DEATH April 1951
Place of death Zurich