Siegfried Kallenberg

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Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg (born November 3, 1867 in Bad Schachen , † February 9, 1944 in Munich ) was a German composer .

Life

Siegfried Kallenberg was born in Schachen in 1867 as the great-grandson of the writer Jean Paul , grandson of the painter Ernst Förster and son of the gymnast and fellow Jahn colleague Karl Kallenberg (1825–1900). His godfather was the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi .

After Kallenberg had passed the Abitur, he studied at the Royal Conservatory for Music in Stuttgart under Immanuel Faißt , and then at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich under Josef Gabriel Rheinberger , where he specialized in the theory of composition.

Kallenberg taught at conservatories in Stettin , Königsberg and Hanover and was also the rector of these institutions. In 1910 he retired from active service and settled in Munich to live as a freelance artist from then on. During this time until his death he created an extensive work of compositions for all genres.

The collaboration with Ödön von Horváth , whom Kallenberg encouraged to publish his first literary work , was particularly noteworthy . The two men met in 1920 and Kallenberg asked Horváth for a text for a musical pantomime. Horváth then wrote 7 "dances", which were published in the book of dances as his first work. The first performance of the pantomime with Kallenberg's music took place in 1922 in the piano version in Munich. The orchestral version had its premiere in Osnabrück in 1926. The reviews were very bad, so that Horváth was no longer convinced of his work and with the help of his father's money bought up and destroyed all available copies of the Book of Dances . However, Kallenberg's music for the book of dances remained untouched by the composer.

Kallenberg published in the Nazi magazine Musik im Kriege .

Siegfried Kallenberg died on February 9, 1944 in Munich.

Musical works (selection)

  • Pantomime Book of Dances (1921)
  • Fantasy for piano based on a poem by Horváth (1923)
  • Four old German love songs for a voice and piano , 1912
  • Songs: for 1 voice with piano , 1920
  • The minstrel: cheerful Volksoper in three acts , 1935

Publications

  • Musical forms of composition , 1912
  • Richard Strauss, Life and Works , 1926
  • Max Reger , 1929
  • Franz Mikorey 70 years old , Music in War, issue 5–6, August – September 1943
  • The Faustian Thought in German Music , Music in War, issue 9/10 December / January 1943/44

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Siegfried Kallenberg. In: The 20th century violin concertante. Tobias Broeker, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kallenberg, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kallenberg, Siegfried Garibaldi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schachen
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1944
Place of death Munich