Theodor Veidl

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Theodor Veidl (born February 28, 1885 in Wissotschan near Saaz , Austria-Hungary ; died February 18, 1946 in the Terezín internment camp ) was a German-Bohemian composer and musicologist .

Life

After his first musical training in his home town, Veidl attended the Jesuit high school in Komotau . There he provided the organist's service in school services and founded a school orchestra. After graduating from high school, he studied German and musicology at the German University in Prague ; at the same time he attended the Prague Conservatory . After receiving his doctorate in 1910, he became a répétiteur at the Vienna Volksoper , then Kapellmeister, first in Bad Hall , then in 1911 in Teplitz-Schönau . There he also worked as a music teacher, organist, pianist and critic. In 1918 he was briefly choirmaster of the German Singing Society in Prague. In 1920 he was co-founder of the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague. In 1927 he received a call to the German University of Prague, where he worked as university music director and lecturer for music theory and was appointed professor in 1936. During the Second World War, the German protectorate administration withdrew his offices, allegedly because of his membership in a Masonic lodge . In 1945, as a German, Veidl was excluded from the university's teaching staff and deported to the Terezín internment camp, which had been converted into a collection point for the German population destined for expulsion. There he died of malnutrition on February 18, 1946. Most of his manuscripts were lost.

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Veidl wrote romantic songs and operas, which he called folk operas. Between the world wars, Veidl was a recognized representative of German culture in Czechoslovakia ; In 1929 he was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize for Music for the opera Kranwit .

Compositions

Stage works

  • Rural love oracle . Opera in one act (1910/11). Libretto : Richard Batka (* 1868 Prague, † 1922 Vienna). Premiere 1913 Teplitz-Schönau
  • The siblings . Opera in one act (1916; lost). Libretto: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Premiere 1916 Teplitz-Schönau
  • Kranwit . Romantic fairy tale opera (1922–1926). Libretto: Hans Watzlik . Premiere June 2, 1929 Prague ( New German Theater )
  • The small townspeople . Opera in 3 acts (1932–1934; only piano reduction preserved [Austrian National Library]). Libretto: Pavel Eisner (Paul Eisner; 1889–1958) (after August von Kotzebue ). Premiere April 17, 1935 Prague ( Neues Deutsches Theater ; conductor: George Szell ). Radio broadcast on May 30, 1935 (Czechoslovak Radio). Further productions: October 22, 1936 Dortmund (German premiere), 1938 Breslau
  • Master Andrea . Cheerful opera (1940/41; long lost, rediscovered in Vienna in 2008). Libretto: Gutta Veidl (based on the comedy of the same name [1855] by Emanuel Geibel )

Vocal compositions

  • Choirs, etc. a .: Whitsun song for 4-part mixed choir (twelve bars, A major). Text: Anton Dietzenschmidt
  • Piano and orchestral songs
  • a melodrama

Instrumental works

  • Symphony in E major
  • Cello concerto
  • Wind quintet
  • Piano works
  • Organ works, u. a .: Passacaglia in E flat major

Arrangements by other composers

  • Oskar Sigmund : In Memoriam! (1997) for organ. Toccata, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Theodor Veidl
  • Widmar Hader u. a .: Variations on the Whitsun song by Theodor Veidl for orchestra (1997). Joint work by ten German and four Czech composers from Bohemia and Moravia. Performances in Munich, Nuremberg and Marienbad, conductor: Widmar Hader; Sound carrier: LC 1176

Honor, membership

  • 1929 Czechoslovak State Prize for Music
  • 19 ?? - 1944 Member of the German Society of Sciences and Arts for the Czechoslovak Republic (renamed the German Academy of Sciences and Arts in Prague in 1930 )

Fonts (selection)

  • Beethoven's musical humor . Leipzig ( Breitkopf & Härtel ) 1929
  • Viktor Ullmann , the linear . In: Der Auftakt 9, 1929, pp. 77–78
  • Life review 1944. In: The German Opera of the Present . Edited by Carl Niessen. Regensburg ( Gustav Bosse ) 1944.
  • Essays and small portraits of musicians in Der Auftakt , 1920 to 1938

literature

  • Ingo Schultz:  Veidl, Theodor. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7 , Sp. 1384–1385 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Article in: Lexicon of German Music Culture - Bohemia / Moravia / Sudeten Silesia . Munich ( Langen-Müller ) 2000, columns 2823-2830. ISBN 3-7844-2799-5
  • Vlasta Reittererová, Hubert Reitterer: Theodor Veidl and his operatic works / Theodor Veidl a jeho operní dílo . Praha (Národní divadlo) 2005 (= Library of the Opera of the National Theater Prague, Vol. 9). ISBN 80-7258-210-0

Movie

  • Jan Lengyel, Vojtěch Páv: Theodor Veidl . Documentary. Production: Pegasfilm Prague 2002

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Veidl, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vissochan near Saaz
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1946
Place of death Terezín