Theodor Wünschmann

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Theodor Wünschmann (born April 6, 1901 in Leipzig ; † March 24, 1992 in Detmold ) was a German conductor and composer.

Life

Theodor Wünschmann was a son from the marriage of the architect Georg Wünschmann and the singer Dora Toula. After attending the Schiller Realgymnasium in Leipzig, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory a . a. with Walther Davisson , Arthur Seidl and Oswin Keller. In April 1923 he began as musical assistant to Otto Lohse and Gustav Brecher at the Leipzig Opera , in 1925 he moved to the Landestheater Sondershausen as second Kapellmeister and was musical director of the house from 1927. From 1930 he was head of the German-speaking New City Theater in Teplitz- Schönau in Czechoslovakia .

From 1933 Wünschmann was without a permanent position and therefore an occasional guest conductor at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. At the time of the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was director of the "Orchestra of National Socialist Musicians in Leipzig". Because of the membership ban of the NSDAP , his application for membership in the NSDAP made in 1933 was not carried out until 1937 with the number 5,266,133.

From 1935 he had a permanent position as musical director at the Städtische Bühnen Mönchengladbach-Rheydt and was employed there all the time, except for an interruption due to being a prisoner of war. In 1959 he became a lecturer at the opera school department of the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold .

Wünschmann was a late romantic composer . His catalog raisonné has over thirty opus numbers, including four symphonies and the miracle play Julian der Gastfrei by Gustave Flaubert . A choral composition was awarded a prize in 1927 at the “First Nuremberg Singing Week”. In the 1950s he began to theoretically and compositionally receive the development of twelve-tone music.

Fonts

  • Anton Bruckner's path as a symphonic musician . Steinfeld: Salvator-Verlag, 1976

Compositions (selection)

  • 6 small pieces for organ (1971) . Vaduz: Prisca-Verl., 1986
  • The death player. Ballad. op. 5 . Leipzig: Kistner & Siegel, 1925
  • Julian the hospitable: a miracle play in six pictures: opus 10 . 1938

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans-Josef Irmen: Theodor Wünschmann , 1967, pp. 134-136
  2. ↑ a b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , 2004, p. 7938f
personal data
SURNAME Wünschmann, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Kapellmeister and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1992
Place of death Detmold