Theophil Richter (musician)
Theophil Danilovich judge , Russian Теофил Данилович Рихтер , (born 17 . Jul / 29. April 1872 greg. In Zhitomir , † 6. October 1941 in Odessa ) was a German-Russian musician, teacher and composer.
Life
Theophil Richter's parents were Germans who were settled in what is now Ukraine after 1861 by Tsar Alexander II. From 1893 to 1900 he studied piano and composition at the Vienna Conservatory . Richter also studied with Robert Fuchs in Vienna , where he was friends with the composer Franz Schreker . He married the Russian Anna Moskaljowa from Zhitomir. Their son, Svyatoslav Richter, was born on March 20, 1915 . He describes his father as his only teacher alongside Heinrich Neuhaus and Richard Wagner .
In 1916 Theophil Richter moved with his family to Odessa, where he became organist at the Lutheran Church of St. Paul . At the same time he taught piano at the conservatory and played in the opera orchestra.
After the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he was accused of collaboration with the Germans, sentenced to death and executed in Odessa on October 6, 1941, shortly before the German occupation of Odessa .
Compositions
A string quartet in F major and some smaller piano pieces by Theophil Richter have come down to us.
literature
- Jan Brachmann: Ears frozen in shock for this saint. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 20, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Theophil Richter and Felix Blumenfeld: String quartets at www.kulturforum.info, last accessed on April 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richter, Theophil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Theophil Danilowitsch (full name); Рихтер, Теофил Данилович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German musician, educator and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhitomir |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1941 |
| Place of death | Odessa |