Victor Bruns

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Victor Bruns (born August 15, 1904 in Ollila ( Grand Duchy of Finland ), today: Solnetschnoje, Kurortni Rajon, Russia ; † December 6, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German bassoonist and composer .

Life

Victor Bruns was born to German parents living in Saint Petersburg in a summer house in Ollila, Karelian . He attended a German school where he got his first piano lessons . After briefly studying natural sciences at the Technical University, in whose student orchestra he played the bassoon, he studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1924 to 1927 with Alexander Vasilyev and from 1927 to 1931 composition with Vladimir Shcherbachev . He completed his studies with the 1st Bassoon Concerto, op. 5, which was premiered in 1933 by the Leningrad Philharmonic with him as a soloist . From 1927 until his expulsion from the Soviet Union as a German citizen in 1938, Bruns was 2nd bassoonist at the Leningrad Opera and in the same position from 1940 to 1944 at the Berlin Volksoper . After the building of the Volksoper in 1944 a bomb attack fell victim to the orchestra after was Hirschberg in Silesia laid. There he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , then was taken prisoner by the Soviets and returned to Berlin in December 1945, where he studied composition with Boris Blacher from 1946 to 1949 . From 1946 to 1969 Bruns was 2nd bassoonist in the Staatskapelle Berlin , which premiered many of his works and of which he became an honorary member in 1969. In 1960 he was awarded the GDR Art Prize. The International Double Reed Society (IDRS) made him an honorary member in 1990 . In 1994 he became seriously ill and spent the last two years of his life in a senior citizen's home in Berlin.

Instrumental concerts and chamber music were at the center of his work . He became known to a wide audience with ballet music such as “The Law of the Lord” by Daisy Spies or “New Odyssey” by Albert Burkat .

Works (selection)

Orchestral music

  • Symphony No. 1 op.13 (1943)
  • Orchestral Pieces op.19 (1948)
  • Symphony No. 2 op.21 (1949)
  • Sinfonietta op.23 (1950)
  • Symphony No. 3 ("Dramatic") op. 37 (1960)
  • Symphony No. 4 ("Konzertante") op. 47 (1970)
  • Symphony No. 5 op.64 (1979)
  • Symphony No. 6 ("Breve") op. 67 (1980)
  • Chamber Symphony for Strings op.70 (1981)

Ballet music

  • The Right of the Lord op.27 (1953)
  • Das Edelfräulein op.31 (1955)
  • New Odyssey op.33 (1957)
  • Ballet trilogy Theseus:
  • The volume of Ariadne op.46 (1969/71)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos op.54 (1973/74)
  • Phaedra op.56 (1975)

Chamber opera

  • Minna von Barnhelm op.39 (1962/67)

Concert music

  • Concerto No. 1 for bassoon and orchestra op.5 (1933)
  • Concerto No. 2 for bassoon and orchestra, op.15 (1946)
  • Concerto No. 1 for clarinet and orchestra, op.25 (1951)
  • Concerto for oboe and small orchestra op.28 (1952)
  • Concerto No. 1 for cello and orchestra, op.29 (1958)
  • Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra, op.35 (1959)
  • Concerto No. 3 for bassoon and orchestra, op.41 (1966)
  • Concerto No. 2 for clarinet and orchestra, op.48 (1971)
  • Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra op.50 (1972)
  • Concerto for flute and small orchestra op.51 (1972)
  • Concerto No. 2 for violin and small orchestra op.53 (1974)
  • Concerto No. 2 for cello and small orchestra, op.59 (1977)
  • Concerto for English Horn and Strings op.61 (1978)
  • Concerto for horn and small orchestra, op.63 (1979)
  • Concerto for oboe, bassoon and strings op.66 (1980)
  • Concerto for viola and small orchestra, op.69 (1981)
  • Concerto for contrabass and strings op.73 (1982)
  • Concerto for flute, English horn, strings and percussion op.74 (1982)
  • Concerto No. 3 for clarinet and small orchestra, op.76 (1984)
  • Concerto No. 3 for cello and small orchestra op.77 (1984)
  • Concerto No. 4 for bassoon and orchestra, op.83 (1986)
  • Concerto for wind quintet, percussion and strings op.85 (1987)
  • Concerto for 2 clarinets and small orchestra, op.87 (1988)
  • Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra op.89 (1989)
  • Concerto for contrabassoon and orchestra op.98

Chamber music

  • Music for 3 clarinets and bassoon op.1
  • Small suite for 2 flutes, 2 boos and 2 bassoons op.2
  • String Quartet No. 1 op.6 (1934)
  • Sonata for violin and piano op.9 (1937)
  • 3 pieces for cello and piano op.11 (1938)
  • 5 pieces for bassoon and piano op.12 (1939)
  • Wind quintet op.16 (1947)
  • String Quartet No. 2 op.17 (1947)
  • Quartet for woodwinds op.18 (1948)
  • Sonata for bassoon and piano op.20 (1949)
  • Sonata for clarinet and piano op.22 (1949)
  • Sonata for oboe and piano op.24 (1950)
  • Sonata for oboe and piano op.25 (1950)
  • 5 pieces for piano op. 30 (1953)
  • Bassoon Studies for Advanced Players, Op. 32 (1955)
  • Sextet for wind quintet and piano op.34 (1957)
  • Sonata for cello and piano op.35 (1958)
  • String Quartet No. 3 op.38 (1961)
  • 5 pieces for bassoon and piano op.40 (1965)
  • Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and bass op.42 (1968)
  • Expressions for cello and piano op.43 (1968)
  • 4 pieces for clarinet and piano op.44 (1968)
  • Sonata No. 2 for bassoon and piano op.45 (1969)
  • Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon op.49 (1971)
  • 6 pieces for cello and piano op.52 (1973)
  • Small suite for 3 bassoons and contrabassoon op.55 (1974)
  • 2 pieces for contrabassoon and piano op.57 (1975)
  • Concert music for bassoon and string trio op.58 (1976)
  • Sonata for viola and piano op. 60 (1977)
  • Small symphony for 12 cellos solos op.62 (1978)
  • 2 bagatelles for violin and cello op.65 (1980)
  • Small Suite No. 2 for 3 bassoons and contrabassoon op.68 (1981)
  • String Sextet No. 1 op.71 (1982)
  • Miniatures for 6 flutes op.72 (1982)
  • String Sextet No. 2 Op. 75 (1985)
  • String Quintet No. 1 op.79 (1985)
  • 6 pieces for contrabassoon and piano op. 80 (1986)
  • String Quintet No. 2, Op. 81 (1986)
  • Piano Trio op.82 (1986)
  • Trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano op.84 (1987)
  • Sonata No. 3 for bassoon and piano op.86 (1988)
  • Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano op.88 (1988)
  • Sonata for flute and piano op.90 (1989)
  • Trio No. 2 for clarinet, bassoon and piano op.91 (1990)
  • Small Suite No. 3 for 3 bassoons and contrabassoon op.92 (1990)
  • 4 virtuoso pieces for bassoon solo op.93
  • 4 virtuoso pieces for horn solo op.94
  • Concertante Suite op.95
  • Sonatina for tenor bassoon and piano op.96 (1991)
  • Trio for tenor bassoon, bassoon and contrabassoon op.97 (1992)
  • Concerto for contrabassoon and orchestra op.98 (1992)
  • Octet for bassoons op.99

estate

Victor Bruns' estate is kept in the music department of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library. It contains compositions totaling 135 catalog numbers (signature Mus.15058-…) and letters, texts, portraits, concert programs and audio documents totaling 24 capsules.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen AZ / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981)
  2. ^ Honorary Member ( Memento from June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) of the International Double Reed Society
  3. ↑ The eyewitness 1959 / A 41
  4. ^ A b c Alison Evans: Victor Bruns (1904-1996): The Last Three Commissioned Compositions for Bassoon, Tenor Bassoon and Contrabassoon. Sydney Conservatorium of Music, August 2005 (English, Master Thesis).;
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bassoonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ollila
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1996
Place of death Berlin