Walter Rein

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Walter Rein (born December 10, 1893 in Stotternheim (now part of Erfurt ), † June 18, 1955 in Berlin ) was a German composer and music teacher.

Life

Rein graduated from the teachers' seminar in Weimar and then worked as a teacher and choir director in Bürgel . From 1924 he studied at the Berlin Academy for Church and School Music and was also a composition student, with E. Lendvai and Richard Wetz , among others . Rein later taught at the State Music School in Weimar and at the Pedagogical Academies in Kassel (1930–32), Frankfurt am Main and Weilburg . In April 1928 he took part in the founding meeting of the Nazi teachers' association in Hof. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was a member of the administrative advisory board of the Reich Chamber of Music . In 1935 he followed an appointment to the former Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin and became professor for musical folklore at the State University for Music Education . During the Nazi era he composed various pieces for those in power, including a solstice cantata in 1938. Rein joined the NSDAP in 1941 ( membership number 8,740,882). In the final phase of the Second World War , he volunteered for the Volkssturm in December 1944 .

From 1945 Rein worked as a freelance composer in Berlin. He was denazified in 1948 and rehabilitated in 1950. In 1954 he was reinstated and immediately retired.

The focus of his compositional work was vocal music for schools and the amateur choir. He published several song books. However, several hundred instrumental pieces, especially pieces for wind instruments and strings, also come from him. His catalog raisonné includes over 2000 individual movements.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 478.
  2. ^ A b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5666.
  3. ↑ a b Music in the past and present : general encyclopedia of music; 26 volumes in two parts, first by Friedrich Blume . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, p. 1499
personal data
SURNAME In, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Stotternheim (today part of Erfurt )
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1955
Place of death Berlin