Walter from Simon

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Walter von Simon, around 1940

Walter von Simon (born August 15, 1864 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † April 14, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German composer .

biography

Walter von Simon did his military service in Posen Infantry Regiment No. 12 in Glogau . During his service as a lieutenant, von Simon wrote his most famous piece in 1891, the cuirassier march "Großer Kurfürst" , which later entered the Prussian army march collection under the number AM III, 142. The piece was blown at the Feldartillerie-Regiment General-Feldzeugmeister (2nd Brandenburgisches) No. 18 also in Frankfurt as a parade march in crotch. In the Federal Republic of Germany , the march is played by the Bundeswehr, among other things at the reception for state guests when the Federal President arrives in front of his official residence at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. After retiring from the military with the rank of first lieutenant in 1901, Simon worked as a composer of classical musical works. In addition, he set pieces by Axel Delmar such as "Alt-Potsdam or The First Railway or The Pleasure of the Residents" or "Marschall Vorwärts" to music . He also composed the opera “The Corsican Law” based on a piece by Prosper Mérimée .

From 1906, von Simon lived in the Villa Tummeley, which the sugar boiler owner Tummeley had built in 1847/1848 and which he owned until Simon's death in April 1945.

Works

  • Corsican law (title page)

  • Corsican law (dedication)

  • Old Potsdam

literature

  • Karlheinz Deisenroth: The old cemetery in Potsdam . Attempt to reconstruct military and bourgeois life in old Prussia . Edited by the Military History Research Office, Potsdam, in conjunction with the State Capital Potsdam, Department Lower Monument Protection Authority and the Potsdam Museum - Forum for Art and History. 2nd, revised edition. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 9783793096962 , pp. 294-296.
  • Cuirassier march "Great Elector" . In: German army marches . Volume 1 . Booklet accompanying the double CD of the same name by the Bundeswehr Music Corps . Raatz Music Agency, Frechen 2017, p. 30f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Heidler: The military music of the Bundeswehr = state music !? In: Peter Moormann, Albrecht Riethmüller, Rebecca Wolf (eds.): Paradestück military music . Contributions to the change in state representation through music . Bielefeld 2012, pp. 13–33, here p. 30.
  2. ^ Villa Tummeley
  3. ^ Villa Tummeley
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Walter from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1945
Place of death Potsdam