Walther Carl Meiszner

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Walther Carl Meiszner , actually Walther Carl Hermann Meißner , (born November 12, 1896 in Berlin , † November 15, 1931 there ) was a German pianist .

biography

family

Walther Carl Meiszner comes from the Brandenburg family Meißner, which can first be detected in Bochow near Groß Kreutz (Havel) at the beginning of the 18th century . He was the son of the doctor and medical adviser Paul Ludwig Konrad Meißner (* July 8, 1867 in Schwetz , West Prussia , † March 13, 1950 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) and the merchant's daughter Alma Köhler (* October 4, 1869 in Schwetz, † November 23 1935 in Berlin-Charlottenburg). The father was initially a doctor in Neuchâtel (West Prussia) and has lived in Charlottenburg since 1920. Meiszner's aunt was the concert singer Lucie Martha Mathilde Meißner (born June 13, 1862 in Schwetz, † December 8, 1898 in Berlin), who had studied piano and singing in Berlin, where she received brilliant reviews (including in the Berlin Singakademie before Kaiser Wilhelm I . ) until she contracted a vocal cord disease as a result of a cold on a concert tour in her hometown Schwetz / Weichsel and was never able to sing in public again.

Education and career

Walther Carl Meiszner attended the higher private school in Neuchâtel (West Prussia), then the grammar school in Graudenz . At the University of Berlin he first took up a law degree , which he broke off to devote himself to his artistic career.

Meiszner received his music education from 1913 to 1914 with W. Elisat in Graudenz, then from 1914 to 1915 at the West Prussian Conservatory in Danzig . From 1915 to 1916 and 1918 to 1922 he studied piano with A. Stark and Moritz Mayer-Mahr in Berlin and with Ernst Schauß and Alexander von Fielitz (theory). From 1916 to 1918 Meiszner participated in the war and received the 1919 Red Cross Medal . From 1920 he was a piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and from 1922 he went on concert tours that took him to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Norway and England. The composer Mark Lothar was his piano student from 1921 to 1926. On July 17, 1926, he married the Japanese soprano Hatsue Yuasa , as her constant piano accompanist he subsequently appeared. Meiszner died shortly after his 35th birthday due to unknown circumstances. His marriage to Hatsue Yuasa was childless.

Artistic work

Meiszner was known, among other things, as a Chopin interpreter, but artistically devoted himself to a wide spectrum of composers, ranging from Bach to Debussy and contemporaries such as Ravel and Poulenc, to which concert programs bear witness. Despite his early death, from 1922 to 1930 Meiszner was able to record a number of records for the companies Lindström / Odeon, Homocord , Vox and Artiphon , in which he performed partly as a soloist, partly as an accompanist or as a chamber musician with the Detroit violinist Earl William Morse (born September 27th 1888 in Saginaw, Michigan), with Dajos Béla and the cellist Felix Robert Mendelssohn (born September 27, 1896 in Berlin; † May 15, 1951 in Baltimore, USA).

According to the record labels, he used instruments from the Berlin piano factory G. Schwechten for at least some of his recordings .

Sound documents (examples)

  • Adagio (Larghetto) / by Mozart. Felix Robert Mendelssohn, cello virtuoso. Accompaniment: Walther Carl Meiszner at the Schwechtenflügel. Homocord 8182 (mx. M 50899), in the wax: C17C; A 9 4 23.
  • Baroque / by Ludwig Mendelssohn. Felix Robert Mendelssohn, cello virtuoso. Accompaniment: Walther Carl Meiszner at the Schwechtenflügel. Homocord 8182 (mx. M 50900), in the wax: C17C; A 9 4 23.
  • Fantasy from Rigoletto (Verdi) Walther Carl Meiszner on the Schwechten wing. Homocord B.8269 (mx. M 50932), in wax: A 10 3 27.
  • Fantasy from Carmen (Bizet) Walther Carl Meiszner on the Schwechten wing. Homocord B.8269 (mx. M 50933), in wax: A 28 2 27.
  • La Serenata - Leggenda valacca (Gaetano Braga / Marco M. Marcello) Dajos Béla-Trio [d. i. Dajos Béla, violin, Felix R. Mendelssohn, violoncello, Walther Carl Meiszner, piano] Odeon AA 79706 / O-7060 (mx. XxBo 7761)
  • Ombra mai fu, Arioso from “Serse” (Georg Fr. Haendel) Dajos Béla-Trio [d. i. Dajos Béla, violin, Felix R. Mendelssohn, violoncello, Walther Carl Meiszner, piano] Odeon AA 79715 / O-7060 (mx. XxBo 7764). January 1923.
  • Adagio (Wolfgang A. Mozart) Felix Robert Mendelssohn, violoncello. Walther Carl Meiszner on the Schwechten wing. Odeon AA 79030 / O-6217 (mx. XxBo 7765), apply. Jan. 1923.
  • In the old style (L. Mendelssohn) Felix Robert Mendelssohn, violoncello. Walther Carl Meiszner on the Schwechten wing. Odeon AA 79030 / O-6217 (mx. XxBo 7766), attach. Jan. 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Lothar, Mark" in Munzinger Online / KLfG - Critical Lexicon for contemporary foreign-language literature. The New German Biography (NDB), Volume 15, p. 233 incorrectly mentions "piano lessons with WC Meiszner in Dresden [sic]"
  2. ↑ Erich H. Müller: German Musicians Lexicon . Dresden 1929.
  3. ↑ "Who interprets new music?" in: Melos, Zeitschrift für Musik, 10th year (1931), p. 252
  4. ↑ cf. Chr. Zwarg, ODEON Matrix Numbers —Bo / xxBo 6130 - 9999 (Berlin), PDF , p. 67
  5. ↑ cf. Chr. Zwarg, ODEON Matrix Numbers —Bo / xxBo 6130 - 9999 (Berlin), PDF , p. 68
personal data
SURNAME Meiszner, Walther Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meißner, Walther Carl (official name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1931
Place of death Berlin