Wilhelm Mohr (composer)

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Wilhelm Mohr (born February 18, 1904 in Hamburg ; † June 30, 1989 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German composer and organist .

Life

During his school days in Hamburg, Wilhelm Mohr enjoyed a musical education in theory, composition and piano playing at the Johanneum High School with Anton Penkert and Julius Spengel , and musicology with Georg Anschütz at the Brahms Conservatory in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . The first compositions (chamber music) date back to 1920. The concert activity began in 1921, the first composition evening took place in the Hamburg music hall in March 1927.

In addition, Wilhelm Mohr studied law in Tübingen, Kiel and Hamburg followed clerkship in Hamburg, where he in 1927 to Dr. jur. PhD . During his legal clerkship he also taught piano and music theory and took on duties as a choir director and conductor in the Wandsbeker Musikfreunde association in 1929.

From 1929 to 1933 he was a music critic for the Hamburger Fremdblatt . From 1938 he lived as a composer, musicologist, pianist and harpsichordist in Falkenstein im Taunus , where he was also organist at the Martin Luther Church.

Works

Cantatas

  • Reformation cantata "Out of deep need I scream to you" op. 2 for solos, mixed choir, orchestra and organ, Hamburg, 1933

Works for orchestra

  • Bridal Waltz

Works for chamber music ensembles with piano / harpsichord

  • Piano trio in A minor, Op. 5, Frankfurt am Main, 1950
  • Sextet for wind instruments and piano op.13, Hamburg, 1948
  • Piano quintet in C major op.13a, Frankfurt am Main, 1953
  • Small suite for violin and piano in E minor, Stuttgart, 1940
  • Suite for treble recorder and harpsichord
  • Variations on “ Now will Lenz greet us ” for horn quartet and piano, Frankfurt am Main, 1958

Works for solo instruments with orchestral accompaniment

  • Concertino for English horn and orchestra, Bad Kissingen, 1960

Works for chamber music ensembles without piano

  • Wind quintet in f sharp minor op.6, Hamburg, 1943
  • Variations on the Lied vom Heuschreck for wind quintet
  • Variations on the Lied vom Heuschreck for string quartet

Piano four hands

  • Sonata in F sharp minor for 2 pianos op.10, Frankfurt am Main, 1947

Choral works with orchestra

  • The 24th Psalm op. 3 for solos, mixed choir, orchestra and organ
  • Sacred evening music op.4 for solos, mixed choir and small orchestra, Frankfurt am Main, 1937

Solo songs with piano accompaniment

  • Solo songs with piano accompaniment

expenditure

  • C. Franck, piano pieces and songs
  • Flute sonatas based on concerts by JH Roman, Tartini, Pergolesi, Telemann, Califano, Graun, Samartini, Hasse etc.

Fonts

  • August Hahn in Music, 1929
  • C. Franck, Stuttgart 1942
  • Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in the Concert Hall 1946, Issue 5
  • Afraid of the triad? in NZM 1948, 10ff
  • About Pfitzner's chamber music in NZM 1949, 135ff
  • About Mozart's Adagio in h KV 540 in Festschrift for EH Mueller v. Azov, 1952
  • Pfitzner's Sextet op. 55 in Mitteilungen der Pfitznergesellschaft, 7th episode
  • Pfitzner's Fantasy for Orchestra op. 56 in Mitteilungen der Pfitznergesellschaft, 7th episode

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1989
Place of death Königstein im Taunus