Franz Mittler

Franz Mittler ( born April 14, 1893 in Vienna, † 27 December 1970 Munich) was a Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s, popular musician (composer, pianist and conductor), but also appeared as a writer of today still known and popular Rhymes forth.

Life

Franz Mittler came from an Austrian Jewish family of entrepreneurs. His parents were Joseph (d. 1937) and Rosalie ( ' Lilly ' ) mediator, born Biach ( 1867-1939 ), a total of five children had ( Stephan, George, Trude, Otto and Franz give ).

He received his musical training at the kk Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Teodor Leszetycki (piano ) and Richard Heuberger and Carl Prohaska (composition) and at the Conservatory in Cologne with Fritz Steinbach and Carl Friedberg ( orchestral conducting ).

Had his concert debut in 1902 as a violinist Franz Mittler during a joint appearance with the seven- year-old Clara Haskil, the graceful, fragile musical prodigy. From 1904 he concentrated on the piano. From a young age he composed mainly chamber music, his three string quartets are now counted among his most significant compositional achievements. After completing his training he was from 1919 to 1921 conductor at the Reuss Theater in Gera.

Despite his diverse talents ( he also took singing lessons and ballet lessons ), he was from 1921 worked as one of the busiest vocal accompanist at the piano and performed with well known soloists such as Leo Slezak, Franz Steiner or Elisa Elizza and Marie Gutheil- Schoder.

A particularly close cooperation was established with the demonic - dreaded Karl Kraus. He left as a reciter in the years 1930-1936 on the improvisation strong and quick-witted mediator, who gave him a sense of security in his readings. In addition to the musical accompaniment of these evenings mediator also created numerous arrangements for the Offenbach edits by Kraus. And like Karl Kraus, Franz Mittler had an extraordinary sense of language, coupled with great musicality. Then he pointed in the preface to his first edition appeared in 1938 towards his spoonerisms when he spoke of a " diverse analogy to the field of counterpoint, canons and fugues ."

After the annexation of Austria on 12 March 1938, the self-conscious - wise Franz emigrated mediator who saw neither a victim nor wanted to be maneuvered into such. About the French city of Le Havre he came to the United States to New York, where he gave a concert in 1939 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt, among others.

On December 9, 1940, he married his former student in New York Regina Schilling ( born February 2, 1910 in Lviv ), who had also fled from Vienna. Best man was Eric Zeisl. The marriage was 1941, the daughter of Diana Mittler - Battipaglia out, the pianist and ensemble leader, and taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York.

In the U.S., Franz Mittler led with David Hirschberg the music publishing Musicord, for whom he wrote compositions and arrangements, he also aufführte as a member of the "First Piano Quartet 's " 1943-1963. The best known example is the " one-finger Polka" for Groucho Marx.

In 1964 he returned to Europe and settled in victory village. 1965 to 1967 he joined on as a companion still at the Salzburg summer academies, devoted but otherwise more of his work as a poet.

Works (selection)

Musical

  • Stage works: Raffaella, opera (1930 )
  • The horned Siegfried, opera (1926-1963)
  • Chamber Music Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • Violin Sonata in D major
  • Suite for solo cello
  • Humoresque for 2 violins.
  • Trio in A minor for piano, violin and cello. 1909
  • Trio in G major for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op 3 (1911 )
  • String Quartet No. 1 in F major (1909 )
  • String Quartet No. 2 in E minor
  • String Quartet No. 3 in D minor (From the walking time ) ( 1915-1918 )
  • Piano music Two funny piano pieces, op 2 No. 1 Humoresque. For Hilde Holger. No. 2 The music box small Nana. (1926 )
  • Little Waltz for piano solo, op 4 No. 1 The sentimental. No. 2 The Tender. No. 3 Bauer ball. No. 4 The old-fashioned. No. 5 In Grinzing. No. 6 farewell to Vienna ( 1919)
  • Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Op 5 (1912 )
  • Chaconne for solo violin, Op 10 (1926 )
  • Congratulatory waltz. Director Mr. Emil Hertzka in sincere worship dedicated FM ( 1926).
  • Bolero in Blue. Piano solo ( about 1943 ).
  • Suite in 3/4 time ( around 1945 )
  • Manhattan Suite ( 1947)
  • Songs At a fold text of Karl Kraus.
  • The hiking and the creek. Duet for soprano and alto with piano accompaniment, lyrics by Martin Greif.
  • Five Gypsy Songs on Poems by ME delle Grazie and from Hungarian.
  • Lodoletta ( Little Lark ), Per Canto e Pianoforte. ( Parole di Guglielmo Knepler, Italian and German ), Bologna, 1938.
  • Arrangements, equipment and accompanying music for Karl Kraus ( in chronological order of their performances) The Last Days of Mankind. ( Stage version, 1930)
  • The Bridge of Sighs (Le Pont des Soupirs ). Operetta in two acts ( 4 pictures) from Jacques Offenbach. Text by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy by Karl Treumann, edited by Karl Kraus. (1930)
  • The Winter's Tale. Set drama in five acts of Shakespeare on the translation by Dorothea Tieck and partially processed Karl Kraus. Music by Franz Mittler. (1930)
  • The chatterbox of Saragossa by Jacques Offenbach. Text by Ch Nuitter by Karl Treumann, processed and provided with time verses of Karl Kraus. (1930)
  • Helena, Faust, the second part of tragedy, III. Act (1930 )
  • Peric Hole. Operetta in three acts ( five departments ) by Jacques Offenbach. New text (after two versions of Henry Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ) by Karl Kraus. (1931 )
  • King of the Alps and the Misanthrope by Ferdinand Raimund. (1931 )
  • Hannele Mattern Assumption of Gerhart Hauptmann. (1931 )
  • The necessary and what is superfluous by Johann Nestroy. (1931 )
  • Dream theater by Karl Kraus. (1931 )
  • Dream piece of Karl Kraus. (1931 )
  • Vert- Vert. Comic opera in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. New Text ( by Henry Meilhac and Charles Nuitter ) by Karl Kraus. (1931 )
  • The Taming of the Shrew. Comedy in five acts ( with a frame story ) by Shakespeare. After Wolf Graf von Baudissin edited and supplemented by Karl Kraus. Accompaniment: Franz Mittler with using the music of Hermann Goetz. (1935 )
  • Railway marriages or Vienna, Neustadt, Brno. Farce with songs in three acts (after the vaudeville "Paris, Orléans et Rouen " by Bayard and Varin ) by Johann Nestroy, after Schroll'schen edition set of Karl Kraus, with improvised music by Franz Mittler. (1935 )
  • The Talisman of Johann Nestroy. Music by Adolf Müller senior and Franz Mittler. (1935 )
  • King Lear. Tragedy in five acts of Shakespeare to Wolf Graf von Baudissin edited by Karl Kraus. Overture and Music of the tent scene from Franz Mittler. (1935 )
  • The Creole. Operetta in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. Text by Albert Millaud, according to the original and the translation by J. Hopp edited by Karl Kraus. Musical Arrangement and Accompaniment: Franz Mittler. (1935 )

Literary

  • If we make because of lime the thirds? .... Spoonerisms. Publishing the new gallery, Vienna 1938.
  • Collected spoonerisms. Edited by Torberg. Gardena, Vienna, 1969; Reprints: Brandstätter, Wien, 1991, ISBN 3-85447-378-8 and Piper, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-49211-642-6.

Discography

  • Spoonerisms spoken by Helmut Qualtinger ( Preiser, LP, 1978).
  • Trio in G major and songs with texts by Karl Kraus, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann Nestroy, Wilhelm Busch; He has sung, baritone, and Russell Ryan, piano ( Preiser PR90567, CD 2004). review
  • String Quartet No. 1 in F major (1909 ) and String Quartet No. 3 in D minor ( 1915-18 ); Hugo Wolf Quartet (CPO 777329-2, CD 2007 )
  • String Quartet No.2 in E minor and Four Songs for medium voice and string quartet; Artis Quartet; He has sung ( ORF CD3134, CD 2011)

Some spoonerisms by Franz Mittler

Cited by Franz Mittler: Collected spoonerisms. Edited Torberg, Brandstätter, Vienna 1991.

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