Mark Lothar

Mark Lothar, actually Lothar Hundertmark (* May 23, 1902 in Berlin, † April 6, 1985 in Munich) was a German composer.

Life

He studied in Berlin with Franz Schreker and in Munich in Ermanno Wolf- Ferrari. Early Mark Lothar became known as an accompanist of famous singers, including Erna Berger and Hermann Prey and Corry Nera, the Lothar's wife in 1934. 1933 Lothar was the member of the nationalist -minded, anti -Semitic League of Struggle for German Culture was called by Max Reinhardt as a music expert at the German theater. In 1934 he was appointed by Gustaf at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, where he worked as musical director until 1944. During the Nazi period he received several commissions from Goebbels assumed Reich Office for Music edits. In August 1944, Lothar was taken of Adolf Hitler in the Gottbegnadeten list with the most important composer in his eyes, which saved him from a war effort, even on the home front.

Since 1945, Mark Lothar worked at the Bavarian State Theatre, and from 1955 as a freelance composer in Munich.

With " Tyll " he won in 1928 his first big operatic success. This humorous play - opera with lyrical and serene games also inspired their revival in 1984 at the Theater Oberhausen audiences and critics. " Tyll " and joined to a operas such as " Munchausen " (1933 ), "Schneider Wibbel " (1938 ), " Rappelkopf " (1959) and " Momo and the Time Thieves" (1978). From the 1930s his stage work comes " Hans Sonnenstössers descent into hell ".

A name Lothar had also earned as a composer of incidental music, film scores (for example, to " Friedemann Bach" and to "Faust " by Gustaf ) and songs based on texts by Hermann Lons, Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern and others. Great appeal finds his song cycle "Music of the Lonely ", Op 69 poems by Hermann Hesse, the Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau interpreted. (EMI SME 91660 )

His tomb is located in the cemetery Solln in Munich.