Rio Gebhardt
Rio Gebhardt ( born 1 November 1907 in Heilbronn, † June 24, 1944 ) was a German pianist, conductor and composer.
Life
Rio Gebhardt was born as Julius Rigo Gebhardt in the private women's clinic of Otto Gutbrod in Heilbronn, as his parents, the singer Julius Gebhardt and Maria Anna Haupt, made guest appearances at this time with their touring theater Tegernsee nightingales in the local Kilian halls. The child was taken to further travel; In 1911 it was discovered his talent for allegedly conducting, as you watched the four-year olds in the act of a lemon spoon " conducted " a gypsy band in Monte Carlo. The father then decided to sell his son as a child prodigy, was suitable even knowledge in conducting at and practiced with the boys behind closed doors the conducting to gramophone music, with wine bottles were used as a substitute for the groups of instruments of an orchestra. The performances of the child met with professionals not necessarily enthusiasm, but his uncle Charles Gille, Kapellmeister in Hanover, noted that Rio Gebhardt really had to have musical talent, and made sure that he took piano lessons. Nevertheless Gebhardt joined continue on as dirigierendes prodigy, including in Russia. Irregular - - Visit of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin is for 1915, however, that is. From 1918 to 1920 Rio Gebhardt studied with Paul Scheinpflug harmony and score reading, and also he attended apparently Courses at Robert Kahn.
In the 1920s, he was among a group of " child prodigies " in which the psychologist Franziska Baumgarten drove studies later in the book prodigies. Psychological studies have been recycled by 1930. She noted: "He has a very vivid imagination, intelligence does not seem to be above average. "
1922 Rio Gebhardt studied in Zurich and attended especially the orchestral samples Volkmar Andreae. At that time, his younger brother Ferry, who had spent the first eight years of his life in a foster family, joined him; a concert program takes him on as a pianist and Rio Gebhardt as conductor and composer. The family had settled in Berlin in 1917 and Rio and Ferry Gebhardt denied in the following years, more than 500 concerts in Germany and abroad.
From 1923 Rio Gebhardt studied with Kurt Weill; he earned the money to live as a pianist in a salon chapel. Two years later he made contact with the publisher Wilhelm Zimmermann, who was to become his main publisher and backer. Zimmermann had turned to jazz from the mid-20s, he moved under pressure from the Nazis focus of his music and focused on popular music for radio.
At Rio Gebhardt's early compositions were four piano pieces, a Concertino for piano and orchestra and three longing songs by Ernst Lange for alto voice with orchestra. Gebhardt conducted in 1928 after finishing his studies at Weill in all performances except the premiere of the music of Leo Lanias piece boom, which was, however, discontinued after three months. The beginning of 1929 he was Hilfskorrepetitor at the Cologne Opera in the summer of the same year he returned to Berlin.
After Founded in 1927, DECLARATION ( First Piano Quartet ) did not exist with Adam Yellow Trunk, Alexander Zakin and Leopold Mittmann very long, Gebhardt called 1929 a piano trio called Ri Ro -Ru into life. In addition to his own Günther Hans Radtke and Rhode belonged to this formation, which occurred primarily in movie theaters and similar facilities. With a slightly more serious program than the previous Jazz Potpourri 1931 the trio also earned recognition at the Berlin music press. In the same year Gebhardt tried his education by attending courses in music history and sent round Franziska Baumgarten his handwritten memoirs, which were published in the essay The career of a prodigy. 1932 also came under Gebhardt's name a jazz piano school with the title The new Klaviervirtuosität out. It was reprinted several times. The pedagogical main part comes, however, not by Gebhardt, but by Alfred Baresel. With Baresel Gebhardt in 1932 the Blues pathétique and the Fox gymnastique, which were also published in this piano school, played as a disk recording. The works, however, were not consistently graciously received by the contemporary press, but also referred to as " evil and shallow, worldly music ".
Was added Better partially published in 1932 in Zimmermann Concert in Es. It quoted passages from George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F and brought Gebhardt, at least in the view of his publisher, the reputation of a " German Gershwin " one. In other works Gebhardt oriented rather the style of Billy Mayerl. The Concert in It was incorporated on February 17, 1941 by Rudolf Ehrecke and the Orchestra of the German television broadcasting and the composer as conductor after productions in broadcasting had been delayed for years before.
While waiting for a job at the Central German Broadcasting Ltd ( Mirag ), Gebhardt could bring his operetta The lock on the Adriatic Sea with a libretto by Josef Weiser in Chemnitz premiered. Instead at the Mirag Gebhardt was eventually employed by the Reich station in Hamburg. His works have been performed in the following years, often on the radio, about the feast of the Infanta of 1934 or the ballet suite from the toy box from 1937. The influences of jazz is largely lost in these years from Gebhardt's compositions. In 1937, he became the first music supervisor at the German Bildfunk in Berlin; three years later he composed with Cabinet Fulero the first original music for a German television game. Aired this adaptation of the play Another soundtrack to The Brave Little Tailor was the crown of Doris Riehmer and Op tions Orth on 31 October 1940., Gebhardt wrote in 1941. Probably the last premiere of a Gebhardt - work during the war took place on October 23, 1941 instead. The Concert Overture was discussed variously positive, its author no Unabkömmlichkeitsbescheinigung brought, however, a Rio Gebhardt has been called up for military service and came to Russia, while his wife Ada and his children remained in Berlin. First spared from the front line, Gebhardt was still working on a Medieval Suite. His hope is to transfer to a propaganda company of Munchausen, was not fulfilled. Gebhardt fell on June 24, 1944 on the Eastern Front.
Aftereffect
1967 Publisher font Zimmermann was issued on the occasion of the composer's 60th birthday Gebhardt. The author may have been authorized officer Erich Zimmermann's Hoffner. When the upscale entertainment music went out of fashion, came the works Gebhardt's largely forgotten. His biography was published in the series heads Heilbronner 2011.