Bernhard Sekles

Bernhard Sekles ( born March 20, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 8, 1934 ) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher.

Life

Bernhard Sekles was the son Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (born Bischheim ) Born on March 20, 1872 (but has always celebrated his birthday on June 20 ). The name was changed to Bernhard Sekles. According to a private briefing with the composer William Hill Sekles studied at the Hoch Conservatory in 1888 in Frankfurt am Main at Engelbert Humperdinck ( Instrumentation), Iwan Knorr (composition) and Lazzaro Uzielli ( piano). After graduating, he became Kapellmeister at the theaters in Heidelberg (1893 /94) and Mainz (1895 /96). In 1896 he returned as a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory, where he first taught music theory and composition from 1906. In 1923, he was director of the Conservatory, which was significantly expanded under his leadership through the establishment of new subjects ( newly arrived: conducting classes, Opera School, a private music teacher seminar, Institute of Sacred Music, courses for early musical education and adult education). In 1928 he also founded - against fierce opposition conservative circles - the first jazz class at all, and called the young Mátyás Seiber to their head. Because of his Jewish ancestry Sekles was released in April 1933 by the Nazis and banned his music. Sekles died on 8 December 1934 pulmonary tuberculosis.

Music

Sekles began as a song - composer as successor to Brahms. This was followed by chamber music, orchestral and stage works, with which he moved in the direction of impressionism and brought him increasing fame. Have also benefited from elements of non-European musical cultures as well as the contrapuntal linearity of the New Objectivity in his work. This has an unusually wide range of styles that moves between late-romantic tonality, modality and temperate exotic modern harmonies to the limit to atonality. Particularly characteristic and typical applies his musical exoticism, which identifies him as a pioneer transculturalism. His pupil Adorno, who has portrayed him in 1922 for the 50th anniversary, raises Sekles ' lyrical talent show and mentions the operas Scheherazade and wedding of the Faun and the 15 visions for small orchestra as particularly successful. Adorno praises Sekles on this occasion for his " warm humanity that meets all technical with life and responsibility, even to his clever methodology and objective severity against all overblown, Inorganic and made ​​sake ". Later Adorno critical about Sekles, who gave him " expel the mosquitoes tried atonal ", voiced. On the rise of militant anti-Semitism towards the end of the Weimar Republic Sekles responded with an increasing devotion to his Jewish roots, which his musical precipitation as in the orchestral work The Dybbuk and the men's choir Father Noah found. After his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933, he found in the psalm By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept (Psalm 137 ) to a sacred simplicity of great urgency. Sekles ' music disappeared after it was banned in 1933 from the music world and fell into oblivion. Their rediscovery is still pending.

Works (selection)

Compositions

Publisher: Schott, Eulenburg, Leuckart, Brockhaus, Oehler, rahter among others

Stage

  • The Dwarf and the Infanta, ballet, op 22, 1913
  • Schahrazade, opera, Op 26, 1917 - Seal of Gerdt of Bassewitz
  • The wedding of the Faun, comic opera, 1921
  • The ten kisses, comic opera, 1926

Orchestra

  • From the gardens of Semiramis, symphonic poem, Op 19
  • Little Suite, to the memory of ETA Hoffmann, op 21
  • The temperaments, four symphonic movements for large orchestra, op 29, 1916
  • Passacaglia and Fugue for large orchestra and organ, op 17, 1922
  • Visions, fantastic miniatures for small orchestra, op 29, 1923
  • The Dybbuk, Prelude for Orchestra, Op 35, 1928
  • Symphony No. 1, Op 37, 1930

Chamber Music

  • Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op 9
  • Sketches for Piano, Op 10
  • Serenade for 11 Solo Instruments, Op 14, 1907
  • Divertimento for String Quartet, Op 20, 1911
  • Passacaglia and Fugue in quadruple counterpoint for String Quartet, Op 23, 1914
  • Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano, Op 28, 1919
  • String Quartet, op 31, 1923
  • Suite No. 1 for Piano, Op 34
  • The music kit for piano for 3 or 4 hands, 1930
  • Chaconne an eight-bar march theme for Viola and Piano, Op.38, 1931
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op 44

Vocal music

  • Songs, Op 6
  • Folk poems from Romanian, for baritone and piano, Op 7, 1900
  • From > Hafiz ', 4 songs for baritone and piano, op.11, 1902
  • From the ski -King ( Walt Whitman ), 18 songs for high voice and piano, op 15, 1907
  • 4 songs on poems by Friedrich Rückert for baritone and piano, op 18, 1911
  • 4 Songs for Female Choir and Piano, Op 6, 1899
  • 6 folk songs for soprano, male chorus and piano, op 12, 1904
  • Variations on > Prince Eugene < for male choir, wind and percussion instruments, op 32, 1926
  • Father Noah for male chorus, Op 36
  • Psalm 137 for mixed choir, soprano and organ, 1933/1934

Music Theoretical and practical teaching works

  • Music dictation, practice material in 30 sections, textbook, Mainz 1901
  • Instrumentation examples, Mainz 1912
  • Musical Puzzles - elementary school of improvisation, Mainz 1931
  • Broad morphology
  • Harmony

Student

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