Clemens Schmalstich
Clemens Carlotto Schmalstich ( born October 8, 1880 in Poznan, † July 15, 1960 in Berlin) was a German composer and conductor.
Life
Born on October 8, 1880 in Poznan, Clemens Carl- Otto Schmalstich studied after visiting the Poznań Friedrich- Wilhelm Gymnasium on his father, who wanted his son to study music from a know nothing desire first four semesters of philosophy in Bonn. 1902 succeeded the young student to come to the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin. He " learned " there piano with Professor Ernst Rudorff, but moved two years later as a composer of students in the master class Engelbert Humperdinck ( designer of eg the opera Hansel and Gretel ) on which was his fatherly friend and give him the position of a conductor on the New Schauspielhaus in Berlin mediated, where he also Humperdinck's music to Shakespeare's "Tempest " conducted among other works. Even then won a number of Academy Awards Schmalstich. His friend Leo Blech appointed him in 1910 to the Royal Opera in Berlin, where Schmalstich to 1919 next sheet, Richard Strauss and Karl Muck worked as Kapellmeister.
After several years of freelancing with many foreign tours he took over in 1927, the artistic director of the Electrola Gesellschaft in Berlin, around 1931 to follow a reputation as a teacher at the State Academy College. On 1 May 1932 he joined (member number 1106153 ) in the NSDAP. He starred in Alfred Rosenberg's Combat League for German Culture as a circle with Walter and Culture Division Director for light music and operetta and was Präsidialbeirat in the fellowship of the German artist.
At the Academy of Music he worked until 1945 as a Full Professor, Head of the conductor classes and the opera school. After the end of World War II he was on the black list of the U.S. military government and of broadcasting in the Soviet occupation zone. After the "Berlin Concert Association" conducted since the 1920s, and had led the NSLB Orchestra since 1937, he took over in 1945, the Siemens orchestra.
As a composer Schmalstich wrote about 120 songs with piano and orchestra, the operas " Beatrice" (1940 ) and " The Wedding Torch (1943 ), two symphonies, three concertos for piano and orchestra, a Sinfonietta, the symphonic poem " Tragic Epilogue " ( on the death of Pope Pius XII. ), broadcast by many stations, several orchestral suites, many piano works, the operetta " dancer of Love ( 1919) and" When the Empress smiles " (1937 ). His early work Peterchens trip to the moon is played repeatedly on national and international stages since 1913. Also in the TV movie Peterchens trip to the moon in 1959, his music is being used. Narrow stitch filmmaking began with a cultural film about Goethe, and the heyday of the Ufa - cultural films is associated with his name So he composed the music for the culture films " The word of stone" on the buildings, Adolf Hitler (1939) and " Nuremberg, the city of the Party Rallies " ( 1940). His composed in the Nazi era film scores were still to Strasbourg on the Schanz (1934 ) and Schneider Wibbel 1939. Introduced in 1945, incurred " the year of moose " and " women's gymnastics " ( " grace and power. Female sports in slow motion " ) were first performed at the Berlin Festival in 1957.
Among his thirteen feature films were the Waschneck production of " Abel with the harmonica ", " love people " ( Renate Müller, Gustav Fröhlich, Harry Liedtke ), " Regine " ( Luise Ullrich, Adolf Wohlbrück ), "Music in the Blood " ( Sybille Schmitz ) but also the Riihmann movie " Laughing heirs" by Max Ophüls and directed by Hans Steinhoff Heinrich George movie " An enemy of the People " 1937.
Clemens Schmalstich was more than fifty years with Lissi Schmalstich short, a once celebrated concert and oratorio singer and writer, married, among others, also wrote the libretto for his opera " Beatrice". His adopted home of Berlin remained Schmalstich faithfully until his death. He was buried in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf, but his tomb has already been resolved.
Orchestral Works (selection)
- Cupid and Psyche, Op 103 (1933)
- From a small town op 94, Suite (1936 )
- Images from Ceylon, Suite for Piano (1947 )
- Nordic Suite, Op 112 (1947)
- 2 Serenades for String Orchestra, Op 104 (1956 )