Ebbe Hamerik

Ebb Hamerik ( born September 5, 1898 in Frederiksberg ( Copenhagen Capital Region ); † August 1951, drowned in the Kattegat ), actually Hamm Erich, was a Danish composer and conductor.

Life

Ebb Hamerik is the son of the composer Asger Hamerik and the American composer and pianist Margaret Elizabeth Williams (1867-1942) as well as the nephew of the musicologist Angul Hamm Erich ( 1848-1931 ). He attended the 1916 Soro Academy, where he had already composed the first pieces. Hamerik received private lessons from his father in theory and orchestration. In 1917, he learned conducting with the American composer and conductor Frank van der Stucken who spent in Copenhagen the last years of the 1st World War. 1919 founded and directed Hamerik an amateur orchestra. In the same year he was choir and auxiliary conductor at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where he made his debut as a conductor with Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice. In 1922 he left the theater and devoted himself to composition. In the years to 1927 he held half study abroad, including in Lübeck, Mainz and Antwerp. Between 1927 and 1931 he was conductor of music Foreningen ( Musikverein ) Copenhagen, where he conducted works by Bartók, Ravel, de Falla, Reger, Kodály and Prokofiev. From then on, he worked as a conductor in Vienna, Leipzig and Dresden. In 1933 he received the Ancker scholarship. In 1940 Hamerik as a volunteer in the Finnish side to the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. 1939 to 1943 he was a frequent guest at the Danish Broadcasting. He married Brita Møller 1944, the daughter of the piano manufacturer Knud Møller .. Hamerik was a keen yachtsman. In August 1951, he was shipwrecked in the Kattegat on a trip from Norway to Sweden. The wreck was found in Halmstad, the body remained missing .. The opera Marie Grubbe and the five Cantus Firmi made ​​Hamerik known internationally.

Works (excerpt)

  • Operas Stepan, 3 acts ( libretto Fredrik Nygaard, premiere November 30, 1924 in Mainz, Danish premiere on March 31, 1926 in Copenhagen)
  • Leonardo da Vinci, four scenes from the life of Leonardo ( libretto M. Moretti and C. Muzzi, premiere March 28, 1939 in Antwerp)
  • Marie Grubbe, act 2 (12 images ), based on the novel by Jens Peter Jacobsen ( libretto Fredrik Nygaard, premiere May 17, 1940 in Copenhagen)
  • Rejsekammeraten ( The Travelling Companion ), 9 images, based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen ( libretto Karl Nielsen, world premiere January 5, 1946 in Copenhagen)
  • Drømmerne ( The Dreamer ), 2 acts, by Karen Blixen fantastiske sixth story from the collection Syv fortællinger ( seven fantastic stories ), polytonales music drama ( libretto ebb Hamerik, created in 1949, premiere September 9, 1974 in Aarhus )
  • Dyonisia (first performed in 1927 in Antwerp)
  • Summer (Text Fredrik Nygaard ) for orchestra and baritone, 1920
  • Goethe- cycle for baritone and orchestra, 1928
  • Orchestral Variations on a motif altdänisches, 1934
  • 5 short symphonies ( cantus firmus cantus firmus I to V), formative years 1937-1949
  • Two string quartets ( in D minor and A major ), 1917
  • String Quintet quasi Passacaglia e Fuga, 1932
  • Woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon ), 1942
  • Fire Sange ( Four Songs ), 1916
  • Upp alla nordens män ( Swedish, based on a text by the Swedish author Rudolf Hammar ), 1940
  • Syv sejler above sømandssange ( Seven sailors and sea shanties ), 1943
  • I Dag Danmark (Denmark today ), 1945, after a poem by Erik Bertelsen ( 1898-1969 )
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