Edmund Meisel
Edmund Meisel ( born August 14, 1894 in Vienna, † November 14, 1930 in Berlin) was a German conductor, composer and violinist.
Life
The son of Abraham confectioner Meisel and his wife, the pianist Eugenie ( Jeni ) Heart Brunn, attended the grammar school in Berlin, where his parents had moved. He studied violin at the private school of music John Petersen, piano with Birger hammer and composition with Robert Kahn and Paul Ertel. In 1911, he worked as a teacher at the Music Academy John Petersen, from 1912 to 1914, he worked as a violinist in the Blüthner Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin. From 1918 he worked as a concert and opera conductor, in the season 1927/28, he was conductor at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz, 1928 he undertook a tour of England. From 1926 he was composer for the stage Reinhardt theaters and the Berlin State Theatre, worked with Erwin Piscator together, for its theater productions several times he wrote the incidental music, worked as a film composer and was the director of a film music studios.
In 1926 he became known for his original music for Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, a wide group of people. It was followed by other films. In addition, he worked in a movie studio music with sound installations and sound film experiments. In 1927, he composed music for the radio, the music for two radio plays. One of them was Bertolt Brecht man is man, that was broadcast on 18 March 1927. Brecht, with the Meisel was a friend, was in itself a vocal contribution. Had created Symphony of a big city - In his studio also Meisels music for the experimental short sound film tinting shaft ( 1928) by Walther Ruttmann, for which he is already the original music to Berlin was born.
Meisels music is characterized by partial atonality and stresses in their design elements, rhythm and instrument sound, as Meisel subordinated the music of the film dramaturgy by creating synchronous imaging illustrative works. According to Wolfgang Thiel they seem intentional, as Meisels compositional skills lagged behind its ambitions. Lothar Prox, Professor of Media Aesthetics at the Robert- Schumann-Hochschule in Dusseldorf, referred Meisels Potemkin music as a " masterpiece" and writes that we are dealing with a " blatant misjudgment of his multifaceted oeuvre " when Meisels power is reduced to noise music and rhythm behavior. It is " to refute convincingly " through today's knowledge of his work.
Edmund Meisel, who was married to Els Peters since 1924, died after emergency surgery due to a protracted attack of appendicitis and was buried in the cemetery army in Berlin. The tomb has already been resolved.