Ferdinand Pfohl

Ferdinand Pfohl ( born October 12, 1862 in Elbogen, † December 16, 1949 in Hamburg- Bergedorf ) was a German music critic, writer on music and composer.

Life

Ferdinand Pfohl was one of the most prestigious German music critic and writer on music; his judgment had great weight ( Willscher in MGG 2005) and was comparable with Hanslick's position in Vienna in Germany. His music has been performed fairly frequently during his lifetime and received much acclaim.

Pfohl wrote during his Leipzig years (until October 1892) for the Royal Leipzig newspaper, the Leipziger Tageblatt and ( November 1892-December 1931 ) for the Hamburg news and the author of several standard works of music literature, on Richard Wagner and Arthur Nikisch, also he was from 1913 to 1934 co-director of Vogt's Conservatory of Music in Hamburg. As a composer he felt of late Romanticism from Wagner committed. Among his most interesting literary works include his 1890 in Leipzig published anonymously ribbon " Höllenbreughel as educators - also by a German ." In a humorous, but also political- critical way he parodies Langbehn deutschtümelndes work " Rembrandt as Educator " in delicious satire and exposes Langbehn as muddled and anti-Semitic pseudo- philosophers. Even in the era of National Socialism Pfohl außerte so brave in a radio speech by expressing his sympathy for the " non-Aryan music " expresses that the Reichssender Hamburg, which belonged to the Great German Radio, the transmission broke.

The Pfohl Woyrsch -Gesellschaft eV Hamburg, founded in 1993, has set itself the goal of preserving the musical and literary heritage of Ferdinand Pfohls and make it accessible to a wider public.

Musical Works

  • The Apsarase for orchestra
  • Twelve Early Pieces for Piano (trailing, Pfänderspiel, waltz, epigram, Waltz, Scherzo, sonnet, Serenade, Nocturne, The Bagpipe, The Pandects ( carry forward very tasteless and leathery ), romance, undated ( early piano compositions)
  • Capriccio (Allegro vivo ) Dance (Tempo giusto ), early piano pieces, undated (nd)
  • Four Songs
  • Hagbart, Nordic Rhapsody (piano ) on a Theme of Edvard Grieg, 1882
  • Two songs for medium voice and piano, nd
  • Angel Serenade, from d Neapolitan Frida Schanz, for medium voice " Get up and open the door "
  • Two songs F.E. mittl. voice
  • Op. 4 Mondrondels, dreamer. Scenes from " Pierrot Lunaire " by Albert Giraud German by Otto Erich hard life, for one voice and piano, (tenor ), 1891
  • Op. 5 Three Songs, f 1, high voice u.Klavier, text in German, English, French, 13 pp.
  • Op. 6 Four Songs for Voice and Piano
  • Op. 7 No. 1 return (F. Pfohl ), 11 pp. 1892
  • Op. 8 beach pictures, for piano, S. 35
  • To op 8: The sea, Symphonic Fantasy for Large Orchestra
  • Op. 9 siren songs, seals from Max Haushofer Jr. " ​​The Exile " for mezzo-soprano ( alto) and piano
  • Op. 10 Twardowsky, seal of Otto Kayser, rhapsody for orchestra, male choir and mezzo- soprano; instead MSopr. Frauenchor possible score, vocal score, 35 pp., 1894
  • Op. 11 elegiaque Suite, for piano, 1894
  • Op. 12 A ballet scene f gr Orchestra, Score, 59 pp.
  • Op. 14 Tower ballads, five seals from Max Haushofer Jr. " ​​The Exile ", for high voice and piano, S. 47, 19o1
  • The Drunken Song ( Nietzsche), " O man take heed What does the deep midnight? " 1915
  • Midnight ( Zarathustra, Friedr. Nietzsche) Ms. ( Song for medium voice )
  • The Chalice of Love ( text Georg Jacobi ) " From Thee, O Love, I guess the cup of bitter suffering," ( Song for Low Voice )
  • In the forest shade, ( J. v. Eichendorff ), " I stand in the forest shadows like at the edge of life ", 1942 ( 3 pages) ( song for mittl. Voice )
  • Am Waldsee, "You still lake ," Ms. 1942 ( song f deep voice )
  • Greetings of love, ( Wilh. Raabe ), "Greetings! " In 1944, Ms. ( song with Klavierbegl. )
  • Sweet peace, (Goethe) " The You are from heaven " Ms. ( Song for Low Voice )
  • Everything transient is only a parable (Goethe), December 14, 1944 Ms. ( song mittl f. / High altitude )
  • Goethe comforting, " Above all summits is Ruh " Ms. ( song with Klavierbegl. ) )
  • Schilflieder, seals of Nikol. Lenau, avg for one. Voice with symphon. Piano Accompaniment, Ms. on August 21, 1947
  • Birkenlegendchen, text Börries Munchhausen, last composition 28 July 1949, Ms. ( song f mittl. / High voice with piano accompaniment )

Literary works (selection)

  • Höllenbreughel as educators - also by a German, Leipzig, Verlag Carl Reissner, 1890 With a title drawn image that represents Pohl as the painter " Breughel ". .
  • Arthur Nikisch, in: Heinrich Chevalley: Arthur Nikisch, life and work, messenger and Bock, Berlin 1922, pp. 1-126
  • Arthur Nikisch. His life, his art, his work. Alster, Hamburg, 196 pp., 1925
  • Friedrich Chrysander. Bergedorf, Köster & Wobbe, 1926
  • Richard Wagner - His life and work. Ullsteinhaus & Co., Berlin- Vienna, 398 pp., 1911
  • Gustav Mahler impressions and memories from the Hamburg years, ed. Knud Martner, Wagner, Hamburg, 86 pp., 1973
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