Hans Rott
Hans Rott ( born August 1, 1858 in Braunhirschen today to Vienna, † June 25, 1884 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer and organist.
Life
Rott was the illegitimate son of the then famous Viennese actor Karl Mathias Rott, who had to give up his career in 1874 on the basis of a stage accident and died in 1876. Despite his financially bad situation ( his mother, who since 1862 with KM Rott married singer and actress Maria Rosalia, born Lutz, was in 1872 deceased) was able to study at the Vienna Conservatory Rott and was organ and favorite pupil of Anton Bruckner, his skills highly appreciated. In addition, Franz Krenn included (composition), Hermann Graedener (harmony ) and Leopold Landskron ( piano) with his teachers.
In his composition class at the Vienna Conservatory following persons were enrolled: Mathilde Kralik, Gustav Mahler, Rudolf Krzyzanowski, Rudolf Pichler, Katharina Haus and Ernst Ludwig. When, on July 2, 1878 took place the Concours for composition, all music students presented here were tested. All participants received prizes, only Hans Rott's Concours - work, the first movement of his Symphony, remained without price. After Bruckner's narrative the Examination Board should have laughed scornfully at hearing the symphony. Bruckner to be stood up then and said: " Do not laugh, gentlemen, of the man you 'll be hearing a big".
Rott difference without a diploma and medal from the school of composition. His leaving certificate expressed, however, that he had passed the examination in composition with exquisite success.
1876-1878 Rott had an organist at the Piaristenkirche in Vienna, then devoted himself - in addition to private lessons - entirely to composition, particularly his Symphony in E major. This major work was negatively evaluated by Johannes Brahms and returned a performance of the interested conductor Hans Richter time reasons. When a request was rejected on the granting of a state scholarship, Rott left Vienna in 1880 to take up a position as choir master in Mulhouse. When leaving there his serious mental illness manifested - at that time called " hallucinatory madness and paranoia ". The departure from Vienna apparently meant such a heavy burden that it came in the train for personal disaster. Rott threatened a fellow with the revolver, as the tried to light a cigar, Brahms because the train with dynamite I can fill. Rott was returned to Vienna, where he initially committed to the Psychiatric Clinic in 1881, in the Lower Austrian Provincial Lunatic Asylum. The rest of his short life he spent there, received visits from his friends, composed yet occasionally, but also destroyed many of his works. He died in 1884 of tuberculosis. Hugo Wolf is Brahms have called the murderer Rott.
Hans Rott was buried at the Central Cemetery in Vienna. The grave is located in group 23, series 2, ranked No. 59 was awarded the meantime, new and now leads the name " Black / Sahora ". An additionally applied plaque indicates Hans Rott.
Work
Rott's Symphony in E Major, as his other works preserved in the Austrian National Library since 1950, was published in the 1980s in an arrangement by Paul Banks and premiered in 1989 in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States by the Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra. It's a modern -sounding work, anticipates the elements of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, as well as (especially in the outer movements ) organistisches Orchestrierungsverfahren strongly reminiscent of Bruckner.
The composition was written simultaneously with the first version of Mahler's cantata Song of Lamentation and nine years before the premiere of his first symphony. Mahler was Rott's classmates in the composition class of Krenn; he knew and appreciated Rott's work and put it - the memoirs of Natalie Bauer -Lechner, according to - aware and appreciative in a relationship with his own work. All compositions Rott's are posthumous, unpublished in his lifetime works. While Mahler could wipe out or edit their studies or youth works in more mature years, had not Hans Rott this possibility before the subsequent reception.