Marcel Sulzberger

Marcel Sulzberger, actually Johann Heinrich Samuel Sulzberger, (* 1876 in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Swiss parents, † 1941) was a Swiss composer, pianist and writer on music.

Life

There is little reliable data about his life, because Sulzberger himself has contributed to it to make some in the dark (eg, year of birth ).

In 1900 he studied at the University and at the Conservatory of Zurich, where he had contact with Othmar Schoeck and Gabriel Fauré. After this had recommended that further study with Charles -Marie Widor in Paris, located Sulzberger went there in 1906 and returned in 1911 back to Zurich. He soon became one of the close friends of the First World War in Switzerland, emigrated Ferruccio Busoni, he for whose work he championed ardently worshiped and. Secured seems to be that Sulzberger 1917 - apparently without consequences - took part in an event at the Galerie Dada in Zurich, where among other things, Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara participated.

Works

During his studies of the Francophile Sulzberger was still under the influence of the music of Claude Debussy. He is, however, one of the first Swiss composer, who turned away from tonality and experimented with the bitonality or free tonality. Others take in his music both true echoes of Fauré and the style of the Second Viennese School. Sulzberger's compositions found in the Swiss contemporary critics ineffective, because his compositional style of his time was far ahead.

• Songs for voice and piano, from "To the Distant "
• Chanson d' été
• Cortege et fête for piano ( lost)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano ( 1919), premiered in Paris ( 1924)

Discount

The estate Sulzberger is located in the Central Library in Zurich, and includes a Letters from Hugo Ball, Busoni, Debussy, Ernst von Dohnányi, Joseph Szigeti, Richard Strauss and Felix Weingartner at Sulzberger.

• Swiss composer
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Classic pianist
• Born 1876
• Died in 1941
• Man