Marcel Tyberg

Marcel Tyberg ( born January 27, 1893 in Vienna, † 31 December 1944 Auschwitz -Birkenau ) was an Austrian composer.

Life and work

Tyberg's father, Marcell Tyberg, was a famous Viennese violinist, his mother, Wanda Paltinger Tybergova, pianist and fellow student of Artur Schnabel at Teodor Leszetycki. The Tyberg family was acquainted with Jan Kubelik; Marcel Tyberg devoted their daughters later own song compositions and maintained a friendship for about 20 years younger than Rafael Kubelik.

Little is known about Tyberg's musical education, probably he was a student of the Music Academy in Vienna. In 1920, the Piano Sonata No. 1, 1924 Tyberg's Symphony No. 1. Later the family moved to Opatija on the Adriatic Sea, often appeared together with the Symphony Orchestra father and son Tyberg, Marcel partly as its conductor.

Marcel Tyberg, who lived in poverty after his father's death in 1927, his mother played the organ in churches around, gave lessons in harmony and composed dance music under the pseudonym Till Bergmar, but it also emerged works such as the Symphony No. 2 (1931, premiered in the same year by Rafael Kubelik with the Czech Philharmonic ), the Piano Sonata No. 2 (1935 ) and the Symphony No. 3 (1943 ), also measuring and chamber music. In addition, Tyberg created a complete of Schubert's " Unfinished ", probably for the International Schubert Competition 1928. Sporadically he continued to perform as a pianist and conductor in appearance.

1944 Tyberg - his residence was subject at that time in the so-called Operation Zone Adriatic Littoral German military administration - arrested for being Jewish; only a great-great grandfather had been a Jew. About the San Sabba concentration camp Tyberg was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz- Birkenau, where he was murdered at the end of 1944.

About the friendly family Mihich reached manuscripts of Tyberg's compositions in the United States. 2008 was the finished few months ago Tyberg's arrest 3rd Symphony, the partially remembered in their late-Romantic musical language to Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler, premiered by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta, recorded at the Naxos label on CD and published together with Tyberg's Piano Trio in 2010.