Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling ( born May 9, 1904 in Hannover, † December 9, 1985 in Berlin) was a German composer.

Life and work

He was born the son of a chemical factory. From 1922 he studied music in Munich and Cologne - interrupted by several study trips to Italy. From 1927 to 1929 he was a pupil of the composer Heinrich Kaminski, who also taught Carl Orff. From 1938 taught Schwarz-Schilling at the Berlin Academy of Music. His orchestral, chamber, organ and choral music as well as his solo songs are often inspired spiritually and develop a musical language that follows the compositions Kaminski and Johann Sebastian Bach. One of his major works is the cantata "The Message " ( 1979-1982 ).

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was married to the Polish-Jewish pianist Dusza of Hakrid, whom he met as a fellow student at his mentor Heinrich Kaminski. After a courageous registrar had successfully manipulated in the Bavarian Kochel am See their papers, the family lived in the Third Reich permanently in extreme danger and was under constant Gestapo interrogations. Schwarz-Schilling is a professor at the Musikhochschule in Berlin never became a party member, and remained faithful to his human and political beliefs. His older brother Baldwin Black was forced to emigrate to the United States because of its non - Aryan wife in 1933. It was not until almost 20 years after Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling's death was told his son, Christian Schwarz -Schilling, former Federal Minister and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, during inquiries on the spot in Poland from the true origin of his mother.

Reinhard Schwarz - Schilling was buried in the St. Matthias Cemetery in Berlin -Tempelhof.

Selected Works

Orchestral works

  • Work for string orchestra (1928 ) Arrangement of Heinrich Kaminski 's string quintets
  • Partita for Orchestra ( 1935)
  • Polonaise for orchestra ( 1936)
  • Introduction and Fugue for String Orchestra ( 1948)
  • Concert for Violin and Orchestra ( 1953)
  • Sinfonia diatonica (1957 )
  • Symphony in C ( 1963)

Organ Works

  • Then Jesus stood at the cross, canonical chorale for organ (also with flute and violin) (1942 )
  • Twelve Choral Preludes for Organ ( 1953)
  • Concerto per organo ( 1957)

Chamber Music

  • From the youth compost ions ( 1918-20 )
  • Quintet, Opus 1 for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano (1926 )
  • String Quartet in F Minor ( 1932)
  • Little Chamber Music ( 1937)
  • Three Songs (1944 )
  • The Wandering Musician (1944 )
  • Sonatina for piano (1947 )
  • Piano Sonata (1968 )
  • Duo for Violin and Piano ( 1976)
  • String Trio (1983 )
  • Piano Music ( 1985)

Vocal music

  • Christmas Music ( 1947)
  • Praise of the Mother (1950 )
  • Missa in Terra Pax (1955 )
  • Signum Magnum (1958 )
  • O Saviour tear the sky (1958 )
  • " Laetare " for 5 - to 6- part choir, strings, 2 Trumpets (1958 )
  • Four Psalmotteten (1964)
  • Lord, I am not worthy (1964 )
  • The words of institution, according to Paul (1966 )
  • The Lord, the eternal God (1967 )
  • Our Father (1973 )
  • Benedictus (1975 )
  • Over the Threshold (1975 )
  • "The message ," cantata for mezzo- soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra (1979-1982)

Others

Christian Schwarz -Schilling, the German CDU politician and former Federal Minister of Posts, is his son.

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