Walter Abendroth

Walter Abendroth (* May 29, 1896 in Hannover, † September 30, 1973 in the easel ) was a German composer, editor and writer on music.

Life

Walter Abendroth grew, along with an older sister and a younger brother, first in Hannover, then in 1907 in Berlin as the son of a surveyor on. While still a student he met Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy which accompanied him from then on and for which he worked in various contexts. In Munich, he studied from 1914 until painting and music; In 1916 he was drafted into military service.

After 1918 brought him his " years of travel " over Göttingen, where he married in 1920, Jena, Hamburg, Cologne, then again in 1930 to Berlin. After predominantly private music studies, he was a freelance composer and music critic. In 1930 he took over the editorship of the Allgemeine Musik Zeitung. He held until 1934, in addition to editorial work at the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger this position.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was from 1934 to 1944 editor of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger. In 1934, he manifested itself in accordance with the Nazi cultural policy in the journal The music on the new music as " Fäulnisbazillus, had the people's enemy decomposition will with wit and calculation inoculated the culture body." In 1939 he wrote an anti-Semitic inflammatory articles in the journal German folklore, in which he described the intellectuality of the Jews as " mere means for the purpose of exercise of power " and " effective decomposition tool, an explosives on the allocation of subject peoples in powerless classes ".

After the end of World War II lived Abendroth - for the second time married, born with Hilde Schlegl - again in Hamburg, then in 1955 in Munich. From 1948 to 1955 he was head of the Feuilleton editors of Time.

Specifically, he has distinguished himself as a biographer (1935 ) and editor of works by Hans Pfitzner.

Artistic creation

In addition to his rezensorischen and ( music ) literary career as a composer Abendroth wrote five symphonies, along with a variety of concerts, songs and chamber music. In his work as a composer he was anxious to further develop the traditional forms of music and to connect with the musical expressions of the 20th century.

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Sinfonietta in three movements for large orchestra ( 1924 )
  • Small Orchestra (UA 1940 Karl Böhm )
  • Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
  • First Symphony (UA 1941, Paul van Kempen )
  • Concerto for Orchestra (UA 1943)
  • Sonata in B for piano 2 hands, Op 15
  • Hans Pfitzner, Munich 1935 (reprint Aachen 1981)
  • German music of the era. A Cultural- philosophical personality study of Anton Bruckner and Hans Pfitzner, Hamburg 1937 ( German House library tape 579 )
  • Johannes Brahms. Its Nature and music -historical significance, Berlin, 1939
  • The symphonies of Anton Bruckner. Introductions, Berlin 1940
  • Hans Pfitzner. His life in pictures. With 84 illustrations on plates, Leipzig 1941
  • Becoming and Decaying of Music, Hamburg 1949
  • Four masters of music. Bruckner, Mahler, Reger, Pfitzner, Munich 1952
  • (Ed. :) Hans Pfitzner. Speeches, writings, letters. Unpublished and Scattered far, Berlin 1955
  • Bruckner. A Pictorial Biography, Munich 1958
  • A Short History of Music, Frankfurt 1959 Revised: as: Brief History of Music, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7618-1213-2

Papers

  • Documents by and about Walter Abendroth located in the Saxon State Archive in Leipzig.
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