They bid on three typewritten, signed letters of Composer, music theorist and archive director Heinrich Simbriger (1903-1976).
Written on behalf of the Artists' Guild Esslingen eV, whose music archive was established by Heinrich Simbriger.
Autographs by Simbriger are rarely!
Aimed at
the Pianists, composers, writers and music critics Erwin Kroll (1886-1976)
in Berlin.
1.) A4 letter, dated Munich, 12. March 1964.
Concerns, among other things, "Eastern broadcasts" from the Bremen station, a catalog and the Chinese-born composer Boris Blacher (1903-1975), who is "part of our circle" because of his Baltic descent.
2.) A5 letter, undated, around 1966 (Thanks are given for sending Erwin Kroll's work "Music City Königsberg", which was published in the same year).
With a mounted piece of paper with a list of five of Kroll's compositions.
3.) A4 letter, dated Regensburg, 31. January 1971.
Simbriger congratulates Kroll on his 85th birthday. Birthday.
"You can look back on a life that was not easy, but incredibly rich and terrible [...]."
Scope: each letter described on one page; each without an envelope.
Condition:letters slightly browned; into the. good. bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-19 Autograph Autograph
OverHeinrich Simbriger, the Esslingen Artists' Guild and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):
Heinrich Simbriger (*4. January 1903 in Aussig, Bohemia; † 16. July 1976 in Regensburg) was a composer, music theorist and archive director. Simbriger is the founder of a twelve-tone composition theory, which he called complementary harmony.
Life:He studied composition with Fidelio Fritz Finke in Prague from 1921 to 1923, then with Joseph Haas in Munich and Josef Lechthaler in Vienna. In 1929 he came into the circle of Josef Matthias Hauer, and in 1937 he received his doctorate, also in Vienna. “Gong and gong games” was the topic of his dissertation. During the Second World War, Simbriger worked as a music teacher in Tetschen-Bodenbach. From around 1950 Simbriger began working on his complementary harmony. In 1950 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Music and in 1963 the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize. In Regensburg, where Simbriger built up the artists' guild's music archive from 1966, he also completed his main music theory writings and subjected his compositional work to a critical overall revision.
Classification of his work: As a music theorist and composer, Simbriger was deeply influenced by the ideas of Josef Matthias Hauer, although he only turned to twelve-tone composition around 1950. On the basis of Hauer's theory of tropes, Simbriger developed his own music theory, complementary harmony, a comprehensive expansion and lexical cataloging of the trope system to all possible sound combinations that complement each other to form twelve-tone totality. Although Simbriger gives a special place in his theory of sound (due to their compositional suitability) to the complementary hexachords (6+6), which correspond to Hauer's tropes, and also to the ternary tetrachord (4+4+4), he still has all the others as well possible group formations are systematized. Apart from general studies, a detailed scientific analysis of Simbriger's theories has not yet taken place.
Simbriger's chamber music and song works received national attention during the composer's lifetime and were partly played by well-known performers. The music archive of the Esslingen Artists' Guild created by Simbriger (deposit in the Sudeten German Music Institute (SMI), Regensburg) includes almost all music archives from the third quarter of the 20th century. Century tangible works by composers who were expelled from the former German eastern territories after the Second World War.
Fonts (selection)
Gong and gong games, EJ Brill, Leiden 1939
Handbook of musical acoustics, Habbel, Regensburg 1951
Catalog of works by contemporary composers from the German eastern regions, vol. 1–6, The Artists' Guild eV, Esslingen 1955–1974
Secret of the middle. From the intellectual legacy of ancient China, diederichs , Düsseldorf 1961
On the legacy of German music from the Eastern regions, Laumannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Dülmen 1973
Complementary Harmony, The Artists' Guild, Esslingen 1979, 2. ed. 1980
The sound guidance in twelve-tone music. Peritonal Harmonics, The Artists' Guild, Esslingen undated (1991)
Work overview (selection)
Orchestral works
op. 38 Passacaglia for solo cello and small orchestra -
op. 54 Music for Violin and Orchestra -
op. 94 Elegy for English horn, solo violin and low strings -
op. 102 Music for piano and string orchestra -
op. 104 Small Concerto for Strings
Piano music
WoO 4 fantasy dance and minuet
WoO 8 variations, intermezzo and finale on a Chinese folk song
pieces (op. 2, op. 77, op. 109)
3 suites (op. 19, op. 47, op. 112)
Inventions (op. 36, op. 83)
Sonatas (op. 78, op. 86)
Six Lyrical Preludes (Op. 90)
fantasy (op. 108)
Ink pictures (op. 113)
Variations on an own song theme (op. 126)
Organ works
WoO 16 70 bars of organ music for the 70th. Birthday of Prof. Anton Nowakowski -
op. 89 Prelude and Fugue -
op. 111 Triptych -
op. 136 Musica spiritualis -
Secular choral works
op. 3 Five songs based on poems from “The Star of the Covenant” by Stefan George
op. 28 “Praise of the Homeland”. Cantata based on poems by Franz Höller
op. 34, 35 choirs based on old German texts
op. 48a “Wide Night” based on the words of Elisabeth von Langen
op. 56 Seven Sudeten German folk songs
op. 75 “Farewell”. Two male choirs based on poems by Erwin Ott
Religious music
op. 1 Missa alme pater
op. 17 motets
op. 18 Small Perlacher Messe
op. 43b Small mass
op. 60 Small Christmas Cantata
op. 63 Mary mother, pure maid
op. 64 Murnauer Festival Mass
op. 65 A little white dove flew. cantata
op. 67 Missa brevis
op. 70 Ave maris stella
op. 71 Four Angel Hymns
op. 119 Five spiritual songs
op. 125 words of the prophet Isaiah
Chamber music without piano
op. 26 Solo Suite for Viola
op. 62a Allegro espressivo for cello solo
op. 88 Two pieces for solo cello
op. 45 Trio for violin, viola and cello
op. 46 Trio for two violas and cello
op. 138 Three Preludes for string trio
op. 122 String Quartet No. 3
op. 124 String Quartet No. 4
op. 136 Musica spiritualis
For brass players alone
op. 23 Six short brass music in old keys (for brass sextet)
op. 93 Wind Quintet
op. 103 Variations for Wind Quintet
Chamber music with piano
WoO 6 Sonatina for violin and piano
WoO 7 Fantasy for violin and piano
op. 22 Suite for cello and piano
op. 25 Sonatina for violin and piano in the old style
op. 37 Little House Music for Violin and Piano
op. 49 Sonata for Viola and Piano
op. 51a As a reminder. Piece for violin and piano
op. 52 Small Song Suite. House music for cello and piano
op. 74 Canzona for violin and piano
op. 81 Sonata for cello and piano
op. 87 Sonatina for violin and piano
op. 97 Trio for violin, cello and piano
op. 100 sonata for viola and piano
op. 110 sonata for violin and piano
op. 116 Variations for Viola and Piano
op. 118 Trio concertante for violin, viola and piano
op. 131 Reflections for violin and piano
Songs
244 songs (in 39 cycles) based on texts by Joseph von Eichendorff, Hans Christoph Ade, Rabindranath Tagore, Rudolf Schott, Hans Nüchtern, Friedrich Jaksch, Ernst Leibl, Emil Merker, Theodor Kramer , Josef Moder, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bô Yin Râ, Rainer Maria Rilke, Imma von Bodmershof and others
Stage works
WoO 10 “Such a free bachelor”. Comic opera in one act by Otto Deiglmayr -
WoO 11 “Judith”. Opera tragedy in two acts by Hermann Ferdinand Schell
The Artists' Guild Esslingen eV is a self-help association of people working artistically and scientifically.
History: The artists' guild was founded by Ernst Schremmer: in 1948 he was co-founder and subsequently managing director of the artists' guild: Association of Expelled Cultural Workers in Esslingen am Neckar.
The guild now has around three hundred members from a wide range of professions, including painters, singers, musicians, actors, writers and scientists. She sees her work in the tradition of the German cultural landscapes in the east and southeast of Europe and promotes works and carries out exhibitions that reflect the cultural area.
The artists' guild is organized into national groups and divided into the following specialist groups:
Visual arts (the group with the largest number of members)
literature
Music
photography
performing Arts
Journalism
Since the beginning of 1990, the Esslingen Artists' Guild has been awarding the Andreas Gryphius Prize, a literary prize that was first awarded in Düsseldorf in 1957. The guild is holding the honor in Glogau, the birthplace of Andreas Gryphius. The prize's namesake was the most important German sonnet poet of the 17th century. century.
Other prizes awarded by the artists' guild include the Lovis Corinth Prize for visual arts, the Nikolaus Lenau Prize for poetry, the literary competition for poetry and short prose, the Pro Arte Medal and the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of music and the Georg Dehio Prize for cultural, intellectual and art historical publications on historical German cultural landscapes in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
Known members
Theo Aeckerle, painter, sculptor and lithographer (1892–1966)
Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling, painter and graphic artist (1924–2014)
Paul Brock, East Prussian writer (1900–1986)
Ruth Faltin, painter and graphic artist (1906–1995)
Aldona Gustas, writer and painter (* 1932)
Baldur Geipel, sculptor (* 1933)
Otto Herbert Hajek, painter and sculptor (1927–2005)
Albrecht von Hancke, painter and draftsman (1924–2017)
Helmut Hellmessen, German graphic artist and painter (1924–2021)
Wolfgang Hildemann, composer and music educator (1925–1995)
Walter Thomas Heyn, guitarist and composer (* 1953)
Georg Krajewski, painter (1925–2007)
Rudolf Kimmina, painter (* 1944)
Else Levi-Mühsam, librarian (1910–2004)
Josef Mühlberger, writer (1903–1985)
Beate Musäus, painter and graphic artist (1942–2007)
Oskar Pastior, writer and translator (1927–2006)
Erich Pawlu, author (* 1934)
Jean Pierre Picon, painter, graphic artist and sculptor (1926–2005)
Gerold Reutter, architect and painter (1924–2021)
Günther Helmuth Ruddies, writer (* 1928)
Marie-Luise Salden, artist (* 1939)
Ernst Schremmer, Germanist, cultural historian, writer (1916–1998)[3]
Alfred Seidel, painter and graphic artist (1913–2001)
Hellmut Seiler, poet, translator and satirist (* 1953)
Elsbeth Siebenbürger, sculptor (1914–2007)
Heinrich Simbriger, composer, music theorist and archive director (development of the guild music archive in Regensburg) (1903–1976)
Norbert Sternmut, writer and painter (* 1958)
Werner Striese, sculptor and photographer (* 1929)
Tina Stroheker, poet and writer (* 1948)
Johannes Szelinski, journalist, dialogue author and dialogue director in film dubbing (1911–2003)
Katharina Szelinski-Singer, sculptor (1918–2010)
Willi Ulfig, painter (1910–1983)
Herbert Volwahsen, sculptor (1906–1988)
Hans-Albert Walter, painter and graphic artist (1925–2005)
Hans Winterberg, composer (1901–1991)
Erwin Kroll (*3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau, East Prussia; † 7. March 1976 in West Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was an East Prussian composer.
Life:Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the Royal Hufengymnasium with Otto Besch. At the Albertus UniversityHe studied philology and music. With a doctoral thesis on ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg, he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate, he went into teaching. In 1919 he turned entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner. He later dedicated a highly acclaimed book to him. In addition to his studies, Kroll was an accompanist at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music, which Thomas Mann had called for to be founded. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 onwards it was its features editor.Since 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and music writer. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in Berlin until 1953. With his book, Kroll has created a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.
factories
East Prussian homeland - orchestral work
Violin Sonata in B major
Sonatina in F major
East Prussian dances
The Adebar - fantasy about East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra
Vocal works and song arrangements
Songs for solo voices and choir songs
Fonts
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1923.
Hans Pfitzner. Three Masks Verlag, Munich 1924 .
The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Dortmund Municipal Theater. The theater, Berlin 1930.
Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934 .
Music city Königsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. Br. 1966.
Honors
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on ribbon (27. January 1956)
Cultural Prize of the East Prussian State Team (1960)