You are bidding on onesigned photo of the composer Carl Ueter (1900-1985).

Extremely rare!

Related to thePremiere of his first opera "Die Erzgräber" on 21. October 1937 in Freiburg i. Br. (Director: Franz Konwitschny).

With autograph staff on the reverse ("On my own, I want to be brave") and dedication "to commemorate the premiere conducted by Franz Konwitschny on 21. October 1937 by the composer Carl Ueter."

Franz Konwitschny (1901-1962) was general music director in Freiburg, Carl Ueter 1. Conductor of the Municipal Theater in Freiburg.

On mimosa photographic paper.

Format:14*9.5cm

Condition: Photo slightly bent and slightly browned. Please also note the pictures!

About Carl Ueter (source: wikipedia):

Carl Ueter (sometimes also Karl Ueter, * 18. January 1900 in Munster; † 30 September 1985 in Bad Krozingen) was a German composer of serious music. From 1950 until his retirement in 1965 he was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

life and work:From 1915 to 1918 Carl Ueter studied Catholic church music at the Episcopal church music school in his hometown. During this time, Carl Ueter also worked as an organist, first at the Church of St. Lamberti and then at the Church of St. Petri. After completing his studies in 1919, Carl Ueter continued to work as a teacher for music theory (Gregorian), composition and violin at the Episcopal School of Church Music and became organist at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Münster. He also continued his composition studies with Fritz Volbach at the University of Münster.

In 1921, Carl Ueter was admitted to Franz Schreker's composition class at the Academy of Music in Berlin, where he studied with, among others, Alois Hába, Berthold Goldschmidt, Max Brand and Jerzy Fitelberg. During this time he was also a student of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (instrumentation), Max Seiffert and Curt Sachs. In 1928, Georg Schünemann reported on the quality of the students in Schreker's composition class:

"It was amazing what the young students who came from Schreker's school could do. We had contrapuntal problems solved, saw strict and free writing, heard one fugue after the other, vocal and instrumental fugues, gave themes to modulate and improvise, tested musicality and ear - these students were well versed in everything. No matter how many trials I have experienced since then, this artistic level has never been reached again. In one fell swoop a fresh impetus and a new movement came into the composition classes. A wealth of musical talent gathered around Franz Schreker, and soon many music students longed to be accepted into his class. But the test that Schreker had mapped out remained severe and difficult; most were turned away and only a few came into the circle of his students, who stuck together despite different views of art and life. Krenek and Haba left in 1922 and were replaced by Paul Hoffer, Carl Ueter, Norbert Gingold, Berthold Goldschmidt, Leon Klepper, Margarethe von Zieritz, Ignatz Strasfogel and others. Each of them an excellent musician, at least a master who has mastered the musical craft from the ground up.”

After completing his studies, Carl Ueter first went to the music academy in Mannheim as a lecturer in 1923 and then became a répétiteur at the Stadttheater Münster. When the general music director Ewald Lindemann was called to Freiburg im Breisgau in the same year, he took Carl Ueter with him. Until the beginning of the war in 1939, Carl Ueter occupied the position of 1. Kapellmeister at the municipal theater in Freiburg.

Carl Ueter did military service from 1940 to 1944 and was then taken prisoner by the Americans. He was interned in the Bad Aibling prison camp until 1945.

When the University of Music Freiburg was re-established in 1946, Carl Ueter received a teaching position and was appointed professor in 1950. Until his retirement in 1965, Carl Ueter led the master class for conducting[2] as well as courses in counterpoint and score playing. His most important students include Hans Zender, Werner Jacob, Gerbert Mutter, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Günther Wich, Wolfgang Gayler and David Machado. He also directed the opera school and the university orchestra, and so Carl Ueter conducted, among other things, Fritz Wunderlich's first official opera performance as Tamino in 1954.

In addition to his work as a professor, Carl Ueter composed in Allen areas of serious music and created songs, chamber music and piano works, but also two operas and orchestral works, including two symphonies. Most of Ueter's compositions are considered lost because he always sent the original manuscripts to inquiries and never received them back.[3]

Compositions (selection)

operas

Die Erzgräber (1937, premiere on 21. October 1937 in Freiburg i. Br.)

Emperor Caesar (1941)

orchestral works

Symphony in D minor

Symphony in F sharp minor (world premiere on 9. January 1939 by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Franz Konwitschny)

Concerto for violins, cellos and orchestra

chamber music

Sonata for piano and cello (1921)

Trio for violin, viola and cello op.10 (1925)

Trio No.3 for 2 violins and cello (1927)

Sonata No.1 for flute and piano (1946)

Sonata for solo violin (1928)

String Trio (1946)

Toccata for piano (1932)

3 pieces for violin and piano (1947)

5 little pieces for piano (1947)

Suite for flute and piano (1947)

Presto possible, for piano

3 pieces for string quartet (1952)

Trio for clarinet, horn and bassoon Funksuite (1952)

Songs

Chamber cantata The Little Death for baritone, cello and piano op.36 No.1 (1934)

Chamber cantata Love of God for alto, violin and piano, Op. 36 No.2 (1934)

Romanesque songs for low voice and piano (1947)

Four songs after poems by Hölderlin, for low voice, viola and piano (1946)