You are bidding on one signed letter ofmusic dealer and music publisher Hans Dunnebeil (born 15. September 1883 in Leipzig, died. 27. November 1961 in Berlin).

Dated Berlin, January 4th, 1961 (!), meaning the 4th February 1961.

addressed to the Pianists, composers, writers and music critics Erwin Kroll (1886-1976).

Belated congratulations on the 75th birthday (3. February 1961).

With printed letterhead "Afas-Musikverlag Hans Dünnebeil".

Scope: an A4 page.

Condition: Paper browned and heavily creased, with a small tear in the fold.Bite also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 10

About Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Erwin Kroll (* 3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau; † 7 March 1976 in Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was a tone poet from East Prussia.

Life: Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the royal hoof high school with Otto Besch. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. He received his doctorate from ETA Hoffmann, who had always been revered in Königsberg. phil. and went to school.

In 1919 he devoted himself 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, above all in Hans Pfitzner, to whom he later dedicated a highly acclaimed book. In addition to his studies, Kroll was a répétiteur at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans-Pfitzner-Verein für Deutsche Tonkunst, which Thomas Mann had called for to found.

In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became a music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 its features editor. From 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and writer on music. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation in Berlin until 1953.

With his book, Kroll erected a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.[3]

See also: Music in Koenigsberg

factories

East Prussian homeland - orchestral work

Violin Sonata in B flat major

Sonatina in F major

East Prussian Dances

Der Adebar - Fantasy on East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra

Vocal works and song arrangements

Songs for solo voices and choral songs

writings

Music city Koenigsberg

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman. Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1923.

Hans Pfitzner. Three masks publishing house, Munich 1924.

The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the municipal theater in Dortmund. The Theater, Berlin 1930.

Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934.

Music city Koenigsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. brother 1966.

honors

Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (27. January 1956)

Culture Prize of the East Prussian Association (1960)