You are bidding on one typewritten certificate from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, datedMunich, the 20th February 1921.
Aimed at the Directorate of the Academy of Music in Munich, regarding the approval of the Pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) "as a trainee conductor at the Academy of Music.
Signed from the composer, conductor, music educator and music writerstellerHermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen (1882-1954),Professor and deputy director of the Munich Academy of Music, who made a copy of this decision to Kroll "for the Gefl. "Notice".
Format:16.3 x 20.8 cm.
Condition: Paper stained, with corner creases and small tears in the fold.bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-21 Autograph Autograph
About Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen andErwin Kroll (Source: wikipedia):
Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Baron von Waltershausen (* 12. October 1882 in Göttingen; † 13. August 1954 in Munich) was a German composer, conductor, music educator and music writer.
Life: Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, son of the economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852–1938) and his wife Charlotte née. Freiin von Kapherr, came from a family that goes back to the historian Georg Friedrich Sartorius, who was raised to the hereditary nobility in 1827 as Baron von Waltershausen. Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen rarely used the surname part Sartorius throughout his life.
Waltershausen grew up in Strasbourg after his family moved there from Göttingen. He suffered from poor health as a child. As a result of lymphogranulomatosis, his right arm and right leg had to be amputated when he was nine years old. However, he did not give up on his goal of becoming a musician and developed a piano technique with his left hand that, with the help of the pedal, enabled him to almost compensate for the lack of his right hand. His disability did not stop him from later performing as a conductor.
Waltershausen began his musical studies in Strasbourg with Marie-Joseph Erb (1858–1944). From 1901 he lived in Munich, where he continued his education in music theory and composition with Ludwig Thuille until 1907. Between 1905 and 1915 he also studied piano with August Schmid-Lindner. In 1917 he founded a practical seminar for music students, which was followed in 1933 by the founding of a seminar for private music teachers. These initially private events were converted into the state-approved Waltershausen Seminar in 1948. With his seminars, Waltershausen became one of the most influential music educators in Munich. His best-known students include Eugen Jochum, Fritz Büchtger, Ernst Kutzer and Wilhelm Killmayer.
In 1920 Waltershausen was appointed professor and deputy director of the Munich Academy of Music, and in 1923 he was promoted to director and deputy president of the academy. He was also a program consultant for Bayerischer Rundfunk. In 1933 Waltershausen took early retirement and, as a private music teacher, devoted himself mainly to working in his seminars.
In 1927 Waltershausen married the composer Philippine Schick (1893–1970), who had previously been his student for several years. The marriage produced their daughter Lore, born in 1928. In 1932, Philippine Schick divorced her husband because he didn't allow enough freedom for her own artistic work. Waltershausen then married the pianist Caroline Strößner (1900–1974), also one of his students, in 1933. This marriage remained childless.
Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen died in 1954 as a result of a stroke. His music education work was continued by his wife Caroline. The composer's estate is kept in the Munich City Library.
Compositional work: The surviving work of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen is relatively small. Some of his compositions were destroyed in the Second World War, as evidenced by the gaps in the series of opus numbers. Stylistically it can be assigned to the late romantic period. Among his contemporaries, Waltershausen particularly valued Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss. Like them, he also saw himself in the tradition of Richard Wagner, which is also reflected in the fact that he wrote the libretti for his operas himself.
Waltershausen's early work consists primarily of operas and songs. Particularly noteworthy here is the opera Colonel Chabert, based on the work of the same name by Honoré de Balzac, which became the composer's most successful work after its premiere in 1912 and was able to stay on important stages at home and abroad for several years. In the 1920s, Waltershausen turned to composing large orchestral works, of which the Apocalyptic Symphony and nativity music received particular attention. After completing his last opera The Countess of Tolosa in 1936, the composer ended his artistic work and only wrote a few contrapuntal pieces for study purposes for his students.
After Waltershausen's death, his works were largely forgotten. They have so far been little researched. In March 2010, the Deutsche Oper Berlin presented Waltershausen's musical tragedy Colonel Chabert for discussion with audiences and the press, with great success.
Music literary work: The main focus of the music writer Waltershausen was on the opera genre. In addition to several studies on individual works, he wrote an extensive work on opera dramaturgy, which was never published.
Similar to Hans Pfitzner, Waltershausen also appeared as an opponent of atonal music, which he described in his book about Strauss as an “honest and complete expression of the character destruction of our time”. He also believed that every people had their own musical character that was incompatible with that of other peoples. Accordingly, he showed respect for the music of foreign (Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini) and composers of Jewish origin (Gustav Mahler, Franz Schreker), but did not recommend their works for “Germanic” composers to imitate. Although his approach to music certainly had parallels with the later ideas of the National Socialists, Waltershausen did not get along well with them. The increasing Nazi influence also encouraged him to take early retirement in 1933.
In addition to writings on music, Waltershausen also wrote works of fiction, of which only one volume of poems was published.
Honors
1922 Honorary doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
factories
Compositions
Stage works
(all libretti by the composer)
Else Klapperzehen, musical comedy in 2 acts (1907, premiere Dresden 1909)
Colonel Chabert, musical tragedy in 3 acts based on Honoré de Balzac's Comtesse à deux maris op. 10 (1910, UA Frankfurt/Main 18. January 1912)
Richardis, Romantic opera in 3 acts op. 14 (1914, premiere Karlsruhe 1915)
The Rauhenstein Wedding, opera in 3 acts op. 17 (1918, premiere Karlsruhe 1919)
The Countess of Tolosa, opera in 2 parts or 7 pictures (1932–36, premiere Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich 1958, previously unperformed)
Orchestral works
Apocalyptic Symphony in C minor, Op. 20 (1924)
Hero and Leander, symphonic poem op. 22 (1925; also: Symphony No. 2 E major)
Nativity music for harpsichord and chamber orchestra op. 23 (1926)
Orchestral partita on three sacred songs, op. 24 (1928)
Comedy Overture in C major op. 26 (1930)
Passion and Resurrection Music op. 27 (1932)
Vocal compositions
Two songs for high voice and piano (1913)
Eight songs for high voice and orchestra, op. 11 (1913)
Seven songs, a song circle after Ricarda Huch for high female voice and piano op. 12 (1913)
Three secular songs for high soprano and small orchestra op. 13 (1913)
Cophtic song for baritone and piano op. 15 (1914)
Alkestis, melodrama for speakers, choirs and orchestra, op. 25 (1929)
The Miracles of the July Nights for two-part children's choir and a keyboard instrument (1934)
Piano and chamber music
String Quartet in E minor op. 16 (1915)
Polyphonic Studies op. 21 for piano (1921)
smaller contrapuntal study works (canons, fugues)
Fonts
Musical style theory in individual presentations:
Volume 1, The Magic Flute, an operatic dramaturgical study (1920)
Volume 2, The Siegfried Idyll or the Return to Nature (1920)
Volume 3, Der Freischütz, an essay on musical romanticism (1920)
Volume 4, Orpheus and Eurydice, an operatic dramaturgical study (1923)
Richard Strauss, an attempt (1921)
Music, dramaturgy, education. Collected Essays (1926)
Conductor's Education (1929)
Poems from 1930–1934 (1934)
The Art of Conducting (1942)
Memoirs (unpublished)
Dramaturgy of the opera (unpublished)
several essays for music magazines
8 unpublished dramas
literature
Karl-Robert Danler/Richard Mader: Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen. (= Composers in Bavaria 4). Schneider, Tutzing 1984.
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
Music city Koenigsberg
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)