You are bidding on one typewritten, signed letter of CDU politician Heribert Baumann (1926-2017), district mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

Dated Berlin, 3. February 1976.

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Aimed at thePianists, composers, writers and music critics Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.

Concerning congratulations on Kroll's 90th birthday. Birthday.

Format:A4.

On very strong paper (watermark "Colambo").

Enclosed is the original envelope (addressed by type, but not sent by post). The address is only censored in the photos.

Condition: Very good. bPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-15 Autograph Autograph

OverHeribert Baumann and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Heribert Baumann (*26. November 1926 in Bottrop; † 5. January 2017) was a German local politician (CDU).

Live and act:Baumann was a member of the district council of the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf from 1955 to 1967. In 1969 he was elected deputy state chairman of the Berlin CDU. From 1971 to 1979 he was district mayor of Wilmersdorf.

Honors

1972: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Baumann received the Citizens' Medal from Wilmersdorf.

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)

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 an