You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard ofComposers and music educators Max Trapp (1887-1971).
Motive:Restaurant and guesthouse “Riesenmühle im Wispertal” (post and long-distance call 390 Bad Schwalbach). -- Publisher: Foto-Rauch, Bad Schwalbach.
The restaurant is now derelict and serves as a “lost place” and is a popular subject for photographers.
PostmarkBad Schwalbach, 26. July 1955.
Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.
Transcription:"We send you our warmest regards from our magical holiday stay. Miles of forests, complete solitude, attentive innkeepers - you can relax there. Yours, Anna and Max Trapp."
Written by Max Trapp.
Format:9.1 x 13.7 cm.
Condition:Card slightly bent, back slightly browned; good condition. bPlease also note the pictures!
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Over Max Trapp andErwin Kroll (Source: wikipedia):
Hermann Emil Alfred Max Trapp (* 1. November 1887 in Berlin; † 31. May 1971 ibid) was a German composer and music educator.
Life: Trapp studied at the Berlin University of Music and was a student of Professors Paul Juon and Ernst von Dohnányi. After completing his studies, he was initially without a permanent job and performed as a pianist. It was not until 1920 that he got a job as a lecturer at the Berlin University of Music and was appointed professor there in 1926. His most famous students there were Josef Tal, Saburo Moroi, Günter Bialas and Günter Raphael. Trapp also led a master class for composition at the “Municipal Conservatory” in Dortmund from 1926 to 1930.
Since 1932 at the latest, Trapp was chairman of the music group in the ethnically minded, anti-Semitic Fighting League for German Culture. He also joined the NSDAP in 1932 (membership number 1,332,058). After the National Socialists “seized power,” he was a member of the board of the General German Music Association. In June 1933, Trapp declared his support for National Socialism in a personal appeal to creators. In 1934 he became honorary chairman of the "Working Group of National Socialist Composers" and a member of the "Prussian Academy of Arts".
In 1934, Trapp gave up his professorship at the Berlin University of Music and then worked for the Prussian Academy of Arts as head of a master class for composition until 1945. In 1938, Trapp's cello concerto was premiered as part of the Reich Music Days in Düsseldorf. During the Second World War he was a member of the board of trustees of the “Goebbels Foundation for Cultural Workers”. In 1940 he received not only the National Prize for Music, but also the Grand Composition Prize. In the final phase of the Second World War, Trapp was included by Hitler in August 1944 in the God-given list of the most important composers, which saved him from being deployed in the war.
From 1950 to 1953 Trapp taught at the Berlin Municipal Conservatory.
factories
Influenced by Richard Strauss and Max Reger, Trapp composed orchestral, chamber and piano music, including seven symphonies, choral works, incidental music and various songs.
Fonts
Appeal to creators. In: The music. June 1933, pp. 649–652.
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
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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)