You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the music writer and composer Gerhard Fürchtegott Wehle (1884-1973).

DatedBerlin, the 7th March 1954.

Gbuilt on the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.

Transcription:"Dear doctor! In accordance with your suggestion, I am submitting to you the draft note on my cantata 'Call of the Liberty Bell'. Please change as you see fit if you don't like the version. My sincere thanks for your kind interest. Since I don't know where the note will appear, I would like to ask you to kindly arrange for me to receive a specimen copy. Of course I'm really interested! [...] your very devoted Gerh. F. Wehle and his wife."

Attached is the draft mentioned, beginning: "A Berlin composer has written a symphonic cantata for choir and orchestra in which the three sayings of the Schöneberg Freedom Bell are used with the folk song 'Freedom, which I mean'."

A planned performance at the Söderbundfest in Hanover was canceled for political reasons. You don't want to push towards the East or the West, but rather maintain a completely neutral line."

Scope:one written A5 page each.

Enclosed is the self-addressed envelope.

Condition: paper slightly browned; Envelope damaged due to opening on the left edge. bPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-21 Autograph Autograph


About Gerhard Fürchtegott Wehle (source: Friedenau aktuell) and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

The music writer and composer Gerhard Fürchtegott Wehle was on the 11th Born in Paramaribo in October 1884. When the first steps towards democracy and self-government became apparent in the capital of Dutch Guiana (today Suriname), the family returned to Germany. Wehle studied in Leipzig and Berlin and worked as a music critic from 1910. From 1939 to 1944 he was an improvisation teacher at the University of Music. From 1947 to 1951 he was a music lecturer at the University of Berlin. His compositions include several stage works, three symphonies, a concerto for piano, cello and orchestra, a passacaglia for twelve wind instruments, piano music, an oratorio and 26 symphonic cantatas. In the list of harmful and undesirable literature dated 31. December 1938 contains the entry: Gerhard F. Wehle, Christianity, War and the Future. Berlin: Hangover, 1920. Last Berlin address: Berlin W 30, Luitpoldstraße No. 22. Gerhard Fürchtegott Wehle died on the 15th. October 1973 in Berlin.

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