You are bidding on one typewritten, signed letterf des Music theorist, composer and music educator Hermann Grabner (1886-1969).
DatedBerlin-Zehlendorf, 3. August 1951.
Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.
Letterhead with printed staff.
Concerns the transmission of “programs from my two Königsberg performances”, including from 29. October 1943.
Format: A5 (landscape); without envelope.
Condition:Sheet folded in the middle; with corner nod. bPlease also note the pictures at the end of the item description!
Internal note: Kroll 21-12-22 Autograph Autograph
OverHermann Grabner and Erwin Kroll (Source: wikipedia):
Hermann Grabner (* 12. May 1886 in Graz, Austria-Hungary; † 3. July 1969 in Bozen) was a German-Austrian music theorist, composer and music educator.
Life: During his law studies, which he received his doctorate in 1909. jur. After graduating, he also studied music with the main subjects violin and viola with Leopold Suchsland in Graz until 1910 and played part-time as a viola player in the theater orchestra. Grabner then studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory from the fall of 1910 with Max Reger and Hans Sitt.[1] In 1912 he worked as Max Reger's assistant in Meiningen, and in 1913 he became a theory teacher at the Strasbourg Conservatory. After participating in the war in the Austrian army, he was a theory and composition teacher at the Mannheim University of Music and the Heidelberg Music Academy from 1919 to 1924 (where Wilhelm Maler was one of his students). He then taught composition at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his students included Hugo Distler, Artur Immisch, Werner Neumann and the film music composer Miklós Rózsa. Since 1930 he was also the university music director. In 1932 he was appointed professor in Leipzig.
Grabner belonged to the ethnically minded, anti-Semitic Fighting League for German Culture, founded in 1928. After the National Socialists came to power, Grabner was a member of the Nazi Teachers' Association since 1934 and became an advisory board member of the Reich Music Chamber. During the Nazi era he composed numerous pieces that conformed to the system, such as the torchbearer songs in 1933, dedicated to my SA comrades, or the confessional song Stand around the standard in 1935 based on a text by Baldur von Schirach. Further compositions followed that were missing from the catalog raisonné created by Wolfgang Suppan for the Steirisches Musiklexikon or were replaced by other titles. From 1938 to 1946 Grabner taught as Paul Hindemith's successor at the Berlin University of Music. He also worked in the main music editorship of the Rosenberg office.
After his dismissal from university service in the summer of 1946, Grabner initially lived as a freelance composer and taught at the Berlin-Zehlendorf adult education center. After his on the 16th Following denazification in March 1950, he taught at the Berlin (West) Municipal Conservatory from 1950 to 1951 before retiring. He died during one of his numerous Tyrolean vacations in Bolzano.
In addition to an opera, Grabner composed numerous large orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, songs, two motets and several organ works. Of particular importance are his numerous textbooks, some of which have been republished over and over again, such as General Music Theory.
Work selection
Works for wind orchestra
Perkeo Suite, op. 15 (1925)
Guardian song for male choir, wind orchestra, timpani and harp, op. 26
Castle music, op. 44 (1937)
Firlefei Variations, op. 46 (1937)
I am a soldier, valera, op. 54, Variations for wind orchestra
Sword Spell for men's choir and wind orchestra, op. 55
Concerto grosso, op. 57
Other works (selection)
The Judge Opera based on a text by CF Meyer (1930)
Trio for violin, viola and cello o.Op. (Examination piece in 1912)
Concerto in the old style for three violins op. 1
On Post for Baritone and Orchestra Op. 4 (manuscript)
The 103rd Psalm for alto, mixed choir and orchestra op. 6
Prelude and Fugue for string quartet op. 11 (manuscript)
Dialogue for alto, viola and organ op. 16
Media vita in morte sumus, antiphon arrangement for organ op. 24
Fantasy on the liturgical Pater noster for organ op. 26
Light Wanderer for men's choir and orchestra, op. 30
Hymn Christ is Risen for organ op. 32
Alpine Suite for Orchestra Op. 34
God of All Things Origin Motet for mixed choir op. 42
Symphonic Dances for Large Orchestra, Op. 43b
Christmas motet for mixed choir op. 45
Five songs for mixed choir, op. 51
Toccata F major for organ op. 53
Divertimento for small symphony orchestra op. 56
Concerto for organ and orchestra op. 59
"Torchbearers", songs of the new Reich, composed for men's choir based on poems by Heinrich Anacker, Kistner & Siegel publishing house, Leipzig 1934
Organ chorale books for various Evangelical Lutheran regional churches (after 1946)
The majority of Grabner's compositions were published by Kistner & Siegel.
Fonts
Handbook of functional harmony, ISBN 3-7649-2112-9
General music theory, ISBN 3-7618-0061-4
The art of organ building, Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin, 1958.
Musical work review, Kistner & Siegel & Co, Lippstadt, 1957.
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
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)