You are bidding on onetypewritten, signed letter card of Theater and music writer, poet and theater and music criticFelix von Lepel (1899-1979).

Dated Berlin, 3. February 1961.

addressed to the Pianists, composers, writers and music critics Erwin Kroll (1886-1976).

Congratulations on the 75th Date of birth.

Format: 10x16cm

Condition: Map browned and slightly bent. Bite also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 10

About Felix von Lepel and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Harald Bruno Felix von Lepel (* 27. December 1899 in Dresden; † 12 June 1979 in Berlin) was a German theater and music writer, poet, author of music-historical writings and theater and music critic.

Life: Felix von Lepel came from the Pomeranian noble family von Lepel (House of Gnitz). His father Wilhelm Anton Rudolf Bruno Felix von Lepel (1873-1927) was a royal Prussian lieutenant and his mother Gertrud Schoenau (1877-1945) was the daughter of a porcelain manufacturer.

In the 1920s and 1930s he wrote several plays, short stories and poems. During this time he worked as a music critic for the Dresdener Nachrichten. From 1952 he worked as a theater and music writer in Berlin-Charlottenburg.[1] He self-published many of his writings on the history of music and theater. Up to 1978, 82 works on musicology are listed. His adaptation of Chinese poetry was set to music by Fritz Reuter in 1959.

Family: His first marriage was to Käthe Schuhknecht (1906–1992) from 1930, the marriage ended in divorce in 1937, and his second marriage to Clara Katharina Naumann (1894–1985) from 1948. The opera and concert singer Ruth Anita (* 1931) comes from her first marriage. He had no siblings.[1]

Fonts (selection)

De Profano de Sacro. The ancient cultures of Insulindes and East Asia, Pickert, Leitmeritz 1920. (110 p.)

Sister Veronika and other stories. Press-Book-Community, Stolle, Dresden around 1925. (124 p.)

Judgment on Messina. Renaissance tragedy in 3 parts. Logos, 1929. (47 p.)

Christopher Columbus. attempt at an interpretation. Pickert, Leitmeritz 1932 (31 p.)

music of love. A cycle of poems. Liepsch & Reichardt, 1939. (37 p.)

The Dresden Opera as a world cultural site. A study. Oskar Spohr, Dresden 1942. (56 p.)

The Jade Bowl. Selected Poems from Ancient China. Chronos, around 1947. (16 p.)

400 years of the Saxon Court and State Orchestra 1548-1948. A historical outline on the occasion of its four hundredth anniversary. (=The Musical Series Vol. 4), music and theater publisher Euryanthe, Dresden 1948. (36 p.)

The Music of the Ancient Egyptians. A study in music history. (=The musical series vol. 3) Tänzel, Helderungen 1948. (20 p.)

The Silk Curtain. A song cycle of Chinese poetry adapted by Felix von Lepel for a high voice and piano. Composition by Fritz Reuter, Kistner & Siegel, Leipzig 1959.

Erwin Kroll (* 3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau; † 7 March 1976 in Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was a tone poet from East Prussia.

Life: Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the royal hoof high school with Otto Besch. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. He received his doctorate from ETA Hoffmann, who had always been revered in Königsberg. phil. and went to school.

In 1919 he devoted himself 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, above all in Hans Pfitzner, to whom he later dedicated a highly acclaimed book. In addition to his studies, Kroll was a répétiteur at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans-Pfitzner-Verein für Deutsche Tonkunst, which Thomas Mann had called for to found.

In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became a music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 its features editor. From 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and writer on music. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation in Berlin until 1953.

With his book, Kroll erected a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.[3]

See also: Music in Koenigsberg

factories

East Prussian homeland - orchestral work

Violin Sonata in B flat major

Sonatina in F major

East Prussian Dances

Der Adebar - Fantasy on East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra

Vocal works and song arrangements

Songs for solo voices and choral songs

writings

Music city Koenigsberg

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman. Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1923.

Hans Pfitzner. Three masks publishing house, Munich 1924.

The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the municipal theater in Dortmund. The Theater, Berlin 1930.

Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934.

Music city Koenigsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. brother 1966.

honors

Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (27. January 1956)

Culture Prize of the East Prussian Association (1960)