You are bidding on one Postcard from 1928.

Motif: "Schwerin, on the way to Bad Zippendorf" (from the Series "Schwerin: the city of lakes and forests", ed. from the Verkehrsverein Schwerin).

Written together and each signed from thePianists, composers, writers and music critics Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) (signed "E.") as well as from the concert singer and singing teacher Henry Wolff (1896-1965).

With an addition of a third person (Margit Sampe?).

addressed to Erwin Kroll's wife Lisbeth Kroll, b. Radok, in Koenigsberg (East Prussia).

With postmark Schwerin, 20. May 1928.

Abstract:"LL, In the Marsstall{?} there was a concert, and 2 sparrows (above) fell asleep. Because Keussler's symphony did its part. Otherwise greet E. [...]"

Note:Gerhard von Keussler (* 5. July 1874 in Alt-Schwanenburg, Livonia; † 21 August 1949 in Niederwartha near Dresden) was a German composer, conductor and writer on music.

Format:9.2 x 14.1 cm.

Condition: Map browned and stained, with corner creases. kinked. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 14

About Erwin Kroll and Henny Wolff (source: wikipedia):

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)

Henry Wolff (* 3. February 1896[1] in Cologne; † 29 January 1965 in Hamburg) was a German concert singer (soprano) and singing teacher.

Life: Education: Her father was the respected music critic and writer Karl Wolff, her mother Henriette Wolff-Dwillat was a concert singer and singing teacher. Henny received her singing training from her mother and then, when she was ten to 16 years old, from 1906 to 1912 at the Cologne Conservatory, where she also studied piano, and finally from 1922 with Julius von Raatz-Brockmann in Berlin.

Career: Your first public appearance was in 1912 at a Gürzenich concert in Cologne. After the First World War, she formed the Rhenish Vocal Quartet with alto Kuhl-Dahlmann, tenor Arnold Schilbach and bass-baritone Ernst Everts until she left for Berlin in 1922.

Henny Wolff gained an international reputation in particular as an interpreter of the oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel and the song compositions by Johannes Brahms, but also as a contemporary work such as B. that of Hermann Reutter belonged to their repertoire. Concert tours in Germany, Italy, Romania and Yugoslavia brought her significant success. Only occasionally did she appear on the opera stage.

Throughout her life, Henny Wolff also worked as a singing teacher. From 1914 to 1916 she taught, appointed by Hermann Abendroth, at the conservatory in Cologne,[3] and from 1922 she also taught in Berlin. After the Second World War she moved to Hamburg, where from 1950 to 1964 she headed the class for solo singing at the State University of Music, founded in 1950, and became a professor in 1952. Well-known students of Henny Wolff were Judith Beckmann, Ingeborg Reichelt, Elisabeth Schärtel and Gerti Zeumer.

Henny Wolff died in Hamburg in 1965 and was buried in the main cemetery in Ohlsdorf.[4] After her grave has expired, her gravestone is now in the garden of the women at the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg.

honors

In 1943 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr dedicated four song compositions to her: Four songs for a soprano voice and piano: based on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George; "For Henny Wolff".[5]

In 1958, Henny Wolff was awarded the Johannes Brahms Medal in recognition of her ability to bring Brahms to a wide audience.[6]

A memorial stone in the women's garden in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf commemorates Henny Wolff.