They bid on two handwritten, signed postcards (from 1937 and 1941) by the conductor and composer Kurt von Wolfurt (1880-1957),Secretary of the music department of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and head of the composition classes at the consistory.
Kurt von Wolfurt was "equally important as a researcher and interpreter of modern Russian music and as a composer who translated Mussorgsky's legacy into his own language" (MGG XIV, 828). Works include the comic opera "The Dance of the Fool" (Frank Thiess after Jean Baptiste Molière, op. 15) & the tragicomic opera "Porzia" (op. 50).
Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.
1.) Art postcard.
Motive:printed pen drawing "St. Ulrich Castle near Mücheln, Halle district"
The Sankt Ulrich moated castle in Mücheln (Geiseltal), LK Saale (Saxony-Anhalt) is a high Gothic to neo-baroque complex around a tower that is still essentially medieval. It was owned by the von Helldorff family from 1770 to 1945.
Dated Ortisei Castle, 24. March 1937.
transcription: "Dear Dr. Kroll! I'm here visiting friends. My student Gerard van den Arend was at Drwenski's factory on Monday not Jesus was sung, but Peter, Keiphas and Pilate were sung. I happen to know from Schrenk that you were at this performance and would therefore like to clarify the facts to you. Arend was expected to rehearse the role of Jesus over the course of Monday and to sing in the evening. Can you perhaps enlighten some gentlemen in the press about this? Kind regards, K. v. Wolfurt."
Note:
-Gerard van den Arend, bass-baritone from Rotterdam
-Walter Drwenski (1892-1956), church musician and composer, from 1932 organist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.
-Oswald Schrenk (1899-1944), singer, brother of the music critic Walter Schrenk (1893-1932), friend of Kroll
2.) Postcard without motif, dated Bad Gastein, Haus Goldeck, the 4th. July 1941.
Transcription: "Dear Dr. Kroll! Here you will receive a sign of life from me. I'll stay until the 23rd. July here and then join forces with Siegel, his wife and others. They're coming to this area soon. I would be very happy if you wanted to visit me here. Haus Goldeck is about a 10-minute walk from the center (spa house). Many warm greetings to you and your wife, Kurt von Wolfurt."
Condition: Cards punched on the side (without loss of text); Browned paper. The second card is folded in the middle. bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-4 Autograph Autograph
About Kurt von Wolfurt (Source: MGG online) and Erwin Kroll (Source: wikipedia):
Kurt von Wolfurt, actually Baron Kurt Wolff von Wolfurt (* 7. September 1880 in Latvia (Livland), † 25. Februaryuar 1957 in Munich), composer and conductor.
After his high school years in St. Petersburg, Kurt von Wolfurt studied natural sciences in Dorpat, Leipzig and Munich from 1899; sinceIn 1901 also music with Karl Heynsen and Robert Teichmüller at the Kons. in Leipzig. In Munich in 1902 he followed Max Reger's strict counterpoint teaching and studied piano with Martin Krause. Here he became friends with Max Slevogt and in Paris with Henri Matisse. In 1911 he worked as choir director under Hans Pfitzner in Strasbourg and from 1912 in Cottbus. During the First World War he had to manage a paper factory in Livonia. The revolution drove him to Stockholm in 1917. In Berlin he worked as secretary of the music department of the Prussian Academy of Arts (1923-1945) and as head of the composition classes at the Kons. (1936-1945) advocated the freedom of music creation.
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)