|, Sechs Jugendlieder für hohe Singstimme und Klavier, Klaviertrio B-Dur (ergänzt von Gerhard Frommel, hg. Hans Pfitzner hat soeben den Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt erhalten. The family returned to his father's native town Frankfurt in 1872, when Pfitzner was two years old, and he always considered Frankfurt his home town. There, in 1949, he died. Several of them were recorded during the 1930s by the distinguished baritone Gerhard Hüsch, with the composer at the piano. Search. [citation needed]. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Rosenberg recruited Pfitzner, a notoriously bad speaker, to lecture for the Militant League for German Culture (Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur) that same year and Pfitzner accepted, hoping it would help him find an influential position. 40 für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier, Drei Sonette op. [4] He was willing to make exceptions to a general policy of antisemitism. "[citation needed] Pfitzner had a similar debate with the critic Paul Bekker. 34, Sechs Liebeslieder op. Pfitzner was forced to prove that he had, in fact, totally Gentile ancestry. In 1895, Richard Bruno Heydrich sang the title role in the premiere of Hans Pfitzner's first opera, Der arme Heinrich, based on the poem of the same name by Hartmann von Aue. For a Nazi party rally in 1934, Pfitzner had hopes of being allowed to conduct; but he was rejected for the role, and at the rally himself he learned for the first time that Hitler considered him to be half-Jewish. Pfitzner's magnum opus was Palestrina, which had its premiere in Munich on 12 June 1917 under the baton of Jewish conductor Bruno Walter. Kammermusik und Einzelspiel VII. Futuristengefahr, Gesammelte Schriften, Band II (Augsburg 1926) I. Zur Grundfrage der Operndichtung 1. Although Pfitzner's music betrays Wagnerian influences, the composer was not attracted to Bayreuth, and was personally despised by Cosima Wagner, in part because Pfitzner sought notice and recognition from such "anti-Wagnerian" composers as Max Bruch and Johannes Brahms. [13] Composer Wolfgang Rihm commented on the increasing popularity of Pfitzner's work in 1981: Pfitzner is too progressive, not simply, the way Korngold can be taken to be; he is also too conservative, if that means to be influenced by someone like Schoenberg. Einleitung 2. 1 und die für Violine und Klavier op. Mai 1869 in Moskau geboren. By 1939 he had grown thoroughly disenchanted with the Nazi regime, except for Frank, whom he continued to respect. 36a (nach dem Streichquartett cis-Moll op. He viewed control over the stage direction to be his particular domain, and this view was to cause him particular difficulty for the rest of his career. All this has audible consequences. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Die Hans Pfitzner-Gesellschaft hält das musikalische Erbe Hans Pfitzner am Leben. He had dedicated his songs, Op. Familie zog 1872 nach Frankfurt am Main um. Zum Gedächtnis Heinrich Kiefers Anhang: 6 Sonette, Gesammelte Schriften, Band III: Werk und Wiedergabe (Augsburg 1929) Vorwort Begriffsbestimmung der Wiedergabe I. Later on, Hitler told Nazi cultural architect Alfred Rosenberg that he wanted "nothing further to do with this Jewish rabbi." 34 (1923) to the Australian violinist Alma Moodie. Moodie became its leading exponent, and performed it over 50 times in Germany with conductors such as Pfitzner, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hans Knappertsbusch, Hermann Scherchen, Karl Muck, Carl Schuricht, and Fritz Busch. Still, Pfitzner maintained close contact with virulent antisemites like music critics Walter Abendroth and Victor Junk, and did not scruple to use antisemitic invective (common enough among people of his generation, and not just in Germany) to pursue certain aims. At that time, the Pfitzner concerto was considered the most important addition to the violin concerto repertoire since the first concerto of Max Bruch (1866), although it is not played by most violinists these days. Was ist uns Weber? Pfitzner war der Sohn eines Orchestergeigers erhielt schon fr h von seinem Vater Musikunterricht. Mai 1869 in Moskau; † 22. Melot der Verruchte 3. Mai 1869 in Moskau; † 22. Pfitzner was born in Moscow where his father played cello in a theater orchestra. 27, die eine nach Abschluss seiner Studien am Hoch’schen Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main 1890, die andere zum Abschluss seiner Straßburger Zeit 1918. Was aber weiss und kennt diese deutsche Oeffentlichkeit von seiner Arbeit? 19, to her as early as 1905. Hans Pfitzner Palestrina Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Rafael Kubelík Deutsche Grammophon, 1989. Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina is one of the unsung masterpieces of twentieth-century opera. 2 für eine Singstimme und Klavier, Drei Lieder op. In 1938, Pfitzner joked that he was afraid to see a celebrated eye doctor in Munich because "his great-grandmother had once observed a quarter-Jew crossing the street." Atlantis, Zürich 1999. [citation needed], Pfitzner dedicated his Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. Nor was Hitler the first person to suppose this. Hans Pfitzner wurde am 5. Zur Uraufführung der romantischen Kantate am 27. 8 min.). Pfitzner's home having been destroyed in the war by Allied bombing, and his membership in the Munich Academy of Music having been revoked for his speaking out against Nazism, the composer in 1945 found himself homeless and mentally ill. 27, die eine nach Abschluss seiner Studien am Hoch’schen Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main 1890, die andere zum Abschluss seiner Straßburger Zeit 1918. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Winifred Wagner, the director of the Bayreuth Festival and a confidante of Hitler, also believed it. [1] His bitterness and cultural pessimism deepened in the 1920s with the death of his wife in 1926 and with meningitis affecting his older son Paul, who was committed to institutionalized medical care. Pfitzner maintained that Mendelssohn's original was far better than anything he himself could offer as a substitute. 21 für hohe Singstimme und Klavier, Fünf Lieder op. Dieser Artikel umfasst die wichtigsten musikalischen Werke von Hans Erich Pfitzner (* 5.