Wilhelm Petersen ( German: Wilhelm Petersen ; March 15, 1890 , Athens - December 18, 1957 , Darmstadt ) - German composer .
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Biography
Born in the family of Waldemar Petersen (1850-1940), who served as the confessor of the Greek king George . The very next year, the Petersen family returned to their father’s homeland in Darmstadt, where Wilhelm graduated from high school. In 1908 - 1911 He studied at the Munich Academy of Music under Rudolf Luis and Friedrich Klose (composition), as well as Felix Motl (conducting), while also joining the literary and philosophical circle of Stefan Gheorghe . In 1911 , he married the writer Adelheid von Siebel , with whom in the following years he became close to the anthroposophical movement. In 1916 - 1918 was in military service.
The premiere of his First Symphony in Nuremberg in 1921 was a notable success for Petersen, but he failed to consolidate this success. Despite the fact that Petersen's works were performed by such conductors as Karl Böhm and Karl Friederich , Bruno Walter spoke approvingly about them, and in 1926 Petersen was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize , financially, the composition career did not provide Petersen, and he lived in Darmstadt , depending on his older brother, electrochemist and entrepreneur Waldemar Petersen . Since 1927 , Petersen taught at the Darmstadt Academy of Music , since 1935 he was a professor at the Mannheim High School of Music. Despite the fact that the Petersen brothers Waldemar and Hans made a successful career in the Third Reich , Petersen's reputation with official Nazi music criticism was ambiguous: for example, his only opera was The Golden Pot ( Der Dernene Topf , after the eponymous novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann ) was a success in 1941 , but the performance of the most important composition by Petersen, the Great Mass, was banned shortly before in Mannheim, and the 4th symphony was waiting for the premiere for 10 years.
In the postwar years, Petersen continued to teach in Darmstadt and Mannheim, writing almost nothing.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118740296 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Discogs - 2000.
Literature
- Wolfgang Mechsner. Wilhelm Petersen. Leben und Werk. Biographie mit thematischem Werkverzeichnis. - Darmstadt: THIASOS Musikverlag, 1996. (German)
Links
- Wilhelm-Petersen-Gesellschaft (German)