Erich Rohde ( German: Erich Rhode ; February 28, 1870 , Berlin - June 18, 1950 , Nuremberg ) - German composer , music critic and conductor .
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Biography
Remained an orphan after the death of his father, a financial adviser. After graduating from high school in Potsdam , in 1891 he joined the army and served in the border troops for some time. Then he decided to devote himself to music. He studied in Dresden with Felix Dreseke , Heinrich Schulz-Boyten and Hermann Kuchbach , then at the Munich Higher School of Music with Ludwig Thuille and Walter Courvoisier . Since 1905, he conducted at the opera houses of Ulm , Halle and Nuremberg. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, he again joined the army from the place of conductor of the spa orchestra in Interlaken . After the war, he lived and worked mainly in Nuremberg, where, in particular, he became one of the first mentors of Hugo Distler . He studied music by Anton Bruckner , became one of the founders of the Nuremberg Bruckner Society. After 1923 he turned to composition, the author of mainly chamber and vocal music, including the piano trio Op. 19 and the vocal cycle “On Many Roads” ( German: Auf vielen Wegen ) to verses by Christian Morgenstern . In the 1930s actively published as a music critic in the newspapers Nürnberger Zeitung and Signale für die musikalische Welt , played an active role in the Nuremberg branch of the Nazi struggle for German culture .
Literature
- Karl Foesel. Erich Rhode zum 70. Geburtstag // Zeitschrift für Musik , März 1940, S. 157-158. (German)