Max Kalbeck ( German: Max Kalbeck ; January 4, 1850 , Breslau - May 4, 1921 , Vienna ) - German poet , musicologist, music critic.
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He began to study music in his hometown with Peter Lustner , since 1861 he sang in the choir of boys under the direction of Leopold Damrosh . At the insistence of his father, after graduating from high school, he studied law in Breslau, then at philosophy at the University of Munich , but at the same time studied at the Munich Conservatory with Joseph Reinberger (composition), Franz Wülner (choral singing) and Joseph Walter (violin). Returning to Breslau in 1874, he was published in regional newspapers as a music critic, and served as assistant director of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts. In 1880, at the invitation of Eduard Hanslik, he moved to Vienna, where he was published as a music critic until the end of his life.
It is best known as a multi-volume book about the life and work of composer Johannes Brahms (1904–1914), with whom the author was friends for many years, and the publisher of the volume of his chosen correspondence. He also wrote a monograph on Johann Christian Gunther .
He translated into German , in many cases with significant changes, about thirty opera librettos , including Mozart's Don Giovanni (with a preface, 1886, for the 100th anniversary of the opera in Vienna), Gluck 's Orpheus and Eurydice (1896 , for a large edition of the works of Gluck), the operas of Bizet , Smetana , Verdi , Massenet , Tchaikovsky ( The Queen of Spades , 1902) and others. He also wrote original texts for the operetta Yabuk by I. Strauss (1895) and the opera Silent Village A. von Filitz (1897) and Decius the Flutist by E. Poldini (1899, based on the novel by E. Eckstein ).
Author of numerous poetry collections, including Aus Natur und Leben, Wintergrün, Neue Dichtungen, Deutsches Dichterbuch, Nächte, Zur Dämmerzeit, Gereimt und ungereimt, Aus alter und neuer Zeit ". Several of Kalbek’s poems are set to music by Brahms.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 11603498X // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Kalbek, Max // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.