Rudolf Wagner-Regeni ( German: Rudolf Wagner-Régeny ; August 28, 1903 , Regin , Transylvania , Austria-Hungary (now Romania ) - September 18, 1969 , East Berlin , East Germany ) - German composer and conductor , music teacher . Professor of the Berlin Higher School of Music (GDR). Member of the German Academy of Arts (since 1950) and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .
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Laureate of the National Prize of the GDR (1955).
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Biography
From the Transylvanian Saxons . The son of a merchant. From an early age he showed musical talent. Already in childhood he played the piano well .
From 1919 he studied composition at Leipzig , from 1920 to 1923 - at the Berlin Conservatoire . Among his teachers were Stefan Krehl , Robert Teichmüller (in Leipzig), Friedrich Ernst Koch , Emil Nikolaus von Reznichek , Franz Schrecker (in Berlin).
In 1923-1925 he worked as an assistant conductor of the National Opera (Volksopera) in Berlin. Later he was a conductor and composer of the ballet troupe under the direction of Rudolf von Laban , with whom he traveled to many countries of Europe. From 1929 until his death he was friends and collaborated with screenwriter and librettist Caspar Neer .
In 1930, he accepted German citizenship . From 1930 to 1945 he was engaged in musical creativity and gave lessons in composition and theory. In 1947-1950 worked as director of the conservatory in Rostock , then since 1950 - professor at the Berlin Higher School of Music. Eisler (GDR). As a music teacher, he prepared several generations of famous composers, including Z. Matus , J. Nagel ,
While living in the GDR, he maintained close contacts with colleagues in West Germany and Austria , where several premieres of his new works took place.
He avoided harsh statements about the musical avant-garde, thanks to which he avoided conflicts with the authorities of the Third Reich and East Germany .
He was buried in Berlin at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .
Creativity
Wagner-Regeny's musical and dramatic works are based on the traditions of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil . The focus of his compositional work is opera .
He is the author of music for performances and one-act operas, which were staged on the opera stage in the city of Gera, including the operas Mososhoulos (1928), The New Dress of the King (1928), and the opera Sganarelle by Moliere (1929, Essen ) , dramas, scenes “The Holy Courtesan” according to O. Wilde (1932), “Isaiah and Jacob” (1939) according to the biblical legend, etc.
The composer was widely known for the opera Der Günstling (Favorite) based on the drama of W. Hugo 's Maria Tudor (1935, Dresden ). In this realistic musical drama, Wagner-Regeny uses, along with vocal forms, colloquial speech. Wagner-Regeny also owns operas on the libretto by Caspar Neyer , “Citizens of Calais” (Die Bürger von Calais) based on historical chronicle (1939, Berlin ), “Johann Balk” based on the Transylvanian folk epic (1941, Vienna ), “Prometheus” on the tragedy Aeschylus on his own text (1939), “The Flunsky Mine” on the libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal (1931), “Persian episode” (not set); the ballets Moritat (1929, Essen ), Broken Pitcher (1937, Berlin) and other compositions in various genres.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118770780 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Theatrical Encyclopedia. Volume 1 / Chap. ed. S. S. Mokulsky - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1961