Sein Name ist seit Jahren der deutschen Oeffentlichkeit geläufig. Hans Pfitzner wird in eine Generation von Zeitgenossen hineingeboren, die sich mit den politischen, sozialen und künstlerischen Umbrüchen des beginnenden 20. Werke von Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Ihr Browser blockiert die Anzeige von Werbebannern. Pfitzner stand mit seiner Haltung dem Erfolg seiner Werke oft selbst im Weg, hinzukommt ein seltsamer, unbeeinflußbarer Hang zum Unglück. He was also given a minimal pension of a few hundred marks a month, which he contested until 1937 when Goebbels resolved the issue. 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. Der Parsifal-Stoff und seine Gestaltungen III. Pfitzner was forced to prove that he had, in fact, totally Gentile ancestry. She concluded that, although the composer was not exclusively pro-Nazi nor purely the antisemitic chauvinist often associated with his image, he engaged with Nazi powers who he thought would promote his music and became embittered when the Nazis found the "elitist old master's often morose music" to be "little propaganda-worthy. Was aber weiss und kennt diese deutsche Oeffentlichkeit von seiner Arbeit? The attempts which Pfitzner made on behalf of Cossman might have caused Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich, incidentally the son of the heldentenor who premiered Pfitzner's first opera, to investigate him. Search. Later on, Hitler told Nazi cultural architect Alfred Rosenberg that he wanted "nothing further to do with this Jewish rabbi." Mai 1949 in Salzburg) war ein deutscher Komponist, Dirigent und Autor theoretischer und politischer Schriften, oft mit dezidiert antisemitischer Zielrichtung. Der Boykott meiner Werke am Münchner Hoftheater [Offener Brief über "Palestrina" in Bayreuth] [Offener Brief in Sachen "Werk und Wiedergabe"] Scherings Beethoven-Deutung Denkschrift bei Gelegenheit meiner Spielleitung des "Herz" auf Einladung der General-Intendanz der Berliner Staatstheater Offener Brief an den Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Völkische Kultur" in Dresden, Dr. Wolfgang Nufer Was ist musikalische Inspiration? Als diesem 1872 eine Stelle im Frankfurter Opernorchester angeboten wurde, zog die Familie nach Deutschland zurück. These were all low-paying jobs, and Pfitzner was working as Erster (First) Kapellmeister with the Berlin Theater des Westens when he was appointed to a modestly prestigious post of opera director and head of the conservatory in Straßburg (Strasbourg) in 1908, when Pfitzner was almost 40. Mai 1869 in Moskau; 22. He co-founded the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music in 1918. [4] He was willing to make exceptions to a general policy of antisemitism. Mai 1949 in Salzburg) war ein deutscher Komponist und Dirigent. 35 (R. Huch) für Frauenstimme und Klavier, Sechs Lieder op. We cannot find the brokenness of today in his work at first glance, but neither the unbroken yesterday. Von 1886 bis 1890 studierte Hans Pfitzner Klavier und Komposition, ohne besondere Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen. 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. He worked with Jewish musicians throughout his career. Hans Pfitzner hat soeben den Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt erhalten. Die Künstler III. [1] He viewed Jewishness as a cultural trait rather than a racial one. 27, die eine nach Abschluss seiner Studien am Hoch’schen Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main 1890, die andere zum Abschluss seiner Straßburger Zeit 1918. Pfitzner had managed to gain a stable conducting contract from the Munich opera in 1928, but ran into demeaning treatment from chief conductor Hans Knappertsbusch and from the opera house's intendant, a man named Franckenstein. 36a (eine Bearbeitung d. 23. For other people, see, Kay Dreyfus, Alma Moodie and the Landscape of Giftedness, 2002, "Warum ein Linker die Musik der Nazi-Zeit dirigert", UbuWeb:A New Musical Reality": Futurism, Modernism, and "The Art of Noises", International Music Score Library Project, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Pfitzner&oldid=982925524, Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class), Articles with unsourced statements from February 2013, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2020, Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, James Grun (1868-1928) after Hartmann von Aue, Romantic Opera with a Prelude, two acts, and postlude, Duo for Violin, Cello, and small Orchestra, Sonata in F-sharp minor (Cello and piano), for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, and piano, ballade for women's chorus, alto & orchestra (after Ferdinand Freiligrath), for four soloists, mixed choir, orchestra & organ, choral fantasy with soprano, baritone, orchestra & organ.