Anton Beer-Walbrunn (29 June 1864 – 22 March 1929) was a German composer.

Life

Beer was the 4th of five children of the teacher, cantor, sacristan and community writer Anton Beer and his wife Margarethe, ''née'' Walbrunn, in the

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Kohlberg. His birthplace was demolished in 2019. In 1877 he attended the

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Preparatory School, took the entrance examination for the Dominican Monastery Eichstättand subsequent use Teachers' Seminar Eichstätt in 1880, but then changed to the newly founded seminar in Amberg - today the - and was one of the first graduates in 1882. In 1886 he passed the final examination as the best of 57 candidates. His teacher Domkapellmeister Widmann in

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made a significant contribution to him and enabled him to study in Munich from 1888 to 1891 with

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, Hans Bußmeyer and

Ludwig Abel Ludwig Abel (14 January 1835 – 13 August 1895) was a German violinist, composer, and conductor. Life Born in Eckartsberga, Province of Saxony, he was a pupil of Ferdinand David. He became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in 18 ...

at the Akademie der Tonkunst. In 1901 he was appointed teacher for

counterpoint In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more musical lines (or voices) which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. It has been most commonly identified in the European classical tradi ...

, composition, harmony and piano at the same Royal Academy of Music in Munich (today:

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). In 1908 he was appointed Royal Professor. In 1904 he married the painter Ida Görtz, with whom he has since used the maiden name of his mother, who died at an early age, as a double name Beer-Walbrunn. Among his students were

Télémaque Lambrino Télémaque Lambrino (27 October 1878 – 25 February 1930) was a German pianist and music educator. The son of Greek parents, he lived and worked mainly in Germany. Life Born in Odessa, Lambrino first received his musical training with Dmitr ...

Fritz Büchtger Fritz Büchtger (14 February 1903 – 26 December 1978) was a German composer. Life Born in Munich, Büchtger studied at the Music Academie of Munich with , Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen and Anton Beer-Walbrunn. In March 1927, together wi ...

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Carl Orff Carl Orff (; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata ''Carmina Burana'' (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education. Life Early life Car ...

and

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as well as the musicologist and critic

Eugen Schmitz Eugen Schmitz (12 July 1882 – 10 July 1959) was a German musicologist and music critic. Life Schmitz was born in Neuburg an der Donau. The descendant of the violin virtuoso, composer and court kapellmeister Louis Spohr first studied law, then ...

. Beer-WalbrunnSein died in Munich. His grave is located at the

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. The Anton Beer-Walbrunn - Kohlberg art and culture association (established June 2015, president Martin Valeske) is holding the "Beer-Walbrunn-Days" in autumn, where his music is performed again. He cooperates with the Markt Kohlberg, the city of Weiden and the district of Oberpfalz.

Work

A. Vocal Music Songs: There are about 60 of them. * op. 12 after texts by

Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest i ...

and

Adolf Friedrich von Schack Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack (2 August 181514 April 1894) was a German poet, historian of literature and art collector. Background Schack was born at Brüsewitz near Schwerin. Having studied jurisprudence (1834–1838) at the universities o ...

* op. 13 et al. after

Nikolaus Lenau Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet. Biography He was born at Csatád (Schadat), Kingdom of Hungary, now Lenauheim, Banat, then p ...

* op. 24 after Nikolaus Lenau * op. 27 Songs for voice and piano * op. 31 ''The Fugitive'', Ballad for baritone and orchestra * op. 34 Ten "

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

"'s sonnets" * op. 37 after

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Baroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (; 10 January 179724 May 1848), was a 19th-century German poet, novelist, and composer of Classical music. She was ...

* op. 39 after Nikolaus Lenau and

* op. 59 Sacred Songs after

Eichendorff Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 178826 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism.Cf. J. A. Cuddon: '' ...

* op. 60 after Joseph von Eichendorff * op. 62a Songbook for high school girls * op. 62b Songbook for Boys' Middle Schools * op. 62c Arrangements of Christmas songs for voice, piano, violin and cello * op. 63 Seven Songs for Voice and Piano Choral music: * op. 7 ''The Air Ghost Song'' for mixed choir and orchestra * op. 16 ''Mahomet's Song'' for solos, choir, orchestra and organ after Goethe (1895) * op. 1, 35b, 48, 66, 69 for mixed choir * op. 35a, 53, 55, 68 for male choir B. Stage productions: * op. 10 ''The Expiation'', opera after Theodor Körner, premiere 1894 at Lübeck * op. 18 ''Don Quixote'', opera after

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, premiere 1908 Munich, under Felix Mottl * op. 41 ''Sühne'', arrangement of the opera op. 10 as Volksoper in one act * op. 43 Stage music to ''Hamlet'' (1909) * op. 47 arrangement of the opera ''The three daughters of Cecrop'' by N. A. Strungk * op. 50 ''The Beast'', comedy after

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, first performance 1914 Karlsruhe, Court Theatre * op. 54 incidental music to Shakespeare's ''Tempest'', 2 acts * op. 64 ''The Tempest'', symbolic fairy tale in 3 acts, incidental music Instrumental music Orchestral works: * op. 2 Concert Overture * op. 5 Symphony in F minor * op. 9 Concert Allegro in F sharp minor for violin and orchestra * op. 11 Symphonic Fantasy D Major "Artist Life" * op. 22 German Suite * op. 36 Symphony E Major * op. 38a Orchestral arrangement of a canzone by Gabrieli * op. 38b Arrangement of a Gavotte by Schlemüller for violoncello and orchestra * op. 40 "Cloud Cuckoo's Home", three burlesques * op. 52 Concerto for violin and orchestra G major * op. 61 Overture of comedy based on motives from the opera "The Beast" Chamber music: * op. 3 Little Fantasy in G minor for violin and piano * op. 4 String Quartet No. 1 in C major * op. 6 String Quartet No. 2 in C minor * op. 8 Piano Quartet F major (premiere with Hans Pfitzner at the piano) * op. 14 String Quartet No. 3 G Major * op. 15 Sonata for violoncello and piano G major * op. 17 Sketch of a piano quintet in G minor * op. 19 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor * op. 20 Ode for violoncello and piano G major * op. 25 Humoresque for string quartet and piano G major * op. 26 String Quartet No. 5 D minor * op. 30 Sonata for violin and piano in D minor * op. 33 Arrangements of six sonatas for violin and harpsichord by Dall'Abaco * op. 70 Piano Quintet in G minor, arrangement of the sketch op. 17 Piano music: * op. 21 ''Travel Pictures'', cycle of six piano pieces * op. 22 ''Deutsche Suite'' for four hands for piano and orchestra * op. 23 Fugue in G minor, march and waltz (four hands) * op. 42 Three pieces for piano solo as well as violin and piano, including: * op. 42/2 Variations on "How beautifully the morning star shines" * op. 56/57 piano pieces * op. 58 Fantasy Sonata in F sharp minor for piano solo * op. 67 Three pieces for piano solo Organ music: * op. 28 Drei Fugen für die Orgel (1905) * op. 29 Drei kleine Fugen für die Orgel * op. 32 Orgelsonate g-Moll (1906) * op. 45 Kleine Stücke für die Orgelbeer-walbrunn-kohlberg.de
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Recordings

* Anton Beer-Walbrunn – Shakespeare-Sonette und ausgewählte Lieder (Weltersteinspielung 2016). Angelika Huber (soprano), Kilian Sprau (piano). Bayer Records BR 100 390 * Süddeutsche Orgelmusik der Spätromantik. Gerhard Weinberger (Organ). TYXart / BR KLASSIK, TXA15052. Darunter die Orgelfuge über einen gregorianischen Choral op. 29/1. Bestell-Nr. TXA15052

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