Hermann Grabner

Hermann Grabner (May 12, 1866 – July 3, 1969) was an Austrian composer and music teacher.

Grabner was born in Graz in 1866. He studied law at the University of Graz graduating in 1909. In parallel he studied music with Leopold Suchsland until 1910. He also played temporarily the viola for the theatherorchester. He then studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Max Reger and Hans Sitt. In 1912 he worked as assistant to Reger in the Meininger Theater. In 1913 he became teacher of music theory at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. He served in the German Army during World War I. From 1919 to 1924 he was teacher of theory and composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. He also taught at the Music Academy in Heidelberg.Fact|date=June 2008 He was then teacher of composition at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his students included Hugo Distler, Artur Immisch, and Miklós Rózsa. From 1930 he was music director of the University. From 1938 to 1946 he taught at the Berlin Musikhochschule.

He composed seven operas,Fact|date=June 2008 including "Die Richterin" with libretto by Beyerlein after C. F. Meyer [cite web|title=Operone:Hermann Grabner|url=http://www.operone.de/komponist/grabner.html|accessdate=2008-09-03|language=German] , premiered in the Barmen State Theater in 1930 [Google_books|IhU3AAAAMAAJ|Deutsches Bühnen-jahrbuch: Theatergeschichtliches Jahr- und Adressenbuch (in German), Volume 42 (1931). Published by F.A.Günther & sohn a.-g. Page 65] ; orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, Lieder, two motets and numerous organ pieces.

He died in 1969 in Bolzano.

References

* Translated from the [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hermann_Grabner&oldid=45235919 German Wikipedia article]