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Walter Draeger (14 December 1888 – 24 January 1976 ) was a German composer and music educator. Er war Professor an der Staatliche Hochschule für Theater und Musik Halle and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. In 1955, war er Mitinitiator der ersten Hallische Musiktage.




Life


Draeger was born in 1888 as the son of a teacher and organist in Batzlow near Freienwalde in the Province of Brandenburg. From 1898, he lived in Berlin, where he lived until the Reifeprüfung from the Sophien-Gymnasium und Realgymnasium. Von 1908 bis 1913 studierte er Geschichte, Romance studies and musicology an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. In 1913, he was awarded his doctorate there with the dissertation Das alte lübische Stadtrecht und seine Quellen Die Referenten der Arbeit waren Dietrich Schäfer and Michael Tangl. During his studies, he spent two years in Grenoble and Paris (Sorbonne). Until 1944, he was active as a Studienrat at the Friedrichswerdersches Gymnasium in Berlin.
After the First World War, he was musically trained by Otto Taubmann at the Berlin University of the Arts and by Franz Schreker. It was only after 1945 that he emerged as a composer. From 1949 to 1952, he taught music theory and composition at the Quedlinburg Conservatory. In 1952, he moved to the Staatliche Hochschule für Theater und Musik Halle, where he was appointed a professor in 1953. From 1955 to 1963, he taught music theory and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He retired in 1958.
In terms of composition, Draeger devoted himself in particular to instrumental music. On the one hand, he dealt with the Volkslied. On the other hand, a connection "to traditional genres as well as an inclination to classicist thinking and simple, transparent fracture" (Grützner 2004) can be recognised. From 1925, his chamber music and song cycle were broadcast on the Funk-Stunde Berlin. The majority of his early works, however, were destroyed in his Berlin flat during the war in 1944. According to Gilbert Stöck, he "sometimes distanced himself critically from some of the dogmas of Socialist realism"; the composer pursued a neo-Romantic style.
In 1951, he was elected to the central committee of the Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR (VDK). Außerdem war er Gründungs- und Vorstandsmitglied des Arbeitskreises Halle im VDK und als solcher neben Fritz Reuter, Walther Siegmund-Schultze, Gerhard Wohlgemuth und anderen einer der Initiatoren der 1955 veranstalteten 1. Hallische Musiktage. From 1956 to 1959, he served as the first chairman of the Thuringia district association of the VDK.
Draeger was married to Eva, née Hartmann, and was the father of a son. The composer died in Weimar at the age of 87.




Awards


1955: Kunstpreis der Stadt Halle (für den Liederkreis Doris und Damon)
1970: Literatur- und Kunstpreis der Stadt Weimar
Ehrennadel in Gold des Verbandes Deutscher Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler
Ehrenmitglied des Verbandes Deutscher Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler




Work






= Orchestral music

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Sinfonietta for stringed instruments, 1947
Sinfonie, 1957
Ein ernstes Vorspiel, 1961
Suite after motifs of the opera In Schilda ist der Teufel los, 1962
Suite for chamber string orchestra, 1962
Temperaturen for 18 winds, harp and double bass, 1964
Capriccio diabolico, 1972




= Concertante music

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for flute and string orchestra, 1931
Kleines Lehrbuch der Zoologie for violin and small orchestra, 1937
for piano and orchestra, 1952
for violin and orchestra, 1956
for violoncello and orchestra, 1961




= Chamber music

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Divertimento for violin and piano, 1940
Introduction and Rondo for wind quartet, 1942
Altdeutsche Tanz- und Liebeslieder for violin, viola and piano, 1942
Quartet for wind instruments, 1947
3 string quartets, 1951; 1957; 1969
3 Miniatures for oboe and piano, 1956
Concertino for 5 winds, 1962
Rondo Vorwiegend Heiter for 5 winds after old German street calls and craft songs, 1963




= Piano

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Konzert für 2 Klaviere, 1950
Quedlinburger Klavierbuch, 1950




= Opera

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In Schilda ist der Teufel los, 1959/62




= Vocal music

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Anacreontic Rhapsody for baritone and small orchestra, 1938
Peasant Legends for male choir and wind orchestra, 1948
Doris and Damon for soprano, oboe and orchestra, 1949
Eternal Circle for soprano and orchestra, 1954
Zwiegesang for soprano, violin and piano, 1957
Love never ends for soprano and string quartet, 1960
In memoriam for voice and chamber orchestra, 1967




Publications


Das alte lübische Stadtrecht und seine Quellen. In Hansische Geschichtsblätter 19 (1913), pp. 1–91. (Berliner Dissertation, 1913)




Further reading


Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon. Für Musiker und Freunde der Musik. Fortgeführt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rösner. Second part: Ergänzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937. Vo:lume 1: A–K. 15th edition, Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1974, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5, p. 159.
Adrian Gaster (ed.): International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory. 8th edition, Melrose Press, Cambridge 1977, p. 219.
Vera Grützner: Musiker in Brandenburg vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Jaron, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89773-507-5, pp. 52f.
Walter Habel (ede.): Wer ist wer? Das Deutsche Who's Who. 14h edition by Degeners Wer ist's? Arani, Berlin 1965, p. 54
Hans Rudolf Jung: Walter Draeger zum 75. Geburtstag. In Musik und Gesellschaft 13 (1963), pp. 742f.
Horst Seeger: Musiklexikon. In zwei Bänden. Volume 1: A–K. Deutscher Verlag für Musik VEB, Leipzig 1966, p. 238.
Verband Deutscher Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler, Musik-Informationszentrum (ed.): Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Kurzbiographien und Werkverzeichnisse. 2nd expended edition, Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1968, pp. 45f.




References






External links


Literature by and about Walter Draeger in the German National Library catalogue
Walter Draeger discography at Discogs
Walter Draeger in der MusicSack-Datenbank

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