Max Trapp

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Hermann Emil Alfred Max Trapp (November 1, 1887 – May 31, 1971) was a German composer and teacher. A prestigious figure in the Berlin cultural scene during the 1930s,[1] Trapp, amongst others in the Nazi-influenced scene, was regularly invited to contribute to concert programs and competitions.[2]

Trapp was born in

Ernő Dohnányi. After the completion of his studies, he did not have regular employment and worked as an itinerant pianist. In 1920, however, he obtained a post as lecturer at the Berlin conservatoire, becoming a professor there in 1926. His best-known pupils include Josef Tal, Saburō Moroi and Günter Raphael
.

Between 1926 and 1930, Trapp offered a master class in composition at the music conservatoire in

Berlin Academy of Arts (since merged with the University of the Arts). Here from 1936 until 1939 he taught Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté.[4]
In 1940, Trapp received the national composition prize.[5] From 1950 to 1953, he was a teacher at Berlin's Städtischen Konservatorium.[6]

He died at the age of 83 in Berlin.

Works

Heavily influenced by

choral
and theatre music. While his music was fairly widely performed through the 1940s, it has rarely been performed since.

Concerto for Pianoforte in D Major, Op. 26 (1931)

References

  1. ISBN 0-8078-4607-4
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  2. ISBN 0-19-513242-4
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  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 617.
  4. ^ Watson, Lorne; Kallmann, Helmut; Winters, Kenneth (2007). "S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
  5. ISBN 0-19-513242-4
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  6. ^ "Mitgliederdatenbank der Akademie der Künste"
  7. OCLC 165409990 & HMB. ) Some further information on his orchestral music can be found here
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  8. ^ Woolf, Jonathan (March 2003). "Review of Mengelberg Disc". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
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