Richard Mohaupt

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Richard Mohaupt, New York, 1954

Richard Mohaupt (14 September 1904 – 3 July 1957) was a German composer and Kapellmeister.[1]

Life and career

Richard Mohaupt was born in

Reichsmusikkammer. With this exclusion Richard Mohaupt could not work in Germany anymore and so emigrated to the US in 1939 and settled in New York.[1]

During his time in the United States Mohaupt composed for a variety of mediums, including opera, ballet, film, radio, television and orchestral music.

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten; the latter of which premiered at Theater Bremen in 1949.[1] He wrote one other opera while in America: Double Trouble, which premiered at the Kentucky Opera in 1954.[1] While in America, Mohaupt also composed music for the ballets Max und Moritz (a "dance-burlesque" composed in 1945, 1949 premiere by Karlsruhe ballet) and The Legend of the Charlatan (1949, premiered in New York).[1] His works were performed by renowned American orchestras like the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.[3]

Mohaupt created his last opera, Der grüne Kakadu, after moving back to Europe in 1955 where he ultimately settled in Austria.[1] This opera used a libretto by Arthur Schnitzler and had its 1958 world premiere at the Hamburg State Opera shortly after Mohaupt's death in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria on 3 July 1957.[1]

Compositions

Operas

  • Die Wirtin von Pinsk (world premiere 1938 in Dresden, revised 1956)
  • Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (world premiere 1949 in Bremen)
  • Double-Trouble or Die Zwillings-Komödie[4] (world premiere 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky)
  • Der grüne Kakadu (world premiere 1958 in Hamburg)

Ballets

  • Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche (after Grimmelshausen; world premiere 1936 in Berlin)
  • Max und Moritz (after Wilhelm Busch; world premiere 1949 in Karlsruhe)
  • Der Weiberstreik von Athen (after Lysistrata; world premiere 1957 in Karlsruhe)

Orchestral works

  • Drei Episoden (world premiere 1938 in Amsterdam)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra (world premiere 1938 in Warschau; world premiere of the revised version at the IGNM festival in Frankfurt/Main in 1951)
  • Town Piper Music (world premiere 1941 in New York)
  • Symphony No. 1 "Rhythm and Variations" (world premiere 1942 in New York)
  • Concerto for Orchestra (Based on Red Army Themes) (world premiere 1943 in New York)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (world premiere 1954 in New York)
  • Banchetto musicale (world premiere 1956 in Berlin)

References

Notes

  1. ^
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  2. ^ "German Refugee's Musical Work Has Gotham Premiere". Waco Tribune-Herald. 2 June 1940. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Philharmonic Society To Premiere Richard Mohaupt Opera Saturday". The Courier-Journal. 28 November 1954. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Double-Trouble or Zwillings-Komoedie: An Opera by Mohaupt, Richard - 1954". Biblio.com.

Sources

  • Ulf-Martin Keller: Richard Mohaupt: Concerto for Orchestra (Based on Red Army Themes) (1942–43) – Gattungskontext, Analyse, Rezeption. Magisterarbeit Universität Hamburg, 2012
  • Nico Alexander Schneidereit: Richard Mohaupts Chormusik. Magisterarbeit Universität Hamburg, 2010
  • Friedrich Geiger: Amerika im Musiktheater – Musiktheater in Amerika. Das Beispiel Richard Mohaupt. In Peter Petersen and Claudia Maurer Zenck (edit.): Musiktheater im Exil der NS-Zeit. Hamburg 2007
  • Friedrich Geiger: Mohaupt, Richard. In Ludwig Finscher (edit.): Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2., völlig neu bearb. Ausgabe, Kassel usw. 2004
  • Mathias Lehmann: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg im Musiktheater während der NS-Zeit: Untersuchungen zu politischen Aspekten der Musik am Beispiel von Karl Amadeus Hartmanns "Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend", Ludwig Mauricks "Simplicius Simplicissimus", Richard Mohaupts "Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche", Eberhard Wolfgang Möllers und Hans Joachim Sobanskis "Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel" und Joseph Gregors und Richard Strauss’ "Friedenstag". Hamburg 2004
  • Otto Friedrich Regner, Heinz-Ludwig Schneiders: Reclams Ballettführer. 8th edition, Stuttgart 1980
  • Friedrich Herzfeld: Das Lexikon der Musik. Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Wien 1976
  • Kurt Stone: Mohaupt, Richard. In Friedrich Blume (editor): Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Kassel etc. 1961
  • Heinrich Lindlar: In Memoriam Richard Mohaupt (3.7.). In Musica 11 (1957), p. 581–582
  • Rudolf Bilke: Richard Mohaupt. In Musica 4 (1950), pp. 324–326

External links

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