- Philipp Jarnach
Philipp Jarnach (b.
July 26 ,1892 ,Noisy-le-Sec ; d.December 17 ,1982 ,Börnsen ) was considered in the 1920s to be one of the most important composers of modern music.Jarnach was the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother. Until 1914 he lived in
Paris , where he studied piano underÉdouard Risler and harmony underAlbert Lavignac at theConservatoire de Paris . During theFirst World War he was a student ofFerruccio Busoni inZurich . (He later completed the operaDoktor Faust which Busoni had left unfinished on his death in 1924.) In the 1920s Jarnach worked in Berlin as a pianist, conductor and composer. In 1927 he became a teacher in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Cologne Music Academy) [http://www.mhs-koeln.de] . In 1949 he founded the Hamburger Musikhochschule (Hamburg Music Academy) [http://www.musikhochschule-hamburg.de] which he directed until 1959 and at which he taught until 1970. Some of his students includeKurt Weill ,Otto Luening ,Wilhelm Maler ,Bernd Alois Zimmermann ,Jürg Baur ,Eberhard Werdin andNikos Skalkottas .Jarnach composed a "Sinfonia brevis", a prelude for large orchestra, a quartet and a quintet for strings, further chamber music, especially for violin and piano, and vocal works.
References
*German Wikipedia article
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