Max von Schillings
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Max von Schillings (Düren, April 19, 1868 - Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor and composer.
He was chief conductor at the Berlin Staatsoper from 1919 to 1925.
Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano that sung the title role.
Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde (1894), Der Pfeifertag (1899) and Der Moloch (1906).
Biography Max von Schillings was the brother of the photographer, Carl Georg Schillings. He received his first musical training in violin, piano and theory at the same time as his formal education in Bonn. His teachers were Caspar Joseph Brambach and Otto von Königslow. Schillings later studied jurisprudence, philosophy, literature and art history at the University of Munich.
On October 1, 1892, he married his cousin Caroline Josefa Peill in Römlinghoven. They were divorced in 1923. On June 11, 1923, he married the chamber and opera singer Barbara Kemp in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Max Schillings was given the title of Professor by the Royal Bavarian Ministry of the Interior (Königliches Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern) on February 16, 1903. In October of 1911, he was named an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy by the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Heidelberg. He was awarded the Ehrenkreuz (Ger. honorary cross) by the Order of the Württemberg Crown, the fifth highest rank awarded. With this honor, he was allowed to use the name Max von Schillings.
... His most important work is undoubtedly the opera Mona Lisa(first performed on 26.09.1951 in Stuttgart), which became, during his lifetime, until his death in 1933, one of the most-performed operas in Germany. He dedicated this opera to the Phil. Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, where he was awarded his professor title. ...
Works: Ingelwelde
Der Pfeifertag
Moloch op. 20
Mona Lisa
Melodramas: Das Hexenlied
Kassandra
Das Eleusische Fest
Concerts:
Violinkonzert a-moll op. 25 (Violin Concert a-moll, op.25)
[Violinkonzert in g-Moll op. 38 (?)]
Klavierkonzert “Ein Totentanz” op. 37 (Piano Concert, "A deathdance", op.37)
Streichquartett in e-Moll
Streichquintett op. 32
Glockenlieder op. 22 (Bell songs, op.22).
Meergruß und Seemorgen op. 6( Greating from the sea, and a lake morning, op.6).
Literature: Gedenkschrift Prof. Dr. phil. h.c. Max von Schillings, Komponist und Dirigent, Zum 100. Geburtstag 19. April 1968, J. Geuenich + K. Strahn, Düren 1968
Max von Schillings, Der Kampf eines deutschen Künstlers. Wilhelm Raup, Hanseatische Verlaganstalt Hamburg, 1935 (Max von Schillings,The fight of a German artist,Wilhelm Raup, Hanseatische Verlaganstalt Hamburg, 1935).
Max von Schillings. August Richard, Drei-Masken-Verlag München, 1922 (Max von Schillings. August Richard, 3-masks-contract,München, 1922).
Max von Schillings, Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Werke. Joachim Beck (Max von Schillings, A summary of his works,Joachim Beck).
Weblinks : Literatur von und über Max von Schillings im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
[edit] Citations
- Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language wikipedia article (retrieved June 8, 2006).
- Levi, Erik: 'Schillings, Max von', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed [June 21, 2006]), Grove Music.
