Max Butting - Tango, from 15 Short Piano Pieces Op.33
Gottlieb Wallisch - Piano Max Butting (1888-1976) was a German Composer. Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. He studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst where he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. Butting was not called for military service in the First World War due to bad health. In 1921, Butting was admitted into the left-wing Novembergruppe and he led their musical events until 1927. Butting was one of the first composers to confront his art with the medium of radio. He was thus a member of the cultural advisors of the Funkstunde (Radio Hour) from 1926 until 1933. He taught composition at the Rundfunkversuchsstelle (Radio Experimental Office) of the Berliner Hochschule für Musik (Berlin College of Music), where Ernst Hermann Meyer was one of his students. After Hitler took power it was evident that he was not wanted by the National Socialists. Up until 1938, Butting was still able to work in the copyright company, STAGMA. After that, he again had to exist from his father's ironmonger business, partial ownership of which he had inherited after his father's death in 1932, and which he took over on his own at the beginning of 1939. To ensure the survival of the business and thus be able to support himself, the composer finally found himself obliged to join the Nazi Party in 1940. After the Second World War, Butting gave up his business activities and lived as a freelance composer in East Berlin. In 1948, he became a member of the Kulturbund der DDR (Cultural Association of the DDR) and chief editor in the state radio committee of the GDR. Butting's music at first took up the style of Anton Bruckner and Max Reger and moved closer to more modern trends in the 1920s. He gradually managed to develop a distinctive personal style, which is pre-eminently characterized by counterpoint and is equally close to both musical neoclassicism and expressionism. From time to time, there are twelve-tone themes, for example in Sinfonie Nr. 9, however Butting never develops a true dodecaphony, in the sense of Arnold Schoenberg, whom he critically admired. A rather moderately productive composer before 1945 and almost completely silenced during the Nazi regime, Butting experienced a new creative impetus after the end of the war. In the center of Butting's works are the ten symphonies, which identify him as one of the most important German symphonists of his generation. Others of his remaining works include a piano concerto and a flute concerto, numerous shorter orchestral pieces, predominantly small piano works, as well as the oratorio "Das Memorandum", the opera "Plautus im Nonnenkloster". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support this channel https://www.patreon.com/fyrexia
Gottlieb Wallisch - Piano Max Butting (1888-1976) was a German Composer. Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. He studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst where he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. Butting was not called for military service in the First World War due to bad health. In 1921, Butting was admitted into the left-wing Novembergruppe and he led their musical events until 1927. Butting was one of the first composers to confront his art with the medium of radio. He was thus a member of the cultural advisors of the Funkstunde (Radio Hour) from 1926 until 1933. He taught composition at the Rundfunkversuchsstelle (Radio Experimental Office) of the Berliner Hochschule für Musik (Berlin College of Music), where Ernst Hermann Meyer was one of his students. After Hitler took power it was evident that he was not wanted by the National Socialists. Up until 1938, Butting was still able to work in the copyright company, STAGMA. After that, he again had to exist from his father's ironmonger business, partial ownership of which he had inherited after his father's death in 1932, and which he took over on his own at the beginning of 1939. To ensure the survival of the business and thus be able to support himself, the composer finally found himself obliged to join the Nazi Party in 1940. After the Second World War, Butting gave up his business activities and lived as a freelance composer in East Berlin. In 1948, he became a member of the Kulturbund der DDR (Cultural Association of the DDR) and chief editor in the state radio committee of the GDR. Butting's music at first took up the style of Anton Bruckner and Max Reger and moved closer to more modern trends in the 1920s. He gradually managed to develop a distinctive personal style, which is pre-eminently characterized by counterpoint and is equally close to both musical neoclassicism and expressionism. From time to time, there are twelve-tone themes, for example in Sinfonie Nr. 9, however Butting never develops a true dodecaphony, in the sense of Arnold Schoenberg, whom he critically admired. A rather moderately productive composer before 1945 and almost completely silenced during the Nazi regime, Butting experienced a new creative impetus after the end of the war. In the center of Butting's works are the ten symphonies, which identify him as one of the most important German symphonists of his generation. Others of his remaining works include a piano concerto and a flute concerto, numerous shorter orchestral pieces, predominantly small piano works, as well as the oratorio "Das Memorandum", the opera "Plautus im Nonnenkloster". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support this channel https://www.patreon.com/fyrexia