Composers in Germany 1933-1945

[Roy Bland]

[Louis]

Johann Ludwig Trepulka (1903-1945)

until recently he was so obscure he wasn't even featured in any composer dictionaries. He was a student of Hauer in Vienna, who called him his best and most gifted student. He used Hauer's technique but rather freely (A sort of Hauer's Alban Berg maybe?)

So freely that Hauer eventually came to disklike him.The pianist Herbert Henck recorded Trepulka's early piano works some years ago.

He also wrote a symphony "die göttliche" many years later. But the only available recording is from 1937.

He joined the NSDAP and later joined an orchestra in occupied Poland.Henck suggests he did both mainly for opportunist reasons as a father who couldn't live off his compositions. I can't comment on this cause I know next to nothing about Hauer's biography.

He got killed in action at the very end of WW2.

[André]

Since there's no any other thread devoted to German composers, I put this here. Already available for streaming. There's a very fine recording of his Symphony No. 4 on Sterling. Hopefully this release will be the beginning of a project.

On the shopping list it goes !

I have the 4th symphony and it's excellent. The finale is very brucknerian - in a good way.

[Roy Bland]

https://www.classicstoday.com/review/vintage-vibe-from-paul-graener-the-jolly-nazi/

[Roy Bland]

From 1940 to 1945, Komma was the head of the music school in what is now Liberec, and was awarded for his achievements. He also appeared in 1935 with a cantata for a NSDStB-Kundgebung in appearance, composed by a jubilant chorus for the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Hitler in 1938 and came with a pamphlet against Gustav Mahler in 1939 (Fred Prieberg [de] in Musik im NS-Staat), 1982, and Macht und Musik, 1992).