Andre Asriel (22 February 1922 – 28 May 2019) was an Austrian-German composer.

Life

Born in Vienna, Asriel first attended the Akademisches Gymnasium and then the Bundesgymnasium IX ( Gymnasium Wasagasse) in Vienna, where the later

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winner and composer

Ernest Gold Ernst Sigmund Goldner (July 13, 1921 – March 17, 1999), known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-born American composer. He is most noted for his work on the film ''Exodus'' produced in 1960. Early life Gold was born in 1921 in Vie ...

was his classmate. Here he pursued musical studies at the same time, studying piano with Grete Hinterhofer and theory with Richard Stöhr at the State Academy of Music in Vienna from 1936 to 1938. He was extraordinarily gifted and an outstanding pianist even at a young age. After the

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, his mother ensured that her 16-year-old son Andre was able to emigrate to England with a

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as a racially persecuted person at the end of 1938. She herself did not manage to escape. With the beginning of the war in September 1939, all ties to the old homeland and the family were severed. Music was Asriel's interest even in a foreign country, but he did not know how to start and finance a suitable course of study. Through an encounter with the later poet

Erich Fried Erich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer, he ...

- also a former pupil of Wasagymnasium - he found contact with the exile organisation ''

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'' (FDJ), which also financed his studies. Asriel took over the leadership of the London FDJ choir and made friends among its members. As Licentiate of the

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(L.R.A.M.), he continued his studies from 1941 with Franz Osborn (piano) and Ernst Hermann Meyer (composition). His gratitude to the FDJ led Asriel to destroyed Germany in 1946 to help build socialism there. In 1946 he continued his music studies, which had been interrupted in exile, at the

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in the western part of Berlin with Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and Hermann Wunsch (composition) and

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(piano). This was followed by the state examination in piano in 1948. From 1950 to 1951, Andre Asriel was a master student at the Deutsche Akademie der Künste (East Berlin) with

Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The ...

. From 1950 to 1967, he was a lecturer and then professor of composition at the

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( DDR). He retired in 1980. Asriel became known above all for his political songs. But film music was also an important field of activity for him. He wrote the music for more than 30 films. Furthermore, he composed chansons, ballads, chamber, vocal and instrumental music. Many of his compositions were influenced by jazz music. He was married to the Germanist Gertrud (Katja) Asriel from 1951 and had two children. In 1951, Asriel was awarded the

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, in 1970 the , and in 1974 and 1982 the

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Chamber music (1964–1972)

*''20 Variationen über "Ich hab mein Feinsliebchen"'', for flute and guitar *''Shakespeare-Suite'', for two trumpets and two trombones, 1993,

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*''Katzenwalzer'', for violin and piano

Music for keyboard instruments (1962–1988)

*''Sonate'', for piano *''Fuge in C'', for piano *''Toccata und Fuge'', for organ

Music for concert guitar (1962-1988)

*''Baroque in Blue'', for solo guitar *''A Little Jazz Music'', for guitar solo *''Prelude and Toccata'', for 2 guitars *''Etudes and Recital Pieces'', for solo guitar *''Four Pieces'', for 2 guitars *''Suite in E'', for 2 guitars *''Cinque pezzi obbligati'', for solo guitar

Choral music (1951–1977)

*''Mahle, Mühle mahle'' ( Walter Dehmel), for

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*''Suite in Scat'', für gemischten Chor und Rhythmusgruppe *''Sechs Fabeln nach

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'', for mixed choir *''Drei Chöre nach lateinischen Texten'', for mixed choir *''Drei Kommentare zu "Moro lasso" by

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'', for chamber choir and six instruments *''Drei ernste Gesänge'' (

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), for male choir

Mass Lieder (1941–1983)

*''Wir lieben das Leben'' (Erich Fried) *''Viel Blut ward hingegeben'' ( Kurt Barthel) *''Freundschaft, Einheit, Frieden'' (Herbert Keller) *''Es lebe das Brot'' (KuBa) *''Tapfer lacht die junge Garde'' (Kurt Barthel) *''Roter Oktober'' (KuBa) *''Schlacht am Galgenberg'' ( Manfred Bieler) *''Matrosen von Kiel'' (Bodo Krautz) *''Lied der Republik'' (

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) *''Die rote Fahne'' (Helmut Kontauts)

Songs and Chansons (1948–1975)

*''Lied vom St.Nimmerleinstag'' (Bertolt Brecht) *''Gegen den Krieg'' (KuBa) *''Ungarisches Largo'' (Jens Gerlach) *''Lied von der Eile'' (Heinz Kahlau) *''Atomraketenlied'' (Jens Gerlach) *''Lehmhaus-Blues'' (Jens Gerlach) *''Lied vom Glück'' (Bertolt Brecht) *''Limericks'' (

Peter Hacks Peter Hacks (21 March 1928 – 28 August 2003) was a German playwright, author, and essayist. Hacks was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with T ...

) *''Argumentation'' (Jens Gerlach) *''Dukatenlied'' (Jens Gerlach) *''Treue'' (

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) *''Abend in einer großen Stadt'' ( Louis Fürnberg) *''Auf der Sonnenseite'' (

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) *''Shimmy in grün'' (Peter Hacks) *''Auf dem Bergarbeiterball'' (Peter Hacks) *''Die Oliven gedeihen'' (Peter Hacks) *''Oktober'' (

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) *''Der September'' (

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) *''Der Monarch'' (Peter Hacks) *''Das Osterhuhn'' (Heinz Kahlau) *''Mondlied'' (Peter Hacks) *''Lied von den Kranichen'' (

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) *''Karl I.'' (Heinrich Heine) *''So muss es sein'' (

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nach Béranger)

Piano Lieder (1940–1971)

*''Childe Harold'' (Heinrich Heine) *''Drei Gesänge'' (

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) *''Zwei Sprüche'' (Bertolt Brecht) *''Der Tod'' (

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) *''Halt an dein Boot'' (Wolfram Dietrich) *''Sechs Lieder'' (Bertolt Brecht) *''Acht Liebeslieder'' (Jens Gerlach) *''Schön Dorindgen'' (Peter Hacks) *''Narrenlied'' (

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) *''Wer ist Sylvia'' (William Shakespeare) *''Baumlige Lieder'' (Helmut Stöhr) * Numerous folk song arrangements, including ::''Jiddische Volkslieder – Kinder- und Wiegenlieder'', Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin ::''Jiddische Volkslieder – Berufs- und Ständelieder'', Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin ::''Jiddische Volkslieder – Liebeslieder'', Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin

Film scores and theatre music (1955-1986)

Film scores

= Feature films

= *'' Der Lotterieschwede'' (1958),

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(after

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) *''

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'' (1959), Joachim Kunert *''Wo der Zug nicht lange hält …'' (1960),

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*''

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'' (1960), Joachim Kunert *''Die letzte Nacht'' (1961), Joachim Kunert (TV film) *'' On the Sunny Side'' (1961),

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*''Die unbekannte Größe'' (1961), Baumert (TV film) *''Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley'' (1961), (TV film) *''

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'' (1962), Heinz Thiel *'' Geheimarchiv an der Elbe'' (1962), Kurt Jung-Alsen *''Der Dieb von San Marengo'' (1963),

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*''

Mir nach, Canaillen! ''Follow Me, Scoundrels'' () is a 1964 East German historical adventure film directed by Ralf Kirsten and starring Manfred Krug, Monika Woytowicz, and Fred Düren. The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is a title fo ...

'' (1964), Ralf Kirsten *'' Der verlorene Engel'' (1966/1971), Ralf Kirsten *''

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'' (1967), Ralf Kirsten *'' Netzwerk'' (1970), Ralf Kirsten *''Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel'' (1970), Ralf Kirsten (TV film) *'' Die Elixiere des Teufels'' (1973), Ralf Kirsten (after

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) *'' Unterm Birnbaum'' (1973), Ralf Kirsten (after

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) *''

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'' (1975), Ralf Kirsten

= Short films

= *''Lebendes Eisen'' (1955), Berthold Beissert (Popular science film) *''Märkische Novelle'' (1957), Max Jaap (documentary) *''Das Faschingskostüm'' (1958), Kurt Weiler (animated film) *''Martin Andersen Nexö'' (1959), Joachim Kunert (documentary) *''Der Bankraub'' (1961), Hans Joachim Hildebrandt (magazin) *''Die Füchsin und der Biber'' (1961), Ralf Kirsten (magazin) *''Moderne Grafik'' (1961), (popular science film) *''Dorfkinder'' (1962), Heinz Müller (documentary) *''Pasaremos'' (1962), (popular science film) *''Hase und Igel'' (1963), Horst Seemann (magazin) *''Gleisbau'' (1963), (popular science film) *''Hüben und drüben'' (1964),

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(documentary) *''Geschlechter'' (1964), (popular science film) *''O.K.'' (1965), Walter Heynowski (documentary) *''Borinage'' (1983/84),

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/ Henri Storck documentary (1933,

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, E.P.I., Club de l’Ecran, Brüssel) *''Drifters'' (1984/86),

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documentary (1929, silent film, E.M.B.Film Unit, GB)

Theater music

* 1949: Friedrich Wolf: ''Tai Yang erwacht'' – director: Wolfgang Langhoff (

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) * 1962:

(after

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): ''Der Frieden'' – director:

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(Deutsches Theater Berlin) *1963: Rolf Schneider: ''Prozeß Richard Waverly'' – director: Wolf-Dieter Panse (Deutsches Theater Berlin – Kammerspiele) *1963: Peter Hacks (after

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): ''Polly oder Die Bataille am Bluewater Creek'' * 1980: Mikhail Shatrov: ''Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras'' – director: Christoph Schroth (

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) * 1981:

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: ''Die Schule von Uznach'' – director: Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer (

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– Sternfoyer) *''Faust I'' (

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)

Radio play music

* 1950: Herbert Horn: ''Unsere Brücke'' – director: Rudolph Pallas (

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) * 1950:

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: ' – director: Herwart Grosse (

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) * 1964: Ernst Röhl (after

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): ''Zundelfrieders Abenteuer'' – director: Maritta Hübner (Kinderhörspiel –

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Publications

*''Jazz – Analysen und Aspekte'', VEB Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1966 (4th, revised and expanded ed. 1985)

References

External links

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publishing house, Vienna 2002, .
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, 23 January 2012.
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