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Philipp Jarnach (26 July 1892 17 December 1982 in Börnsen) was a German
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
of contemporary music ("
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"), pianist, teacher, and conductor. Jarnach was born in
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, France, the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother. Besides composer such as
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, Jarnach is considered one of the leading and formative composer of the late German Romantic and early
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("
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") eras. Until 1914 he lived in
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, where he studied piano under
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and harmony under
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at the
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. During the
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he was a student of
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in
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. He later completed the opera ''
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'' 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
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. In 1949 he founded the Hamburger Musikhochschule (Hamburg Music Academy) which he directed until 1959 and at which he taught until 1970. His students included
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(Hans Rolf Rippert as he was then, during his attendance at the Hochschule between 1950 and 1958),
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,
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, Wilhelm Maler,
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,
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, Walter Steffens, Colin Brumby,
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and
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. In 1982, he died in Börnsen. 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.


Awards and achievements

* 1954: Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg * 1955: Member of the
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* 1955:
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* Member of Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg


References

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