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Harald Genzmer

Olympic medal record
Art competitions
	1936 Berlin	Solo and chorus

Harald Genzmer (9 February 1909 – 16 December 2007) was a German composer of classical music and an academic.^[1]

The son of the legal historian Felix Genzmer [de], Genzmer was born in Blumenthal, near Kiel, Germany, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin beginning in 1928.

From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln. During the early part of the Second World War he served as a military band clarinetist. When his pianistic abilities were noticed by the Musikmeister, he was put on detached duties as a pianist/accompanist for "Lazarettenkonzerte", concerts for recuperating wounded officers. He was based for some time near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he made the acquaintance of Richard Strauss. When the war ended, he was offered a post at the Musikhochschule München. This was blocked by the American authorities, and so, from 1946 to 1957 he taught at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau.

From 1957 to 1974 he taught at the Musikhochschule München. He hung a framed review from the Süddeutsche Zeitung above his piano, which stated after the premiere of his 1955 Sinfonietta for Strings that it was a work destined only for oblivion. Sharing the frame was a cutting from a few years later, reporting that in the previous year it had been the most performed work for string orchestra in Europe.

Among his notable students are Bertold Hummel, Egyptian composer Gamal Abdel-Rahim, British composer John McCabe,^[2] and Japanese composer Toyoko Takami.^[3] See: List of music students by teacher: G to J#Harald Genzmer.

He died on 16 December 2007 in Munich.^[4]

• 1960 Music Prize of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste^[5]
• 1961 1st Prize of the Deutscher Sängerbund^[5]
• 1962 Preis zur Förderung der Musik der Stadt München^[6][5]
• 1991 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art^[7][5]
• 1996 Kulturpreis der Bayerischen Landesstiftung^[6][5]
• 1998 Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille in Gold^[5]

Source:^[5]

• 1968 Divertimento for symphonic wind ensemble
• 1969 Konzert, for cello and winds ^[12]
• 1974 Ouvertüre für Uster
• Konzert, for trumpet, winds, harp and percussion
• Parergon zur "Sinfonia per giovani", for saxophone orchestra

• 1965 Der Zauberspiegel, ballet – libretto: Hans Stadlmair

• 1962 Jiménez-Kantate, for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra
• 1969–1970 Mistral-Kantate, for soprano
• 1973 Deutsche Messe, for mixed chorus and organ
• 1975–1976 Oswald von Wolkenstein, cantata for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra
• 1978 Kantate (The mystic trumpeter), for soprano (tenor), trumpet and strings
• 1979 Geistliche Kantate, for soprano solo, men's chorus, organ and percussion
• 1981 Kantate 1981 nach engl. Barockgedichten, for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra
• Adventsmotette "Das Volk, das im Finstern wandelt"(Jesaja 9), for men's chorus and organ
• Hymne – zum Fest des St. Antonius von Padua "Der Geist Gottes, des Herrn, ruht auf mir", for men's chorus

• Drei Chorlieder vom Wein, for men's chorus
• Lied des Vogelstellers "Der Vogel, der im Fluge ruht", for mixed chorus
• Tropus ad Gloria, for mixed chorus
• Wach auf, wach auf, for mixed chorus
• Zwei geistliche Festsprüche, for men's chorus and organ
  1. Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Psalm 117)
  2. Lasset das Wort Christi

• 1961–1963 Fünf Lieder, on texts by Luís de Camões, for baritone and piano

• 1938 1. Sonate.
• 1940 1. Sonatine.^[13]
• 1942 2. Sonate.^[8]
• 1943 Sonata in D, for piano four-hands
• 1948 Suite for piano ^[8]
• 1959 3. Sonatine.^[13]
• 1960–1962 Préludes
• 1963 Dialoge
• 1965 Studien, for piano four-hands
• 1975 Konzert, for piano and percussion
• 1978 4 Elegien, for piano and percussion
• at least five piano sonatas (sonata 5 published in 1985) ^[11]

• 1945 Tripartita in F GeWV 389
• 1952 Erste Sonate GeWV 390
• 1952 rev. 2000 Konzert (for organ solo) ^[13] GeWV 391
• 1956 Zweite Sonate GeWV 392
• 1963 Dritte Sonate GeWV 393
• 1966 Adventskonzert GeWV 395
• 1968 Die Tageszeiten GeWV 396
• 1974 Weihnachtskonzert GeWV 398
• 1974 Konzert, for organ and percussion GeWV 417
• 1978 Pfingstkonzert GeWV 399
• 1980 Osterkonzert GeWV 400
• 1981 Fantasie ^[13] GeWV 402
• 1980–1981 Impressionen
• 1994 Triptychon GeWV 408
• 1996–1997 Sinfonisches Konzert : no. 2 ^[13] GeWV 409
• 2001–2003 Musik der Trauer GeWV 412
• 2002 Präludium, Arie und Finale ^[11] GeWV 413
• Lento misterioso II
• Sonata for trumpet and organ (published 1971) GeWV 416
• Sonata for cello and organ

• Lukas, Victor. Reclams Orgelmusikfürer. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam June 1992.

• Literature by and about Harald Genzmer in the German National Library catalogue
• Harald Genzmer Schott