Talk:Heinz Unger

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Heinz Unger’s Mahler performances in Berlin 1919-1932[edit]

This list of the 21 Mahler concerts conducted by Heinz Unger in Berlin 1919-1932, and the following survey of the reception of Mahler’s music in the German capital during the 1920’s have been reconstructed by the Danish Mahler researcher Knud Martner after concert advertisements and reviews in the "Berliner Tageblatt" (1919-28), and the Berlin music weekly "Signale für die musikalische Welt" (1918-33). Both are online. All the concerts are with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

13.09.1919: Symphony no. 1 (Unger’s debut concert)

19.09.1919: Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Ida Harth zur Nieden & Waldemar Henke

20.03.1920: Symphony no. 5

29.04.1920: Symphony no. 5 & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Soloist: Josef Mann

27.10.1921: Symphony no. 4. Soloist: Gertrud Weil

02.12.1921: Das klagende Lied. (2nd perf. in Berlin). Soloists: Ida Hart zur Nieden, Lilli Wickop and Paul Bauer.

20.01.1922: Symphony no. 8 (repeated on 27 January)

17.02.1922: Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Ida Hart zur Nieden & Waldemar Henke

17.02.1923: Symphony no. 1

02.10. 1924: Symphony no. 2. Soloists: Sarah Cahier & Zinalda Jurchevskaja

22.01.1925: Symphony no. 7

15.10.1925: Symphony no. 9 & 3 Orchestral Songs (not identified). Soloist: Maria von Basillides

19.01.1928: Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Maria Olszewska & Jacques Urlus

03.03.1928: Symphony no. 8 (repeated on 10 March)

13.11.1928: Symphony no. 1

20.02.1929: Bach-Mahler: Suite for orchestra (2nd performance in Berlin)

21.12.1929: Symphony no. 5

16.10.1930: Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Sigrid Onegin & Jacques Urlus

13.10.1932: Symphony no. 9 & 3 Orchestral Songs (not identified): Soloist: Alexander Kipnis.

The latter concert was to be the last performance in Berlin of any Mahler work before the Nazis three months later seized power, on 30 January 1933. Soon afterwards they banned all performances of music by Mahler and other composers of “non-Aryan” origin in the entire German Reich, and from 12 March 1938 also in Austria, and a few years later in all the Nazi occupied countries in Europe until 8 May 1945.

In the comparatively short time of only 14 concert seasons (from 1918 to 1933) 117 concerts with Mahler's works have been registered in Berlin. Of these, no fewer than 97 performances of his 10 symphonies alone, incl. "Das Lied von der Erde", are recorded. Among the many conductors who were involved (besides Heinz Unger with his 21 concerts) we find famous names like Bruno Walter (18), Hermann Scherchen (2), Klaus Pringsheim (9), Oskar Fried (7), Paul Scheinpflug (1), Peter Raabe (3) Wilhelm Furtwängler (5), Wilhelm Mengelberg (3), Otto Klemperer (4), Erich Kleiber (2), Selmar Meyrowitz (2), Jascha Horenstein (1) and Carl Schuricht (1), and finally some minor conductors whose names are forgotten today.

In truth, however, the performance figures of Mahler's symphonic works should be doubled to about 194, because at that time the last dress rehearsal of each concert was usually open to the public at lower entry prices. It is also amazing to read that, according to press reports, most of the concerts, including dress rehearsals, were sold out.

It is striking that after the war (from 1945 to 1960) only twenty performances of Mahler’s symphonies were given in Berlin and only by 1973 reached the same number of performances as in pre-war Berlin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.81.34.13 (talk) 12:33, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]