Victor Bruns (born 15 August 1904 in Ollila (Finland) near St Petersburg, † December 6, 1996 in Berlin) was a German composer and bassoonist.[1]
Life
Victor Bruns was born to residents of St. Petersburg German parents born in the summer house in Ollila. He attended a German school where he received his first piano lessons. After a brief studying science at the Technical University, in whose orchestra he played bassoon student, he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1924 to 1927 when Alexander Wassilliew bassoon and from 1927 to 1931, Vladimir Stscherbatschow composition [1]. He graduated with the 1st Bassoon Concerto op.5 from, which was premiered in 1933 by the Leningrad Philharmonic with him as soloist. From 1927 until his expulsion from the Soviet Union Empire of German citizens in 1938 was second Bruns Bassoonist at the Leningrad Opera and in the same position from 1940 to 1944 at the Berlin Volksoper. After the building of the Volksoper in 1944 a bomb attack victim fell, the orchestra moved to Hirschberg in Silesia. He was drafted into the army, came into Soviet captivity, and returned in December 1945 to Berlin, where he worked from 1946 to 1949 studied composition with Boris Blacher. From 1946 to 1969 was second Bruns Bassoonist with the Staatskapelle Berlin, which premiered many of his works, and he was an honorary member in 1969. In 1960 he the GDR Art Prize was awarded. The International Double Reed Society (IDRS) named him Honorary member in 1990 [2]. In 1994 he became seriously ill and spent the last two years of his life in a Berlin Senior nursing home.
The focus of his work were instrumental concertos and chamber music. A wide audience, he was with ballets like "The law of the Lord" by Daisy Spies or "New Odyssey"
References
- ^ Evans, Alison (2005). Victor Bruns (1904-1996): The Last Three Commissioned Compositions for Bassoon, Tenor Bassoon and Contrabassoon. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
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