Anton Beer-Walbrunn

Anton Beer-Walbrunn (29 June 1864 – 22 March 1929) was a German composer.

Beer was the 4th of five children of the teacher, cantor, sacristan and community writer Anton Beer and his wife Margarethe, née Walbrunn, in the Upper Palatinate Marktgemeinde [de] Kohlberg. His birthplace was demolished in 2019. In 1877 he attended the Regensburg Preparatory School, took the entrance examination for the Dominican Monastery Eichstättand subsequent use Teachers' Seminar Eichstätt in 1880, but then changed to the newly founded seminar in Amberg - today the Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg [de] - and was one of the first graduates in 1882. In 1886 he passed the final examination as the best of 57 candidates.

His teacher Domkapellmeister Widmann in Eichstätt made a significant contribution to him and enabled him to study in Munich from 1888 to 1891 with Joseph Rheinberger, Hans Bußmeyer and Ludwig Abel at the Akademie der Tonkunst. In 1901 he was appointed teacher for counterpoint, composition, harmony and piano at the same Royal Academy of Music in Munich (today: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München). In 1908 he was appointed Royal Professor. In 1904 he married the painter Ida Görtz, with whom he has since used the maiden name of his mother, who died at an early age, as a double name Beer-Walbrunn.

Among his students were Télémaque Lambrino, Fritz Büchtger, Alfred Einstein, Carl Orff and Wilhelm Furtwängler as well as the musicologist and critic Eugen Schmitz.

Beer-WalbrunnSein died in Munich. His grave is located at the Munich Waldfriedhof.

The Anton Beer-Walbrunn - Kohlberg art and culture association (established June 2015, president Martin Valeske) is holding the "Beer-Walbrunn-Days" in autumn, where his music is performed again. He cooperates with the Markt Kohlberg, the city of Weiden and the district of Oberpfalz.

A. Vocal Music

Songs: There are about 60 of them.

Choral music:

B. Stage productions:

Instrumental music

Orchestral works:

Chamber music:

Piano music:

Organ music: