Max (Mordecai) Ettinger

Max Ettinger (born 27 December 1874 in Lemberg ; died 19 July 1951 in Basel) was an Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor.

Life

Ettinger was the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Lemberg and the son of the landowner Naftali Ettinger. His mother Ernestine Landau gave him his first musical education. He was briefed on the family estate of tutors and put on as an external classical languages ​​German-Polish School in Lviv from the Matura. In Berlin, he sought the admission to the School of Music, but was not admitted. He received private lessons there in 1899 by Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Heinrich von Eycken in harmony and composition. 1900 to 1903 he studied at the Academy of Music in Munich under Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Victor glow and Ludwig Thuille, the latter then privately to 1905. He worked in 1906 as Kapellmeister in Saarbrücken and 1910 in Lübeck , was this on but for health reasons and lived from 1911 as a composer returned to Munich, where in 1913 he married Josephine Krisak. In 1933 he emigrated because he was born in Lviv with Austrian nationality to Switzerland and settled in Ascona , where he already owned a house. With the annexation of Austria he was German, German citizenship was revoked him with the expatriation of Jewish immigrants. His house he lost by a bank bankruptcy and received support from the Swiss Israelite poor relief. Ettinger created orchestral works and chamber music, in addition to music culture films. Ettinger died in July 1951 in Basel and was buried in Zurich. His wife died a few days after his death.

The estate of Ettinger is now in the Library of the Jewish Cultusgemeinde Zurich .