Philipp Jarnach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Philipp Jarnach

German composer

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1892

Place of Birth: Noisy-le-Sec, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1982

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, university teacher, music pedagogue

Nationality: France, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Philipp Jarnach (26 July 1892 – 17 December 1982) was a composer of modern music. Jarnach was born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother.
Until 1914 he lived in Paris, where he studied piano under Édouard Risler and harmony under Albert Lavignac at the Conservatoire de Paris.
During the First World War he was a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zürich.
He later completed the opera Doktor Faust which Busoni had left unfinished on his death in 1924. In the 1920s Jarnach worked in Berlin as a pianist, conductor and composer.
In 1927 he became a teacher in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
In 1949 he founded the Hamburger Musikhochschule (Hamburg Music Academy) which he directed until 1959 and at which he taught until 1970.
His students included Kurt Weill, Otto Luening, Wilhelm Maler, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Jürg Baur, Walter Steffens, Colin Brumby, Eberhard Werdin and Nikos Skalkottas.
He died in Börnsen. Jarnach composed a Sinfonia brevis, a prelude for large orchestra, a quartet and a quintet for strings, further chamber music, especially for violin and piano, and vocal works.