Werner Egk - Schott Music

1926 Beginning of the year: Moved to Cavi di Lavagna (Italy)
1927 End of September: Returned to Munich
Worked as musical director of an orchestra at the cinema
“Phöbus-Palast”
1928 Moved to Berlin, looking for commissions, while his family
stayed in Munich
July: Worked with the puppet theatre “Marionettentheater
Münchner Künstler” in summer
Wrote music for the “Funkstunde” Berlin commissioned by
the director Hans Flesch, later also for the Bavarian Radio,
then “Deutsche Stunde in Bayern”
Berlin contacts with Kurt Weill, Erich Mühsam, Jürgen Fehling,
Bert Brecht, Erwin Piscator among others
August: Returned to Munich-Obermenzing
1931 Was awarded an honorary gift of the Münchner Volksbühne
Summer: Moved from Munich-Obermenzing to Lochham,
Lindenstraße 1
1932 Was commissioned by the Munich Radio to write an opera for
the radio; discussed the “Columbus” plan in detail with
Hermann Scherchen
16 December: The contract for “Quattro canzoni” marked the
beginning of his collaboration with the Schott publishing
house
1933 Broadcast of the radio opera “Columbus” by the Bavarian
Radio, Munich
1934 Enforced end of his work as a free-lance with the Bavarian
Radio, Munich
Started to work on the opera “Die Zaubergeige”
1935 World première of the opera “Die Zaubergeige” in Frankfurt
on the Main on 22 May
1936 11 February: Met the director of the Preußisches Staatstheater,
Heinz Tietjen, for the first time
9 March: Was appointed musical director at the Preußische
Staatsoper Berlin
Began his new job on 31 October with a new production of
Verdi’s “Don Carlos”
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