Bernhard Sekles

Training under Iwan Knorr is recorded. Max Rudolf and Theodor W. Adorno are recorded as having studied under Bernhard Sekles. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Hoch Conservatory.

Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (née Bischheim). The family name Seckeles was changed by Bernhard Sekles to Sekles. From 1894 to 1895 he was the third Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater in Mainz. In 1896 he became a teacher at the Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main; here he started the first jazz class anywhere in 1928. He was the director of the Hoch'sche Konservatorium from 1924 to 1933. For his composition students, He was one of the first German Jewish academics to lose his job when Hitler came to power in Germany. He died in his native Frankfurt am Main.

• Der Zwerg und die Infantin, (The Birthday of the Infanta), ballet, op. 22, 1913, based on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale • Scheherazade, opera, op. 26, 1917 • Die Hochzeit des Faun, comic opera, 1921 • Die zehn Küsse, comic opera, 1926

• Aus den Gärten der Semiramis, symphonic poem, op. 19 • Kleine Suite, dem Andenken E. T. A. Hoffmanns, op. 21 • Die Temperamente, 4 symphonic movements for large orchestra, op. 25, 1916 • Passacaglia und Fuge for large orchestra and organ, op. 17, 1922 • Gesichte, miniatures for small orchestra, op. 29, 1923 • Der Dybuk, prelude for orchestra, op. 35, 1928 • Symphony N° 1, op. 37, 1930

• Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano, op. 9 • Skizzen for piano, op. 10 • Serenade for 11 solo instruments, op. 14, 1907 • Divertimento for string quartet, op. 20, 1911 • Passacaglia und Fuge im vierfachen Kontrapunkt for string quartet, op. 23, 1914 • Sonate in d-moll for violoncello and piano, op. 28, 1919 • String Quartet, op. 31, 1923 • Suite Nr. 1 for piano, op. 34 • Der Musik-Baukasten for piano (3 or 4 hands), 1930 • Chaconne über ein achttaktiges Marschthema (Chaconne on an Eight-Beat March Theme) for viola and piano, op. 38, 1931 • Sonata for violin and piano, op. 44

• "Lieder", op. 6 • Volkspoesien aus dem Rumänischen, for baritone and piano, op. 7, 1900 • Aus >Hafis Prinz Eugen< for male choir, wind and percussion instruments, op. 32, 1926 • Vater Noah for male choir, op. 36 • Psalm 137 for mixed choir, soprano and organ, 1933/1934 (Edited by Edmund Brownless - Laurentius-Musikverlag)

Bernhard Sekles is recorded as composer, conductor, pianist, music educator and chapelmaster.