Heinz Schubert (composer)

Heinz Richard Schubert (8 April 1908 – 1945) was a German composer and conductor. He is not related to the more well known composer Franz Schubert. Life Schubert was born in Dessau where he studied with Franz von Hoesslin and Arthur Seidl and in Munich with Hugo Röhr and Heinrich Kaminski. From 1926 to 1929, he was a master student of Siegmund von Hausegger and Joseph Haas at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. In 1929, Schubert became theatre ensemble Kapellmeister in Dortmund and Hildesheim. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis in 1933, he joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party under the number 3.119.361 and became Kapellmeister in Flensburg in the same year. In 1936, his oratorio Das ewige Reich based on a text by Wilhelm Raabe for baritone, male choir and organ, was premiered. It was commissioned on the occasion of the Reichstagung der Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. From 1938 until 1945, he was (with a break in 1942, when he worked in Münster) the municipal music director and musical director at the theatre in Rostock, conducting the municipal orchestra. Although he was able to make a successful career as a conductor during the National Socialist