Max Baumann’s Suite, Op. 30, was composed in Berlin on 21 December 1951, presumably in connection with his work as conductor of the chamber orchestra of the Volksmusikschule Charlottenburg, for whose student orchestra the work was conceived. It dates from a particularly productive period in Baumann’s career and reflects the tension between traditional formal rigour and the aesthetic upheavals of post-war musical modernism in Germany. An interesting point of reference in the work’s history is Baumann’s later Suite moderne (1961), which is listed as Op. 30, No. 1. In March 2026, the Suite, Op. 30, was performed again for the first time in many years by the Sinfonieorchester der Musikfreunde Neustadt bei Coburg under the direction of Manuel Grund.
