Friedrich Chrysander

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Friedrich Chrysander, photo by E. Bieber , Hamburg
Friedrich Chrysander, painting by Leopold von Kalckreuth (1901)
Memorial in the birthplace of Lübenheen

Karl Franz Friedrich Chrysander (born July 8, 1826 in Lübenheen ; † September 3, 1901 in Bergedorf near Hamburg ) was a German musicologist and an editor of the works of Georg Friedrich Handel .

Life

Friedrich Chrysander studied philosophy at the University of Rostock , where he also received his doctorate. He then lived abroad for a long time, namely in England. When he returned to Germany, he stayed partly in Lauenburg and partly in Vellahn in Mecklenburg. Since 1866 he had his residence in Bergedorf near Hamburg. Chrysander found his grave in Vellahn.

Together with the historian Georg Gervinus , Chrysander founded the German Handel Society in 1856 with the aim of publishing all of Georg Friedrich Handel's works. The society dissolved after four years, after which Chrysander took over the work on the complete edition largely himself. For this he acquired a large number of conducting scores ; and he went to London to review autographs . To finance it, he had to sell his collection to the Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Chrysander wrote a biography of Handel (1685–1759) that remained unfinished: it breaks off in 1740, the year of the last opera Deidamia and the beginning of the oratorios . The biographical work (Leipzig 1858–67, volumes 1–3, first half) represents a very special achievement in the history of music . In addition, Chrysander was the first editor of the complete works of Georg Friedrich Handel based on systematic source research from 1859 to 1894 .

As an editor in the Allgemeine musical newspaper from 1868 to 1871 and from 1875 to 1882 Friedrich Chrysander was a pioneer of music criticism . In 1885 Friedrich Chrysander founded the quarterly journal for musicology together with Philipp Spitta and Guido Adler .

Chrysander's numerous historical studies also appeared in the Musicology Yearbooks and the Musicology Quarterly Journal . Chrysander's monuments of music should also be emphasized with the following compositions:

Of the 94 volumes in the work edition and six supplementary volumes, most of which he also engraved himself, Chrysander completed 92 volumes and four supplementary volumes himself. Another Handel volume and two supplementary volumes were added by Max Seiffert in 1902 .

Publications

Musical Science Yearbooks, title page

author

  • About the minor key in folk songs and About the oratorio. Schwerin 1853, Oertzen & Schlöpke.
  • Georg Friedrich Handel. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1858 (Volume I), 1860 (Volume II), 1867 (Volume III, Part 1)
    • 2nd unchanged edition: Georg Friedrich Handel. Volume I – III / First half. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1919 (PDF: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3.1 )
  • Handel's biblical oratorios from a historical perspective. Hamburg 1897, O. Meißner, 2/1907, Lpz., B. & H., 4/1922 ibid.
  • Music and theater in Mecklenburg. o. J. [1854] and new contributions z. Mecklenburg.
  • Schwerin 1856. In: Archive f. Regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. VI, 12.
  • About Handel's burial anthem for Queen Caroline, 1737. In: Euterpe XXI. Pp. 143-146.
  • The original voices of Handel's Messiah. In JbP II, 1896.
  • Handel, Georg Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 777-793.

editor

  • GF Handel's works. For the Deutsche Handelgesellschaft ed., Lpz. 1858-1894, volume 1-18 Breitkopf & Härtel, volume 19ff. Print and stitch. The edition comprises 95 volumes (volume 49 was never published), volume 45 (Messias) ed. by M. Seiffert, Lpz. 1902, B. & H. In addition 6 suppl. Containing sources on Handel's works.
  • Monuments of music art. Bergedorf 1869, H. Weißenborn: Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
  • JS Bach's piano works. 4 volumes, with preface, Wolfenbüttel 1856, Holle.
  • Piano reductions of selected Handel oratorios (Debora, Esther, Heracles, Judas Maccabeus, Messias, Samson, Saul).
  • Handel receiving the laurel from Apollo. A poem by an unknown author, originally printed in the year 1724. Leipzig 1859.
  • Musical Science Yearbooks. 2 volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1863–1867 a. Reprint: Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1966.

literature

chronologically

  • Guido Adler : Friedrich Chrysander. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog. 1904, Volume 6, pp. 66-70 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Ferdinand Pfohl : Friedrich Chrysander. Ceremonial speech held at the celebration of the 100th birthday of Friedrich Chrysander in Bergedorf on June 29, 1926, organized by the Bergedorf City Council with the participation of the Hasse Society. In: Musikwelt. August issue 1926, ZDB -ID 528474-0 , pp. 153–157 (also special reprint: Köster & Wobbe, Bergedorf 1926).
  • Waltraut Schardig: Friedrich Chrysander. Life and work (= Hamburg contributions to musicology. 32). Musikalienhandlung Wagner, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-88979-019-4 , (also: Dissertation, University of Hamburg 1986).
  • Erich Valentin:  Chrysander, Franz Karl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 251 ( digitized version ).
  • Harald Richert: Dr. Friedrich Chrysander - an unprecedented life. In: Lichtwark booklet . No. 66, 2001, pp. 32-33.
  • Uwe Wieben: Dr. Friedrich Chrysander (1826–1901). In: Personalities between the Elbe and Schaalsee. Schwerin 2002, S: 52-61.
  • Friedrich Chrysander. In: Olaf Matthes, Bardo Metzger (Hrsg.): Bergedorfer Personenlexikon. Museum for Bergedorf and the Vierlande, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-935987-03-X , p. 44 f.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Chrysander  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Complete catalog of works, extensive bibliography, evidence of digital copies  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Der Brockhaus Musik : Lemma Chrysander. Mannheim u. Leipzig 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Chrysander, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübheen
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1901
Place of death Bergedorf