Hans Georg Nägeli

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Hans Georg Nägeli

Hans Georg Nägeli (born May 26, 1773 in Wetzikon , Canton of Zurich , † December 26, 1836 in Zurich ) was a Swiss music teacher , publisher and composer .

Life

In 1848 Johann Jakob Oechslin was commissioned by the Swiss Singers' Association to create a memorial in honor of Nägeli. The larger than life marble bust was placed on the High Promenade in Zurich and bears the date 1847.
Monument by Johann Jakob Oechslin
Title page outline educational task for the school system, 1832

Nägeli grew up as the youngest of four sons of the pastor and musician Hans Jakob Nägeli in Wetzikon and sang as a boy in the Singgesellschaft Wetzikon , an important source of inspiration for his later work. His grandfather, Johann Caspar Nägeli, was an enlightening pastor who was a pioneer in popular education. He had a close relationship with his brother Hans Konrad Nägeli . Nägeli was considered a child prodigy because he was able to play difficult piano sonatas at the age of eight.

Hans Georg Nägeli mainly created vocal music and was one of the pioneers of choral singing in his home country. His " Rejoice in life " became popular. In the Netherlands it is sung as the Sinterklaas song "Oh, kom er eens kijken". Together with Georg Geßner , the son-in-law and biographer of the Pietist Johann Caspar Lavater , he created the song "Praise glad the Lord you youthful choirs". In addition to a number of influential textbooks, he wrote numerous collections of songs for solo voice and choir. In his work as a publisher, it is particularly noteworthy that in 1801 he published Johann Sebastian Bach's “ The Well-Tempered Clavier ” for the first time .

In 1805 he founded an elementary choir school with the Zurich Singing Institute , from which the world's first men's choir emerged in 1810 . In 1808 he founded the Swiss Music Society together with Jost Bernhard Häfliger . Numerous lecture tours in southern Germany in 1823/24 led to the establishment of the first German choral societies. Nägeli is one of the early exponents of the Zurich General Music Society, founded in 1812 .

In 1848 Johann Jakob Oechslin was commissioned by the Swiss Singers' Association to create a memorial in honor of Nägeli. The larger than life marble bust was placed on the Hohe Promenade in Zurich and is dated 1847.

His grave is in the Hohe Promenade private cemetery . The City of Zurich has been awarding the Hans Georg Nägeli Medal for services to musical creativity since 1956.

Documents

Nägeli's estate is kept in the Zurich Central Library. Letters from Hans Georg Nägeli are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Georg Nägeli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author and Geßner's lyrics in the Volksliederarchiv ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksliederarchiv.de
  2. ^ Arnold Niggli: The Swiss Music Society. A study of the history of music and culture. Zurich 1886; Josef Anton Häfliger: Historical facts about the family Häfliger. The Beromünster branch. In: Der Geschichtsfreund 71, 1916, pp. 139–175, here p. 170 f.
  3. ^ Winner of the Hans Georg Nägeli Medal (until 1998)
personal data
SURNAME Nägeli, Hans Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss music teacher, publisher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzikon
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1836
Place of death Zurich