Jean Louis Nicodé

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Jean Louis Nicodé in 1906

Jean Louis Nicodé (born August 12, 1853 in Jersitz , Posen district , † October 14, 1919 in Langebrück ) was a German composer , conductor , pianist and music teacher .

Life

Nicodé was the son of a violinist and music teacher who came from a Huguenot family. The family moved to Berlin because of a "mishap" . His father recognized and promoted the talent of his son Jean Louis. Later he received private lessons from the organist Hartkaes . As a student, Nicodé entered the New Academy of Music in 1869 . He received piano lessons from director Theodor Kullak , Richard Wüerst and Friedrich Kiel introduced him to theory and composition. As a “skilled pianist and counterpoint artist” he left the academy and was soon given the opportunity to demonstrate his skills in Berlin.

He became known to a wider public in 1878 on a concert tour with the soprano Désirée Artôt de Padilla through Galicia and Romania , which in the same year gave him the position of first teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden . Under the direction of Franz Wüllner he worked there until 1885 and then went to Berlin in November because of disputes with the Conservatory management. Hermann Wolff had brought him there as artistic director of the Philharmonic Concerts . However, he soon returned to Dresden and took over the direction of the Philharmonic Concerts there as conductor . He was mainly committed to the musical modernity of his time, e.g. B. for Franz Liszt , Felix Draeseke and Richard Strauss , often annoying conservative concert goers. As early as 1888 he resigned to devote himself to composition. After five years he returned to his position as a conductor in 1893. In 1900 he settled in the Dresden villa suburb of Langebrück, where he lived in Albertstrasse until his death. 27 (today Nicodéstr. 11) lived. It was there that he wrote his main work in five and a half years - the symphony Gloria! . Shortly before his death, Nicodé was appointed professor of music in 1918 and a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1919.

Appreciation

Jean Louis Nicodé is the most famous citizen in his last place of residence, Langebrück. The former Albertstrasse was renamed Nicodéstrasse after him. The Nicodé Choir from Langebrück also bears his name. Nicodé's letter estate and a large part of his compositions (including the Gloria! ) Are kept in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden. Further letters from Jean Louis Nicodé are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CFPeters in the Leipzig State Archives . The first and still only complete recording of the symphonic poem “Gloria!” Was digitally produced by Steffen Fahl in his project klassik-resampled.de in 2013 and is freely accessible online there.

Works

Nicodé as a reservist in 1884
  • Maria Stuart , op.4
  • Characteristic polonaise , op.5
  • Six fantasy pieces: In memory of Robert Schuhmann , op.6
  • Aphorisms , op.8
  • Character pieces , op.9
  • Waltz Caprices , op.10
  • The Hunt for Happiness , op.11
  • Etudes , op.12
  • Italian Folk Songs and Dances , op.13
  • Romance for violin and orchestra , op.14
  • Songs , op.15
  • Symphonic Suite , op.17
  • Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme , Op. 18 after Anton Rubinstein
  • Sonata in F minor , op.19
  • Jubilee March , op.20
  • Etudes , op.21
  • A love life , op.22
  • Sonata in B minor , op.23
  • Carnival pictures , op.24
  • Sonata in G major , op.25
  • Symphonic Variations , op.27
  • Pictures from the South , op.29
  • Song cycle , op.30
  • The sea , op.31
  • Fairy tales and in the country , op.32
  • Mercy , op.33
  • Gloria! , op.34

Quote

  • Nicodé's harmony is bold and magnificent, his contrapuntal mastery imposing, his orchestration poetic, dramatic and of particular beauty and character of the coloring. Ferdinand Pohl after a performance of the Symphonic Variations (op.27) in the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1892

literature

Web links

Commons : Jean Louis Nicodé  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Theo Schäfer: Modern Musicians - Jean Louis Nicodé , Harmonie Verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, Berlin, undated (~ 1910)
  2. ↑ Calliope | Union catalog for archival and archive-like stocks and national documentation instrument for personal papers and autographs. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nicodé, Jean Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersitz , Poznan County
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1919
Place of death Langebrück