Music in Koenigsberg

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This article deals with the music in Königsberg in the Duchy of Prussia , the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from the 16th century to 1945. "A comprehensive theater history of the city of Königsberg is not available, and today the undertaking to remedy this would hardly be possible any more" .

history

In Königsberg i. Pr. The music was already in the court of the Duke of Prussia maintained. Hofkapellmeister were Johann Eccard and his pupil Johann Stobäus . In the first half of the 16th century, Hans Kugelmann worked as a composer and court trumpeter. The musical pumpkin arbor by Heinrich Albert was published in 1659 (see pumpkin hut ). Georg Riedel , long-time cantor of the old town , headed the city's music office for 30 years. The Königsberg town musicians played for over 300 years .

See also: Castle tower bubbles in Königsberg

Opera and concert

As everywhere, house music was initially only practiced in the houses of the nobility. Public performances of operas and concerts came about in the 19th century. Caroline Unger and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart performed at the Pregel . Franz Liszt received an honorary doctorate from the Albertus University . At the Koenigsberg opera was Richard Wagner short time Kapellmeister. The German premiere of Georges Bizet's Carmen under Max Staegemann (1879) brought the opera its worldwide breakthrough. The Königsberg Symphony Concerts , initiated by Max Brode , were held in high esteem by Wilhelm Sieben , Ernst Kunwald , Hermann Scherchen , Bruno Vondenhoff and Wilhelm Franz Reuss . Thanks mainly to Gustav Dömpke , Königsberg became a “Brahms town”.

The Königsberger Musikverein was successfully committed to new music with Ernst Wendel and Paul Scheinpflug . In the 20th century, Hans Knappertsbusch , Wilhelm Furtwängler and Karl Böhm were guest conductors in East Prussia's provincial capital. The Königsberg composer Otto Besch explained: “The Königsberg concert audience felt more and more like a community of fate under the sign of art. He had an aura that did not leave the artists on the podium untouched either. "

With the Komische Oper , Königsberg had a second opera house from 1923 to 1925. It was run by the patron Bruno Dumont du Voitel .

Choirs

Ninke Trio: Schiffmann, Ninke, Kirchberger (1931)

A large role was played by the choirs of the Bach club under Walter Eschenbach and Traugott Fedtke , the Schubert Choir under Heinz von Schumann and the cathedral choir under Herbert Wilhelmi . Among the many male choirs, the Königsberg Choir (Karl Ninke) and Melodia stood out. The Musical Academy and the Popular Singing Academy were united under Hugo Hartung . In music education professors worked Hans Engel and Joseph Müller-Blattau at the new Institute for School and Church Music of the Albertus University and the teachers of the Conservatory Konigsberg and Fiebach Conservatory .

Ninke led several choirs and worked in Königsberg from 1913 to 1945, then in Hamburg until 1954.

broadcast

The Ostmarken Rundfunk AG and the Reichsender Königsberg were great supporters of musical life in East Prussia . Hermann Scherchen , a promoter of modern music, was the dominant personality in Königsberg's musical life. He also directed the concerts at the 60th Tonkünstlerfest of the General German Music Association in Königsberg.

East Prussian Music Festival

In 1837 an East Prussian music festival took place. In 1908, 1913 and 1924 major music festivals were held.

people

Conductors and choir directors

Max Brode
Gustav Sabac el Cher
Max Staegemann

Composers

Instrumentalists

Singer

Music critic

swell

Erwin Kroll: Königsberg, City of Music (1966)

Theater and concert programs from Königsberg have been archived

New beginning

In 2010, the MDR Orchestra was the first German orchestra to make a guest appearance in Kaliningrad . In honor of its founder Otto Nicolai , the Vienna Philharmonic gave a concert in Königsberg Cathedral that same year .

literature

Program of a concert with Hans Pfitzner (1920)
  • Maria Federmann: Music and music care at the time of Duke Albrecht - on the history of the Königsberg court orchestra in the years 1525–1578 . 1932, private reprint 1981.
  • Georg Küsel : Contributions to the music history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. Königsberg Studies in Musicology, II. Königsberg 1923.
  • Hermann Güttler: Königsberg's musical culture in the 18th century . Koenigsberg 1925.
  • Ernst August Hagen : History of the theater in Prussia, especially the stages in Königsberg and Danzig from their first beginnings to the guest performances of J. Fischer's and E. Devrient’s . Königsberg 1854 ( digitized version )
  • Erwin Kroll : Königsberg, city of music . Freiburg im Breisgau 1966.
  • Joseph Müller-Blattau : History of Music in East and West Prussia , 2nd edition. Wolfenbüttel 1968, p. 149.
  • (German) stage schedule (1896–1944).
  • Werner Schwarz: Music history of Pomerania, West Prussia, East Prussia and the Baltic countries . Dülmen 1990. ISBN 978-3899600704 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Dieter Meyer (2010)
  2. ↑ a b c d Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 (based on reports by Otto Besch)
  3. ^ Königsberger Musikverein (culture in East Prussia)
  4. ↑ Bach Society in Königsberg
  5. ^ A b Erwin Kroll: Music City Königsberg. History and memory. Atlantis Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. And Zurich.
  6. ^ Gerhard von Glinski, Peter Wörster : Königsberg. The East Prussian capital, past and present . Westkreuz-Verlag, Berlin Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-922131-68-9 , p. 96
  7. ^ The opera. Special issue for the 60th German Tonkünstler Festival . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ 1837
  9. ↑ Hans Joachim Marx: Handel's oratorios, odes and serenatas: a compendium . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 3-525-27815-2 , pp. 142 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ^ 1. Ostpreußisches Musikfest 1908 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  11. ↑ Victoria Teichert: MDR Symphony Orchestra in Kaliningrad: The concert event of the year - a symphony of friendship ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Superillu.de, January 22, 2010.
  12. ↑ Friends of Kant and Königsberg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.freunde-kants.com