Adolf Bauer (composer)

Adolf Bauer (born August 13, 1877 in Mudersbach ; † March 2, 1948 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German composer and musicologist .

Life

He was the son of the teacher Hermann Joseph Bauer and his wife Emilie nee Jünger. After attending the humanistic grammar school, he studied at the University of Bonn and then attended the conservatory in Cologne . He then became a teacher at the conservatory and later conductor of the Düren Municipal Concert Society . He achieved particular importance as a lecturer for musicology, especially musical form theory, at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. Adolf Bauer was appointed to Bonn University in 1922. He held the title of Music Director and was also intensively involved with the life and work of Franz Schubert . In the 1920s, for example, Bauer published an unknown Scherzo in A flat major by Franz Schubert.

As a composer, Adolf Bauer created a number of songs, choirs, choral works for orchestra and orchestral works, as well as church music and piano music. On the occasion of the academic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn on October 18, 1943, he composed a festive fanfare music for organ, quadruple fanfares and timpani, which was premiered at the ceremony.

He lived in Bonn, Helmholtzstrasse 9.

family

Adolf Bauer married Else, née Uies, on August 16, 1921.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 68.
Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar , 1954, column 1630.

Web links

Entry at musicanet.org

Individual evidence

^ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 89, Part 2, Page 437.
↑ Die Musik , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1922, page 238.
↑ New edition of all works. Series 7, piano music. Critical Review , 2005, p. 62.
^ Report on the International Congress for Schubert Research, Vienna, November 25-29, 1928, organized with the support of the archive for photograms of musical master manuscripts at the music collection of the National Library in Vienna , 1929, page 161.
↑ Speeches on the occasion of the academic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn on October 18, 1943 , Bonner Universitäts-Buchdruckerei Gebr. Scheur, 1944, page 4.

personal data
SURNAME	Bauer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mudersbach
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1948
Place of death	Brandenburg on the Havel

[1] Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 89, Part 2, Page 437.

[2] Die Musik , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1922, page 238.

[3] New edition of all works. Series 7, piano music. Critical Review , 2005, p. 62.

[4] Report on the International Congress for Schubert Research, Vienna, November 25-29, 1928, organized with the support of the archive for photograms of musical master manuscripts at the music collection of the National Library in Vienna , 1929, page 161.

[5] Speeches on the occasion of the academic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn on October 18, 1943 , Bonner Universitäts-Buchdruckerei Gebr. Scheur, 1944, page 4.