Adolf Boettge

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Andreas Gustav "Adolph" Boettge (born August 23, 1848 in Wittenberg , † January 26, 1913 in Wiesbaden ) was a German royal music director , military bandmaster, composer and arranger .

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Adolf Boettge was born on August 23, 1848 in Wittenberg. In 1853 his parents moved to Magdeburg , where he attended secondary school. Since he showed a lot of joy in music and also a talent for it, his father gave him lessons on the piano, violin and various wind instruments at an early age , so that as a 15-year-old boy he could perform publicly as a pianist and violinist. He also attended the ducal music school in Bernburg . When he was 17 years old, he became a soldier because he wanted to belong to a military band . His role model was the then music director Albert Parlow , who achieved great success with his band of the Pomeranian Fusilier Regiment No. 34 . Boettge reported to this regiment and was hired on March 5, 1866. His goal was to become Kapellmeister one day, and Parlow supported him in his musical endeavors. After completing three years of service in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in Potsdam, he got to know the military parade service. He took counterpoint lessons from Professors Stern and Geyer in Berlin . Under the direction of Wilhelm Wieprecht , he learned how to transmit larger musical works for military music . He then got a job as a hoboist and music teacher in the Royal Cadet Corps in Berlin in October 1869 . From 1869 to 1871 he attended the Royal Conservatory .

The Festhalle (with the Bismarckdenkmal of Moest against today at Bismarck High School is)

After the end of the campaign in 1871 he was sent from Wieprecht to Karlsruhe (Baden) to take over the leadership of the band of the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 . Almost every Sunday he gave music concerts in the large festival hall by the city ​​garden . He and his band were very popular and were attended by thousands of listeners from all walks of life. He composed numerous overtures , fantasies, potpourris and marches that were widespread in the armies. He adapted many pieces from Wagner's Parsifal to military music. The programs featured fanfares from 1292 with kettledrums and marches from the Thirty Years' War . In 1877 and 1885 he was given the honorable task of uniting the music choirs of the XIV Army Corps under his baton.

On September 19, 1881, the Swedish royal family came to Karlsruhe on a special train . At the station they were greeted by Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden and his body grenadier regiment; it played the Swedish national anthem . The day after, when the Grand Duke and Duchess celebrated their silver wedding anniversary, the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav (who later became King Gustav V ) married Princess Viktoria von Baden , the only daughter of the Grand Duke couple of Baden.

Boettges band consisted of 45 musicians. It was the first military band in Germany and had performances in most major German cities, including at the industrial and craft fair in Hamburg in 1889, where it received stormy applause. He bought a number of old musical instruments that he then used in his historical concerts. In 1911 Adolf Boettge was celebrated for 40 years in the service of military music.

Ludwig Keller dedicated his Hebrew Melodies to Boettge ( "Admirably dedicated to the Royal Music Director Mr. Adolf Böttge / Kol nidre / Hebrew Melodies for Violoncello " ).

Music director Adolf Boettge died at the age of 64 in Wiesbaden in the officers' convalescent home. There he was after a stroke to cure ; he was buried in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .

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Honors

He received a total of 27 medals, including the Swedish Order of the Sword and, in 1903, the Order of the Zähringer Lion .

In Karlsruhe- Grünwinkel , Boettgestraße has been named after him since 1927 .

literature

  • Boettge, Adolf. In: Wolfgang Suppan , Fritz Thelen (ed.): Lexicon of brass music. Freiburg 1976, p. 128.
  • Adolf Boettge and the band of the Grand Ducal Baden Leibgrenadier Regiment. In: The brass music. 33rd year, 1983, p. 233 ff.

The writer and journalist Albert Herzog (1867–1955) mentions Boettge in his memoirs, Your happy eyes. P. 189 ( books.google.de ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Keller: Hebrew Melodies - Mus. Hs. 1223: orch; g in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
  2. ↑ Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , 1912/13, Volume 33, Page 555
  3. ↑ Military musician Adolf Boettge: Also Klassik und Fastnacht / died 100 years ago , in: "StadtZeitung" ( Official Gazette of the City of Karlsruhe), Volume 67, No. 6 from Friday, February 8, 2013, as a supplement to " DER KURIER " from Friday, February 8, 2013 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the BNN server , accessed on 8. February 2013)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / web.bnn.de  
  4. ↑ Dep. 1 T 41 No. 246 in the Sigmaringen State Archives
  5. ↑ Boettge, Adolph . In: Vetenskapsakademi (ed.): Sveriges statskalender för år 1925 . Almqvist & Wiksell boktryckeri AB, 1925, ZDB -ID 205099-7 , p. 862 (Swedish, runeberg.org - Swedish State Calendar).
  6. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Baden (1910), page 248
personal data
SURNAME Boettge, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boettge, Andreas Gustav Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1913
Place of death Wiesbaden