Adolf Emge

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Adolf Emge (born January 2, 1874 in Dessau , † March 14, 1951 in Schwerin ) was a German educator , musician , composer and conductor .

Life

After studying in Weimar, Adolf Emge worked there as a solo répétiteur at the Grand Ducal Court Theater and as a piano teacher. Around 1903 he and Peter Gast wrote the music for Ernst Wachler's Walpurgis , which was premiered on July 8, 1903 for the opening performance of the Harz mountain theater founded by Wachler .

Emge moved to Schwerin in 1903, where he was director of the court theater choir until 1914. From 1903 he was also the conductor of the Schwerin Liedertafel from 1852 . In 1911 he was appointed Grand Ducal Music Director. In 1912 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg and from 1913 he taught at the Schwerin secondary school. As the successor to Bernhard Romberg , he was appointed director of the palace church choir in 1914, “giving character ” as court music director. He held this position until 1930. He then became an organist at the Paulskirche in Schwerin . From 1941 to 1942 he was again the theater's choir director. He also had the function of regional church music director .

In 1914 he was the festival conductor of the Mecklenburg Singing Festival in Schwerin and in 1924 and 1928 director of the Mecklenburg Church Singing Festival, which also took place in Schwerin. Emge was the author of musicological lectures, composed songs, some in Low German , and worked as a composer. Emge also dealt with painting and drawing.

Works (selection)

  • Music for Karl Weiser : Hutten. Drama , 1900.
  • Music to Ernst Wachler : Walpurgis. A festival for the spring celebration , 1903.
  • The teacher's right to chastise. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1912.
  • Employee at Friedrich Krüger : Singing and song book for use in Mecklenburg schools , 3 volumes. 1917/1918.
Composer of Low German songs
  • Dat song from the Eikbom
  • Up stunns
  • Lütt mats
  • Min homeland
  • Scores for numerous choral pieces
as a painter
  • At Lake Schwerin , oil / cardboard, 35 × 45 cm, 1895.

literature

  • Stephan Sehlke: Educators - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9497-8 , p. 95.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2486 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curt Trepte : Harz mountain theater: Tradition and present. For the 60th anniversary of the Harz mountain theater in Thale. Henschel, Berlin 1963, p. 21.
  2. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Official Supplement, 1914, p. 14.
  3. ↑ Scores by Adolf Emge in the LBMV
  4. ↑ Schwerin Auction House, 166th Art and Antiques Auction, November 26, 2016, Lot 107, Am Schweriner See , oil / cardboard, 35 × 45 cm
personal data
SURNAME Emge, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, musician, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1951
Place of death Schwerin