Adolf Sandberger

Adolf Sandberger, ca.1934

Adolf Wilhelm August Sandberger (born December 19, 1864 in Würzburg , † January 14, 1943 in Munich ) was a German musicologist and composer as well as a privy councilor.

Life

The son of geologist Fridolin Sandberger was a composition student of Max Meyer-Olbersleben in Würzburg and then studied composition in Munich with Josef Rheinberger . He then took courses in musicology with Philipp Spitta at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and received his doctorate in 1887 with a thesis on Peter Cornelius . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich .

From 1889 he was a curator at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, in 1894 he completed his habilitation and initially taught as a private lecturer, then from 1900 as a professor of music history at the Ludwig Maximilians University . He was the founder of the Society for the Publication of Monuments of Tonkunst in Bayern , which published the thirty-eight-volume series Monuments of Tonkunst in Bayern and headed the society until 1932. He also published Orlando di Lasso's works between 1894 and 1927 and the new from 1924 to 1942 Beethoven yearbook .

Sandberger was the teacher of Werner Egk , Felix Raabe , Hans von Benda , Eugen Schmitz and Heinrich Strobel . In addition to orchestral works and operas , he composed chamber music , piano pieces and songs .

His successor in Munich was Rudolf von Ficker .

Awards

• 1902: extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1909: Appointment to the secret government council
• 1912: full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1927: Honorary member of the Beethoven House in Bonn
• 1934: City plaque of the city of Würzburg in bronze (on the occasion of his 70th birthday)
• 1939: City plaque of the city of Würzburg in silver (on the occasion of his 75th birthday)

Works

Compositions

• Trio Sonata in C minor for violin, viola and piano, Op. 4th
• Forest morning , choral work
• Acting overture
• Violin sonata
• Ludwig the Springer , opera
• Riccio , overture
• Viola , symphonic poem
• Six songs for a voice with piano accompaniment
• Piano trio
• King's March
• Five songs and chants for high voice with piano accompaniment

Fonts

• Peter Cornelius (1887)
• Contributions to the history of the Bavarian court orchestra under Orlando di Lasso , 2 volumes (1894/95)
• Selected essays on music history , 2 volumes (1921–1924)
• Orlando di Lasso and the spiritual currents of his time (1926)

Documents

Letters from Adolf Sandberger are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CFPeters in the Leipzig State Archives .

literature

• Stephan Hörner :  Sandberger, Adolf Wilhelm August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 415 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ernst Klee : Adolf Sandberger Entry in ders .: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5

Web links

Wikisource: List of publications  - sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Adolf Sandberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Catalog of works on Klassika
• Estate in the Bavarian State Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Adolf Sandberger in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 177.
2. ^ Member entry by Adolf Sandberger (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 10, 2016.
3. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1273, note 60.