Albert Mayer-Reinach

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Albert Michael Mayer-Reinach (born April 2, 1876 in Mannheim ; † February 25, 1954 in Örebro ) was a German musicologist, music teacher and conductor.

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Albert Mayer-Reinach was a son of the timber importer and manufacturer Adolph Mayer, (since 1875: Mayer-Reinach), (born November 26, 1878 in Krefeld , † September 3, 1942 in Hamburg ) and his wife Louise Reinach (born July 5 1855 in Mainz ; † October 5, 1925 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ). The maternal grandfather was the winery owner Michael Reinach.

Mayer-Reinach finished a visit to the humanistic high school in Mannheim in 1894 with the Abitur. During his school days he practiced playing the piano and thereby reached the concert maturity. After finishing school he gave public concerts at the University of Munich in addition to studying musicology and literary history. At the same time he worked at the Munich Music Academy with theoretical subjects and instrument studies. He learned conducting with Felix von Weingarten and composition with Joseph Rheinberger . He stayed there for four semesters and from 1896 attended the University of Berlin, as well as the Stern Conservatory , where he studied with Gustav Hollaender and Friedrich Gernsheim .

In February 1899 Mayer-Reinach finished his studies with the doctorate "cum laude" for Dr. phil. According to the commentary on his dissertation on “Carl Heinrich Graun as an opera composer”, he had “exceptional erudition”. He then did his military service in Strasbourg as a one-year volunteer . From 1900 to 1902 he worked as an opera conductor in Stettin , then in Kiel . In addition to this, he conducted research on music history topics. In 1903 he published a scientific edition of the opera Montezuma by Carl Heinrich Graun .

From 1902 Mayer-Reinach lived in Berlin again. He co-edited the magazine of the International Music Society and worked as a music critic. In the spring of 1911 he attended the International Congress of the International Music Society in London . He went to archives and did research in Königsberg on the Königsberg court orchestra , in particular on Johann Stobäus . This is how "On the history of the Königsberg court chapel in the years 1578-1729" was created. In 1904 he completed his habilitation with this thesis at the University of Kiel.

Mayer-Reinbach then taught as a private lecturer at Kiel University until the spring. Until 1924 he taught "art history", from which the "art studies" emerged. Both subjects also included musicology. He focused entirely on musicology as art history and gave no exercises in theory or liturgy. Thematically, he steadily expanded his teaching content. From the summer semester of 1905 he dealt with Beethoven , the history of musical notation and “musicological exercises” on the music of the 18th and 19th centuries. He was the first teacher at the university to study these areas. Afterwards he mostly addressed Richard Wagner , repeated the music history of the 19th century and Beethoven. There was also opera, oratorio, passions, lied and orchestral music. He also held a colloquium on problems in music history. In his last lectures he spoke about the history of music from 1800 to the outbreak of the First World War .

In addition to teaching, Mayer-Reinach continued to work as a practical musician and music teacher. From 1905 he was regularly on stage as a conductor and led the Kieler Gesangsverein until 1910. One of the most outstanding public appearances on June 9 and 10, 1907 was the Beethoven Festival of the choral society. The pianist Arthur Schnabel and the singers Johannes Meßchaert and Therese Behr could be heard here at a recital . Also worth mentioning was the 7th Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, at which he conducted one of the festival concerts in 1907.

In 1908 Mayer-Reinach created a private conservatory in Kiel and acted as its director of studies. Shortly after the First World War , the state-recognized teaching institution, the Conservatory of Music in Kiel , had around 1200 students and pupils and 80, some of them very renowned teachers. It was therefore one of the largest such teaching institutions in Germany. As the youngest recipient of the award at the time, Mayer-Reinach was awarded the title of royal music director in 1913. Attached to the Conservatory was a “Theater School for Opera and Drama” under the direction of Paul Trede . The city of Kiel helped Mayer-Reinach to found an orchestra school. In the years before the First World War, he directed his own “Philharmonic Choir”, which competed extremely successfully with the Kiel Choral Society. This choir existed until it was called up in 1914.

Throughout the First World War, Mayer-Reinach served as a cavalry officer in France and the Balkans and received several military awards. He was stationed in Bucharest for some time and gave as a lecturer "college courses" created by the military governor. After the end of the war he worked again as a university lecturer and conductor in Kiel and took over the deputy chairmanship of the association of directors of German music schools.

In April 1924 Mayer-Reinach received a call to head the Krüß-Färber Conservatory , which he should expand. The city of Hamburg probably had fewer problems as a result of inflation than Kiel. In addition, there were family reasons that spoke for a change of location. In addition to his activities in Hamburg, he continued to teach in Kiel until 1930 and supervised the local conservatory. At first he had success with the Hamburg institution; However, due to the complicated economic situation and agitation by the National Socialists, who viewed Mayer-Reinach as “non-Aryans”, he had to stop operations in 1932. Mayer-Reinach then taught at the Rothesches Conservatory of his second wife.

The National Socialists banned Mayer-Reinach from working. In the autumn of 1836 he emigrated to Scandinavia. He initially lived briefly in Copenhagen and Stockholm and then moved to Örebro. Friends who thought it possible to create and shape a musical life there had advised him to do this. His wife quickly found many music students. He also trained himself, but devoted himself particularly to scientific research. In Uppsala and Stockholm he discovered new sources about Joseph Martin Kraus . This is how some of his most important publications were written in Swedish.

After his death in 1954, Mayer-Reinach's wife sent his estate to the Musicological Institute of Kiel University at the request of her deceased husband.

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Mayer-Reinach created the foundations for the subject of musicology at Kiel University and its later recognition as an independent and taught subject. The university's course catalog shows that the subject is becoming increasingly important. His publications on music history are considered pioneering. His dissertation on Graun, in particular the opera “Montezuma”, brought the play back to performances, which is not reported on in some new productions. With his report “On the history of the Königsberger Hofkapelle” he created the basis for numerous publications on individual participants in the ensemble, in particular on Joseph Martin Kraus.

Mayer-Reinach was considered to be an extraordinarily versatile musician who wrote his own compositions, lyrical songs that were sometimes published, as well as marches, and who created significant added value for the music scene in Northern Germany and German musicology. Due to his forced emigration, he was unable to achieve his full potential.

Honors

  • In 1913 Mayer-Reinach was appointed Royal Music Director.
  • He received the Iron Cross 2nd class.
  • He was made a Knight of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen (Baden).
  • He was a holder of the Saxon Order of Frederick August 2nd class.

family

In June 1908 Mayer-Reinach married Antonie Mathilde Heiser in London (born November 26, 1878 in Krefeld ; † September 3, 1942 in Hamburg). With this singer and actress he had three sons and two daughters.

In his second marriage, Mayer-Reinach married the pianist and piano teacher Martha Franziska Rothe (born September 19, 1901 in Hamburg; † November 22, 1981 in Örebro) in Hamburg in 1932. The marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 230-233.
  • Hannah Kilian: Priv. Doz. Albert Mayer-Reinach (1876–1954) - musicologist and composer . In: Wilhelm Kreuz, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim. Portraits from two decades, Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 147–156.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 230.
  2. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 230.
  3. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 230.
  4. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 230-231.
  5. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 231.
  6. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 231.
  7. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 231-232.
  8. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 232.
  9. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 232.
  10. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 233.
  11. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 232.
  12. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 232.
  13. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 233.
  14. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 230.
  15. ↑ Object metadata @ LexM. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  16. ^ Peter E. Gradenwitz: Mayer-Reinach, Albert . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 230.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer-Reinach, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer-Reinach, Albert Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, music teacher and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1954
Place of death Örebro