Albert Thierfelder (musician)

This article deals with the musician Thierfelder; for further meanings of this name see Thierfelder .

Albert Thierfelder (born April 30, 1846 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † January 6, 1924 in Rostock ) was a German musician , university professor and university music director who also made a name for himself as a composer and functionary in the northeast German choir .

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Thierfelder attended the conservatory and university in Leipzig . Since the winter of 1865/66 he was a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (now part of the German Choir ). He then worked as music director first in Elbing in East Prussia and then in Brandenburg . In 1888 he succeeded the important musicologist and writer Hermann Kretzschmar (1848–1924) as academic and municipal music director in Rostock. As a professor (from 1890) he mainly edited arrangements of ancient Greek music .

It was particularly committed to the northeast German choir; among other things he was elected chairman of the Mecklenburg Singers' Association. In 1920 he was one of the main founders of the Lower Saxony singers in Rostock .

Thierfelder composed operas , symphonies , chamber music and songs ; Above all, however, his numerous choral works were popular.

Musicological publications

• Ancient Greek Music (Ed.), Leipzig 1906
• Metrics - the meter measures of the Greek and Roman poets , Leipzig 1919

Compositions

• The marriage stone , opera in two acts, Rostock 1898
• The virgin from Königssee , opera
• Zlatorog , Eine Alpensage for choir, solo voices and orchestra, based on Rudolf Baumbach 's poem of the same name, around 1885
• Mrs. Holde , Dramatic Cantata for Solos, Choir and Orchestra op.30, based on Rudolf Baumbach's poem of the same name, Fulda 1901
• Kaiser Max und seine Jäger , concert drama for solos, choir and orchestra op.36, based on Rudolf Baumbach's poem of the same name, Fulda 1903

Explanations have even been published for this work:

Kaiser Max and his hunters , concert drama by Albert Thierfelder. Textually and musically explained about the use of the listener at the performances by Walther Lindemann, Fulda 1907

• Edelweiss for choir
• Rostock Low German songbook from 1478 . With a selection of the melodies arranged by Albert Thierfelder. Edited by Bruno Claussen, Rostock 1919

Trivia

Occasionally Albert Thierfelder is confused with his namesake, the pathologist (Ferdinand) Albert Thierfelder (1842–1908), also a university professor in Rostock. Both worked at the same time at the University of Rostock; Their two terms of office also coincide in some areas with that of (Ferdinand) Albert's older brother Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904).

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1. ↑ Deviating also: June 30, 1846
2. ^ Also different : in Leipzig .
3. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 42
4. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : "Golden Life in Singing!" - Founding and development of German academic choral societies at the universities of the Baltic Sea region in the 19th and early 20th centuries , pp. 139–186 (footnote 58 on p. 149); in: Ekkehard Ochs / Peter Tenhaef / Walter Werbeck / Lutz Winkler (eds.): University and Music in the Baltic Sea Region (Greifswald Contributions to Musicology, Vol. 17), Berlin 2009. University and Music in the Baltic Sea Region

Web links

• Literature about Albert Thierfelder in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Albert Thierfelder in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Sheet music and audio files by Albert Thierfelder (musician) in the International Music Score Library Project