Alexander Friedrich of Hesse

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Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Georg of Hesse (born January 25, 1863 in Copenhagen , † March 25, 1945 in Fronhausen (Lahn) ), also Alexander Friedrich Landgrave of Hesse (-Kassel), from the Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim line of the House of Hesse was titular Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel and composer .

Life

He was the second son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim (1820–1884) and his second wife Maria Anna Friederike von Prussia (1836–1918). He had already been born with a visual impairment, received part of his school education in an English boarding school, St. Joseph's College in Upper Norwood (London), studied humanities in Marburg and Leipzig and completed his studies with a doctorate . After the death of his older brother Friedrich Wilhelm in 1888, Alexander Friedrich, who was visually impaired from birth, was head of the House of Hesse-Kassel until his inappropriate marriage in 1925, when he waived. His brother Friedrich Karl followed him as head of the house. Alexander von Hessen married Gisela Freiin Stockhorner von Starein on March 25, 1925 in Frankfurt .

Philippsruhe Castle

Alexander von Hessen loved music and art and was a patron of the music of the composers of the Romantic and Modern periods. His own musical work began very early. In Frankfurt, where mother and son lived during the winter months, they associated with artists such as Joachim Raff , Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann , Engelbert Humperdinck and Johannes Brahms , supported the construction of the opera house and took an active part in the music scene. While his mother remained more involved in traditional music care, Alexander turned to the New German School and sought closeness to Franz Liszt , Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner . Alexander von Hessen, who had to write his compositions in Braille music script because of his severe visual impairment , left behind a musical work that was still partially untapped. He is said to have composed a mass for the sisterhood of the Chiriugische Klinik in Munich, where the Landgrave was a patient of Sauerbruch . A still incomplete inventory of his compositions can be found at Klassika .

Alexander Friedrich von Hessen was the last member of the family to live in Philippsruhe Palace .

Alexanderstrasse in Hanau-Kesselstadt is named after him.

ancestors

Pedigree of Alexander Friedrich of Hesse (1863–1945)
Great grandparents

Prince
Friedrich of Hessen-Kassel (1747–1837)
⚭ 1786
Princess Karoline Polyxene of Nassau-Usingen (1762–1823)

Prince
Friedrich of Denmark (1753–1805)
⚭ 1774
Grand Duchess Sophie Friederike of Mecklenburg (1758–1794)

King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Prussia) (1770–1840)
⚭ 1793
Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776–1810)

Grand Duke Karl Friedrich (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) (1783–1853)
⚭ 1804
Grand Duchess Maria Pawlowna Romanowa (1786–1859)
Grandparents

Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen -Kassel-Rumpenheim (1787–1867)
⚭ 1810
Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789–1864)

Prince Carl of Prussia (1801–1883)
⚭ 1827
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877)

parents

Titular Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim (1820–1884)
⚭ 1853
Princess Anna of Prussia (1836–1918)

Titular Landgrave Alexander Friedrich of Hesse (1863–1945)

literature

  • Ralph Philipp Ziegler: Alexander Friedrich Landgrave of Hesse (1863-1945). Life and work of a composer between romantic and modern. (= Studies on Hessian Music History 6.) Merseburger, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-87537-292-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Anna Caroline Amalia Ida Pauline Freiin Stockhorner von Starein, * January 17, 1884 in Mannheim , † June 22, 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau ( Gisela Anna Caroline Amalia Ida Pauline Freiin Stockhorner von Starein on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 10 2016.)
  2. ↑ Welcome to the Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung im Holzhausenschlösschen - Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung im Holzhausenschlößchen .
  3. ↑ Facets of life of Landgrave Alexander Friedrich, composer between romanticism and modernity .
  4. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 294.
  5. ↑ Klassika: Alexander Friedrich von Hessen (1863-1945): catalog raisonné .
personal data
SURNAME Hessen, Alexander Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hessen-Kassel, Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1945
Place of death Fronhausen (Lahn)