Alfred Burjam
Carl Louis Alfred Burjam , also Carl Lewis Alfred Burjam (born August 9, 1847 in Lübeck , † July 6, 1907 in Hamburg ) was a German church musician .
Life
Alfred Burjam was a son of the organist of the Petrikirche in Lübeck, Johann Daniel Zacharias Burjam (1804–1879). In 1865/66 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory . He then continued his cello studies at the Raff Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main and with Kapellmeister Friedrich Lux in Mainz . From 1879 to 1883 he was organist in Wiesbaden .
In 1884 he was appointed organist at the main church St. Michaelis in Hamburg as the successor to GDW Osterholt. He held this position for 22 years until he was forced to retire for health reasons. He still saw the destruction of the old Michaeliskirche and its organ by fire on July 3rd, 1906.
From 1890 to 1905 he also taught piano and organ at the Hamburg Conservatory . As a piano teacher, he represented the Stuttgart teaching method .
Under his direction, the annual performance of the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach became a tradition in Hamburg.
literature
- Carl Stiehl : Lübeckisches Tonkünstlerlexikon. Leipzig: Hesse 1887 ( digitized version ), p. 4
- Emil Krause : Alfred Burjam †. In: Der Klavier-Lehrer 30 (1907), p. 248
- Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, p. 87
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl W. Whistling (ed.): Statistics des Königl. Leipzig Conservatory of Music 1843-1883. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1883, p. 22, no.1209.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burjam, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burjam, Carl Louis Alfred (full name); Burjam, Carl Lewis Alfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1907 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |