Alfred Christlieb Kalischer

Alfred Christlieb Kalischer (born March 4, 1842 in Thorn ; † October 8, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German writer and musicologist.

Life

Kalischer was the son of Rabbi Zwi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874) from his marriage to Henrietta (Gütel) Kalischer born. Cohn (approx. 1802-1889).

He studied philology in Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1866. He then settled in Berlin and perfected his musical education with Constantin Bürgel (piano) and C. Böhmer. He then worked as a private teacher for piano and theory as well as for Latin and Greek. He later taught ancient languages ​​at the Humboldt Academy , a private institute for adult education.

At the same time, he was music editor of the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung in 1873/74 and wrote numerous articles for the magazines Der Klavierlehrer , Die Musik and the Sunday supplement of the Vossische Zeitung .

Kalischer stood out in particular with publications on Ludwig van Beethoven , including the first text-critical complete edition of his letters.

Works

• Observationes in poesim romanensem provincialibus in primis respectis scripsit . Dümmler, Berlin 1866
• What we need in religion. A wake-up call to the confessors of Jesus and to the confessors of Moses . Chun, Berlin 1879
• Benedict von Spinoza's position on Judaism and Christianity. As a contribution to solving the Jewish question . Habel, Berlin 1884
• Music and morals , Hamburg 1888
• Heinrich Heine ’s relationship to religion . Dresden 1890 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
• Beethoven's “ Immortal Beloved ”. Giulietta Guicciardi or Therese Brunswick ? Richard Bertling, Dresden 1891 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
• Spartacus , Berlin: self-published, 1899
• New Beethoven letters . Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1902 ( archive.org )
• A copy book from the Simrock'schen Musikhandlung in Bonn from 1797 . In: Journal of the International Music Society , vol. 4 (1902/03), pp. 531–542
• Immanuel Kant's state philosophy . O. Weber, Leipzig 1904
• Wagneriana. Two dialogues and two essays on Richard Wagner's writings and poems . Berlin 1904
• A conversation book by Ludwig van Beethoven : For the first time fully communicated and explained . In: Die Musik , vol. 5.1 (1905/1906), issue 4, pp. 238–249 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), issue 5, pp. 307–318 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), issue 6, p. 404 -412, No. 8, pp. 100-108
• All Beethoven's letters , critical edition with explanations by Alfred Christlieb Kalischer
  • Volume 1, Berlin / Leipzig 1906 ( digitized version )
  • Volume 2, Berlin / Leipzig 1907 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  • Volume 3 archive.org
  • Volume 4 archive.org
  • Volume 5 archive.org
• Beethoven and his contemporaries
  • Volume 1, Beethoven and Berlin . Schuster & Löffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1908 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  • Volume 2, Beethoven's group of women. First part . Schuster & Löffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1909
  • Volume 3, Beethoven's group of women. Part two . Schuster & Löffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1910
  • Volume 4, Beethoven and Vienna . Schuster & Löffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1910 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )

literature

• Hans Volkmann , Alfred Christlieb Kalischer † . In: Die Musik , Vol. 9, Volume 33, pp. 161–163 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )