Alfred Thienemann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alfred Thienemann (born August 19, 1858 in Gotha ; † June 24, 1923 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German conductor and composer.

Life

Thienemann came from a Gotha family of lawyers and publishers. As the son of a bookseller, he studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg . On January 30, 1881 he was reciprocated in the Corps Teutonia at Marburg . He gave up his studies and underwent musical training in Berlin with Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar Bargiel . He found his first job as choir director and conductor at the Kroll Opera . As a theater conductor he came to the Düsseldorf City Theater , to Stettin , to the Lübeck Theater and to Nuremberg's New City Theater on Lorenzer Platz . The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha appointed him as court conductor in 1900 . Later he was a singing teacher in Berlin and music advisor for the Berliner Tageblatt . He composed orchestral and piano works as well as numerous songs . Teutonia Marburg awarded him the corps bow in 1903 . He remained unmarried and last lived with his sister Elisabeth Gennrich geb. Thienemann.

Individual evidence

  1. Thienemann (Familienarchiv-jacobs.de)
  2. a b Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia zu Marburg 1825 to 2000, No. 611, p. 142.
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102/625.
  4. a b Berlin Archive of Time and its Taste (2005)
  5. Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Digital edition.