Aloys Fleischmann (composer, 1880)

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Aloys Georg Fleischmann (born April 24, 1880 in Dachau ; † January 3, 1964 in Cork ) was a German composer, organist and choir director.

Life

The son of the Dachau master shoemaker and co-founder of the Dachau Liedertafel Alois Fleischmann (1844–1914) attended the elementary school in his home town from 1887–1894. He then received lessons in music theory and Latin, was admitted to the preparatory course of the Royal Academy of Music in 1896 , where he studied organ , conducting and, with Josef Rheinberger , composition from 1898 to 1901 . He passed the final examination with distinction in all subjects.

Aloys Fleischmann in Cork in 1907

During his subsequent activity as organist and choir director at the Dachau parish church of St. Jakob, he founded a music school in Dachau, where children received lessons in choir singing and playing instruments at affordable fees. With the support of Munich musician friends and members of the Dachau artists' colony ( von Hayek , Hölzel , Pfalz , Stockmann ) he worked to revive the local tradition of Christmas children's parties. In 1905 he performed his nativity play The Night of Miracles in Dachau .

In 1905 Fleischmann married the pianist Tilly Swertz , a fellow student whose parents had emigrated from Dachau to Cork in 1879. The following year he took over the vacant position of his father-in-law Hans-Conrad Swertz in Cork and worked there at the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne until old age as organist and cathedral music director .

As a German citizen, Aloys Fleischmann was declared a civilian prisoner of war by the British military authorities during the First World War and was interned from January 1916 until after the end of the war , most recently on the Isle of Man , from where he was deported to Germany. He was only able to return to Ireland in September 1920. There he took on new duties in addition to his work at the cathedral: from 1920 to 1958 he worked as a teacher of singing and piano at the seminary of the diocese of Cork and from 1922 to 1937 as professor of harmony and choral singing at the Cork Municipal School of Music .

As a church musician and music teacher, Fleischmann had a decisive influence on a number of Irish composers and musicians of the next generation. Arnold Bax , Herbert Hughes (1882–1937), EJ Moeran (1894–1950) and Frederick May (1911–85) belonged to the Fleischmanns' circle of friends .

Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann in Cork in 1960.

Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann's son, the composer Aloys Fleischmann (1910-1992), worked as a professor of music at University College Cork, as conductor of the Cork Symphony Orchestra, which he founded in 1934, and as co-founder and long-time director of the Cork International Choral Festival, founded in 1954 .

Works

Aloys Fleischmann left around 600 compositions, most of them unprinted, including stage works, sacred and secular vocal and instrumental music and almost 100 art songs. Above all, his stage work The Night of Miracles brought him his artistic breakthrough. It stands at the beginning of a tradition that extends to Carl Orff's Easter and Christmas games and Tobias Reiser's Advent singing . A catalog raisonné was prepared by Andreas Pernpeintner.

Publications

  • Eight Songs for Male Choir [Eight Songs for Male Voice Choir], published by Jos. Aibl range, Munich, undated
  • Night / An die Nacht , text: Wilhelm Michel, translated by Walter Henley; Augener, London 1929
  • The Awakening , text Walter Henley; Augener, London, 1929
  • The Fool / Der Phantast , text: Franz Schaehle, translated by Walter Henley; Augener, London 1929
  • From the children's world - two songs for piano and a medium voice: Two Musical Sketches. The first piano lesson / The first piano lesson; The secret sound / Trudi , texts: Fleischmann; Verlag Wilhelm Berntheisel, Munich, 1931.

Memorial exhibitions

The life and work of Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann was documented in three exhibitions during 2010: In the Cork City Central Library , in the Cork Public Museum , and in the District Museum Dachau .

literature

  • Ursula Nauderer: "The Christmas Games (1903-1906) and their creator Alois Georg Fleischmann". In: "Towards Christmas". Altdachau Christmas time , exhibition catalog, District Museum Dachau 2003, pp. 69–86
  • Birgit Schlosser: Aloys Fleischmann: The Night of Miracles - A Dachau Christmas game and its context . Master's thesis at the Institute for Musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, September 2004
  • Séamas de Barra, "Arnold Bax, the Fleischmanns and Cork", Journal of Music in Ireland , Vol. 5, September / October 2005, pp. 24-30
  • Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann , Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006, ISBN 0-946755-32-9
  • Joseph Cunningham and Ruth Fleischmann: "Aloys Georg Fleischmann (1880-1964): The Contribution of a German Musician to Irish Choral Music Sacred and Secular". In: Creative Influences: Selected Irish-German Biographies , ed. by Joachim Fischer and Gisela Holfter, Wissenschaftsverlag, Trier 2009, pp. 39–50
  • Ursula Katharina Nauderer (Ed.): Aloys Georg Fleischmann 1880–1964. From Bavaria to Ireland - a musician's life between inspiration and longing . Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Dachau district museum. Dachau 2010, ISBN 978-3-930941-70-4
  • Ruth Fleischmann: "Aloys Fleischmann Senior". In: The Fleischmanns, A Remarkable Cork Family: A Companion to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations , Cork City Libraries 2010, pp. 19-29
  • Joseph P. Cunningham and Ruth Fleischmann: Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964). Immigrant Musician in Ireland . With an Essay on the Music by Séamas de Barra and Contributions by Josef Focht, Andreas Pernpeintner and Ursula Nauderer. Cork University Press, Cork 2010, ISBN 978-1-85918-462-2
  • Andreas Pernpeintner, Aloys Georg Fleischmann (1880-1964). Musical micro-history between Germany and Ireland , Verlag Prof. Dr. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2014, ISBN 978-3-86296-071-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph P. Cunningham, Ruth Fleischmann, Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964) Immigrant Musician in Ireland , Cork University Press 2010, pp. 11–45
  2. ↑ On Hans-Conrad and Tilly Swertz cf. the website of the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne, Cork ( memento of October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Joseph P. Cunningham, Ruth Fleischmann, Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964) Immigrant Musician in Ireland , Cork University Press 2010, pp. 131–166
  4. ^ Séamas de Barra: 'Arnold Bax, the Fleischmanns and Cork', Journal of Music in Ireland , Vol. 5 No. 5, September / October 2005, pp. 24-30
  5. ^ Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann , Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006
  6. ↑ Andreas Pernpeintner: catalog raisonné by Aloys Fleischmann (1880–1964) on the website of the university library of the LMU Munich; PDF 440 kB, accessed April 19, 2014
  7. ↑ These works, along with a few others, can be found on the Fleischmann website of the Cork City Libraries .
  8. ↑ The occasion of the exhibitions were celebrations for the 100th year of Aloys Fleischmann's (1910–1992) birth: Aloys Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations Program: Celebrating the Man and his Music . Cork City Council, Cork 2010, as well as an exhibition in the District Museum Dachau (2010)
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleischmann, Aloys Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, organist and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1964
Place of death Cork