Aloys Hennes

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Notenblatt, 1874, March by Aloys Hennes in memory of the failed Bismarck assassination attempt in Bad Kissingen .

Aloys Hennes (born September 8, 1827 in Aachen , † June 8, 1889 in Berlin ) was a German pianist and composer.

Life

Hennes was a student of Ferdinand Hiller and Carl Reinecke . He became a piano teacher in Wiesbaden and in Berlin in 1872 . From 1881 he worked as a teacher at Xaver Scharwenka's conservatory in Berlin. He was best known for his instructive piano lessons , which were initially self-published and later in book form. These lesson letters were also translated into English, for example, and after his death the German version was continued by the Breitkopf & Härtel music publisher . According to the German National Library, he composed around 400 pieces of music.

His daughter Therese Hennes, born in Wiesbaden in 1861, also became a pianist and was considered a child prodigy, but she was denied musical success in the patriarchal society of that time.

Hennes is also the author of the oldest hiking guide for the area around Berlin, " 100 Afternoon Trips in the Surrounding Area of ​​Berlin " 1879. He described short excursions into the closer, then still undeveloped area of ​​the city, which were easily accessible by the Ringbahn completed in 1877 ( Oberspreegebiet, Grunewald, Potsdamer Havelgebiet, Havelgebiet around the Jungfernheide / Tegeler See and "Seitenentouren"). “The book, made with pleasure and love, soon enjoyed widespread use. ... The father of the real guide for the Mark. ”A year later,“ 32 trips to the wider area around Berlin (Biesenthal, Eberswalde, Chorin, Oderberg, Freienwalde and Buckow) ”followed. After Hennes' death, all volumes were combined under the title " 200 Excursions in the Surrounding Area of ​​Berlin " (1896). This work, later renamed “ Straube's Märkisches Wanderbuch ” and edited several times, had 28 editions by 1929 under various editors.

Publications (selection)

  • Spring lust . Salon-Mazurka, Op. 17, Mainz 1858
  • Piano lesson letters. A new and practically proven teaching method in five courses from the first beginnings to the study of the larger etudes by Bertini, Czerny and the easier sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Clementi. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig from 1870.
  • 100 afternoon excursions in the area around Berlin with descriptions of the routes and names of the current means of transport. Self-published, Berlin 1879; 2., completely redesigned. Edition by F. & P. ​​Lehmann, Berlin, 1884, 3rd edition 1888 under the title 150 excursions in the area around Berlin ; from the 20th edition reworked by Reinhold Heere as 200 excursions in the area around Berlin at Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1896; from the 21st edition as Straube's Märkisches Wanderbuch (now in four separate volumes), revised and increasingly by Dr. Gustav Albrecht in the Geographical Institute and map publishing house Jul. Straube 1904; last (28th) edition in two volumes by the same publisher in 1929
  • 32 excursions in the wider area around Berlin (Biesenthal, Eberswalde, Chorin, Oderberg, Freienwalde and Buckow) , self-published, Berlin 1880
  • Hundekehle station as the starting point for 30 Grunewald excursions. With precise names of the paths and as a supplement to the “Hundred Afternoon Trips” . Self-published 1881 (The "Station Hundekehle" is now called Bahnhof Berlin-Grunewald .)

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References and comments

  1. ^ Aloys Hennes: A new method for the piano, after the piano lessons letters . New York Public Library (Letters on piano instruction)
  2. ^ Therese Hennes . (PDF; 423 kB) Music and Gender on the Internet, Hamburg University of Music and Theater
  3. ↑ “Der Bär, Illustrirte Berliner Wochenschrift”, No. 7/1881, p. 73 .
  4. ^ Emil Albrecht (1856–1920): How Kießling's hiking book came about. In: “ The Mark, Illustrated Journal for Heimatwandern und Landeskunde of the Mark Brandenburg ”, XVI. Year, issue 12 / mid-July 1920, p. 108 f.
  5. ↑ “ Der Bär, Illustrirte Berliner Wochenschrift ”, No. 41/1881, p. 527 , another year later a book about excursions from today 's Grunewald S-Bahn station .
  6. ^ Proof in the International Music Score Library Project
  7. ↑ “ Der Bär, Illustrirte Berliner Wochenschrift ”, No. 38/1888, p. 479 .
  8. ^ Online edition from 1879
  9. ^ Online edition from 1881
personal data
SURNAME Hennes, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1889
Place of death Berlin