Aloys Obrist
Aloys Obrist , also Alois Obrist (born March 30, 1867 in San Remo , Italy; † June 29, 1910 in Stuttgart ) was a German musicologist , bandmaster and conductor.
Life
Obrist studied music in Weimar and Berlin, and received his doctorate in musicology in Berlin in 1892. He then received a call as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Augsburg. From September 1895 to 1900 he was royal Württemberg court conductor at the Stuttgart State Theater , where he made great contributions to the modernization of the repertoire of the subscription concerts of the court orchestra, and from 1901 to 1907 he was curator of the Liszt Museum in Weimar. His collection of musical instruments, including a Kielflügel by Johann Gottfried Silbermann , went to the Bachhaus Eisenach after his death .
He was married to Hildegard Jenicke . His brother Hermann Obrist was a well-known sculptor.
death
His affair with the opera singer Anna Sutter turned out to be fatal. After Anna Sutter had ended the relationship after two years in 1909, Obrist broke into her apartment on June 29, 1910 and - after his love was again rejected - shot her with two pistol shots before killing himself with five shots.
Works
- Melchior Franck. A contribution to the history of secular composition in Germany in the period before the 30 Years War. Phil. Diss., Berlin 1892, online .
- What does the Liszt Museum tell us? In: The art warden. Munich: Callwey, Vol. 19.1906, 21, pp. 480-487.
- Piano playing apparatus and musical soul values. In: The art warden. Munich, Callwey. Vol. 19,1 (1905/06), pp. 535-540
- The historical and artistic significance of the revival of ancient musical instruments. Lecture given at the Basel Congress of the "International Music Society" i. J. 1906. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau. Leipzig, de Wit. Vol. 27 (1907), 23 (May 11), pp. 711-714
- Richard Batka ; Aloys Obrist: piano playing apparatus. Munich: Callwey; Leipzig: Schlueter & Co .: 1914 (4th edition). (Flyer on the culture of expression, Dürer-Bund; 8)
literature
- Georg Günther: Carmen - last act: the artist tragedy Sutter - Obrist from 1910 and the Stuttgart Opera around 1900. Accompanying volume and catalog for the exhibition of the State Archives Ludwigsburg and the Stuttgart City Archives. Ludwigsburg: State Archives Ludwigsburg, 2001.
- Music library of the † Hofkapellmeister Hofrat Dr. A. Colonel. Stuttgart: R. Levi, [1911]. (Antiquarian Book Catalog No. 189 by R. Levi, Stuttgart)
- Neue Musikzeitung, volume 21, 1910, issue 20, p. 418.
- Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 1899, p. 555
Web links
- Literature by and about Aloys Obrist in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photography in the holdings of the Frankfurt University Library (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- Aloys Obrist picture in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, Vol .: 31. 1910/11, Leipzig, 1911
- ^ The artist's tragedy Sutter - Obrist from 1910 and the Stuttgart Opera around 1900 in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colonel, Aloys |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colonel, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist, bandmaster and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Remo , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1910 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg , German Empire |