Andreas Hofmeier

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Andreas Ludwig Julius Hofmeier (born October 17, 1872 in Lübeck , † July 23, 1963 in Eutin ) was a German church musician , music teacher and composer .

Life

Andreas Hofmeier was a son of the main pastor at the Jakobikirche in Lübeck, Gustav Hofmeier (1826-1893) from his second marriage to Luise, née. Schulze (1849-1929). The secret medical councilor Johannes Hofmeier (1854–1933) was his stepbrother.

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1891 , especially with Carl Reinecke , Salomon Jadassohn , Anton Rubinstein and Arthur Nikisch . Max Reger became his college friend. He first appeared as a pianist in Lübeck in 1895. After a short time as an organist and music teacher in Leipzig, he became a concert organist on April 1, 1896 at the Deutsches Haus in Brno .

At the end of September 1900, Hofmeier was appointed organist at St. Michaelis in Eutin , court organist at Eutin Castle and at the same time music teacher at the local grammar school, today's Johann Heinrich Voß School . At the same time he headed the Eutin Choral and Music Society from 1819 . Like Carl Stiehl a generation before, he was practically responsible for the entire musical life in Eutin. In 1920 he was released from his duties as a music teacher at the grammar school.

From 1910 to 1912 he taught at the Hamburg Conservatory founded by Julius von Bernuth .

But he remained more connected to his hometown Lübeck. From 1903 to 1907 he was the conductor of the teachers' choir, founder (1906) and pianist of a chamber music association that existed until 1933 and was mainly dedicated to newer and contemporary chamber music, and lecturer and from 1912 to 1922 director of the private Lübeck Conservatory , a predecessor of today's Lübeck University of Music . From 1933 to 1938 he was a part-time lecturer at the Lübeck State Music School, another predecessor of the music college.

Through his connections to Lübeck, he repeatedly brought artists such as Hermann Abendroth and Wilhelm Furtwängler, and through his friendship, Max Reger to Eutin. Hofmeier founded a series of concerts, the Hofmeier Concerts , and began the tradition of late summer organ concerts in St. Michaelis as well as music festivals in honor of Carl Maria von Weber , which took place in 1926, 1936 and 1951 and from which the Eutin Festival emerged . He was a member of the Eutin Freemason Lodge at the Golden Apple .

Honors

Works

Hofmeier composed around 400 to 500 songs and ballads that remained unpublished, plus 2 string quartets , an overture , a symphony , cantatas for many festive days as well as organ and piano works.

Published are:

  • Three poems by Emanuel Geibel for four-part male choir. Leipzig: seal
Number one "Above the Dark Haide" ; op.1 no. 1 Digitalisat , public library Lübeck
  • Five songs. German song publisher
  • Three cantatas for female choir and violins. Kiel: Verlag der Organistengilde
  • 14 chorale preludes. Kiel: Verlag der Organistengilde
  • Christmas carols and duets. Publishing house of the Schleswig-Holstein Church Choir Association
  • Choral arrangements:
in: Ursula Bockholt, Regina Oehlmann and Arndt Schnoor (ed.) Lübeck organ book. Part 3.1: Large chorale arrangements by Lübeck composers for organ. Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2009 (= Publications of the Lübeck City Library: Series 3; Vol. 59.)

literature

  • Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Bärenreiter, Kassel / Basel 1951, esp.p. 259f, 269f.
  • Bruno Schönfeldt: Hofmeier, Andreas , in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon. Volume 1. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1970, pp. 161f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the entry in the SHBL (lit.) he is said to have graduated from the Katharineum in 1891; However, he is not listed as a high school graduate in: Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized ).
  2. ↑ Hennings (Lit.), pp. 259, 279.
  3. ↑ Hennings (Lit.), p. 279
personal data
SURNAME Hofmeier, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmeier, Andreas Ludwig Julus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1963
Place of death Eutin