August Göllerich (pianist)

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August Göllerich (1900)

August Göllerich (born July 2, 1859 in Linz , † March 16, 1923 there ) was an Austrian pianist, conductor and music writer.

Life

The son of Wels city secretary and later member of the Reichsrat and Landtag , August Göllerich, and his wife Maria, née Nowotny, grew up in a middle-class family at Baumbachstrasse 16 in Linz. A plaque on this house indicates his whereabouts. His father was a member of a liberal writers and writers' association in Wels. After the trivial school in Wels, Göllerich attended the Linz secondary school, which he graduated with the Matura . Here he lived initially with Rudolf Ritter von Hoyer, later with the sisters Anna and Eleonore Löffler. In 1868 he received his first piano lessons in Wels from a Mr. Oberhuber and later from the Linz music teacher August Wieck, who originally came from Rostock. On Wednesday evenings he met his friend Ludovika Rohr, who was his friend, to play the piano four hands.

He dealt with Richard Wagner's writings as early as 1873 when he was fourteen years old. In that year he performed at a charity concert in Wels, where he achieved his first success. However, he had already performed publicly in Wels since he was eleven and had already written introductions to musical works.

After passing his Matura, the outstanding mathematician began studying at the Technical University in Vienna , where he presented a certificate of poverty and received a scholarship of 60 guilders for the summer semester of 1878. His wish to be able to break off his technical studies in order to devote himself entirely to musical theory and practice was rejected by his father, probably because he knew the lot of many artists from his own experience. No one less than Anton Bruckner had already asked Göllerich's father for help, and he probably wanted to spare his son such financial worries. Through his father, August Göllerich got to know Bruckner at an early age, as they were good friends.

After the death of his father in 1883, he turned away from technical studies and devoted himself entirely to music. He began to study Robert Schumann's and Johannes Brahmsen's works as well as Richard Wagner's harmonics and Hector Berlioz 's art of instrumentation.

Göllerich worked as a secretary for Anton Bruckner and for Franz Liszt , whose piano student he had been at the University of Vienna since 1884. After Liszt's death in 1886 he worked as a music critic in Vienna. From 1890 to 1896 he was director of the Ramann-Volckmann'schen music school in Nuremberg . He held the position of director of the Linz Musikverein school from 1896 until his death in 1923, whereby he was also the artistic director of the Musikverein concerts and choirmaster of the “Singers Association”. Thanks to his commitment, Linz became a first-rate city of music; he performed the most important works by Liszt and Bruckner for the first time in Linz. Göllerich was married to Gisela Pászthory-Voigt, also a Liszt student and mother of the composer Casimir von Pászthory .

Already in 1922 Göllerich demanded the construction of a Bruckner house .

The Anton Bruckner Private University was in possession of his diaries, in which his memories of Liszt are recorded, and other materials on Göllerich, which are now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.

Publications

  • Franz Liszt , Berlin 1908
  • Anton Bruckner. A picture of life and work , 1936

Honors

  • In 1929 Göllerichstrasse in Linz was named after him, which connects Johann-Straussstrasse with Hanriederstrasse.

literature

Web links

Commons : August Göllerich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Named after its founders Lisa Ramann (1833–1912) and Ida Volckmann (1838–1912).
personal data
SURNAME Göllerich, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist, conductor and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1923
Place of death Linz