August Pohlenz
Christian August Pohlenz (born July 3, 1790 in Sallgast ; † March 10, 1843 in Leipzig ) was a German composer , singing teacher and organist . From 1827 to 1835 he was the music director of the Gewandhaus concerts .
Life
Pohlenz was born in 1790 as the son of Christian Pohlenz and his wife Anna Matia, geb. Klaunigk, born in Sallgast. He attended the Dresden Kreuzschule, studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1811 , but soon devoted himself entirely to music.
In 1817 he became organist at the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig and in 1821 at the Thomaskirche there ( Thomas organist ). After the deaths of the Thomas Cantors Johann Gottfriedschicht in 1823 and Christian Theodor Weinlig in 1842, he briefly led the St. Thomas Choir interim.
As the successor to the late Johann Philipp Christoph Schulz , he finally became music director of the Gewandhaus concerts and Leipzig university music director in 1827 . In 1828 he was accepted into the orchestra pension fund. Probably because the concert management was not one hundred percent satisfied with his work, he was fired on April 16, 1835. His successor was Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . After Pohlenz's death, he conducted a farewell concert in his honor.
In 1820 he became a member of the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig .
He composed a. a. Songs (male choir). Pohlenz earned special services as a singing teacher. His most important student was Livia Gerhardt . Due to his death, he could no longer take up his position as a teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory .
literature
- Directory of the considerable collection of music and books left by Mr. August Pohlenz music director and organist in Leipzig: which is to be auctioned from October 2nd to October 10th, 1843, by the obligated university proclamator Carl Ernst Schmidt. Leipzig 1843
- Moriz Fürstenau: Pohlenz, Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 373 f.
- Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. With contributions on cultural and contemporary history by Claudius Böhm , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 86.
- Martin Petzoldt : Die Thomasorganisten zu Leipzig , in: Christian Wolff (Hrsg.): Die Orgeln der Thomaskirche zu Leipzig , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, p. 95-137 (p. 113 f.), ISBN 3-374-02300- 2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about August Pohlenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about August Pohlenz in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Nekrolog in: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung 45 (1843), Col. 223f
- ^ Emil Kneschke: On the history of the theater and music in Leipzig. Leipzig: Fleischer 1864. pp. 225–226.
Johann Adam Hiller (1781–1785) | Johann Gottfried Shift (1785–1810) | Johann Philipp Christian Schulz (1810–1827) | August Pohlenz (1827–1835) | Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1835–1847) | Ferdinand David (1841–1842) | Ferdinand Hiller (1843–1844) | Niels Wilhelm Gade (1844–1848) | Julius Rietz (1848–1860) | Ferdinand David (1852-1854) | Carl Reinecke (1860–1895) | Arthur Nikisch (1895–1922) | Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922–1928) | Bruno Walter (1929–1933) | Hermann Abendroth (1934–1945) | Herbert Albert (1946–1948) | Franz Konwitschny (1949–1962) | Václav Neumann (1964–1968) | Kurt Masur (1970–1996) | Herbert Blomstedt (1998-2005) | Riccardo Chailly (2005-2016) | Andris Nelsons (since 2018)
Werner Fabricius (1656–1679) | Johann Schelle (1679–1701) | Johann Kuhnau (1701–1722) | Johann Gottlieb Görner (1723–1778) | Johann Adam Hiller (1778–1785) | Johann Georg Häser (1785–1809) | Johann Gottfried Shift (1808–1810) | Friedrich Schneider (1810-1818) | Johann Philipp Christian Schulz (1818–1827) | August Pohlenz (1827–1843) | Ernst Friedrich Richter (1843–1847) | Hermann Langer (1847–1887) | Hermann Kretzschmar (1887–1898) | Heinrich Zöllner (1898–1906) | Max Reger (1907–1908) | Friedrich Brandes (1908–1930) | Hermann Grabner (1930–1939) | Friedrich Rabenschlag (1939–1962) | Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (1963–1973) | Max Pommer (1973–1987) | Wolfgang Unger (1987-2004) | David Timm (since 2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohlenz, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pohlenz, Christian August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, singing teacher and organist, music director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sallgast |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1843 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |