Bernhard Romberg (organist)

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Carl Julius Hermann Bernhard Romberg (born May 19, 1863 in Kalkhorst ; † October 8, 1913 in Rostock ) was a German organist , choir director and composer and court music director of the Mecklenburg Grand Ducal.

Life

Bernhard Romberg came from a Mecklenburg pastor dynasty that was largely related to the Romberg family of musicians . He was a son of the pastor and prepositive Hermann Romberg (1821-1887) in Kalkhorst and his wife Bertha Clara Therese, born. Fisherman. His brothers Martin (born April 5, 1857 in Perlin, † 1943), Karl August (born December 6, 1868) and Friedrich Franz (born January 22, 1870, † after 1949) also became pastors. Carl Heinrich Romberg was his uncle.

Romberg attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin from 1875 to 1881 and studied music from 1881 to 1883 at the Leipzig Conservatory, today's University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig . His main subjects were organ , piano and music theory with Robert Papperitz , Johannes Weidenbach and Oscar Paul .

In 1883 he received the post of organist at the Schwerin Castle Church . In 1892 he was appointed court organist. In the following year he was entrusted as successor to Otto Kade with the management of the Grand Ducal Castle Church Choir and at the same time was appointed court music director.

In addition to his main office, he worked as a singing teacher at the Grand Ducal Realgymnasium since 1893. In the same year he founded the Association for Church Music , which is under the protectorate of the (from 1896) Grand Duchess of Oldenburg, Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde, Duchess of Mecklenburg (-Schwerin) , the annual held four free church concerts in the summer.

He worked to give the a-cappella choir more prominence in church services, and in 1903 published an essay on this in the Mecklenburgisches Kirchen- und Zeitblatt .

As a singing and piano teacher he developed a lively activity in the residential city of Schwerin. His students also included members of the Princely House such as Grand Duchess Elisabeth von Oldenburg, who later became Queen of Denmark Alexandrine of Mecklenburg and Crown Princess Cecilie of Mecklenburg .

Romberg died at the age of 50 in Rostock as a result of an operation and was buried in Schwerin. Adolf Emge was appointed his successor in Schwerin .

Since March 21, 1890 he was married to Catharina Johanna Caroline ( Käte ), b. Hauswedell (born August 30, 1866 in Brüel ), a daughter of the merchant and senator in Brüel Julius Paul Theodor Hauswedell.

Awards

Works

  • Greetings to me a thousand times. Passion song for mixed choir a capella. In: Musical Renaissance, No. 2. Breitkopf & Härtel .
  • Create in me, God. Motet . In: Monthly for worship and church art , 9 (1904) pp. 176–178.
  • 25 newly recorded choral melodies and 34 sacred songs for the revised Mecklenburg hymn book: a supplement to Kade's Mecklenburg chorale book and Wöhler's Mecklenburg choral book; set in four voices. Hinstorff, Wismar 1906.

literature

  • For adding music. In: Monthly for worship and church art, 9 (1904), p. 175.
  • Romberg, Bernhard. In: German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures. Jansa, Leipzig 1911 ( digitized version), pp. 587-588.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8303 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first three awards as of 1908, in Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staatskalender 1908, p. 34.
  2. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Official supplement 1913, p. 198.
personal data
SURNAME Romberg, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romberg, Karl Julius Hermann Bernhard (full name); Romberg, Carl Julius Hermann Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, choir director and composer and court music director of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalkhorst
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1913
Place of death Rostock