Bernhard Scholz

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Bernhard Scholz

Bernhard Ernst Scholz (born March 30, 1835 in Mainz , † December 26, 1916 in Munich ) was a German conductor , composer and music teacher .

Life

Bernhard Scholz was supposed to take over the business of his father Christian Scholz (lithographic printing and publishing house Jos. Scholz) and learned the printing at Imp. Lemercier in Paris . He was a student of Ernst Pauer ( piano ) in Mainz, and from 1855–1856 of Siegfried Dehn ( counterpoint ) in Berlin . He also learned singing for a year with the famous singing teacher Antonio Sangiovanni in Milan . He taught counterpoint at the Munich Conservatory in 1856 and was theater Kapellmeister in Zurich in 1857 , in Nuremberg in 1858 and in Hanover from 1859–1865 . Between 1865 and 1866 he was director of the Società Cherubini in Florence , and also taught at the Stern Conservatory and Kullak Conservatory . From 1871 to 1883 he headed the orchestra association in Breslau . In 1883 he was appointed director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main (until 1908).

family

Bernhard Scholz married Maria Luise Seyler on September 1, 1858 in Mainz (born June 28, 1834 in Mainz, † April 30, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main ). She was a daughter of the notary Wilhelm Seyler (born December 16, 1793 in Mainz; † October 15, 1870 ibid) from his second marriage to Regina Josepha Theyer (born June 5, 1807 in Alzey ; † December 24, 1864 in Mainz).

The couple had several children, including the landscape painter Richard Scholz .

Works

Operas

  • Carlo Rosa , 1858 in Munich
  • Ziethen's Hussars , 1869 in Breslau
  • Morgiane , 1870 in Munich
  • Golo , 1875 in Nuremberg , September 27, 1875 in Frankfurt am Main , re-performance on November 1, 1891 in Frankfurt am Main
  • The trumpeter von Säkkingen , 1877 in Wiesbaden
  • The distinguished hosts , 1883 in Leipzig
  • Ingo , 1898 in Frankfurt
  • Anno 1757 , 1903 in Berlin
  • Mirandolina , 1907 in Darmstadt

Orchestral works

  • Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 60
  • Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 80
  • Capriccio in A minor for piano and orchestra op.35
  • Piano Concerto in B major op.57 (published in print in 1883)

Chamber music

  • String Quartet No. 1 in G major op.46
  • String quintet in E minor op.47
  • Piano quartet in F minor, Op. 79
  • 2 piano trios
  • 3 violin sonatas
  • 5 cello sonatas
  • Piano music
  • Songs

Publications

  • Doctrine of counterpoint and imitation , 1897
  • Where are we drifting , 1897
  • Musical and personal , 1899
  • Wise Men who died down, 1911
  • Siegfried Dehn: Doctrine of counterpoint, the canon and the fugue (Ed. Bernhard Scholz). 1859, 2nd edition 1883

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 9, p. 108
  • Wilibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musik Lexikon , 12th, completely revised edition in 3 volumes, person part Volume 2, Mainz: 1961, p. 627f.
  • Wulf Kunold (Red.): The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , publisher: Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover GmbH, Hanover 1986, p. 185
  • Peter Cahn : The Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main (1878–1978) . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-7829-0214-9 , (also: Frankfurt / M., Univ., Diss., 1980).
  • Nicolas Slonimsky (Ed.): Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . 5th edition completely revised. G. Schirmer, New York NY 1958.
  • Hugo Thielen : SCHOLZ, Bernhard Ernst. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 321f; online through google books
  • Hugo Thielen: Scholz, Bernhard Ernst. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 458f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scholz, Bernhard Ernst. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Musikalisches Wochenblatt , vol. 6, no. 41 of October 8, 1875, p. 512; Neue Berliner Musikzeitung , vol. 29, no. 45 of November 11, 1875, p. 354f.
  3. ↑ Signals for the musical world , vol. 49, no. 62 of November 1891, p. 982
  4. ↑ Clara Schumann played the work on November 23, 1875 in Breslau

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personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholz, Bernhard E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1916
Place of death Munich