Berthold Damcke

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Berthold Damcke;
after a photograph by Pierre Petit, engraved by P. Dujardin

Berthold Damcke (born February 6, 1812 in Hanover , † February 15, 1875 in Paris ) was a German composer , pianist , conductor , music teacher and critic, and newspaper correspondent .

Life

Berthold Damcke was born in Hanover during the so-called " French era ". He first studied theology and later music in Frankfurt am Main as a pupil of Aloys Schmitt - who was appointed court organist and chamber musician to Duke Adolph von Cambridge in Hanover in 1826 - and of Ferdinand Ries . In 1834 Damcke joined the Royal Hanover Court Orchestra in his hometown "[...] probably for a short time" as a violist , which at the time was still performing in the palace opera house in the east wing of the Leineschloss . He continued to study piano and organ , however, and composed his first choral works .

Damcke later moved to Kreuznach , where he directed the local music association and the Liedertafel and wrote the oratorio Deborah . In 1837 Damcke went to Potsdam , where he conducted the local Philharmonic Society and the choral society for opera music , with which he performed his Christmas Oratorio in 1840 and the 23rd Psalm and an Ave Maria in 1841 . Also still in 1841 Berthold Damcke took over the position of a conductor in Königsberg . His opera Käthchen von Heilbronn premiered there in 1845 .

Listed grave stele Damckes in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris

In 1845 Damcke went to St. Petersburg as a piano teacher , where he also developed a rich activity as a sensitive music critic and (under the code "24.") wrote detailed articles for the German-language St. Petersburg newspaper (founded in 1727) . In 1855 he moved to Brussels . From 1859 Damcke lived and worked in Paris , where he worked as a correspondent for various German and Russian magazines. He also worked as a teacher at the Conservatoire . Berthold Damcke was friends with Hector Berlioz , whom he sponsored and whom he had met in 1847 on the occasion of his guest performance in St. Petersburg. In Paris he also taught the future patron Fanny Pelletan , who conceptually developed the complete edition of the works of Christoph Willibald Gluck suggested by Berlioz and presented the first three volumes on which Damcke collaborated.

literature

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, there have been significant deviations and / or additions to Vita Damckes in contemporary literature up to this point, such as the stays in Berlin and the award of the Golden Medal for Art; compare for example Carl Friedrich von Ledebur : Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present. Unchanged reprint of the original edition, Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1861; H. Schneider, Tutzing / Berlin 1965, pp. 103f .; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Thielen : Damcke, Berthold. 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. 90.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Willibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Damcke, Berthold. In: ders .: Riemann Musiklexikon , 12th completely revised edition in three volumes, Volume 1: Person section A – K. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1959, p. 362.
  3. ^ Weber:  Schmitt, Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 42-45.
  4. ^ Hugo Thielen: Castle Theater, also Castle Opera House. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 544.
  5. ↑ Reinmar Emans, Ulrich Krämer (Hrsg.): Music editions in the course of history (= building blocks for the history of the edition , vol. 5). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston (Massachusetts), ISBN 978-3-11-044090-4 and ISBN 978-3-11-043436-1 and ISBN 3-11-044090-3 , 2015, p. 262; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Damcke, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music director, pianist, conductor, music teacher and critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1875
Place of death Paris