Carl Adolf Martienssen

Carl Adolf Martienssen (born December 6, 1881 in Güstrow , † March 1, 1955 in Berlin ) was a German pianist and music teacher .

Life

Martienssen came from a large farmer family who apparently only immigrated to Mecklenburg in the generation of his father, the merchant Gottlieb Martienssen . Carl Adolf Martienssen was a younger son of his parents, attended the cathedral school in Güstrow and received his first musical training in theory, organ and piano from Johannes Schondorf in his hometown. After graduating from high school, Martienssen studied composition with Wilhelm Berger , musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and piano playing with Liszt student Karl Klindworth in Berlin, as well as piano playing with Liszt student Alfred Reisenauer at the Leipzig Conservatory (now the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig ) . He was also a student of Hans Sitt and Arthur Nikisch .

In 1912 Martienssen married the singing teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann . The marriage, which was divorced in 1927, had two children. (Franziska married the concert singer and singing teacher Paul Lohmann in 1929 ).

Martienssen had been a piano teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory since 1914, where he was appointed professor in 1932. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( party number 2,382,346). In 1934, the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur , headed by Alfred Rosenberg , proposed his appointment as professor at the Berlin Music Academy , but he did not receive his appointment until 1935 and then as the successor to Edwin Fischer , who had asked for his release from university service, in order to concentrate on his concert activities to be able to concentrate.

After the Second World War Martienssen was a professor at the Rostock University of Music from 1946 to 1950 , before he was appointed to the State Conservatory in East Berlin in 1950 (today the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin ).

He became known, among other things, as an author of methodical writings. (1930 "The individual piano technique based on the creative will to sound", 1937 "Methodology of individual piano lessons", 1954 "Creative piano lessons"), which appeared in several editions, as well as the responsible editor of the precisely edited Urtext editions of all piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , the sonatinas by Anton Diabelli , smaller works for piano by Johann Sebastian Bach and piano exercises by Carl Czerny , all of which are in the Peters edition of the Leipzig publisher CF Peters in several editions up to the have been relocated today. In 1912 he was able to rediscover the previously lost cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach " My heart is swimming in blood " (BWV 199) in Copenhagen - this is emphasized in renowned music lexicons .

His students include the composers Hugo Distler , Georg Trexler , Artur Immisch and Hans Schaeuble , the conductors Sergiu Celibidache and Adolf Fritz Guhl , the pianists Karl-Heinz Schlüter , Carl Seemann , Max Martin Stein , Sebastian Peschko , Erik Then-Bergh and Viktorie Svihlikova , as well as the organists and church choir directors Thomas-Kantor Kurt Thomas (Thomaskirche Leipzig), Kreuz-Kantor Herbert Collum (Kreuz-Kirche Dresden) and Robert Köbler (Universitätskirche Leipzig), the long-time choir director of the German State Opera Berlin Ernst Stoy and numerous well-known music teachers like August Leopolder , Ottilie Fröschle or Kurt Hessenberg .

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Adolf Martienssen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Carl Adolf Martienssen in the state bibliography MV
• musikviertel.de
• History of the piano department at the UdK Berlin

Publications

• On the methodology of piano lessons. Peters publishing house, Leipzig 1937.
• The individual piano technique based on the creative will to sound. Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house, Leipzig 1930.
• Creative piano lessons. Breitkopf & Härtel Verlag, Leipzig 1954 (translated into several languages)

literature

• Thomas Menrath: The Unteachable as a Methodical Object - Studies on Basic Concepts of the Piano Methodology by Carl Adolf Martienssen. Wißner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89639-398-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At the time of the 1867 census in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , the father was not yet in Mecklenburg. In 1900 he was no longer alive; Martienssen himself counted in 1900 as a student in the Güstrow household of his mother Caroline, born in Denmark, from Denmark. Schultz (e). The father never seems to have become a citizen of Güstrow. In any case, his name is not found in the Güstrower Bürgerbuch cumulated by Franz Schubert (Franz Schubert: Bürgerbuch aus Mecklenburg. Volume 1: Güstrow. Degener, 1994, ISBN 3-89364-220-X )
2. ↑ The 1900 census list (Güstrow) also names an older brother Hans Martienssen (* 1878), who was visiting the mother's household as a clerk from Schwerin , and a younger sister Käthe Matienssen (* 1884), like the brother still a student ( in) in Güstrow.
3. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Rostock, 1995. [As well as new findings from the state bibliography MV .]
4. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Stieglitz, in MGG 8, 1960, pp. 1.701–1.702 (digital library 060, pp. 49.447–49.449) Klindworth and Reisenauer received their training directly from Franz Liszt, which is why Carl Adolf Martienssen was often among his students Liszt pupils were and will be called Liszt grandsons.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 4,462–4,463.
6. ^ Joseph Wulf : Music in the Third Reich. A documentation. Ullstein Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-33032-0 , p. 100, letter from the Kampfbund from April 1, 1933, undersigned Fritz Stein.
7. ↑ See also Ernst Klee : Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 395. See relative to this: Thomas Menrath: Das Unlehrbaren als methodischer Objekt. Studies on the basic concepts of the piano methodology by Carl Adolf Martienssen . Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2003, p. 32.