Carl Bohm

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Carl Bohm

Johann Friedrich Carl Gerhard Bohm (born September 11, 1844 in Berlin , † April 4, 1920 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; other names: Charles Bohm, Henry Cooper [pseudonym], Karl Bohm) was a German pianist and composer.

life and work

Carl Bohm was the oldest of eight children of Dr. phil. Friedrich Eduard Bohm (1810–1887), a "teacher of mathematical sciences" at the Friedrich-Werderschen Gymnasium (1839–46) in Berlin, who was retrained to become a surveyor in 1847 due to a chronic throat condition and became a "royal geometer". As a result of his professional activity, Carl Bohm grew up in Königsberg in Neumark and Arolsen , but returned to Berlin in 1868 at the latest.

Carl Bohm first made a name for himself as a pianist. He was a student of Hans Bischoff , Flodoard Geyer and August Reissmann . Only later did he begin to compose and turn to the light muse. He wrote operettas, a choral work by Hansel and Gretel , sonatas and, above all, many violin and piano pieces - up to an opus number of 330. These are so-called salon compositions , which were probably particularly popular in the period before radio and television. The best known were his song settings, including his most famous piece Still wie die Nacht (Op. 326 No. 27), a vocal piece with piano accompaniment, which is also available in other arrangements (e.g. for choirs, for two voices, for piano, for organ, zither or trumpet). It was recorded on records and CDs by numerous singers (e.g. Rudolf Schock , Fritz Wunderlich [1965], Heino [1969] and Helge Rosvaenge [1981]) and also edited by James Last [1973]. This love song is still sometimes performed today as a musical contribution to church weddings.

The Berlin music world attests to him in obituaries that he is “popular” and has a “bourgeois-craftsmanship style”.

His first marriage was to Anna Lucinde Olga Schmidt (1849–1895) and after her death to Jenny Jacoby (1861–1946). There was a daughter from the first marriage.

Carl Bohm was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin, where the first bars of his famous song are carved on his tombstone. The tombstone was designed by his brother, the builder and painter Adolf Bohm (1854–1939 / 40).

Works

  • Songs (op. 326; therein No. 27: "Silent as the night")
  • Salon compositions (op.327)
  • Piano trio in G major. (Trout; op.330 no.2)
  • Perpetuo Mobile (Small Suite 6)
  • Introduction + polonaise
  • Moto Perpetuo
  • House music

literature

  • Felicitas Spring: Carl Bohm - an almost forgotten song composer. His family and ancestors . In: Genealogy . tape 35 , no. 10 , 1986, pp. 317-326 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spring, p. 317
  2. ^ Frederic Barclay Emery: The Violin Concerto Through a Period of Nearly 300 Years. Violin Literature Publishing Company, 1928, p. 433 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Bohm, Karl . In: Alfred Einstein (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 11th edition. tape 1 : A-L . Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 204 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Percy Alfred Scholes: The Oxford companion to music. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1943, p. 107 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ↑ Spring, p. 324; General apartment indicator for Berlin, Charlottenburg and the surrounding area. Edition 1846 (online: urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-48280 ), p. 44 (E., Dr., teacher of mathematics); Landesarchiv Berlin, registry office Berlin Va, death certificates 1887, No. 1747 (Dr. phil)
  6. ↑ Spring, pp. 318, 319, 324
  7. ↑ Spring, pp. 317, 324
  8. ^ Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler Lexikon , Leipzig 1926, p. 42, quoted from Spring, p. 317
  9. ^ Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler Lexikon , Leipzig 1926, p. 48, quoted from Spring, p. 317
  10. ^ Edition of the song by Verlag N. Simrock GmbH, Berlin, no year, quoted from Spring, p. 317
  11. ↑ Neue Musik-Zeitung , 1920 (41st year), p. 258, quoted from Spring, p. 317
  12. ↑ Spring, p. 322
  13. ↑ Spring, pp. 317, 322
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohm, Johann Friedrich Carl Gerhard (full name); Bohm, Karl; Cooper, Henry (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1920
Place of death Berlin