Carl Ferdinand Pohl
Anton Carl Ferdinand Pohl (born September 6, 1819 in Darmstadt , † April 28, 1887 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian music historian , archivist and composer .
Life
Pohl attended high school in his hometown and learned the profession of copperplate engraver . At the same time he took music lessons from Christian Heinrich Rinck . In 1841 he went to Vienna and continued his training with Simon Sechter . From 1849 to 1855 he was the organist of the Evangelical Gustav Adolf Church in Gumpendorf . He then went on several trips. In 1866 he took over the post of archivist at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna .
As a music writer, he emerged with books on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn . One of his friends was Johannes Brahms , whom he inspired to compose the Haydn Variations op. 56. Together with him he was one of the founding members of the German School Association .
His estate is in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Fonts (selection)
- Mozart and Haydn in London , 2 volumes, Vienna 1867 ( digitized )
- Simon Sechter , in: Annual Report of the Vienna Conservatory 1868
- The Society of Friends of Music of the Austrian Imperial State and its Conservatory , Vienna 1870 ( digitized version )
- Memorandum on the occasion of the centenary of the Tonkünstler-Societät , Vienna 1871 ( digitized version )
- Joseph Haydn , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1878–1882 (third volume completed by Hugo Botstiber )
- Festschrift on the occasion of the celebration of 25 years of uninterrupted existence of the Philharmonic Concerts in Vienna , founded in 1842 , Vienna 1885
literature
- Eusebius Mandyczewski : Pohl, Karl Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 370-373.
- Hubert Unverricht: Pohl, Karl Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 583-586 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barta, Erwin and Bell, Karl: History of protection work on the German people . Ed .: Association for Germanness Abroad. Wirtschaftsunternehmen GmbH, Dresden 1930, p. 16 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohl, Carl Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pohl, Anton Carl Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian music historian, archivist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1887 |
| Place of death | Vienna |