Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen

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Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen
Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, portrait medallion on his gravestone

Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (also Carl Friedrich von Rungenhagen ; born September 27, 1778 in Berlin ; † December 21, 1851 ibid) was a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen broke off his painting studies due to poor study progress and entered his father's trading house. He worked there until his father's death in 1796. From then on he devoted himself only to music.

Grave of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Mitte

Rungenhagen became a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in 1801 and was a student of Carl Friedrich Zelter . In 1815 he was promoted to its vice-director and in 1833 took over its management as Zelter's successor. His election by the general assembly was not without controversy. Among the competitors was Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , a student from Zelter , for whom the lost election may have been a reason to turn his back on Berlin and his family. Even the very successful first re-performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion after his death on March 11, 1829 in the Sing-Akademie , which the then twenty-year-old Felix had worked out so successfully with the choir and then performed several times, could be his choice do not favor - nor the fact that Felix and the entire Mendelssohn family participated in the Sing-Akademie choir for many years.

In the function of the Sing-Akademie director, Rungenhagen continued the revival of Johann Sebastian Bach's music and dedicated himself to maintaining the oratorios by Georg Friedrich Handel . The contemporary oratorio was not neglected either. At the same time, Rungenhagen also worked at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin as a professor (appointed in 1843) and music teacher. His students Albert Lortzing , Stanisław Moniuszko , Karl Anton Eckert , August Conradi , Alexander Fesca and Adelheid Günther deserve special mention. He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge "Zum Widder".

At the age of 73, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen died on December 21, 1851 in Berlin, where he found his final resting place in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery . Eduard Grell was elected as his successor as director of the Sing-Akademie .

Rungenhagen mainly composed church music , oratorios , cantatas and songs .

Works (selection)

  • From the depths I call, Lord for solo soprano, four-part acc. Choir and organ / piano (new edition Berlin 2006)
  • IV Chants on the Pianoforte, 1816
  • To sing three chants for 2 soprano voices on the piano , Berlin, with Gröbenschütz and Seiler, presumably 1817/1818
  • 3 terzets for female voices, Berlin, Stern, ca.1842
  • "Closing song " Now we swing our hat (song) in the song board - board songs : from Berlin to Weimar and back again , (sound document / CD: Rheine, Wolkenklang-Verlag Sl, FDS-Musikproduktion, 2000, ISBN 3-934115-06-3 )
  • In the evening when you leave the inn (song)
  • Now we're swinging the hat (song)
  • Awakening, op.7
  • Thème de Himmel: I send you to Alexis, "varié et dédié par à Madame la Comtesse Louise de Stollberg", Berlin, Gröbenschütz & Seiler, 1816
  • Johann Wilhelm Bornemann : The hunted Sankt Hubertusfest, with hunting encores by Bornemann and hunting songs by Zelter , Rungenhagen and Spiker , Berlin, printed in the Deckerschen Geh. Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei , 1829
  • La morte d'Abel (oratorio), probably 1810
  • Friedens-Cantata, Berlin, printed by W. Dieterici, 1816
  • Te Deum, Berlin, printed by W. Dieterici, 1816
  • 2 poems by Voss To Selma and Klopstock Lyda , poem setting, (undated)
  • Sweet showers of punishment slide (L. Tieck), poem setting, (without date)
  • Selmar and Selma (Klopstock), (undated)
  • Stabat mater dolorosa (with Latin and German text) for 2 sopranos and 1 alto, op. 24, (German translation, Körner). Piano reduction by the composer, Berlin, Trautwein, 1826
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck (author): Ouverture de l'Opera Alceste / "composée par Gluk [!] Arrangée a 4 Mains & dediée aux Demoiselles Caroline & Emilie Schulz par CF Rungenhagen"
  • Christ's Entry into Jerusalem , 1834
  • Caecilia
  • Six chants of the Zelter'schen Liedertafel in Berlin (6 panel songs) for four male voices, op. 40, Berlin, Trautwein, 1840

See also

Literature (selection)

  • Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, News from the life and about the musical works of Carl Maria von Weber , with the very similar portrait of the same , Berlin, Trautwein, 1824
  • Paul Emil Henry , Dedicated to the Sing-Akademie. Words spoken in the Sing-Akademie on the coffin of the director Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen. On the morning of December 24, 1851 by the preacher Dr. Henry. With a few supplements and Schleiermacher's speech on May 18, 1832 in memory of Carl Friedrich Zelter in the Sing-Akademie , Berlin, Decker, 1852
  • CF Rungenhagen estate, Berlin State Library , music department (media number BF000101747), 13 volumes (12 volumes of own compositions in the autograph), 88 letters, 2 varia
  • Robert Eitner :  Rungenhagen, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 694-696.
  • Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (=  Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 551-574, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5

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SURNAME Rungenhagen, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1851
Place of death Berlin