Carl Friedrich Zöllner
Carl Friedrich Zöllner (born May 17, 1800 in Mittelhausen ; † September 25, 1860 in Leipzig ) was a German composer and is considered to be the leading figure in Central German male choirs in the mid-19th century.
Life
Carl Friedrich Zöllner was the third of five sons of the school principal Johann Andreas Zöllner in the Saxon-Weimar exclave Mittelhausen. After the early death of his father (1809) he attended grammar schools in Eisleben and Eisenach and, from 1814, the Thomas School in Leipzig .
From 1819 he studied theology here, which he gave up in 1822 after taking over the position of singing teacher at the Leipzig Ratsfreischule in 1820 . In 1822 he also set up a private music institute, where choral singing was the main focus . In 1833 he opened the first tax collector's association, which was followed by the founding of numerous other men's choirs led by tax collectors. In a gala concert on Schiller's 100th birthday, he conducted twenty clubs. After his death, these joined forces to form the Leipzig Customs Association, which existed until 1945.
From 1840 he taught as a singing teacher at the Thomas School.
In 1868 a memorial was erected to him in the Leipzig Rosental .
His son Heinrich Zöllner was also a successful composer and conductor. His daughter Marie Zöllner lived from 1842 to 1932. The teapot entrepreneur Ernst Rudolf Anders in Dresden was his grandson.
The Zöllner Men's Choir Bernburg e. V. (founded October 23, 1846) is the only choir that has been active to this day and that follows the uninterrupted tradition of Carl-Friedrich Zöllner.
plant
People still like to sing Das Lied vom Rheinwein today . His variations for organ on God save the King are still played today. Wandering , which has become a folk song, is set to music by a poem by Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller , which Franz Schubert also set to music as the opening song of his cycle Die Schöne Müllerin . There are also settings for four male voices by Carl Friedrich Zöllner of other poems from this cycle. Zöllner also set the Müller poem Im Krug zum green Kranze to music (op.14,3), but the setting, which is famous today and is still popularly sung, is not by him, but by Johann Friedrich Reichardt . Some of the wise men of Andreas Zöllner , who mainly worked in Meiningen , were wrongly attributed to Carl Friedrich Zöllner.
literature
- Robert Eitner : Zöllner, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 428 f.
Web links
- Works by and about Carl Friedrich Zöllner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Carl Friedrich Zöllner in the International Music Score Library Project
- biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 16.
- ↑ See ADB on Andreas Zöllner. There are given as examples: The prayer of the earth; The double serenade; Your well-being, my darling; My star; Quarrel between wine and water drinkers; The court of justice; Love .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zollner, Carl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mittelhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1860 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |