Carl Heffner

This article is about the German composer and musician Carl Heffner. For the landscape painter see Karl Heffner .

Karl Heffner (born August 5, 1851 in Königstein (Upper Palatinate) , † September 3, 1900 in Baden-Baden ) was a German composer, musician, music teacher, choir director and singing teacher.

Life

Heffner trained at the preparatory institute in Amberg , then studied at the teachers' seminar in Eichstätt and passed the employment test as a teacher at the secondary school in Regensburg . In order to devote himself entirely to music, he left school and studied at the Stade Music Institute in Leipzig. In 1879 he founded a music school for theory, solo singing, piano and string instruments in Regensburg and took over the musical direction of the local choirs. In 1882 he was given singing lessons at the newly founded grammar school in Regensburg. In September 1898, at his own request, he was transferred to the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich as a singing teacher , where he took over the function and position of Johann Nepomuk Cavallo (1840-1917). Heffner died in Baden-Baden, where he stayed after recovering from severe flu to relax, to pneumonia . In 1900 , Konrad Geiger (1859–1921), the music and singing teacher at the grammar school in Neuburg an der Donau , was transferred to Munich as his successor .

Works (selection)

In addition to his teaching activities, Heffner composed and arranged songs for individual voices and choirs as well as piano pieces, which were published by Fritsch and Gebrüder Hug in Leipzig, by Bössenecker, Johann Heinrich Coppenrath and Feuchtinger & Gleichauf in Regensburg and by Giulio Ricordi in Milan .

• Mourning song for 4-part male choir; op. 3 .; Score and parts. Regensburg: Boessenecker
• New musical anthology. Collection of older and newer popular melodies from operas, symphonies, sonatas, songs etc. along with original compositions; fingered for 2 hands in progressive order; op. 6, edited by Carl Heffner. Regensburg: Bössenecker
• V Lieder (poems by FX Seidl); for 4-part male choir; op. 8; Score and parts. Regensburg: Coppenrath [1880]
• Three songs for mixed choir; op. 18; composed by Carl Heffner; Score and parts. Regensburg: Coppenrath
• Easily executable five Marienlieder by Ferd. Heitemeyer and FA Muth; op. 20; Score and parts. Regensburg: Coppenrath
• 7 chants for 3-part female choir with accompaniment by pianoforte; op. 21; Score. Leipzig; Zurich: Hug
• Ten songs from Kräutl and Unkräutl. Music printing [based on] poems in Upper Bavarian dialect by Georg Eberl; for a voice with piano accompaniment; op. 22; composed by Karl Heffner. Regensburg: Feuchtinger & Gleichauf, [approx. 1895]
• 4 piano pieces, op.28. Regensburg: Equal
• Three- and four-part songs a cappella for women or boys. Edition for higher education institutions. Stereotype edition. Regensburg: J. Georg Bösenecker, undated [1883]
• 3 songs for one voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte by C. Heffner; No. 1. Separation ("Whether your tears flow"); No. 2. Please (English text: BF Wyatt Smith). 1884
• Fifteen songs for one voice with piano accompaniment by Carl Heffner. 1888
• Six Vocal Duets, words by G. Meredith, by Carl Heffner. 1891
• 70 three- and four-part songs a cappella for female choir (or solo) ed. and dedicated to the ladies singing association Regensburg by Carl Heffner. Stereotype output. 2nd ed., Regensburg: Boessenecker.

literature

• Nikolaus Wecklein , in: Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1900/1901. Munich 1901 (obituary)
• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. 5th volume, 1900 (1903) + death list 1898 and 1900. Berlin, Reimer 1903
• Death list of the year 1900 concerning music, in: Monatshefte fur Musikgeschichte, 1901, p. 110
• Carl Heffner in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)