Carl Riedel

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Carl Riedel

Carl Riedel (also: Karl Riedel ; born October 6, 1827 in Cronenberg (today a part of Wuppertal ); † June 3, 1888 in Leipzig ) was a German conductor and composer.

life and work

Riedel was originally a silk dyer . Carl Wilhelm discovered his musical talent in the Krefeld Liedertafel and encouraged him. From 1849 to 1852 Riedel studied at the Conservatory in Leipzig, today's University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig . He then stayed here as a teacher of piano playing and theory.

His contemporaries saw his main merit in the founding (1854) and management of the choral society named after him for sacred music ( Riedel-Verein ), which achieved pioneering achievements in its regular performances not only through works by Johann Sebastian Bach ( B minor Mass 1859) , Georg Friedrich Handel , and Ludwig van Beethoven ( Missa solemnis 1860), but also ecclesiastical sound works of the Vorbach time and the present at that time, and as a result achieved a certain fame. In 1859 the choir sang the world premiere of Franz Liszt's Gran Festival Mass , and in 1872, when the foundation stone was laid for the Bayreuth Festival Hall under Richard Wagner's direction, the 9th Symphony by Beethoven.

For the literature of choral singing, Riedel created works that received lasting importance, for example through the publication of his Bergische Christmas legends . But also his rather idiosyncratic arrangement of the Passion music by Heinrich Schütz , which anticipated the Schütz Renaissance, the publication of the Christmas carols by Michael Praetorius ( whom the shepherds praised , It is a rose sprung from ), the old Bohemian Hussite songs and the Eccardian Prussian festival songs were by Meaning. The Christmas carols Come, you shepherds , which can be found both in the Evangelical Hymnbook (EG 48) and in some diocesan appendices to the praise of God , and Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt , are still sung a lot from the old Bohemian songs .

Riedel was a co-founder of the General German Music Association and took over its presidency from Franz Brendel in 1869 . In 1871 he became chairman of the Leipzig Wagner Society.

A memorial plaque was placed on the house where he was born, Hütter Strasse No. 4 .

Awards

• In 1864 he received the title of professor from Duke Ernst I of Saxony-Altenburg
• In 1883 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig
• 1884 Duke of Saxon Kapellmeister

Works

• Three Bergische Christmas legends for mixed choir.
• Twelve chants for male choir.
• Night singing. Sound piece for string orchestra. 1887
• Old Bohemian chants for mixed choir.
• Historia of the suffering and death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: Choirs and recitatives from the 4 “Passions” by Heinrich Schütz. Zsgest. u. ed. by Carl Riedel. Leipzig: Seal 1870
• The seven words of our dear Savior and Savior Jesus Christ, as he spoke on the trunk of the holy cross, set very flexibly by Heinrich Schütz. Edited by Carl Riedel. Leipzig: Seal 1872

portrait

• 2 photographs by G. [eorg] Brokesch , Leipzig, CdV , undated, (object database of the City History Museum Leipzig , online and online ).

literature

• Uwe Eckardt:  Riedel, Carl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 1199-1200.
• Albert Göhler (Ed.): The Riedel Association. A memorandum to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Leipzig 1904.
• Carl Krebs:  Riedel, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 359 f.
• Doris Scheffler, Rudolf Scheffler: Carl Riedel on the 105th anniversary of his death. In: The church musician. 45, 1994, p. 10 ff.
• Karl-Hermann Schlage: Riedel, Carl. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , p. 253 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

Web links

• Works by and about Carl Riedel in the catalog of the German National Library