Carl Thiel (church musician)

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Carl Thiel (early 20th century)
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Carl Josef Thiel (born July 9, 1862 in Klein-Öls , Silesia , † July 23, 1939 in Bad Wildungen ) was a German organist , church musician and professor of music.

Life

Carl Thiel was born as the son of the trained miller and grain trader August Thiel and his second wife Regina Thiel, née Gebel. His mother's two brothers, Carl and Ignatz Gebel, worked as main teachers and choir rectors in Münsterberg and Parchwitz . Carl Thiel received his first musical instruction from the cantor Scholz of the local community. He was baptized a Catholic and grew up in a simple family in Lower Silesia . Nevertheless, like his brother Reinhold, who was five years his junior, he was able to complete training as a primary school teacher. In 1876 he came to the preparatory school and then to the teachers' college in Opole . As a young teacher, Thiel taught at a village school in Koschentin , where he had his own piano , and a little later in Mikultschütz . At that time Thiel also played the viola . After four and a half years of working as a teacher and a study leave granted to him in Berlin, he gave up the profession in 1888 and devoted himself to church music . He moved left into the courtyard at Bülowstrasse 94 in Schöneberg .

Musical education

From 1887 to 1892 Carl Thiel studied with Woldemar Bargiel at the Royal Music Institute in Berlin, where he worked and taught as an organist and choir director, initially in the emerging community of Sankt Bonifatius in Kreuzberg . From 1888 to 1891 he was instructed in music history and counterpoint by Heinrich Bellermann .

In 1890 he founded the Church Singing School , a choir consisting of members - mainly teachers - from all of Berlin's Catholic parishes. After completing his studies, in 1891 he was appointed "regular assistant teacher" for Gregorian chant at the institute. Among other things, he devoted himself intensively to Gregorian chant, because from his point of view this is best suited to all genres of the liturgy . In 1892 he began as a church musician in the parish church of St. Sebastian in Gesundbrunnen , where he already found a church choir. In 1898 the church singing school was renamed the Association for Classical Church Music , which essentially consisted of the Saint Sebastian Choir. At the turn of the century Thiel lived in Charlottenburg .

Teaching

After two years of collaboration with his teacher and the director of the Royal Institute for Church Music, Hermann Kretzschmar , Carl Thiel was appointed his deputy in 1909. Here he founded the academy's madrigal choir together with Hermann Kretzschmar and performed several times as its conductor. He had to give up his work as a church musician in Sankt Sebastian on June 30, 1910 because of the workload of his teaching. He was appointed professor of music and, after Hermann Kretzschmar's illness, became director of the now renamed State Academy for Church Music and School Music from 1922 .

In the 1920s, Carl Thiel was one of the most important music educators in German musical life. From 1925 until his death he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Retirement

Tombstone of Carl Thiel in the Sankt-Matthias-Friedhof in Berlin-Tempelhof 52 ° 27 ′ 16.7 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 40.7 ″  E

When, after his retirement in 1927, Hans Joachim Moser succeeded him as director of the State Academy, Carl Thiel went to Regensburg and worked there at the church music school . There he was appointed director after three years by Bishop Michael Buchberger as the successor to Karl Weinmann , who had already been temporarily represented by Peter Griesbacher . He held this position on a voluntary basis and held it until his death in 1939. By organizing a memorial service for Max Reger and a celebration of German culture with Richard Wagner's Parsifal , Anton Bruckner's Te Deum and works by Max Reger, he and his student Theobald Schrems emphatically advocated newer music in 1933.

Carl Thiel died unexpectedly of a stroke during a spa stay in Bad Wildungen . He is buried in Berlin-Tempelhof in the cemetery of the Sankt-Matthias-Gemeinde .

Act

As a government bell expert , he saved several parishes from confiscation and melting down during the war in 1916 because of the beautiful sound of bells or the artistic value of church bells .

One of his Berlin organ students from 1919 to 1920 was Max Walter . The church musician Theobald Schrems passed the state examination for church and school music with him from 1925 to 1928.

In Regensburg, the curriculum of the church music school was fundamentally redesigned under the direction of Carl Thiel. He increased the duration of studies and tightened the entrance and final exams, so that the church music school finally received state recognition . He also united the Regensburg church music school with the cathedral choir of the Regensburg cathedral . In the time of National Socialism , Thiel took over the management of student council VI (Catholic church music) in the Reich Chamber of Music from 1933 .

Thiel dedicated himself to promoting and maintaining Gregorian chant throughout his life. However, he was by no means limited to studying church music and was also engaged as a musicologist .

Thiel composed and arranged sacred vocal music and published older a cappella music. Some of his works are still part of the repertoire of many church choirs today . In Regensburg , Carl-Thiel-Strasse is named after him.

Awards

Bronze bust of Carl Thiel in the auditorium of the Institute for Church Music

In the 1920s, a bronze bust of him was erected at the State Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin, which is still in the auditorium of this building, which as an institute for church music is now part of the Berlin University of the Arts .

He has also received the following honors:

Works (selection)

music

Choral works

Selection in alphabetical order:

  • 12 Latin church chants including:
    • Domine non sum dignus
    • Hodie Christis natus est
    • Improperies
    • Haec dies
    • Lauda Sion
  • Evening song from opus 8
  • Eight songs of Mary for four-part mixed choir, opus 16
  • Adeste fideles for seven-part choir, from: Two Christmas carols , opus 7
  • Adorabo and Domine Deus , two motets for the parish festival, opus 13
  • Ave Maria in Venice for female and male choir, opus 15, 1892
  • Boniface Mass , opus 14
  • Penitential Psalm for mixed choir and orchestra (organ ad libitum), opus 22
  • Christ is risen
  • The morning star has penetrated
  • German improperia for solo quartet and double choir, opus 28
  • Domine Deus
  • Redeemer Mass , opus 25
  • First Pentecost Sermon , opus 26
  • Three angels were singing
  • Rejoice, earth and starry tent
  • Sacred scene for soprano solo, male choir and mixed choir, opus 6
  • God is love
  • I'm standing at your crib here for a five-part choir
  • In dulci jubilo
  • Shout to the Lord all the world for seven-part mixed choir with organ or brass (2 trumpets and 3 trombones), opus 21
  • Jesus and the storm at sea , opus 11
  • Nativity song for four-part mixed choir a cappella, opus 7
  • Laudate Dominum , motet in old style based on motifs by Giovanni Gabrieli , opus 32
  • Loreto Mass , opus 17, 1897
  • Maria: Cantata in six pictures after Friedrich Wilhelm Weber "Marienblumen" for solos, choir and orchestra, opus 5
    1. The Mother of the Lord , Annunciation with Magnificat
    2. Under the palm tree , flight to Egypt
    3. Maria spinner
    4. After Golgotha
    5. Full of pain
    6. The mother with the son , the coronation of Mary
  • Missa brevis for four-part mixed choir a cappella, opus 12, 1894
  • Missa choralis with organ and three trombones, opus 18
  • Missa simplicissima , opus 20
  • Offertories from the Commune Sanctorum for mixed choir opus 24
  • Ostergesang for four-part mixed choir, opus 30
  • Praise be to God in the highest throne
  • Bless and protect us in your goodness for five-part mixed choir a cappella
  • Illusion from opus 8
  • Four larger motets , opus 9:
    • Shout out to the Lord , six voices
    • Credo , five-part
    • Miserere
    • Fix, oh God, what you have worked in us
  • Up from heaven you angels are coming
  • Wanderer's Night Song ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), 1921
  • For the New Year for four-part mixed choir

Songs

  • Three Passion Chants for voice with organ accompaniment, opus 27, including:
    • It is done with the addition of a mixed choir
  • O du sunny, blissful world ( Friedrich Wilhelm Weber ) for two sopranos, Opus 1
  • Two sacred chants for voice with organ accompaniment, opus 23, including_
    • Lamentation with four-part boys' choir

Organ works

  • Fantasy on the eighth psalm tone , opus 29
  • Postlude on "Ite missa est IV"

Literary works

  • Moritz Brosig , Carl Thiel: Handbook of harmony and modulation. 9th edition. Publisher FEC Leuckart, Leipzig, 1920.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Sering, Carl Thiel: Choir book for high schools, high schools and high schools: Op. 117 , Verlag M. Schauenburg, Lahr (Baden), 1922.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Sering, Carl Thiel: Choir book for high schools, secondary schools, etc., according to the ministerial guidelines for music lessons from 1925 , Verlag M. Schauenburg, Lahr (Baden), 1928.
  • Chorales and sacred songs for the choir of higher educational institutions , Verlag M. Schauenburg, Lahr (Baden), 1930.
  • Carl Thiel, in: The music care. 8th year, 1937/1938, issue 4, pp. 145–147.
  • Carl Thiel, in: The music care. Volume 10, 1939/1940, issue 7, pp. 247–249.

literature

  • Caecilia , magazine for Catholic church music, issue 3/4, 1932
  • August Scharnagl: The Regensburg Church Music School , in: Georg Schwaiger (editor): Life pictures from the history of the Diocese of Regensburg , BGBR 23/24, Regensburg, 1989/1990, pp. 667-676.
  • Clemens August Preising: Carl Thiel. A life for the musical culture of the German people. Regensburg 1951.
  • Franz Fleckenstein (editor): Gloria Deo Pax Hominibus. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Regensburg Church Music School. (= Series of publications of the General Cecilia Association. Volume 9). Bonn 1974.
  • Raymond Dittrich (editor): 125 years of church music school in Regensburg. From Kornmarkt to Reichsstraße. Regensburg 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for Regensburg Diocese History : Contributions to the History of the Diocese of Regensburg , Volume 2, Verlag des Verein für Regensburg Diocesan History (1990), page 672 f.
  2. ^ "Carl Thiel" in: Algemene Muziek-Encyclopedie , Antwerp, Zuid-Nederlandse Uitgeverij (1963)
  3. ^ Institute for Church Music / Academy for Church and School Music 1822-1933 , Universität der Künste Berlin , accessed on July 7, 2018
  4. ↑ Carl Thiel short biography of the Berlin Academy of the Arts ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ a b Clemens August Preising: Carl Thiel - A life for the musical culture of the German people , Josef Habbel, Regensburg (1951)
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Theobald Schrems working group Heimatpflege Mitterteich
  7. ^ Karl Frank: Apostolate and Propaganda. In: Christel Erkes (ed.): The Regensburger Domspatzen. Encounter with Theobald Schrems. 1993, p. 62.
  8. ↑ Dietmar Schenk: The Berlin University of Music: Prussia's Conservatory between Romantic Classicism and New Music, 1869–1932 / 33. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-515-08328-6 , p. 318.
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, church musician and professor of music
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Öls , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1939
Place of death Bad Wildungen