Clemens Meyer (musician)

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Clemens Meyer (born February 25, 1868 in Oberplanitz ; † August 4, 1958 in Schwerin ) was a German musician , composer and musicologist .

Life

Clemens Meyer was the eighth child of the miner Carl Friedrich Meyer and his wife Johanne Rosalie Weber. Meyer learned the violin in the last years of his school days and was further trained as a musician in the Zschopau town band. He received u. a. Violin lessons with Arno Hilf . After engagements in various orchestras, he became a student of Hermann Ritter at the Royal Music School in Würzburg in autumn 1891, where he switched to the viola. As a violist he played at the Stadttheater Bremen in 1892/93 . From 1893 to 1933 he was a soloist in the Schwerin court orchestra (renamed Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin in 1926 ). During the summer holidays he played regularly in the orchestra of the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival . At the same time he belonged to the “Schwerin String Quartet”, which was founded in 1858 and was one of the oldest quartet associations in Germany. In 1903 he was appointed chamber musician and in 1926 he received the honorary title of chamber virtuoso .

Clemens Meyer dealt with music-historical works on the history of the Schwerin and Güstrow court orchestras. From 1906 to 1956 he was the curator of the music collection of the Mecklenburg State Library in Schwerin , the processing and cataloging of which is counted among his greatest merits.

In 1948 the University of Rostock made him an honorary member of the Musicological Institute. In 1953 he became an honorary member of the Mecklenburg State Orchestra. On the occasion of his 90th birthday in 1958 he was given the title of “Professor of Musical Creation” and was made an honorary citizen of Schwerin.

Fonts

  • History of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel: historical representation of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel from the beginning of the 16th century to the present day . Davids, Schwerin 1913
  • History of the Güstrower Hofkapelle: Presentation of the musical conditions at the Güstrower Fürstenhofe in the 16th and 17th centuries . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 83. Bärensprung, Schwerin 1919. pp. 1-46. on-line
  • Our theater: a walk through the history of the Mecklenburg State Theater 1557-1936; with 25 pictures . Railway, Schwerin 1935
  • The music collection in the Mecklenburg State Library in Schwerin . In: Monthly Issues for Mecklenburg . Volume 14. Schwerin 1938, pp. 495-502
  • History of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court orchestra: supplements and additions up to 1918 and the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Orchestra 1919–1948 . Schwerin 1949

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to Zänger: Art and Culture in Schwerin . P. 116, as early as 1940
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberplanitz
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1958
Place of death Schwerin