Constanz Berneker

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Constanz Berneker (born October 31, 1844 in Darkehmen ; † June 9, 1906 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German organist, music critic and composer of vocal music.

Life

Berneker was considered a child prodigy and was trained at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin . In 1872 he returned to East Prussia and became a music teacher in Königsberg. In 1878 he became cathedral organist at Königsberg Cathedral , royal music director and conductor of the Königsberg Singing Academy . As a music critic for the Hartungschen Zeitung , he followed Louis Köhler . In the young and rather conservative musical life of Königsberg, his enthusiasm for Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss made it difficult for him. So the Brahms admirer Gustav Dömpke became his successor.

Berneker died at the age of 62. Konrad Burdach gave the funeral speech .

Most of Berneker's works were printed posthumously . During his lifetime only two cantatas , thirteen songs , two ballads and the duet for female voices "To the butterfly" were published, and finally the "Tannhauser songs" op. 9 (based on Felix Dahn ) and the three "sun songs ".

Berneker was a member of the Academic Choral Society (AGV) Königsberg. The melody of the color song is from him .

Vocal works

  • Judith
  • Das Hohe Lied for female choir, soloists and piano; Performances in Königsberg and Leipzig (1878)
  • Reformation cantata
  • Christ who is my life (1889/90). Leipzig, around 1914
  • The bride of Messina (with mourning)
  • The victory festival for male choir and orchestra, based on Friedrich Schiller , premiered in Berlin in 1872
  • Coronation Cantata (1901), for the 200th anniversary of Prussia's ascension to kingdom
  • Fairy tale overture (1906)
  • The Loisach Bride , choral ballad with orchestra and solos (1906)
  • Ascension Day (1887). Leipzig, around 1914
  • The 46th Psalm , Lahr 1955
  • Choirs for "Antigone" and "Cyclops" by Euripides
  • Songs

literature

  • Ernst Otto Nodnagel: Constanz Berneker - a memory word . Die Musik, 5th year (1905/06), issue 22, pp. 222–230; authentic description of the work, translation and comments by Hans-Dieter Meyer (2009) (PDF; 4.5 MB)
  • Konrad Burdach : On the history and aesthetics of modern music. Biographical study on Constanz Berneker , in: Deutsche Revue (1907), pp. 229–241, 325–336.
  • Victor Laudien : Constanz Berneker . With Berneker's portrait and a foreword by Konrad Burdach . Charlottenburg 1909, GoogleBooks
  • Joseph Müller-Blattau : Berneker, Constance . In: The music in past and present, p. 7456. Kassel 1949 ff.
  • Joseph Müller-Blattau: History of Music in East and West Prussia , Wolfenbüttel 1968. 2nd edition p. 149

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  2. ↑ a b c Nodnagel (PDF; 4.5 MB)
  3. ↑ For Nodnagel a counterpart to Brahms' German Requiem
  4. ^ Nodnagel compares the coronation cantata with Bruckner's Te Deum and Brahms' Deutsches Reqiem
personal data
SURNAME Berneker, Constanz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berneker, Constance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Darkehmen
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1906
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)