Edmund Kretschmer

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Edmund Kretschmer
Edmund Kretschmer's grave in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Carl Franz Edmund Kretschmer (born August 31, 1830 in Ostritz , Lausitz , † September 13, 1908 in Dresden ) was a German organist and composer .

Life

The father, Franz Kretschmer, principal of the city school in Ostritz, was himself a talented musician. Naturally, Edmund received his first lessons from his father, who employed him as a violinist and, because of his sonorous alto voice, as a choir and solo singer as soon as possible in the performances he organized. From 1846 he studied composition in Dresden with Ernst Julius Otto and with the "Organ King" Johann Gottlieb Schneider the Elder . J. playing the organ. He first worked as a teacher before becoming organist at the Catholic Court Church in 1854.

Even at a young age he was lucky enough to be supported by well-known artists such as Anton Mitterwurzer or Nina and Henriette Sontag . At first he worked as a teacher. Under Richard Wagner he sang in a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony in 1849 . In 1854 he was appointed assistant organist and in 1863 court organist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden. In 1872 he took over the management of the “Royal Chapel Boys” and in 1880 the post of choir conductor . King Albert of Saxony awarded him several medals and awarded him the title of "court church composer" and a professor . He was also honorary songs Champion and honorary conductor of the choirs "Erato" and "Philharmonic" in Dresden, honorary member of the choral societies in Konigsberg , Reichenberg , Schluckenau , Jablonec , Warnsdorf , Schönlinde and Leipzig , which he partially established itself, and the German Choral Society in Hoboken . His creative period fell under the direction of six court orchestral masters at the Dresden Opera, namely Carl Gottlieb Reissiger , Karl August Krebs , Julius Rietz , Franz Wüllner , Ernst von Schuch and Adolph Hagen (1883–1913). He also taught numerous pupils, some of whom became known beyond Germany.

Kretschmer composed songs - including especially children's songs -, hymns, motets, orchestral marches, vocal quartets, pieces for male choir and orchestra , four masses and offerings as well as four operas . In 1865 his composition “Die Geisterschlacht ” for male choir and orchestra, based on a poem by Hermann Waldow , was premiered at the first German Singers' Association in Dresden and was awarded a prize; In 1868 he received first prize for a trade fair in an international competition in Brussels. As a result, he wrote his first opera “Die Folkunger ” with a text by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal , which was premiered on March 21, 1874 at the Dresden Court Opera in the presence of the king to great applause. His second opera, "Heinrich der Löwe", for which he had also written the text, premiered on December 8, 1877 in Leipzig, and the third, "The Refugee", finished in 1880, premiered on April 1, 1881, were just as positive recorded in Ulm.

Edmund Kretschmer was married to the singer Jenny Schröter, daughter of a chamber musician and student of Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient . For them he composed his "Spring Song" (Opus 3). He died in 1908 as a councilor, his grave is in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden. During his lifetime he became an honorary citizen of his native Ostritz, in which a street today bears his name.

Works

  • “Die Folkunger”, opera in 5 acts; Text: Salomon Hermann Mosenthal; First performance on March 21, 1874 at the Dresden Court Opera. Piano excerpt: Kistner, Leipzig 1876; “Das Vorspiel”, “Der Eriksgang” and “Coronation March”, preludes to the 3rd and 4th act, score: Kistner, Leipzig 1876
  • "Heinrich the Lion", opera in 4 acts; Text: Edmund Kretschmer; December 8, 1877 in Leipzig. Complete piano excerpt: Kistner, Leipzig 1877; “Prelude” and “Triumphmarsch” for large orchestra: Score, Kistner, Leipzig 1877
  • “The Refugee”, opera in 3 acts; Text: Anna Löhn; started in 1870, completed in 1880; First performance April 1, 1881 in Ulm
  • “Schön Rotraut”, comic opera in 4 acts; Text: Johanna Baltz ; First performance in Dresden in 1887
  • op. 1 - Three songs for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (1890): "What cares about me" (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser), "Your eye", "Theft" (Text: Robert Reinick)
  • op. 2: - Three songs: "Winter Evening" (text: Heinrich Heine), "I want to put my hand on your heart", "You look at me and don't know me" (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
  • op. 3 - "Spring Song", song for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (1870)
  • op. 4 - "The Ghost Battle", text: Hermann Waldow; set to music for male vocals and orchestra (1865)
  • op. 7 - “When I look you in the eye” (Text: Heinrich Heine); two songs
  • op. 8 - "You are like a silent starry night", song for a voice with accompaniment of the Piano Forte (1880)
  • op. 9 - "Novellettes", 4 piano pieces (1868)
  • op. 10 - "Heaven has cried a tear", song for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (published 1868)
  • op. 11 - "Give me only the foam from the cup", song for a singing voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (published 1870)
  • op. 12 - "The Pilgrimage to the Promised Land", for male choir, solo voices and orchestra (Bote and Bock, 1869)
  • op. 14 - "Nachts am See" (Text: Edmund Kretschmer): Song for a deep voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (1870)
  • op. 15 - “Veni Creator Spiritus”, text: Hans Huber, “Justorum Animae”, “Alma Redemptoris Mater”, “Pange Lingua”, four hymns for four-part mixed choir
  • op. 16 - “What the mother speaks”, text: Edmund Kretschmer
  • op. 17 - "Laudate Dominum", "Easter Motette", two motets: for eight-part mixed choir (1876)
  • op.18 - 4 hymns for mixed choir (1870)
  • op. 19 - “I drive alone in a light boat”, “Am Bache” (text: B. Eduard Schulz, pseud. E. Ferrand), “Song of the night” (text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben ), “Every flower that I think “(Text: Carl Laue) four songs
  • op. 20 - "Ave Maria": Song for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte or the harmonium or the organ (1875)
  • op. 22 - Mass vocale N °. 3, avec accomp. d'orgue oblige. Score and parts: Schott, Paris
  • Op. 23 - "Missa in honorem Sancti Francisci Seraphici", ad quatuor voces inaequales, organe comitante ad libitum. Schott, Bruxelles (1878?)
  • op. 24 - “Love in the Small”, text: Friedrich Rückert
  • op. 25 - "Night song" (text: Emanuel Geibel ), "Outside in the forest", "In green world", "Calm", three songs for one voice with accompaniment of the piano (1877)
  • op. 26 - "Musical village stories" for orchestra in 6 movements: "Morning greeting", "Rosemary on the way", "On the meadow", "Am Weiher", "Colorful hustle and bustle", "Evening rest". Score: Ries, Dresden
  • op. 27 - "Festgesang"
  • op. 28 - "Melodie", concert piece for orchestra. Score: Kistner, Leipzig 1880
  • op. (?) - Mass in A flat major; performed on July 30, 1881 in the Dresden Hofkirche
  • op. 31 - “Huldigungsmarsch” for orchestra. Score: Kistner, Leipzig 1881
  • op. 32 - Dramatic tone poem in G minor, for large orchestra (1882). Score: Kistner, Leipzig.
  • op. 33 - "Quatuor antiphonae Beatae Maria Virginis ad 4 et 5 voces"
  • op. 34 - "Veilchenlied", text: Johanna Baltz, "The beautiful eyes of spring night", text: Heinrich Heine, "Lied aus Sevilla", text: Günther Walling (1839-1896), "Mainacht", text: Julius Karl Reinhold Sturm , "Schlummerlied", five songs for one voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (1885)
  • op. 38 - Four male choirs
  • op. 39 - "Dem Kaiser", festival march for large orchestra. Orchestra score:. Forberg, Leipzig, around 1875
  • op.40 - Sextet in four movements for flute, 2 violins, viola, violoncello and contrabass (1888)
  • op. 43 - Twelve fugitive preludes for the organ (published 1892)
  • op. 44 - “Fabrice March”, solemn march for large orchestra. Score: Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig 1894
  • op. 45 - Five choirs for male singing: "Red-Green-Gold", "Am Rhein", "Die gray Schänke", "In der Lenznacht", "Die Sterne"
  • op.50 - Missa a 8 voci in C minor, for mixed choir a capella (1896)
  • op. 54 - “Wedding Music”, suite in 3 movements for orchestra: “Pageant”, “Bride greeting”, “Reigen”. Orchestra score: Forberg, Leipzig 1896
  • op. 62 - "Country dance, love and cloudy thoughts", for orchestra
  • op. 64 - “Jugendzeit, goldenne Zeit!”, for piano, 1903
  • op. 65 - “Andante gracioso” for piano
  • “Sieg im Gesang”, poetry in 6 scenes for male choir, solo voices and orchestra. Text: Edmund Kretschmer. Piano reduction: Kistner, Leipzig
  • "Orpheus in the Nursery", 50 joke and occasional songs for voice and piano, published in 1865
  • “Spring of Life”, 8 children's songs for voice and piano, 1870
  • “Laudate Dominum in hymnis”, Mass (Avec accomp. D'orgue). Schott, Paris 1868 (Concours international de musique religieuse)

Literature (selection)

The Gazebo (1880)
  • Adolph Kohut : The Dresden Court Theater in the Present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 486 ff., ( Digitized ).
  • Otto Schmid: Edmund Kretschmer. His life, work and work . Hönsch & Tiesler, Dresden 1890.
  • Adolf Kohut : Edmund Kretschmer. A memorial sheet for his 70th birthday , in: Deutscher Hausschatz, 26th year, 1899/1900, pp. 855–856. With photo.
  • SG Mosenthal, Edmund Kretschmer: The Folkunger. Great opera in four acts. Music by Edmund Kretschmer. For the royal. Court theater printed in Dresden. Kistner, Leipzig (1910).
  • Catalog of the Alan A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston. Published by the Trustees, Boston 1912.
  • Michael Heinemann : What distinguishes trade fairs. Edmund Kretschmer's contribution to a competition for church music. In: The Dresden church music in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Matthias Herrmann, Laaber 1998, pp. 171–180 ( Musik in Dresden 3), ISBN 3-89007-331-X .

Web links

Commons : Edmund Kretschmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Kretschmer. Kotte Autographs , accessed March 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ among others the musicologist Anton Franz Schmid (1787–1857)
personal data
SURNAME Kretschmer, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kretschmer, Carl Franz Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostritz , Lausitz
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1908
Place of death Dresden