Eduard Kreuzhage

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Eduard Kreuzhage (born February 13, 1838 in Göttingen , † September 13, 1898 on the return journey from Liebenwerda ) was a German composer , playwright and poet .

Life

After attending grammar schools in Göttingen and Hildesheim , he studied history and philosophy in Göttingen from 1858 to 1861. Together with his brother Karl, Heinrich Adolph , Viktor Zachariae and four other friends, he founded the Georgia-Augusta student choir in Göttingen in 1860 . Kreuzhage later received a PhD in philosophy.

After completing his studies, he and Heinrich Thureau (who became its first conductor when the student choir was founded and later became city and court organist and conductor in Eisenach) trained at the Conservatory of Music in Leipzig . In 1864 he became director of the music association in Osnabrück . He later moved to Witten in the Ruhr area, where in 1869 he became the conductor of the local music and men's choir.

Eduard Kreuzhage died in September 1898 on the return journey from Liebenwerda in what is now southern Brandenburg . His written estate can be found in the university libraries in Göttingen and Münster , in the Detmold State Library and in the Westphalian Literature Archive in Hagen .

Work (selection)

Fonts

  • Poems , 1861
  • Jephtha's daughter , 1861
  • About program music , 1868

Compositions

  • Songs and chants for a high voice with pianoforte
  • Three two-part chants for soprano and tenor with accompaniment by the pianoforte
  • Four quartets for four male voices
  • Twelve four-hand piano pieces in waltz form

literature

  • Hermann Goetz : Eduard Kreuzhage, his life and works , Leipzig 1916
  • A. Pott: News of the life and writings of Brandenburg writers: Eduard Kreuzhage , in: Yearbook of the Association for Local and Local History in the County of Mark 2, Witten 1887 f.
  • Society for Music Research (Ed.): Monthly Issues for Music History 31, Leipzig 1898, p. 152

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c German Literature Lexicon. tape 9 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-7720-1538-7 (founded by Wilhelm Kosch).
  2. ↑ a b c d Eduard Kreuzhage in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , accessed on April 22, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Illustrirte Zeitung ...: Weekly news about all major events of the time, conditions and personalities of the present, public and social life, science and art . tape 111 . JJ Weber, 1898, p. 385 .
  4. ↑ The Conservatorium der Musik in Leipzig: its history, its teachers and pupils: Festgabe for the 25th anniversary on April 2nd, 1868 , p. 57
  5. ↑ Chronicle of the Musikverein Witten , which was dissolved in 2014, on the homepage of the project choir "Collegium-Musicum-Witten", accessed on April 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kreuzhage, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, playwright and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1898
Place of death on the return journey from Liebenwerda