Eduard Mörike (conductor)
Wilhelm Eduard Mörike (born August 26, 1877 in Stuttgart , † March 14, 1929 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German pianist , composer and conductor .
Life
The son of a businessman and a music-loving mother, the great-nephew of the poet of the same name grew up with seven siblings in Stuttgart . When he was ten years old, the family moved to Leipzig . There he attended the Royal High School from Easter 1888 to September 1894 . On the advice of Felix Weingartner he decided to let his musical talent to train instead of Medicine study. At the Leipzig Conservatory he was among others Adolf Ruthardt in the subject piano at Karl Piutti and Hans Sitt train. At the age of 19 he won a composition award for a piano concerto in A minor . He then became a personal student of the pianist Alexander Ilyich Siloti .
After spending seven months in the United States , he decided to pursue a career as a conductor. He got a job as 2nd Kapellmeister at the Rostock City Theater . At the age of 24 he was appointed chief conductor in Kiel . In 1906 he was given the honorable assignment to participate in the Bayreuth Festival .
After a short activity in Stettin , he took over the musical direction of the Halle City Theater in 1907 . Here he founded the subscription concerts of the Hallische Orchestervereinigung . Halle experienced a musical heyday under Eduard Mörike. Important conductors such as Arthur Nikisch , Felix Mottl , Richard Strauss , Siegfried Wagner and Felix Weingartner were hired. During this time, Mörike also worked as an employee of the Saalezeitung and composed ballets such as The Funny Kleeblatt and the operetta Princess Herzlieb .
In 1907 he received a personal invitation from Richard Strauss to Paris to study his opera Salome . During the two months of his stay he directed several performances of this and other operas. During this time he also conducted the Wagner Festival in Halberstadt and Bad Lauchstädt .
From 1912 to 1924 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , which had been founded by the Charlottenburg upper class as a musical alternative to the frozen court opera stage . Here he performed Wagner's works in particular, including the Berlin premiere of Parsifal on January 1, 1914. He was also a lecturer at the Lessing University and performed as a concert pianist. From 1919 he made numerous recordings for Parlophone and Odeon . In 1922 and 1923 he toured all of North America as chief conductor of the Wagner Opera Company .
From 1924 to 1929 he was chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and head of the Dresden Singing Academy as general music director . In this capacity he conducted numerous world premieres and premieres of modern compositions, including by Friedrich Ernst Koch , Kurt Weill , Heinrich Noren (1861–1928), and Josef Suk . Together with his first concert master, Stefan Frenkel , he established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic as a promoter of contemporary music.
Eduard Mörike died on the evening of March 14, 1929 at the age of 51 in his Berlin apartment of flu , which had developed into pneumonia . He left his wife Ida Mörike geb. Bassler. The burial took place on March 18, 1929 at the Heerstrasse cemetery in Charlottenburg (today's district of Berlin-Westend ). The grave was dissolved in 1955.
literature
- Friedrich Jansa: German sound artists and musicians in words and images , F. Jansa, Leipzig 1911, p. 316.
- Hermann Abert (ed.): Illustrated Music Lexicon , Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1927, p. 354.
- Heiko Bockstiegel: Gentlemen, do you know the piece? , JLG Grimm, Wolfratshausen 1996, pp. 146-150.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Mörike in the catalog of the German National Library
- Prelude to Lohengrin, Orchestra of the German Opera House under the direction of Eduard Mörike, 1919 on YouTube
- Bedřich Smetana, Die Moldau, Orchestra of the German Opera House under the direction of Eduard Mörike, 1928 on YouTube
- Eduard Mörike by WA Ciecislett (1925) on gammophone.net .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eduard Mörike † . In: Vossische Zeitung . Friday, March 15, 1929. p. 7.
- ↑ The widow's obituary in the Vossische Zeitung . Saturday, March 16, 1929, morning edition. P. 6.
Hermann Mannsfeldt (1870–1885) | Michael Zimmermann (1885–1886) | Ernst Mörike (1886–1890) | August Trenkler (1890–1903) | Willy Olsen (1903-1915) | Edwin Lindner (1915–1923) | Eduard Mörike (1924–1929) | Paul Scheinpflug (1929–1930) | Werner Ladwig (1932–1934) | Paul van Kempen (1934–1942) | Carl Schuricht (1943–1944) | Gerhart Wiesenhütter (1945–1946) | Heinz Bongartz (1947–1963) | Horst Förster (1964–1966) | Kurt Masur (1967–1972) | Günther Herbig (1972–1977) | Herbert Kegel (1977–1985) | Jörg-Peter Weigle (1986–1994) | Michel Plasson (1994-2001) | Marek Janowski (2001-2003) | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (2004–2011) | Michael Sanderling (2011–2019) | Marek Janowski (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mörike, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mörike, Wilhelm Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, composer, conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1929 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |