Eduard Schön

Eduard Schön (born January 23, 1825 in Engelsberg ; † May 27, 1879 in Deutsch Jaßnik ) was an Austrian ministerial advisor , poet and composer for male choirs. For his artistic activity he used the pseudonym ES Engelsberg .

Life

Memorial plaque on Eduard Schön's house in Vienna

Former Monument to Viktor Emanuel Heeger, Eduard Schön-Engelsberg and Bruno Hanns Wittek on the castle hill (Cvilín) near Jägerndorf (Krnov) in Silesia

Schön was the son of master weaver Anton Schön and his wife Theresia nee Schleser. He grew up in Engelsberg, Austria and Silesia, and attended grammar school in Olomouc . From 1846 Schön studied law at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1850. jur.

From 1851 Schön worked in the k. k. Ministry of Finance and was appointed General Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in 1860 . In 1858, Schön married Betty Held in Vienna. In 1866 his wife died of typhus .

Schön also took over the management of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna , and one of his particular successes was the construction of the Vienna Musikverein , which was inaugurated in 1870 .

Because of an illness, Schön took early retirement. In 1879 he died unexpectedly during a spa stay with his cousin, the consistorial councilor Adalbert Riedel in Deutsch Jaßnik. Schön found his final resting place in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group MA, number 32) in Vienna in an honorary grave.

In 1907 the Engelsberggasse in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after him. On the Altvaterberg in Moravia , in the nature reserve between the TV tower and Chata Baborka, there are remains of a monument to ES Engelsberg . Another monument for Engelsberg, as well as Viktor Heeger and Bruno Hanns Wittek was located on the castle hill of Jägerndorf and was removed after the Second World War.

Works

Schön has been writing and composing since he was in high school. During the revolution of 1848 the student sympathized with the rebels and wrote the melody for Ignaz Machanek's "German Freedom Song ".

After entering the civil service and becoming a high official in the monarchy, Schön continued his artistic work under the pseudonym ES Engelsberg , which pays homage to his place of birth and created the necessary distance to the civil servant. The Academic Choral Society and the Vienna Men's Choral Society included his songs in their repertoire from 1862.

Engelsberg composed a. a. 168 choral works, 63 songs and 12 pieces of church music.

• German freedom song , 1848; Federal song of the Vienna Academic Choral Society
• Italian song game
• You know what
• Woodman

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Nice, Eduard Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 106–112 ( digitized version ).
• Eusebius Mandyczewski:  Fine, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 245.
• H. Reitterer:  Nice Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 31 f. (Direct links on p. 31 , p. 32 ).
• Hugo Neußer and Alexander Hausleithner: ES Engelsberg, life and work. Troppau 1925.

Web links

• Engelsberg, ES (Schön, Eduard) . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Entry on Eduard Schön in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )