Emanuel Adler (composer)

Emanuel Adler (born December 3, 1845 in Beckern , Striegau district , † February 3, 1926 in Breslau ) was a Silesian composer and organist.

Life

Adler was born the son of a teacher and was trained at the Breslau teachers' college from 1863-66. He worked for two years in the school service, became a cathedral choraleist in 1868 and at the same time began studying at the Institute for Church Music at the University of Wroclaw under the cathedral music director and former cathedral organist Moritz Brosig . From 1876 he was the second cathedral organist alongside Adolf Greulich . When Greulich became cathedral music director in 1884, Adler became the first organist. In 1890 he applied for the position of Kapellmeister as Greulich's successor, but lost to Max Filke . Adler developed an enmity with Filke, who had his official apartment in the same house as Adler. The two of them went to court in 1901, and Filke was considering moving to Vienna. The conflict was defused by the fact that Cardinal Georg von Kopp Filke granted housing money to move into a private apartment. Adler survived Filke and his successor Siegfried Cichy . The composer Gerhard Fahrt , who was a singer in the cathedral choir at the time, writes about his organ playing: “Adler was a good improviser who seldom took up notes. We especially enjoyed listening to his Sunday chorale prelude before the sermon, which, however, always brought the cantus firmus in the upper part. "

Works

• 5 Organ Pieces op. 1 (3 preludes and chorale preludes about A 'Ros' has sprung and now God's Son triumphs ). Verlag Carl Kothe, Leobschütz, OCLC 220479953 : I. Prelude in C minor; II. Prelude in D major; III. Prelude in G major; IV. Prelude to the chorale A 'Ros' has sprung ; V. Prelude to the chorale Now the Son of God triumphs
• Mass for 4st. Male choir and organ (2 oboes, 2 horns, strings ad lib.) In A minor, op.2. Verlag Carl Kothe, Leobschütz, 1902
• 6 Organ Pieces op. 4, Kothe Verlag, Leobschütz.
• Mass for 4 mixed voices, 2 clarinets, 2 horns (2 trumpets and timpani ad lib.) In B flat major, op.6.
• Choral prelude to Rejoice, O Christendom for organ

literature

• Norbert Linke : Silesian composers. In: Gerhard Pankalla, Gotthard Speer (Hrsg.): Music in Silesia under the sign of Romanticism. Laumann, Dülmen 1981, ISBN 3-87466-032-X , pp. 9-36.
• Rudolf Walter : The Breslau Cathedral Music from 1805-1945. In: Gerhard Pankalla, Gotthard Speer (Hrsg.): Music in Silesia under the sign of Romanticism. Laumann, Dülmen 1981, ISBN 3-87466-032-X , pp. 87-218, here. P. 119 f.
• Albert Ernest Wier (Ed.): The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume. Macmillan, New York 1938, p. 13 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Works by and about Emanuel Adler  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Emanuel Adler in the International Music Score Library Project
• Literature by and about Emanuel Adler (composer) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Adler, Emanuel (1845–1926) at musicanet.org
• Adler, Emanuel at composers-classical-music.com
• Emanuel Adler (1845–1926): A rose sprang from (Weissenau) on YouTube
• Emanuel ADLER (1845–1926): Choral "Es ist ein Ros sprung", Bernard de Saint Vaulry on YouTube

Digital copies

1. ↑ 5 Organ Pieces op. 1 as digital copies in the digital library of the Munich digitization center of the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Route in his synopsis About my church music development , quoted from: Rudolf Walter: The Breslauer Dommusik from 1805–1945. In: Gerhard Pankalla, Gotthard Speer (Hrsg.): Music in Silesia under the sign of Romanticism. Laumann, Dülmen 1981, p. 119.