Emil Dercks

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Traugott Richard Emil Dercks (born October 17, 1849 in Donnerau , Waldenburg district, † November 5, 1911 in Breslau ) was a German organist and composer .

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Emil Dercks was born as the son of the teacher Carl Eduard Dercks and his wife Henriette Auguste Ottilie Dercks, b. Lard.

From 1876 to 1877 he attended the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin . He got his first job as a cantor and organist at the Marienkirche in Köslin . There he was the founder of the "Oratorio and Concert Association". From 1893 he was Royal Music Director. In 1896 he became cantor and chief organist of the Eleven Thousand Virgins Church in Wroclaw. In the city he continued to work as a conductor of various associations. Among other things, he led the Waetzoldt men's choir and the Fridericiana choir . He was also active as a composer until the end of his life.

In Köslin Emil Dercks became a member of the Masonic lodge "Maria zum golden Schwert" in May 1897 . In Breslau, he was also a member of the "Frederick of the Golden Scepter" lodge.

family

On October 3, 1878, in Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia , he married Olga Elsbeth Anna Bertha Welczek, the daughter of the royal chancellery and head of the city council, Franz Welczek . He and his wife had three children, including the dentist Henriette Olga Emmy Helene Dercks, who was married to the geologist Hans von Staff called von Reitzenstein .

Publications

  • “Die Geister der Heimat”, Opus 19 for women's choir and solos
  • 12 celebratory motets Opus 17
  • Prelude to "Honor God alone on high"
  • Prelude to "Jesus My Confidence"
  • Songbook for middle and high school boys and girls as well as for seminars and lyceums , several (probably four) volumes and editions, published by Max Woywod Breslau as well as Velhagen & Klasing Bielefeld and Leipzig.
  • Song book for middle and higher girls' schools as well as for high schools and universities , Verlag C. Meyer Hannover, several volumes
  • Choral book for the Silesian provincial hymn book , Verlag WG Korn, Breslau, 1925 second edition

literature

  • H. Riemann: Riemann Musiklexikon, first volume, eighth edition reprint of the original from 1916; BoD - Books on Demand, Nicosia May 18, 2017
  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon , Heinrichshofen´s Verlag Wilhelmshaven, 15th edition (1936), p. 122, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 .
  • C.-E. Schott: History of the Silesian Provincial Hymn Books: (1742–1950) ; Bergstadtverlag WG Korn, Würzburg 1997
  • List of members of the Association of the Great National Mother Lodge in the Prussian States, called "to the three globes", which belongs to the Johannisloge Maria zum Golden Schwert and the associated Old Scottish delegation To the Light of Truth in the Orient Cöslin. 1898/99 ; Page 7, CG Hendess, Köslin 1898
  • Directory of members of the Johannis Freemason Lodge Friedrich zum Golden Scepter and the associated Old Scottish delegation of the same name in the Orient in Wroclaw, belonging to the association of the great National Mother Lodge in the Prussian states, called "to the three globes" 1898/99 ; Page 31, printed by Grass, Barth & Comp. W. Friedrich, Breslau 1898.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Register Office Kreuzburg, Marriage Book, No. 27/1878
  2. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=xD8kDwAAQBAJ&dq=emil+dercks+breslau+riemann&q=dercks#v=snippet&q=dercks&f=false
  3. ↑ https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/327492/edition/309519/content?ref=desc
  4. ↑ https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/264694/edition/250445/content?ref=desc
personal data
SURNAME Dercks, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dercks, Traugott Richard Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Donnerau , Waldenburg district
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1911
Place of death Wroclaw