Erich Limmert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erich Limmert (born February 27, 1909 in Erlangen , † March 23, 1988 in Hanover ) was a German music critic and violinist , conductor and composer .

Life

Born at the time of the German Empire in Erlangen, played Erich Limmert already as a student violin and viola d'amore in an Ensemble for Early Music . After graduating from high school during the Weimar Republic in 1928, he deepened his musical training in Nuremberg at the local conservatory and then studied musicology at the University of Erlangen . During this time he began to build one from students assembled Chamber Orchestra , which he directed until 1936th But as early as the year of the seizure of power by the Nazis , he wrote off 1933 as a freelancer reviews the Frankish courier . In addition, he worked as a violin teacher , as a composer and as a member of the “Nuremberg Violen Quintet”.

In 1937 Erich Limmert went to Hanover, where he worked as an editor for music at the Hannoversche Anzeiger . In 1942 he was drafted as a soldier and became a prisoner of war .

After the Second World War , Limmert conducted the Erlanger Chamber Orchestra in his hometown , before returning to Hanover in 1948, where he initially worked as a music editor for the Hannoversche Presse and then from 1957 wrote for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). Contributions by the widely respected music critic have also appeared in music magazines such as Melos , opernwelt or Musica .

Even after his retirement in 1978, Erich Limmert wrote regularly as a freelancer for HAZ until shortly before his death in 1988 in Hanover.

Works (selection)

  • 1962: Russian miniatures. According to old East Slavic folk melodies. For string orchestra (= Breitkopf and Härtel's Score Library , No. 3867) (= Collegium musicae novae , volume 55), Wiesbaden: Breitkopf and Härtel, circa 1962

Archival material

An archive of Erich Limmert be found, for example,

  • Letter from Erich Limmert to unknown dated February 5, 1952 in the Frank Wedekind collection of the Hannover City Library

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Limmert, Erich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated March 12, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen : Limmert, Erich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 234.
  3. ↑ Compare the information in the Kalliope network
personal data
SURNAME Limmert, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic and violinist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1988
Place of death Hanover