Erich Prieger (musicologist)

Erich Prieger (born October 2, 1849 in Kreuznach , † November 27, 1913 in Bonn ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Prieger was the son of the doctor Oskar Prieger (1820-1897). He worked in Bonn and Berlin and dealt in particular with Bach and Beethoven . Prieger is considered a student of Friedrich Kiel and was a co-founder and sponsor of the Beethoven House Association .

In 1897 he bought the Artaria autograph collection, which was up for sale and which contains numerous Beethoven manuscripts, for 200,000 marks and immediately left it to the Berlin State Library . When the German government approved the purchase four years later, Prieger generously waived the interest.

In 1905 he brought about the performance of Beethoven's opera Leonore in der Urgestalt (1805) in Berlin , which he had previously painstakingly reconstructed. Richard Strauss conducted the performance .

His residence, the Villa Prieger in today's Raiffeisenstrasse in Bonn, was completely renovated by Carl Richard Montag from 1996 to 1999 and is now the seat of the Montag Foundations.

Books

• Suggestion and metaphysical foundations of aesthetics by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , Berlin 1875, Diss.
• Real or fake? To the " Lucas Passion " , Berlin 1889
• German liberalism. A look back , probably 2nd edition, Bonn 1890
• Catalog of the Beethoven Celebration in Bonn on 11. – 15. May 1890 related exhibition of manuscripts, letters, portraits, relics of Ludwig van Beethoven and other memories related to him and his family , Bonn 1890
• On the edition of the musical works of Frederick the Great , Bonn 1890
• Beethoven Festival, held in Bonn on May 4th, 5th and 6th, 1894 , Bonn 1894
• Friedrich Wilhelm Rust . A predecessor of Beethoven , Cologne 1894
• On Beethoven's “ Leonore ” , Leipzig 1905

Essays

• About poetry and music. 3 letters from Robert Franz , in: Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the Literature Archive Society in Berlin , Berlin 1901
• Friedrich Kiel , in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 51, Leipzig 1905
• On the D minor Quartet by Franz Schubert , in: Bonner Konzert- und Theaterzeitung , No. 12 of May 15, 1909

literature

• M. Lempertz, auction of the music collection from the estate of Dr. Erich Prieger , catalog, Cologne 1924
• Scherzo from the Piano Sonata in E minor (Juny 1817) by Franz Schubert. According to a previously unpublished manuscript from the estate of Dr. Erich Prieger-Bonn published for the first time and edited with facsimile , in: Die Musik , vol. 21, October issue 1928, pp. 13-16