Ernst Reiter (musician)

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Ernst Michael Quirin Reiter (born March 30, 1814 in Wertheim , Grand Duchy of Baden , † July 14, 1875 in Basel , Switzerland ) was a violinist , conductor and composer from Baden and later Swiss .

life and work

Reiter was born in Wertheim as the son of Hofkammerrat Franz Reiter (1772–1839), and his wife Babette, b. Milon, born. He received musical training from Louis Spohr at the Kassel violin school and learned music theory from Moritz Hauptmann . His first job was as a violin professor at the Royal Music Institute in Würzburg , later he went to Strasbourg and in 1836 to Basel.

Reiter became concertmaster of the Basel Concert Society in 1839 , conductor of the Basler Gesangverein in 1845 as the successor to Ferdinand Laur and in 1852 director of the Basel Liedertafel men's choir, which he co-founded . The joint management of the three music ensembles in personal union turned out to be so fruitful that they stuck to it in Basel until 1965.

With the ensembles he directed, Reiter performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Hector Berlioz and Johannes Brahms in addition to others and his own . He conducted Beethoven's 9th Symphony (1853), Bach's Johannes (1861) and St. Matthew Passions (1865) as well as Swiss premieres as well as Brahms's German Requiem in 1869 .

Ernst Reiter's compositions include numerous songs, chamber music , a mass and psalm settings, as well as the oratorio “Das neue Paradies” from 1845 and the opera “Die Fee von Elvershöh” from 1865. On festive occasions he also wrote music for patriotic festivals.

Private

From 1843 Reiter was with the singer Josephine, b. Bildstein (1819–1854), and from 1857 with Johanna Karolina Friederike, b. Ehrmann, married. In 1858 his daughter Louise Sophie Constanze Johanna was born, in 1860 his son Ernst Peter Anton Ludwig.

literature

  • Friedrich Oser: In memory of music director Ernst Reiter, died July 14, 1875. Wassermann, Basel 1875.
  • The music in the past and present. Volume 11.1963, p. 212 f.
  • Dieter Zeh: The musician and composer Ernst Reiter. In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch , vol. 2008/09, pp. 183–204.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jean-Jacques Dünki , Christoph Ballmer: Ernst Reiter, violinist, composer, music = director. (An exhibition on the 200th birthday of Ernst Reiter (1814–1875) in the University Library of Basel , December 12, 2014 - February 28, 2015.)
  2. ↑ Swiss Gender Book. Vol. 3. Commission publisher by CF Lendorff, Basel 1910.
  3. ^ Ernst Peter Anton Ludwig Reiter at familysearch.org , accessed on December 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Reiter, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiter, Ernst Michael Quirin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Violinist, conductor and composer from Baden, later Swiss
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Wertheim , Grand Duchy of Baden
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1875
Place of death Basel , Switzerland