Ferdinand Heinrich Thieriot

Ferdinand Heinrich Thieriot [tjeeroh] (born April 7, 1838 in Hamburg , † July 31, 1919 in Schwarzenbek ) was a German composer and cellist .

Ferdinand Thieriot, Graz, 1885

Life

Ferdinand Heinrich Thieriot came from the old Huguenot Leipzig merchant family, the Thieriot, whose roots can be traced back to 1703 in Leipzig. His great-grandfather was the violinist, philologist and friend of Jean Paul , Paul Emil Thieriot. The father moved to Hamburg in 1835 as the son of the Hamburg businessman Theodor-Heinrich Thieriot (born February 20, 1815 in Leipzig). He had five siblings, including Marianne-Pauline Mende, nee Thieriot. Ferdinand dedicated his opus 2 to her, his aunt, in 1858. Pauline Mende donated the Mende Fountain named after her to the city of Leipzig . Ferdinand Thieriot was, “after that great and victorious Johannes Brahms ”, according to the Hamburg music journalist and composer Ferdinand Pfohl, “one of the most respected composers who emerged from Hamburg” . Even the Mozart Prize winner Arnold Krug and the tragic figure of Theodor Kirchner , both working in Hamburg, could not achieve Thieriot's diverse scope in compositional work.

His friendship with Brahms, which has existed since his youth, as well as the cordial attachment to his teacher Joseph Rheinberger , make the composer appear extremely lovable, as evidenced by a few surviving letters. Like many other composers close to Brahms, however, he also submitted to the fact that a Titan and his supporters cannot be conquered. Thieriot with his Huguenot descent had the gift, especially in the oeuvre of slightly shaded lyricism, in addition to a great melodic ingenuity, to include compositional and stylistic currents that range from Mendelssohn and Schumann to Brahms to Bruckner and Verdi in his later works.

The musicologist Hermann Kretzschmar wrote about Thieriot in 1895: "... a contribution to romantic music, which is characterized by simple, natural invention, by an amiable, graceful mood and especially by a very unsurpassable clarity of the presentation and the form."

Thieriot first studied composition with Eduard Marxsen in Altona , where Brahms also got his tools, then with Carl Gottlieb Reissiger in Dresden, and later with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. He perfected his cello playing with Friedrich August Kummer in Dresden. In February 1863 he visited the opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer in Paris . The first teaching and working places after Hamburg were Leipzig (1867) and from 1868 to 1870 as conductor of the Singakademie zu Glogau . For 15 years he then worked as the “artistic director” of the Styrian Music Association in Graz . Thieriot's assumption of office in October 1870 was preceded by a "competition tender". Here he was in competition with Heinrich von Herzogenberg , the native of Graz, who was also friends with Brahms. The management made inquiries about Thieriot from Brahms and decided in favor of him.

In his Graz era, Thieriot had a clearly defined area of responsibility as artistic director, from 1875/76 “music director”. This was described as follows: “Thereafter, four concerts with orchestra and a so-called chamber concert should take place annually. The artistic director has to propose the program in good time for the purpose and the available forces of the association, to be approved by the direction; likewise those to be invited to participate in the concerts. For each orchestral concert there should be five full rehearsals of one and a half hours and the necessary string and wind rehearsals, if necessary more, but only with the approval of the direction, if the amount estimated for the concert would not be sufficient. The management of the rehearsals and concerts is the sole responsibility of the artistic director, who is to be supported by the concert master and has to make all relevant arrangements ... he [F.Th.] should specifically prohibit the performance of insufficiently prepared pieces .. . "

From 1870 to 1877 Thieriot also had to teach harmony at the music school. Marie Soldat-Röger and George Dima are among his most famous students . Thieriot then worked as a freelance composer in Leipzig, always with one foot in his hometown. He was a member of the board of the Bach Society . In 1902 he moved back to Hamburg entirely. He was chairman of the Hamburg Tonkünstlerverband and later its honorary member. Numerous performances of his works under the direction of his sponsors Julius Spengel Garvens, Bernuth and Siegmund von Hausegger met with great approval in the Hanseatic city. His works always received the best reviews in the Leipzig Gewandhaus . In February 1893 Arthur Nikisch performed Thieriot's Sinfonietta, op. 55 twice with the Boston Symphony Orchestra . Besides, Thieriot was a sought-after chamber music partner; As a cellist he has given concerts with the Casper and Payne Quartet, and with Theodor Billroth he premiered many works by Brahms . There are streets named after the Thieriot family in Leipzig and New York.

Catalog raisonné

Operas

“Renata” opera in 4 acts, text based on a poem by Julius Wolff Leipzig 1898
"The Highlanders" ( Finale of Act 1)
“Armor and Daura” tragic episode from the Scottish in Ossian , poem by Louise Otto-Peters (solo SATB SATB Orch) Glogau , 1869

Cantatas

“La régine Avrillouse” (The May Queen) old French spring dance dance from Frau Aventiure by Joseph Victor von Scheffel op. 74, Leipzig, 1901

"Der Ilsenstein" ballad by Mosenthal

“The Power of Singing” (SATB S Orch) poem by Friedrich Schiller

"Am Traunsee " (SSA solo bar Vl Vl Va Vc Kb)

“ Cantata of Lament and Consolation” op. 50 for choir, solo voices and orchestra, Leipzig, 1885 Public Domain sheet music in the IMSLP

“God be gracious to us” cantata based on words from the Bible (solo SATB SATB Orch) 1915

"The 57th [Psalm]" for (SATB Orch Org ad lib)

“The 67th Psalm” (Solo SATB, choir and orchestra), Munich, 1864

“ Requiem after Friedrich Hebbel ” (SATB S Orch) op. 52, Graz / Leipzig, 1873/1891 Public Domain notes in the IMSLP

" Stabat mater " (solo SATB SATB Orch)

" Te Deum laudamus" (solo SATB SATB Orch)

Works for orchestra

Concert program 1908

Symphony in D major

Symphony No. 2 in F major
Symphony No. 3 in C major
Symphony in C sharp minor, premiered on May 18, 1908 in Hamburg
Symphony in B flat major
Symphony in D major mp3 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Symphony in E major
Symphony in E flat major, Leipzig, 1907
Symphony in F minor, Graz , 1872
Symphony in G minor, Hamburg, 1918
Sinfonietta in E major, op.55, Graz, 1876
Overture “Dionysia”
Overture “ Loch Lomond ”, op. 13, Leipzig, 1868
Overture to Friedrich Schiller's Turandot op.43
Divertimento in G major
Festival march in C major, 1883
Minuet in F major
Orchestral Suite in D minor
Orchestral Suite in E major
“The life and death of the hilarious little schoolmaster Wuz” op. 72, text: Jean Paul Leipzig, 1900

Solo concerts with orchestra accompaniment

Violin Concerto op.68

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, op.68, Leipzig 1897
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, 1912
Piano concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra op.77
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, Graz, 1878
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Concerto for Organ and Strings in F major, Hamburg, 1910
Concerto for organ, strings, horns and timpani, D major
Concerto for violin and violoncello in G minor, op.96, Leipzig, 1914
Concerto for violin and viola op.92, 1910
Triple Concerto in D major for 3 violins, op.88 WP on April 12, 1910 in Hamburg
Concerto No. 2 for violoncello, G major, 1915
Concerto No. 3 for violoncello, A major
Concerto No. 4 for violoncello in D major, 1917
Concert piece in D major for violoncello
Suite for violoncello in G major
Two concert pieces for violoncello, op.76, no.2 Caprice, Leipzig, 1903

Works for string orchestra

Serenade op.44, page 1

Serenade in F major op.44, Leipzig
"At Giorno's" by Benito Fumagalli (arrangement)
Waltz op. 39 by Johannes Brahms (arrangement) sheet music
Tempo di Valse in F major
Two waltzes (D & A) op.54, 1895

Works for chamber music ensembles with piano

Serenade in B flat major (Fl Ob Clar Hn Fg Kla)
Piano quintet in D major op.20,
Piano quartet No. 2 op. 30, Leipzig, 1875
Piano quartet in G minor, Hamburg, 1905
Piano quartet in F major, Hamburg, 1913
Piano trio in F major, Hamburg 1856
Piano trio in D major op. 1, Hamburg, 1858
Two easy trios for use in teaching op.3 (G major & C major), Hanover, 1859
Two easy trios op.12 (D major & A minor), Hamburg, 1867
Piano trio in F minor, Op. 14, Leipzig, 1868 (dedicated to J. Brahms)
Piano trio in A major, Graz, 1873
Piano trio in B flat major op.45, Leipzig, 1890
Piano trio in E major, op.47, Leipzig, 1890
Piano trio in E flat major, Leipzig, 1894
Piano quintet in A minor (Pn, Ob, Cl, Cor, Fag) op. 80, Leipzig 1903 / Reprint Warngau 2005
Piano trio in E minor, Op. 90, Leipzig, 1909
Piano trio in D major, Hamburg, 1916

Works for solo instruments with piano / organ accompaniment

Subject and var. op. 29

Divertimento all'ongarese op.10 for violoncello and piano
Elegian March (Incipit: written on the death of JB), 1897
2 Adagios for violoncello and organ op.41
Evening mood for violin and organ (piano)
Larghetto in G major for violin and organ
Larghetto in B minor for viola and organ
Largo in D minor for violin and piano
Serenade in G major for violoncello and piano
Sonata in E flat major for horn (violoncello) and pianoforte, 1915
Sonata in B flat major for violoncello and piano op.15, Leipzig, 1860
Sonata in the Easy Style op.56
Sonata in C major for violoncello and piano
Sonata in D major for violoncello and piano
Sonata in A major op. 58 for violin and piano
Sonata No. 3 in G major for violin and piano, Hamburg, 1910
Suite in B flat major for violin and piano
Theme and variations in G major for violoncello and piano
Theme and Variations op. 29 for 2 cellos and piano

Works for chamber music ensembles without piano

Octet in B flat major op.62 (Klar Fg Hn Vl 1 2 Va Vc Kb) Leipzig, 1887
Octet in D minor
Choral for 3 violoncellos Is God my protection and faithful shepherd
Suite in D major for 3 cellos
First string trio in D major, Winterthur 2004
Second String Trio in A minor, Winterthur 2003
String quartet in A major op.83, Leipzig, 1905
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 93, 1911
String quartet in E major, Winterthur 2005
String quartet in G major, Winterthur, 2005
String quartet in A flat major, Winterthur 2005
String quartet in E minor
String Quartet in A minor
String quartet in B flat major, Winterthur 2005
String Quartet in C minor, Winterthur 2004
String quartet in D major, 1913
String quartet in B minor, Winterthur, 2003
String Quartet in G minor, Winterthur, 2004
String quintet in G major, 1914
String Sextet in D major
String Octet in C major, Op. 78
Flute Quartet in G major op.84 (Fl Vl Va Vc), Leipzig, 1905
Flute quintet in F major (Fl Vl 1 2 Va Vc)
Clarinet quintet in E flat major (Klar Vl 1 2 Va Vc) Leipzig, 1897

Works for piano solo

Piano Etude op.22.2

Nature and Pictures of Life op.17 & op.18
Six Fantasy Pieces, Op. 22
Through the Puszta op.23
Drei Impromptus op.35 , Lübeck, 1881
Two piano pieces, op. 36 Intermezzo-Humoreske
Three piano pieces op. 37 [Toccata] -Quasi Gavotte-Intermezzo
Two pieces for 2 pianos, op.38
Three pieces for [Pianoforte] easy op. 39
Three sonatinas for piano (C, F, G) op.71, Leipzig, 1898
Two pieces of a military nature, Op. 82 ?, Leipzig, 1904
Album sheet in F sharp major
Andantino quasi allegretto in B flat major
Bagatelle in A major
Dance Caprice in D major
Caprice in E flat major
Initiation sounds to a festivity in C major
Fughetta scherzanda in D major
Fughetta scherzanda in G major
Gavotte in G major
Gigue in B minor
Humoresque E major
Song without words in E major
Molto vivae in F minor
Narration in A major
Presto in A minor
Romance in E major
Toccatina in F major
Dream in E major
Variations on an own theme in E flat major
Variations in E major, Op. 65
Past D minor
Waltz in A minor
Waltz in A flat major
Waltz in D flat major
Two Fantasy Pieces in C minor & D major, Leipzig, 1867
Humoresque E major
Lament in G sharp minor

Piano four hands

Six piano pieces for four hands, op.34, Book I, Book II
Six piano pieces for four hands op. 46 with a range of 5 notes
Two piano pieces op.40
Allegro non troppo in G major
Andante tranquillo in A minor
Cavalry in B flat major legend for piano
Double fugue in D minor, Graz, 1871
Humoresque G major
In den Gefilden Terpsichore's Reigen cycle for Pianoforte Hamburg, 1918
Piano piece in C major
Piano Sonata in F minor
Third dance suite for piano
Piece in D flat major
Piece in F minor
4-handed silhouettes at carnival time

Two dance tunes in G major for piano

From the Danube Beach op.64

Theme and variations for 2 pianos, op.66

Works for organ solo

Festival hymn in B flat major, Op. 85/1
Passacaglia (in free form) op. 85/2
St. Petri Prelude in E flat major
Organ fugue in E flat major fugae regulariter suspectus

Idyll in E major, op

Choral arrangement Praised be Jesus Christ

Choral Variations Who only lets God rule

Chorale In all my deeds

Organ sonata (lost)

Choral works with piano / organ accompaniment

"Devotion" words from Psalter and harp by CJ Ph. Spitta (SSA, Klav)

"You say: I am rich" Spiritual chant (SATB Org)

"Hand in hand like this couple" (SATB Klav)

“Hochzeitlied” for choir (SATB SA Klav) based on a poem by Goethe

“Wedding music” for choir, solo and pianoforte, text by Louise Otto-Peters

" Luther " (TTBB Org / Trp Trp Pos Pos) op. 94 for the inauguration of the new Luther Church in Worms on October 31, 1912

“Christnacht” op. 70 (SATB SB Org) Leipzig, 1899

"Lebenslied" based on a text by Johann Gottfried von Herder (SSA, Klav)

"Liebchen auf der Wiese", Italian folk song (SSAA Klav)

"Rose, sea and sun are a picture of my loved ones" text from the song spring by Friedrich Rückert

"Request to dance" op. 48 (SSATB Klav4)

"The Power of Faith" cantata (SATB Bar Org)

“Farewell to the Sea” op. 81 (SSA Bar Klav) poem by Alphonse de Lamartine Leipzig, 1904

"Neuweinlied" text by OJ Bierbaum (BB Klav)

"Snowdrop's Death" (SATB Klav)

"Scottish battle song " text after Walther Scott (TB Klav)

"My step echoes over the heather" (SSA Klav)

"Bird flight" text Friedrich Hebbel (SA pf)

"Compensation" (From a rich rose grave) Text M. Stona (AB Klav)

"Liebesgruß" (The little flowers greet you) Text by Stine Andresen (AB Klav)

"Evening by the sea" (faded away is the sound of the day) Text by Stine Andresen (SAB Klav)

"Behind the fir trees" (sunshine on green lawn) poem by Theodor Storm (SAB Klav)

"Spring is coming" (rejoice, beloved, winter is escaping) poem by G. Falke (SATB Klav)

"The Spinner" (SATB Klav)

"The fairy tale of the snow" op. 63 (SATB solo ST speaker piano)

"My lust is life" op. 91 poem by Peter Rosegger (SATB soloA piano)

Choral works a cappella

“Four Motets ” op. 79SATB

1. See, see, the righteous die
2. A prayer you, (Lord, I recognize in the star dome)
3. Last prayer (I gave myself to you) poem by Gottfried Kinkel
4. See, I stand at the door and knock, Leipzig, 1903
" Ave Maria " (SATB)
"God equips the righteous with strength" (SSAATTBB)
"Prepare the way for the Lord" (SSATB)
"Lean on me" (SATB)
“Two humorous songs” op. 69 (TTBB) Leipzig, 1897
“Frisch mein Lied” op. 69a (TTBB) text by J. Mosen Leipzig, 1903
"Two eyes" op. 82 (TTBB) text by A. Blumauer 1908
"Evening celebration" (How is the evening so cozy) Text from Psalter and harp by Spitta (SATB)
"Surrender" (I take what you choose for me) Text by Spitta (SATB)
"It pulls the bright stream down" poem by Ludwig Frankl (SATB)
"Spring miracle" (look, winter has passed) text by Spitta (SATB)
"Herbstlied" (Summer has bloomed us beautifully in the golden wreath of ears) Text by Friedrich Rückert (SATB)
"In the summer" (the roses bloom in the garden) poem by Stine Andresen (SATB)
"Kuckusruf" (three girls walked in the green forest) poem by Gustav Duill (SATB)
"End of Life" (only call the lucky one) poem by Jacob Balde (SATB)
"New Year's Song" Text Emil Gött (SATB)
"The little birds in spring" (little birds sing, little birds jump happily again) Text by Weickert (SSB or SSA)
"Four Folk Songs" (SATB):
1. With feet and eyes ( when all the fountains flow )
2. From the farm (should I never see you)
3. Night song (The earth rests, the sky watches) Text by Aug. Mahlmann
4. In the forest (In the forest, in the forest there is air and peace) French folk song, text by Béranger
"Burning love" (In my garden many little flowers laugh) Text by Mosen (SSA)
"Three pieces for female choir" (SSA)
1. Schelmliedchen (reeds and reeds whisper at the pond)
2. What darling is everything (Heller Vogelsang sounds in the green forest)
3. In front of the doors (I knocked) Poem by Ms. Rückert (SATB)
"How lovely are the messengers" poem by Ms. Rückert (SATB)
Seven pieces for mixed choir a cappella (SATB):
1. The wind, text: W. Osterwald Noten
2. The thief, text: Lessing
3. Pauline cell
4. Der Heini von Steyer Text from the Aventiure by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
5. Wendish folk song
6. Love song (portuguese)

Choir songs for male choir

Choral songs for male choir

Solo songs with piano accompaniment

Solo songs with piano accompaniment

literature

Ferdinand Bischoff: Chronicle of the Styrian Music Association . Graz 1890
Hermann Kretzschmar: Guide through the concert hall . Volume I, 3rd edition, Leipzig 1898
Wilhelm Altmann : Handbook for string quartet players . Vol. 1, 1927; Vol. 2; Vol. 3, 1929; Vol. 4, 1930
Wilhelm Altmann: manual for piano trio players . Wolfenbüttel 1934.
Wilhelm Altmann: Handbook for piano quintet players . Wolfenbüttel 1936
Wilhelm Altmann: Handbook for piano quartet players . Wolfenbüttel 1937
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , No. 6 of February 5, 1869, p. 47
Hohlfeld, Johannes: The Reformed Population of Leipzig 1700-1875, Leipzig, 1939
Matthias Keitel: The estate of Ferdinand Thieriot in the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky. Concept and exemplary implementation of the development. Thesis. Hamburg: University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Department of Library and Information, 2000.
Franz Pazdírek: Universal manual of music literature of all times and peoples. Verlag des "Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur", Vienna, 1904. [1]
Zielke, Walter: CD booklet Thieriot, Chamber Music Volume One

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personal data
SURNAME	Thieriot, Ferdinand Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thieriot, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and cellist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 1919
Place of death	Schwarzenbek