Franz Commer

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Franz Aloys Theodor Commer (born January 23, 1813 in Cologne , † August 17, 1887 in Berlin ) was a German church musician and music researcher.

Life

His parents were the cabinet maker Theodor Commer (1773-1853) and his wife Maria Rohr (1774-1852) from Gladbach .

Commer received his first training at Carl Leibl in Cologne, where he also got his first job as an organist in 1828. In 1832 he went to Berlin for further training, where he perfected his organ playing at the Royal Music Institute with August Wilhelm Bach and received composition lessons from Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen . In addition, he attended lectures on music with Adolf Bernhard Marx at the Berlin University . In the library of the Royal Music Institute - which goes back to the valuable library of the Bach researcher Johann Nikolaus Forkel and was taken over by the Royal Library in 1845 - he was able to study and write numerous masterpieces from the 16th and 17th centuries, which were largely forgotten at the time be the first to publish a catalog of the collection. During this time he developed a lifelong friendship with the musicologist Carl von Winterfeld , who supported him in his studies.

On February 24, 1844 he founded the Berliner Tonkünstler-Verein with Theodor Kullak and in the same year received a position as Regens-Chori (choir conductor) at the Berlin Hedwig Church . In 1845 he was appointed a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In 1850 he took a position as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera and as a singing teacher at the French grammar school . In 1868 he founded the Society for Music Research with Robert Eitner , of which he was president for many years.

Commer made a name for himself primarily as the editor of the Musica Sacra series , the first volume of which appeared in 1839. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. awarded him the Great Gold Medal for Art. A total of 28 volumes were published.

family

He married Marie von Aster (1823–1915) in Berlin in 1846 , a daughter of the Prussian general Ernst Ludwig von Aster . The couple had several children including:

  • Ernst (* February 18, 1847; † April 24, 1928), professor of Catholic dogmatics and philosophy in Breslau, Liverpool, Münster and Vienna;
  • Clara (born December 30, 1856 in Berlin, † June 23, 1937 in Graz), writer and translator

Compositions

  • Choirs to the “Frogs” by Aristophanes , 1842
  • Prussia's festival heralds. A cantata for October 15, 1844 , for male choirs and orchestra
  • The Magic Ring , based on a poem by Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio , for male voices and orchestra, 1844

literature

  • LB ( Ludwig Bischoff ), Franz Commer , in: Niederrheinische Musikzeitung , Vol. 8, No. 18 of April 28, 1860, pp. 137-139 and No. 19 of May 5, 1860, pp. 145-149 (digitized version )
  • Carl von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 89 f., 682 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10931847-2 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Robert Eitner:  Commer, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 508 f.
  • Harald Kümmerling, Franz Commers copies of older musical works , Cologne 1973 (= contributions to Rhenish music history , volume 100)
  • Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (=  Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 111–116, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Commer at uni-muenster.de
  2. ↑ Clara Commer at ngiyaw-ebooks.org
personal data
SURNAME Commer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Commer, Franz Aloys Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1887
Place of death Berlin