Friedrich Mergner

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Friedrich Mergner

Adam Christoph Friedrich Mergner (born October 19, 1818 in Regensburg ; † January 7, 1891 in Heilsbronn ) was a German Protestant pastor and composer .

Life

Friedrich Mergner was born in the old Mergners house on Weißgerbergraben in Regensburg. He received piano lessons irregularly from his father, who was an organist in the Neupfarrkirche . From 1828 he attended the Alumneum in Regensburg. He played the piano, organ, violin and had a beautiful voice.

From 1838 to 1842 he studied theology at the University of Erlangen and became a member of the Uttenruthia Erlangen. In 1843 he was appointed as a teacher at the Action Institute in Friedrichsdorf.

In the following year he started a vicariate in Meinheim near Weißenburg. In 1846 he became parish administrator in Pfofeld near Gunzenhausen. In 1847 he came to Ortenburg near Vilshofen as vicar . There he founded a men's choir. It was not until 1851 that he became a pastor in Ditterswind and was finally able to marry his bride Karoline Sperl, a pastor's daughter. In 1869 he became pastor and dean in Muggendorf (1870), then pastor in Erlangen and finally (1874) pastor in Heilsbronn.

At the age of 73, Adam Friedrich Christoph Mergner died on January 7, 1891 in Heilsbronn, where his grave can still be found today.

Throughout his life, Mergner endeavored to reform Protestant church singing and left behind more than 1,500 compositions and arrangements of mostly sacred songs.

The 2oo. The Paul Gerhardt Society took Mergner's birthday as an opportunity to hold its 2018 annual conference in Heilsbronn under the motto “Paul Gerhardt sung”.

Works

  • Choral book: first on the hymn book of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Deichert, Erlangen 1883
  • 28 sacred songs by Georg Vogel (Hans von Bergen). Set to music for 1 voice, (mezzo soprano) with piano accompaniment and Sr. Serene Highness to Prince Reuss-Köstritz Heinrich IV. Dedicated by Friedr. [I] Mergner. Hildburghausen. FW Gadow & son Herzogl. Hofbuchdruckerei. [1883].
  • Paul Gerhardt's spiritual songs in new ways by Friedrich Mergner . Deichert, Leipzig 1907
  • The holy passion weeks: score . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1900
  • Six songs for a medium voice . Otto Junne, Leipzig undated
  • Five secular songs based on texts by Brother Hilarius . Alfred Coppenrath, Regensburg
  • 46 secular quartets (songs for mixed choir). Private print by the Mergner family
  • Twelve songs without words for horn and piano
  • Trio for organ, violin and violoncello
  • 15 lyrical trios for two violins and pianoforte
  • Six songs for violin and piano
  • A word of understanding about the rhythmic church singing . In: Kirchliche Zeitfragen , 1848, No. 24–27
  • Open letter to Mr. G. Fr. Heinisch. A criticism of the sentence that at no time in the Protestant church was there a rhythmic congregational singing . Passau, Carl Pleuger, 1849

literature

  • Julie Mergner: Friedrich Mergner. A picture of life . Deichert, Leipzig 1910
  • Peter Ludwig: Adam Christoph Friedrich Mergner - A forgotten composer . Admission work University of Music Munich. Munich 1988
  • Theodor Wohnhaas :  Mergner, Adam Christoph Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 1298-1299.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Günter Balders (Ed.): "I sing along when everything sings". Paul Gerhardt and the music . Berlin 2010. pp. 34–36
  • Günther Lipp: pastor and composer. In memory of Adam Christoph Friedrich Mergner . In: Home calendar for Franconia and Thuringia 2002 . Pp. 106-107
  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 23, volume 4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mergner, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mergner, Adam Christoph Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1891
Place of death Heilsbronn