Fritz Fuhrmeister

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Fritz Christian David Fuhrmeister (born July 19, 1862 in Westdorf near Aschersleben , † February 2, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German composer and song pianist .

Life

After attending the secondary school in Aschersleben, he studied music in Berlin at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst (with Theodor Kullak , Richard Wüerst , Philipp Scharwenka and Hans Bischoff ), at the Academy for Church Music (with August Haupt ) and at the University of Music (with Ernst Rudorff and Heinrich Barth ) and in 1882 at the Music Academy in Weimar (with Franz Liszt ). From 1889–1893 he worked as the conductor of the choir of the Berlin Craftsmen's Association and from 1895–1899 as the conductor of the male choir Caecilia-Harmonia in Berlin. He then worked as a freelance concert pianist and music teacher. He composed a singspiel, chamber and church music, piano pieces, choirs and songs. He was also a member of the German composers' cooperative and the Berlin Tonkünstlervereinigung . He was married to Emma Wiese († 1929). He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Zum flammenden Stern .

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Compositions

  • Op. 1: Gavotte for piano
  • Op. 2: Waltz for piano (4hdg.)
  • Op. 3: It stalks in the forest alone (for 2 voices and piano)
  • Op. 4: 6 songs
  • Op. 5: 3 songs
  • Op. 6: Gavotte and Tarantella (for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon / sextet / 1901)
  • Op. 7: 2 songs
  • Op. 8: 4 songs
  • Op. 9: 3 songs
  • Op. 11: 3 cheerful songs
  • Op. 12: Walse di bravura and Ser. (for flute and piano)
  • Op. 13: The Twelve Elf (male choir)
  • Op. 14: 2 male choirs
  • Op. 15: Annemarie (male choir)
  • On post (Singspiel / not performed)
  • Dream summer time (text by Otto Julius Bierbaum)
  • German men and German women (Feldgrau is Trumpf / Soldier's Song / Text by Otto von Huth / In: World War II Song Collection, Dresden 1926).

literature

  • Franz Pazdirek: Fritz Fuhrmeister . In: Ders .: Universal manual of music literature of all times and peoples, Vol. 9 . Knuf, Hilversum 1967 (unchanged reprint of the Vienna edition 1904/10).
  • Paul Frank (greeting), Wilhelm Altmann (editing): Fritz Fuhrmeister . This: Briefly summarized Tonkünstler Lexicon. For musicians and friends of music . 12th edition Merseburger Verlag, Leipzig 1926, p. 498.
  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929, p. 538.
  • Heinz Kullnik: Berliner and Berliner by choice . People and personalities in Berlin from 1640 to 1914 . Verlag Hayn, Berlin 1960, p. 429.

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personal data
SURNAME Fuhrmeister, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuhrmeister, Fritz Christian David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and song pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Westdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1937
Place of death Berlin