Fritz Volbach

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Fritz Volbach (born December 17, 1861 in Wipperfürth ; † November 30, 1940 in Wiesbaden ) was a German conductor , composer and musicologist .

Life

Fritz Volbach was born in Wipperfürth in 1861. After briefly studying with Ferdinand Hiller at the Cologne Conservatory , he resumed the previously broken school education in Bruchsal , where he also passed his Abitur. He studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn . In 1886 he became a student of the Royal Institute for Church Music, and then continued his studies with Eduard Grell at the Academy in the composition department; he was probably his last student. During his studies in 1885 he became a member of the Academic Song Board Berlin in the Sondershäuser Association and the AMV Makaria Bonn .

After his studies he worked in 1887 as a teacher at the Institute for Church Music; he has also conducted the Academic Song Board and a choir. In 1891 he became music director in Mainz . In 1899 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn. In 1907 he became music director in Tübingen and was appointed professor. During the First World War, he founded a German symphony orchestra in occupied Belgium with Fritz Brandt under the occupation of Brussels . From 1918 he taught at the University of Münster and was also music director and head of the city's music association until 1925 . In 1929 he retired .

Volbach's compositional work includes an opera, a symphony and three symphonic poems. His compositions identify him as a conservative late romantic . Some parts of the estate are kept in the university archive of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

His sons were the art historian Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the director Walther R. Volbach .

Works (selection)

  • Easter , Symphonic Poem for Orchestra and Organ, Op. 16 (1895).
  • From Pages and the King's Daughter (after Geibel) for solos, choir and orchestra, (1898).
  • There were two royal children , Symphonic Poetry, Op. 21 (1901).
  • Gutenberg cantata (based on the words of the Bible) for choir, orchestra and organ, Op. 22 (1900).
  • Quintet for piano and wind instruments , Op. 24 (1902)
  • Raffael . Three mood pictures for choir, orchestra and organ, Op. 26 (1903).
  • Alt-Heidelberg, du fein , Symphonic Poetry, Op. 29 (1904).
  • Am Siegfriedsbrunnen for male choir and orchestra, Op. 31 (1907)
  • Symphony in B minor , Op. 33 (1909).
  • The art of loving (after Giovanni Fiorentino: Il Pecorone) , Musical Comedy, Op. 34 (1910).
  • Piano quintet in D minor , Op. 36 (1912).

Fonts

  • The practice of the Handel performance . Dissertation, Bonn 1899. Open Access via ViFaMusik
  • George Frideric Handel . (= Famous musicians - life and character pictures plus an introduction to the works of the masters . Volume II). 2nd Edition. Schlesische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1906.
  • German music in the nineteenth century. According to the basics of their development and their main manifestations . Kösel, Kempten / Munich 1909.
  • Explanations of Beethoven's piano sonatas. A book for everyone . (= Tongers Music Library . Volume 12/14). PJ Tonger, Cologne 1924 (3rd edition).
  • Beethoven . 2nd Edition. Kirchheim & Co, Mainz 1929.
  • The choir master. A practical manual for choral conductors with a special focus on the male choir . New, ext. Output. Schott, Mainz 1936.
  • The instruments of the orchestra. Their essence and their development . (= From nature and the spiritual world , Volume 384). Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1913.
  • The modern orchestra. Volume 1. The interplay of the instruments in its development . 2nd Edition. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1919.
  • The modern orchestra. Volume 1: The instruments of the orchestra . 2nd Edition. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1921.
    Moderni orhestar. Njegov razvitak . Translation into Croatian by Božidar Širola. Edition Slave, Vienna 1922.
  • Handbook of Musicology. Volume 1. Music history, cultural cross-sections, theory of forms, clay tools and score . Aschendorffsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster 1926.
  • Handbook of Musicology. Volume 2. Aesthetics, acoustics, etc. Tone physiology, tone psychology . Aschendorffsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster 1930.
  • Experienced and strived for . E. Schneider, Mainz 1956.

literature

  • Klaus Hortschansky (Ed.): Fritz Volbach (1861–1940). Composer, conductor and musicologist . Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the musicology seminar of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. (= Contributions to Westphalian music history 20 ). vd Linnepe, Hagen 1987, ISBN 3-921297-82-6 .
  • The composer Fritz Volbach tells from his life . In: Hans Kraus: Old Bergischer Custom - rediscovered in Florence . (= Rheinisch-Bergischer calendar . Volume 36/1966). Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1965, pp. 11-13

Web links

Commons : Fritz Volbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Grübel: Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV). Munich 1914, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Otto Grübel: Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV). Munich 1914, p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Volbach, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer, musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wipperfürth
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1940
Place of death Wiesbaden