Günther Bartel

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Günther Bartel (born November 20, 1833 in Sondershausen ; † March 1, 1911 in Düsseldorf ) was a German pianist , cellist and composer of pieces for piano, violin and violoncello as well as art songs .

Life

Musical evening party in the Bartel house in Düsseldorf , 1872 (Bartel with violoncello in the center of the picture), drawing by Joseph Scheurenberg

Bartel and his brother Ernst (1824–1868) received music lessons from his father, the trumpeter and music teacher August Bartel (1800–1876). He also received lessons from Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn in Berlin and Auguste-Joseph Franchomme in Paris . His career took him via the Netherlands , Austria-Hungary and Russia to England and Scotland , where he was cellist at the Theater Royal in Edinburgh from 1855 to 1860 .

After five years as a member of the Sondershauser Hofkapelle , Bartel finally found a job as a teacher for piano, music theory and singing in Düsseldorf. There he lived in the house at Immermannstrasse 13. As an employee of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and in other organs, Bartel published reviews and articles. Bartel was a friend of the composer Alexander Mackenzie , who had stayed in his father's house in Sondershausen and studied music there. Another friend of Bartels was the lawyer and counselor Hans Niemeyer (1834-1916).

Works (selection)

music

  • In my chest there is a pain , op. 16/2
  • Polonaise , 1891
  • Valse Lente , op.40, waltz, 1897
  • New year's joy in the Alpendorfe , 1899
  • Listen how quiet it is in the dark grove

Essays

  • Meeting with Wagner in Petersburg.
  • Can musicians play a flawless syncope?
  • About bad habits of the string instrumentalists regarding vibrato and portamente in incorrect places.
  • About donkey bridges in music.

literature

  • Albert Ernest Wier: The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan, London 1938, p. 123.
  • Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures. Leipzig 1911, p. 20 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Niemeyer : Memories and reflections from three generations. Verlag Walter G. Mühlau, Kiel 1963, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Bartel, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1911
Place of death Dusseldorf