Georg Heinrich Lux

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Johann Georg Heinrich Lux (born February 2, 1779 in Sättelstädt (according to other information: Mechterstädt ), † January 16, 1861 in Ruhla ) was a German school teacher, organist and composer.

life and work

From 1805 Lux was city cantor at the St. Trinity Church in Ruhla. As a musician he was self-taught , but was considered an excellent pianist, organist and composer. He was the father of five children, including the composer Friedrich Lux .

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Georg Heinrich Lux is on his grave stone and a plaque on his house as a composer of possible Oh, how is it called

According to a report by Johann Ludwig Böhner , Lux is said to have known himself to him in 1852 as the composer of the folk song Oh, how is it possible then . Apart from Böhner's report, there are no direct sources on this, especially no autograph by Lux. Franz Magnus Böhme also contradicts the attribution , who reports that Lux expressly denied his authorship to him. The fact that Lux is supposed to be the composer of the folksong melody popular today is in contradiction to Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken's piano song setting from 1827. However, it is conceivable that an older melody recorded before 1820 goes back to Lux.

Works

Besides the controversial attribution of the song Oh, how is it possible then only two compositions by Lux have survived:

  • Polka chromatic
  • Polonaise for the pianoforte for two hands
  • A Ruhla Ecossaise has come down to us in an arrangement by Johann Ludwig Böhner

literature

  • Martin Beltz: The composer of the Thuringian folk song. In: Thuringian monthly sheets. 2 (1894), No. 4, p. 48 f. ( Digitized version ); No. 5, p. 62 f. ( Digitized version ) and oh, how is it possible then. No. 7, p. 85 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gustav Boehm: Böhner or Lux. In: Gothaisches Tageblatt. Born 49.1897. Supplement z. No. 141.
  • Carl Hunold: Who is the composer of the Thuringian folk song: "Oh, how is it possible then"? An argument and refutation. In: Gothaisches Tageblatt. Born 40, 1897. Beil. 7. No. 85.
  • Carl Hunold: Retrospective on: Who is the composer of the Thuringian folk song: "Oh, how is it possible then"? Weimar 1938. [handwritten]
  • Lotar Köllner: "Oh how is it possible then ..." On the 130th anniversary of the death of the composer Georg Heinrich Lux. In: Heimatblätter on history, culture and nature. 1991, 3, ZDB -ID 915765-7 , p. 10. Also in: Heimatblätter des Eisenacher Landes, 1990/91 (1992), ZDB -ID 915503-X , p. 36.
  • Lotar Köllner: Georg Heinrich Lux. In: Heimat-Grüße, supplement to the Ruhlaer Zeitung, NF Vol. 19 (2013), 3, July 11, 2013, ZDB -ID 2077910-0 , pp. [1–2].
  • Thank God S [chneider]: "Oh, how is it possible then" and his composer. In: Gothaisches Tageblatt. Born 49, 1897. No. 126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone of the "Weimar" cantor Lux saved and erected , Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Ruhla, 2013, accessed on February 12, 2020
  2. ↑ August Reissmann: Friedrich Lux. His life and works . Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1888, p. 5 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: 15-0011-216457 ).
  3. ^ Günter Wagner: Friedrich Lux (1820–1895). A forgotten Thuringian-Rhenish musician. In: Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (Ed.): Florilegium musicologicum. Hellmut Federhofer on his 75th birthday (= Mainz Studies in Musicology . Volume 21). H. Schneider, Tutzing 1988, ISBN 3-7952-0554-9 , pp. 445-462.
  4. ↑ The piano teacher. Music educational journal. Volume 20 (1897), p. 26 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Wilhelm Altmann : Friedrich Lux. In: Hessische Biographien. Volume 3. 1934, pp. 273–277 (Retrieved from WBIS , online (subscription access only); limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ^ Franz Magnus Böhme : Popular songs of the Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1895, p. 272 ​​u. Note p. 599 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Ludwig Erk , Franz Magnus Böhme : German song library . Volume 2. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1893, p. 372 f. ( Digitized version ).
  8. ↑ RISM ID: 452011132 , there falsely attributed Friedrich Lux
personal data
SURNAME Lux, Georg Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lux, Johann Georg Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school teacher, organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Sättelstädt
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1861
Place of death Ruhla