Georg Wilhelm Henkel
Georg Wilhelm Henkel (born November 13, 1861 in Breitenworbis ; † January 11, 1934 in Bad Orb ) was a German teacher , church musician and composer .
Life, career, family
Henkel was born as the fifth of eleven children of the farmer and lay judge Johannes Henkel (1822–1898) and his wife Maria Anna Petri (1829–1906) in Breitenworbis in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld . His mother had a great influence on his upbringing; she was the granddaughter of the teacher and organist Andreas Josef Adam. His musical talent led Georg Henkel to the teachers' seminar in Heiligenstadt . Musical education played a major role there. "The future primary school teachers should be enabled to perform cantor and organist services". A focus of this musical education may have been the preludes and fugues of Bach . “In Henkel's estate there is a volume of Preludes and Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach. Handwritten entries indicate that Henkel must have dealt with these works , probably during his training in Heiligenstadt. B. Prelude and Fugue in D major. "
On September 29, 1884, Henkel married Elisabeth Kohl (May 16, 1855 - March 24, 1919), who also came from Eichsfeld , in the pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen near Staffelstein . The couple had a total of four children. Georg Henkel died on January 11, 1934 in Bad Orb.
Professional activities
Immediately after completing his training in Heiligenstadt, in 1881, Henkel began his first job as a “Catholic elementary school teacher” at the elementary school in Eschwege, which was founded in 1835 . He worked there for five years. In May 1886 he moved from Eschwege back to his home town of Breitenworbis and then on to Fulda . Here he taught "at a school close to the Severikirche ". Since he was aiming for a career in church music, he attended the church music school in Regensburg in 1887 . Then he applied, on August 4, 1887 (unsuccessfully) for a position as choirmaster at the cathedral chapter in Fulda. After this rejection he had to continue to devote himself to the school service. At the end of 1887 or beginning of 1888, Georg Henkel was initially represented at the elementary school in Bad Orb, and later a permanent position. He improved the teacher's salary with piano lessons. Late in 1919, after a waiting period of 30 years, Georg Henkel was also appointed organist at St. Martin's Church in Bad Orb . The pastors at the time were Adolf Dehler and Alfons Maria Lins . Now he founded the choir " Cäcilia ". This also marked the beginning of a completely new creative phase musically.
Musical creation
Georg Henkel left his first musical traces in Eschwege, where he probably played the organ in the Catholic Church. Another reference can be found at the time of the inauguration of a new building for the Catholic school in Eschwege, on October 24, 1883. On this occasion, Henkel “contributed to the musical entertainment with others”. In the first few years mainly smaller piano compositions and songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment were created. Because of his activity as a conductor, he soon added songs for male choirs. These secular compositions were mostly published by Carl Gottlieb Röder's music publishing house in Leipzig. Sometimes he used the pseudonym "Georg vom Eichenfeld"; an indication of its origin in the Eichsfeld. In public life in his new home town of Orb, Henkel made a variety of musical skills available. He founded a singing group, an amateur orchestra and headed the traditional choral society " Liedertafel ". He also made a contribution to the beginnings of spa music . The orchestral scores of some marches can be classified here. They point to the activity of Henkel in building up the spa music. The score shows that the spa orchestra consisted of two horns, two trumpets, a trombone, percussion, 1st and 2nd violins, violas, cellos and the double bass. The spa orchestra of its time was therefore much larger than in later times.
It was fortunate that, after Henkel's death, his music archive came to his grandson Alphons Engel, who was well versed in music . He could classify and assign the works accordingly. This task was made easier by the fact that Georg Henkel had numbered his pieces. His Opus 1 is a church music work, a four-part chorale with the title “Almighty God, we ask you”, which is intended for the end of a prayer. It could still come from the Regensburg period. This first work was followed by around 20 more church music works in the course of his long career. Including five Ordinarium Masses and fourteen Proprien Masses. In contrast to the many secular compositions, they are usually only available in handwritten form. Henkel's last pieces are again secular songs for male choirs. His very last work with the number 127 with the meaningful title "On the horizon the sun sinks" is only available in handwritten form. Perhaps the composer took a foreboding farewell to this world with him.
Aftermath
Georg Henkel laid down a special testimony of the connection with his second home Bad Orb and the Spessart in several Spessart songs and in particular with his Orber song “All Heil Bad Orb im Spessartwald”. His songs were sung for a long time until the 1960s. The Orber song, on the other hand, has achieved “cult status” and has become the city's anthem . It keeps the name of its composer Georg Henkel alive to this day. A plaque of honor was dedicated to Georg Wilhelm Henkel at the local history museum, Bad Orb Castle . In addition to an image of Henkel, it contains the first line of the Orber song.
Compositions
| No. | title | Type of music / line-up | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At the end of the devotion; "Almighty God, we ask you" | Four-part chorale | Handwritten available |
| 3 | In the arbor | Salon piece for piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 4th | For the jubilee of a priest; "O quam magnam dignitatem" | Four-part composition | Handwritten from March 10th, 1890 |
| 5 | "Wake up, the mountains are tiring"; by Hermann Neumann | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig; also at the Arwed Strauch publishing house, Leipzig; With this choir the composer achieved a great success at the song festival in Aschaffenburg in 1892. |
| 7th | Spessartlust | Salon piece for piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 10 | Song of the hermitage; from the Simplicissimus von Grimmelshausen | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig; also with Arwed Strauch, Leipzig; |
| 13 | Good night | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig; also at Benz-Kuller, Verlag Rorschach, Switzerland |
| 14th | Minstrel loves; Poem by Jacobi | Solo voice, piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 16 | Wanderlust; Poem by R. Habeu | Solo voice, piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 18th | My father is at the wheel; Poem by Molitor | Solo voice, piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 20th | Easter song (the lark rose on Easter morning); by Emanuel Geibel | Four-part mixed choir, solo voice, piano | Handwritten |
| 21st | The singer; by JW v. Goethe | Piano, four-part male choir with solos for tenor and baritone | Printed by Röder, Leipzig; also Verlag Benz-Kuller, Rorschach, Switzerland |
| 24 | Slumber song | Solo voice, piano | Notes are missing, the song is on the title page of No. 3, printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 27 | Mäcen march | Available for piano and orchestra (15 instruments) | Printed by Röder, Leipzig, the orchestral version handwritten |
| 43 | Wine song; by Magda from Wayden | Solo voice and piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 44 | Overture "Sine nomine" | For piano | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 45 | Praise to women; by Paul Baehr | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig, also by Verlag Arwed-Strauch, Leipzig |
| 48 | Singer salute; by L. Babre | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig; also at the Arwed-Strauch publishing house, Leipzig |
| 49 | Faith, hope, love (a golden walking stick); by Gedeon vd Heide | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig; also at the Arwed-Strauch publishing house, Leipzig |
| 50 | Moonlit night on the Rhine; by O. Rupertus | Four-part male choir | Benz-Kuller publishing house, Rorschach, Switzerland |
| 51 | Small dance album with the pieces: 1st march, 2nd polonaise; 3rd waltz; 4. Polka; 5. Rhinelander; 6. mazurka; 7th Waltz; 8. Gallop | Four-part male choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 52 | O stay with me (do you see the little stars up there); by Herbert Forbach | Four-part male choir, handwritten also for mixed choir | Printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 56 | Forest dream on Christmas Eve; by Julius Lohmeyer | Singing voice and piano | Handwritten |
| 58 | Wish! Oh, if I had a little house to own. | Four-part male choir | Verlag Carl Hochstein, Heidelberg, printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 60 | All Heil Bad Orb in the Spessart Forest; by Julius Türck | Singing voice and piano, also for four-part male choir | Self-published |
| 62 | Would like to hike; by E. Maenz | Four-part male choir | Publisher C F. Teich, Leipzig |
| 63 | My green Spessart forest; by Julius Türck | March and song, also for four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 64 | Wedding cheer song; from Matthes | Four-part male choir | Verlag Benz-Kuller, Rorschach, Switzerland; also available in handwritten form |
| 66 | Just laugh | Four-part male choir | Benz-Kuller publishing house, Rorschach, Switzerland |
| 67 | As long as I live I will love; by O. Promber | Four-part male choir | Publishing house CF Teich, Leipzig |
| 70 | Sunday morning; by FA Muth | Four-part male choir | Self-published, printed by Röder in Leipzig |
| 71 | My German song; by Bruno Hufner | Four-part male choir | Self-published, printed by Röder in Leipzig |
| 72 | Blue violets; by Bruno Hufner | Four-part male choir | Self-published, printed by Röder, Leipzig |
| 73 | Quodlibet | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 74 | Wild Rosleín; by Franz Alfred Muth | Four-part male choir | Publisher Karl Ebling, Mainz. |
| 75 | Farewell; by Leopold Nothhar | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 77 | Heil Kaiser and Reich; by E. Maenz and W. Plath | Four-part male choir | Engraving at Engelmann & Mühlberg in Leipzig |
| 85 | Offertory for the bridal mass | For organ and two solo voices | Handwritten |
| 86 | Praise God | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 88 | Good old moon; by August Gottlieb | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 94 | Boniface Mass (Missa in honorem sancti Bonifacii) | Mixed choir, a cappella | Handwritten |
| 95 | Tui sunt caeli | Mixed choir, a cappella | Handwritten |
| 97 | St. George's Mass (Missa in honorem sancti Georgii), later changed to Missa Salvatoris mundi | Mixed choir, a cappella | Handwritten |
| 98 | Proprien chants for the Assumption of Mary (August 15) | Organ with four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 99 | Propríengesänge for the feast of St. Cross | Organ with four-part choir | Handwritten |
| 101 | German and Latin chants for mass | For mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 102 | The German song has a good sound | Four-part male choir | Publishing house Otto Teich, Leipzig. (Dedicated to the "Liedertafel" Bad Orb on its 80th anniversary (1845–1925) and its chairman, pharmacy owner Friedrich Siebert). |
| 105 | For the holy feast | Chorale for four mixed voices | Handwritten |
| 106 | Saint Joseph, our patron saint | Four mixed voices | Handwritten |
| 107 | Pange lingua I-IV | Four mixed voices | Handwritten |
| 108 | After the change | Chorale for four mixed voices | Handwritten |
| 109 | At the end of the devotion | song | Handwritten |
| 110 | "Do re mi fa" fair | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 111 | German Offertory | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 112 | Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei; Parts of a Mass Ordinarium, in D major | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 114 | Jubilate Deodorant Terra | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 115 | Ecce sacerdos magnus | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 116 | Graduals and Offertory on the 14th Sunday after Pentecost | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 119 | Ascension Offertory | Four-part mixed choir | Handwritten |
| 122 | Guard your heart | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 123 | Sunday in the Spessart; by Ludwig Grölle | Four-part male choir | Handwritten; originally "Sunday in the Orbtal" |
| 124 | The girl from the Spessart valley; by Ludwig Grölle | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
| 125 | The boy from the Spessart valley; by Ludwig Grölle | Four-part male choir | Handwritten, with the stamp of the singing association "Sängerlust" |
| 127 | Between day and night on the horizon the sun sinks; by Otto Köppe | Four-part male choir | Handwritten |
literature
- Eichsfeld yearbook 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, pp. 220–230.
- Toni Engel: Georg Henkel died 50 years ago. In: Bad Orber Anzeiger. January 5, 1984, p. 6.
- Alphons Engel: Georg Wilhelm Henkel. His musical legacy. Catholic parish, Bad Orb 1984.
- Maria Kramann: The former teacher seminar in Heiligenstadt and its importance for the Eichsfeld. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte. 5, 1965, pp. 342-361.
Web links
- Bad Orb: Georg Wilhelm HENKEL * 1861 † 1934 Henkel at ortsfamilienbuecher.de
- Henkel, Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Eichsfeld yearbook 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 221.
- ↑ Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 222.
- ↑ Hermann Heim, Alfons Maria Lins, A Life for People, Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Martin, Bad Orb, 2018, p. 75
- ↑ a b c d Eichsfeld yearbook 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 220.
- ↑ Eichsfeld yearbook 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 224.
- ↑ a b c Eichsfeld yearbook 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 225.
- ↑ Eichsfeld yearbook 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 223.
- ↑ Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 2017. Verlag Mecke Druck, Duderstadt 2017, p. 226.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henkel, Georg Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, church musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Latitude |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1934 |
| Place of death | Bad Orb |