Gustav Dömpke
Gustav Dömpke (* 1853 in Barten , East Prussia , † 1923 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was for decades the most influential music critic in East Prussia's provincial capital.
Life
In the 1870s, Dömpke began working as a music critic for the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1884 he went from East Prussia to Vienna , where he was accepted into the circle of Eduard Hanslick and met Johannes Brahms . Under his influence he became a staunch opponent of the New German School . In the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung he was as committed to Brahms and the Viennese Classic as he was against Richard Wagner , Franz Liszt , Hans Pfitzner , Hugo Wolf , Richard Strauss and above all Anton Bruckner , whose F major string quintet he praised. In 1897 he returned to Königsberg and wrote for the Hartungsche Zeitung . Not least thanks to Dömpke, Königsberg became the “Brahms City”. Dömpke became impoverished in the inflation after the First World War .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: MKO 2008/09
- ^ Culture in East Prussia
- ↑ Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung (May 3, 2008) ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dömpke, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doempke, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beards |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1923 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg i. Pr. |