Gustav Jenner

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Gustav Jenner, around 1900

Cornelius Uwe Gustav Jenner (born December 3, 1865 in Keitum on Sylt , † August 29, 1920 in Marburg ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

Jenner was the youngest son of the doctor Otto Jenner (1828-1884) and his wife Anna Bleicken. Through his parents' house music, Jenner came into contact with music very early on. As a young boy he began taking piano lessons at an early age and even as a self-taught adolescent he secretly dared to compose .

Jenner and his family came to Kettwig in the Ruhr area for a few years and returned to northern Germany in 1879. The family settled in Gleschendorf near Lübeck and Jenner was able to attend high school in Kiel from 1880 . His intention to study medicine was not carried out due to his musical interests.

He became a student of Hermann Stange ( harmony , organ) and Theodor Gänge ( counterpoint , piano). From 1886 Jenner became a student of Arnold Krug in Hamburg (instrumentation, composition). Through his parents' circle of acquaintances, but also through his teachers, Jenner got to know Theodor Storm , among others , and was a welcome guest in his house.

In 1895 Jenner married Julie, a daughter of the factory owner Carl Christian Hochstetter, in Marburg ; with her he had two sons.

Jenner was also supported by the writers Klaus Groth and Fritz Reuter ; the former introduced Jenner to the composer Johannes Brahms in 1887 . Jenner became his only composition student in Vienna in 1888 and through Brahms Jenner made the acquaintance of Eusebius Mandyczewski there .

With effect from March 1, 1895 Jenner was appointed Academic Music Director of the University of Marburg . Associated with this position was a teaching position, which Jenner, according to his own admission, “followed with joy in order to keep the joy of music alive”. Soon afterwards he was entrusted with the position of conductor of the Academic Concert Society .

In recognition of his services to the city's cultural life in Marburg Gustav Jenner was in the year 1904 the honorary doctorate of the Philipps University awarded.

Gustav Jenner died in Marburg on August 29, 1920 at the age of 54 and is still considered one of the most important successors of Johannes Brahms.

Works (selection)

The complete catalog of works can be viewed on the website of the Hessian Music Archive .

  • Twelve Terzets for three-part female choir and piano op.3, 1894
  • Twelve quartets for soprano, alto, tenor and bass with piano, EA 1901, (new print Schott)
  • Sonata in G major for clarinet and piano op.5 (1900; reprinted by Schott)
  • Quartet for piano, violin, viola and violoncello No. 3 in F major
  • Sonata in D major for violoncello and piano (1901; reprinted by Schott)
  • Three string quartets: No. 1 in F major, No. 2 in G major, No. 3 in F major
  • Three violin sonatas: No. 1 in A minor, Op. 8, No. 2 in B flat major, No. 3 in E flat major
  • Trio for piano, clarinet and horn F in E flat major
  • Piano sonata in a minor
  • Three ballads for piano
  • Unmilitary items for piano (Vienna 1892), EA Marburg (Hessisches Musikarchiv) 2011
  • Two easy piano pieces (Vienna 1890), EA Marburg (Hessisches Musikarchiv) 2011
  • Puppenball for piano four hands, EA Marburg (Hessisches Musikarchiv) 2010
  • Dances for piano four hands (Vienna 1894), EA Marburg (Hessisches Musikarchiv) 2010
  • Serenade for orchestra (Marburg 1911/1912)

Publications

  • Johannes Brahms as a person, teacher and artist. Studies and Experiences , Elwert, Marburg / L. 1905 (2nd edition 1930).
  • (as editor together with Hermann Oeser): Kunst und Künste. Essays on the beautiful, the art and the artist, the fine arts and the music , Dürr, Leipzig 1904.

literature

  • Werner Bollert:  Jenner, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 402 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans Engel : The music care of the Philipps University of Marburg since 1527. Elwert, Marburg 1957.
  • Horst Heussner: Gustav Jenner. 1865 - 1920 university music director in Marburg . Press office of the city of Marburg, Marburg 1985, ISBN 3-923820-14-3 , ( Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur 17).
  • Werner Kohlick: Gustav Jenner 1865 - 1920. A contribution to the Brahms series . Triltsch, Würzburg 1943, ( music and literature 2, ZDB -ID 528466-1 ), (also: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1938).
  • Eugen Korschelt: The house on the Minne. Memories from a long life . Elwert, Marburg 1939, p. 111 ff.
  • Hans Joachim Moser : Jenner . In: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 2, 1920, ZDB -ID 203046-9 , p. 743 ff.
  • Sabine Stanzel: The Brahms student Gustav Jenner in Marburg (history of the reception of his works, artistic and university work) . Marburg 1994, (Marburg, Univ., Department of Modern German Literature and Art Studies, Mag.-Arb., 1994).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5715, p. 485 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Jenner, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jenner, Cornelius Uwe Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Keitum on Sylt
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1920
Place of death Marburg , Germany