Gustav Reichardt
Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Gustav Reichardt (born November 13, 1797 in Schmarsow , † October 18, 1884 in Berlin ) was a German music teacher and composer .
life and work
Gustav Reichardt received his first music lessons at the age of five from his father, the multifaceted country pastor Georg Gustav Zacharias Reichardt (1766-1852). At the age of nine he was already performing with the violin and piano. From 1809 to 1811 he received music lessons in Neustrelitz and was a violinist in a local band. From 1811 he attended grammar school and then began studying theology at the University of Greifswald . He became a member of the Berlin fraternity in 1816/17 . In 1818 he moved to the Berlin University, but decided to study music here in 1819. He became a student of Bernhard Klein in music theory and composition. As a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (1819–1832) and the Berliner Liedertafel , which he co-founded , he caused a stir with his well-trained bass voice. He gained access to aristocratic circles up to and including the royal family of Friedrich Wilhelm III . As a popular singing teacher, he also taught the later Emperor Friedrich III. , for whose wedding in 1858 he composed a cantata.
Reichardt was one of the staff of Robert Schumann 's New Magazine for Music, founded in 1834 . In 1850 he was appointed royal music director.
Artists like Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and people interested in music met regularly in his house . In 1825 he set the poem Des Deutschen Vaterland by Ernst Moritz Arndt to music during a visit to the Schneekoppe and became known beyond the Prussian Berlin. The song became one of the hymns of the German unification movement.
Reichardt's work consists mainly of vocal compositions, preferably for male choirs. In 1871 he published his last work under Opus 36, a national anthem with the text by Müller von der Werra .
Gustav Reichardt died in Berlin in 1884 at the age of 86 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Reichardt's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin. His grave there has been preserved.
literature
- Hans Michel Schletterer : Reichardt, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 622-624.
- Gustav Reichardt . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 674.
- Gero von Wilcke: Gustav Reichardt, composer of the old German national anthem (on the 100th anniversary of his death). In: Archives for kin research. 51st year, issue 98, June 1985, pp. 95–96 and 98
- Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 501–505, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 565-566.
Web links
- Literature about Gustav Reichardt in the state bibliography MV
- Works by and about Gustav Reichardt in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Gustav Reichardt in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 307, 476.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichardt, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reichardt, Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music teacher and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmarsow |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1884 |
| Place of death | Berlin |