Handel House

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Handel House
Hall Handelhaus 2012.jpg
Data
place Halle (Saale)
Construction year before 1558
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '3 "  N , 11 ° 58' 1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '3 "  N , 11 ° 58' 1"  E
Handel portrait by John Theodore Heins (c. 1740), on loan from the Saalesparkasse Foundation in Halle (Saale)

The Handel House is a music museum of the city of Halle (Saale) and has been organized as a municipal foundation under private law since 2008 . The core of the Renaissance complex, which was built before 1558, is the house where Georg Friedrich Handel was born , which was owned by the Handel family for over 100 years. The foundation walls, however, go back to the Middle Ages . The musicologist Clemens Birnbaum has been running the house since 2009 .

museum

location

Handel House logo

The Handel House is located at Grosse Nikolaistraße 5–6 in the old town of Halle (Saale). It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Institute for Music, Media and Speech Studies of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Evangelical College for Church Music Halle .

In addition to the Handel House Foundation, the following organizations have their headquarters in the building:

Building history and appearance

The foundation walls and the vaulted cellar of the house date from the 15th and 16th centuries. A partially preserved groin vault has Romanesque features and can probably be dated back to the early High Middle Ages in the 12th century. The ground floor was built in the 16th and 17th centuries and the upper floor in the second half of the 18th century.

The post-war repair work led to the removal of the shop window . In the Handel House, which was originally a town house , the gate with access to the inner courtyard was not protected as a monument , as it was incompatible with the museum concept. Further deficiencies in the house were removed in 1984.

Visible framework from the Renaissance era is visible on the side wing facing the courtyard. The ceiling of the main building and the well-preserved plank room give further references to this period .

History of the Handel House

Private owner

In 1558, today's Handel House was first mentioned as the " Ratslehen ". The files mention Christoph Nopel from Naumburg as the owner at the time. In 1571 ownership passed to his son Hieronymus Nopel. Another change of ownership took place in 1595, when the court assessor Johann Neigenfindt, at that time an assessor at the Schöppenstuhl , acquired the property for 1,400 guilders . In 1630 the ducal valet Hans Georg Bley was the owner. There was a wine bar in the "Zum Gelben Hirschen" part of the building . Bley's widow Susanne was the sole occupant of the house from 1654.

Handel family property

On June 30, 1666, the ducal valet and personal surgeon Georg Händel (1622-1697), father of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), bought the corner house for 1310 guilders. It was located in representative proximity to the ducal residence on Domplatz . After moving in, he asked Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels , who was also the administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , to renew the wine bar privilege. This was granted to him on January 8, 1668, which the city council then appealed against. Only in 1682 the dispute was a comparison settled.

The composer Georg Friedrich was born in the house "Am Schlamm" (ie the house "Zum Gelben Hirschen", corner house Großer Schlamm / Kleine Ulrichstraße and Kleine Klausstraße ) on February 23, 1685 and lived here for eighteen years. After the father's death in 1697, ownership passed to Georg's widow Dorothea Elisabeth (1651–1730) and their children. In 1703 Georg Friedrich Halle left for Hamburg .

In 1708, the northern part of the property (today Kleine Ulrichstraße 38) was separated ("separated") because Georg Friedrich's sister Dorothea Sophia (1687–1718) and her wife Michael Dietrich Michaelsen (1680–1748), a doctor of law, had their own Household established. In the middle of the 18th century this building passed into foreign ownership. From 1844 to 1871 a student hostel of the Schütz family was in operation here. Later a Mr. Trautwein ran an inn with the name "Schützei". In the GDR there had been museum plans for the house since the 1980s. However, these were discarded because of the high repair costs. Due to the poor condition of the building, restoration was finally abandoned in 1999 and the original house was subsequently replaced by a new building that was acquired by the city of Halle.

When his mother died in 1730, Handel's niece and goddaughter Johanna Friederike Michaelsen (1711–1771) became an heir to the property. She lived in the house from 1755 with her husband Johann Ernst von Flörcke (1695–1762), first professor of law and director of the Friedrichs University in Halle . After Johanna Friederike's death in 1771, her second daughter Dorothea Luisa (1737–1811) inherited the property. She married the Halle councilor Friedrich August Reichhelm (1727–1782). He wanted to erect a monument to his wife's great-uncle and famous composer and began to renovate and convert the building.

Owned by merchants

One year after Reichhelm's unexpected death in 1782, however, the house had to be auctioned off. In an advertisement by the Royal Prussian Mountain Courts on December 14, 1783, the building was given a estimated value of 1885 Reichstalers . On July 27, 1784 , Christian Friedrich Pohlmann bought the complex for 2,225 Reichstaler. He ran a colonial and material goods trade there .

In 1817, the merchant and unpaid city ​​councilor Friedrich Wilhelm Rüprecht became the house owner and took over the materials store. Rüprecht's business activities led to the expansion of the company with a distillation , a tobacco factory and a warehouse for lacquer products. In 1827 he also acquired the neighboring property, which resulted in the dispute over the “right” Handel house. Rüprecht's son, who had owned the property since 1847, sold the property and business to the merchant Wilhelm Richard Fuß in 1872. This in turn sold it to the HF Lehmann banking house in 1896 .

In 1922 the businessman Heinrich Lifschütz became the new owner. Attempts by the Halle Handel Association and the English Handel researcher Newman Flower to acquire the building failed because of the high selling price. In 1932 there was evidence of a person named Philipp who ran a furniture trade in the house. On the occasion of the composer's 250th birthday in 1935, a memorial plaque was attached to the house.

Municipal Music Museum

Entrance gate to the Handel Museum and the Chamber Music Hall after the reconstruction in 1985 (Photo by Waltraud Grubitzsch, Federal Archives )

After years of efforts and an arbitration by the librarian Bernhard Weißenborn , the city of Halle bought the property on August 21, 1937 for 31,710 Reichsmarks . Other apartments were made available to the original tenants. In the course of preparing a “city music museum”, the city's cultural advisor Herbert Koch began building up a collection u. a. from pictures, musical instruments and music. In addition, the Handelhaus publication series was founded. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the necessary repairs to the vacant building could not be carried out at first.

After the war ended in 1945, the city undertook two years of renovation and restoration work. A restoration workshop and offices were opened in the same year . After the first concert took place in the Handel House on February 22, 1948, the exhibition section of the museum opened on June 13. In addition to Koch, the musicologist Walter Serauky , who became director of the Musicological Institute in 1949, played a major role in the opening of the music museum .

In 1983 the Handel House became a department of the “Georg Friedrich Handel Center”, which also included the permanent office of the Handel Festival , the concert hall on the boulevard and the editorial team of the Halle Handel Edition . After the center was dissolved in 1992, the Handel House became the central facility of the Handel Renaissance.

For the "Bach-Handel-Schütz Honor of the GDR" in 1985, the main building was expanded to accommodate the large number of visitors by the historical adjoining building to the east and the exhibition about the composer was redesigned. The restoration workshop and the library were able to move into the side wing of the new building, and the chamber music hall was moved from the roof to the ground floor of the new building. The large courtyard was used for serenades until the 1990s .

In 2001, the Handel House was included in the blue book of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Affairs as a cultural lighthouse . Since then, the house has been a member of the Conference of National Cultural Institutions . It is also a member of the “Music Museums in Germany” working group.

Handel House Foundation

In 2007, the Halle city council decided to convert the Handel House into a foundation. In 2008, the state administration office of Saxony-Anhalt recognized the legal capacity of the Handel House Foundation as a foundation under private law. The state of Saxony-Anhalt will henceforth contribute to the financing of the foundation. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the composer's death in 2009, the Handel House was renovated by the Berlin architects Gerhards & Glücker and a new permanent exhibition was opened on April 14th .

Bodies

Directors

Since 1994, the director of the Handel House has also been the director of the Handel Festival. Director of the Handel House was / is:

Board of Trustees

Advisory Board

Friends and sponsors

In 1990, the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle e. V. founded. To this day he supports the foundation ideally and financially. He also gets publications. From 1991 to 2008 he published the Handel in-house announcements three times a year , the last year being a special issue. Since 2011, appearing two or three times annually releases . The association headed by Dietlinde Rumpf currently has around 350 domestic and foreign members.

Museum education

The Handel House Foundation is involved in the ARD “Handel Experiment” campaign. To this end, it provides knowledge offers for school classes and teachers. The house also organizes children's birthdays for children aged six to twelve. Furthermore, partner of by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research funded program "Culture is strength. Alliances for Education ”. In the past it was involved in the realization of the “Opera Mobil” project supported by the German Caritas Association .

Exhibitions

Handel House

Handel exhibition 2006: Room 6 (London room) with a portrait of Handel by Hans List after Miss Benson and Philip Mercier (made after 1945) and harpsichord by Jacob and Abraham Kirkman (London 1772)

In the first Handel exhibition in the Handel House (1948–1952), five rooms and some of the hallway were dedicated to the composer. Five further exhibition rooms presented personalities from regional musical history. In addition, the musical instrument collection was made accessible.

For the Handel Festival in 1952, the exhibition was redesigned and initially presented in the premises of the Moritzburg State Gallery as "Handel and his time". A year later she was transferred to the Handel House. Due to a lack of space, the exhibits on the music history of the city of Halle were moved to the house where Robert Franz was born . In the “Studio 1” room of the Handel House, visitors were introduced to the composer's music using tapes . On the occasion of the "Handel Honor of the GDR" in 1959, further content improvements were made under the museum director Konrad Sasse from 1955 to 1958. The graphic artist Hans-Ulrich Herold took care of the artistic design. From 1967 there were "tape tours", i. H. a combination of short texts and music examples. Foreign language tours were also offered for the first time during this period.

The exhibition was redesigned for the "Bach-Handel-Schütz Honor of the GDR" in 1985 by the museum director Edwin Werner (from 1981). A tour of the exhibition has now been made possible. The Handel biography and maintenance could thus be closed. Else and Ronald Kobe contributed the graphic design on display boards. In addition, historical keyboard instruments were set up in the rooms . From 1987 to 1989 an exhibition on the 1000-year music history of the city of Halle was set up in the attic. Since 1991 there have also been special exhibitions in the house . In 2006 there was another conceptual renewal and expansion of the exhibition by two rooms.

Since 2009 the museum has shown the permanent exhibition “Handel - the European”. This is less biographical and more thematically oriented. It was conceived by the musicologists Konstanze Musketa and Christiane Rieche . In the attic, the Handel environment and the care of Handel are dealt with. There are also valuable originals from the history of music on display. In nine rooms on the first floor, Handel's career, which took him to London, and his significance in music history are discussed.

Thanks to funding from the Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitization of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , guests can use the internet via WiFi or WLAN . The museum offers information about NFC tags and QR codes in its exhibitions . In addition to audio guides in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish, personal tours are also offered. There is a combined ticket for the Handel and Bach Museum .

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House

Since May 30, 2012, the Handel House Foundation has been showing the exhibition "Halle City of Music" in the Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House in Halle (Saale).

Research area

Library

The house's special scientific library ( Kleine Marktstrasse 5) has the world's largest library collections on baroque composers.

Collections

Musical instrument exhibition 2006: Wall organ from 1770

The central collection areas of the Handel House are the historical musical instruments collection (approx. 750 individual items), the manuscript collection (approx. 1000 individual items, among others by Friedrich Chrysander , Marie Franz, Robert Franz , Carl Loewe , Johann Friedrich Reichardt , Samuel Scheidt , Hans Stieber , Friedrich Wilhelm Schönherr and Gerd Ochs ), the picture collection (paintings and graphics) and the library (with books and sheet music as well as a sound archive ).

The musical instrument collection grew considerably in the 1940s. During this time, various instruments from the Nuremberg piano house Wilhelm Rück and the Bamberg piano maker JC Neupert were acquired. During the Second World War, parts of the collection were initially stored in the Moritzburg premises, then relocated to castles and manor houses. The turmoil of the war meant that 70 instruments have since been considered lost. When the museum opened in 1948, most of the musical instruments were kept in the historic Handel House. A restoration workshop helped with the repair. After the market palace was expanded in 1975, numerous keyboard instruments were shown on the market. Konrad Sasse and Herbert Heyde were responsible for the exhibition . Today about a third of the collection can be seen in the exhibitions of the house. These include exclusive harpsichords and organ positives in the Handel exhibition. Keyboard instruments with a regional reference can be viewed in the music history exhibition . The musical instrument exhibition about 220 chronologically arranged items: blowing , KEYER , stringed and plucked from the late Baroque , Hammerflügel , Glasharmonika and Orphika from the early classical , wood and Brass the Wiener Classical and romance . Mechanical jukeboxes and custom-made items are also on display. The most important items in the collection include a Ruckers ensemble (1599), a Mauer organ (1770) and a Schmidt hammer wing (around 1790).

The Handel House has one of the world's most extensive portrait collections of the composer, which was significantly enriched by Herbert Koch, Konrad Sasse and Edwin Werner. These include the Handel portrait of John Theodore Heins (around 1740), which has been on permanent loan in the Handel House since 2005, and since 2011 a historical plaster bust from the cheere workshop of the 18th century. The well-known youth portrait of Handel by Christoph Platzer (around 1710), which is considered to be the oldest authentic portrait of the composer, was stolen from the museum in 1948 and has been missing since then. It is only available in the form of a reproduction .

The house also has an important collection of historical first prints of Handel operas, which has been expanded in recent years.

Publications

From 1937 to 1941 the first series of publications by the Handel House in Halle was published . In the period from 1961 to 1980, seven self- published catalogs were used to develop the holdings scientifically . In 1977 the series of writings of the Handel House in Halle was founded, in which 21 volumes had appeared by 2009. In it appeared u. a. the scientific conference reports. Set 1963 a Handel bibliography is in progress. It is published by the Deutsches Verlag für Musik in Leipzig. In addition, the Handel House Foundation has been involved in the publication of the Handel Yearbook since 2008 .

Events

Since 1952 , Saturday concerts based on house music have been held in the Handel House . A small hall in the attic served as a venue until 1984. With the professionalization of music design, it has been possible to reserve subscriptions since 1970 . In 1984 a chamber music hall was set up on the ground floor of the neighboring house , which was renovated again in 1993. The focus of the concerts was still on the music of Georg Friedrich Handel in the 1950s. Later the baroque music of his contemporaries was also played. More and more the program was devoted to the music history of the city of Halle and the anniversaries of important composers. In 1956, lecture evenings were introduced, which were known as "Klingendes Schallarchiv" or "Studioabend". From 1976 onwards, the focus was on Handel's works, the interpretation of which turned more and more to historical performance practice . In 1990 Gerd Domhardt continued his talk concerts as a concert series “Approach - New Music in Conversation” in the Handel House. There are currently three series of concerts: “Music in the Handel House”, “Focus Bohlenstube” and “Handel's Treasures - Music in Dialogue”. Traditional music festivals such as the Handel Festival and the Halle Musiktage use the Handel House as a venue. Study courses for musicology and music students as well as scientific conferences are also held in the building.

Others

In 1977 the Handel House collective was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district , and in 1985 the “Handel House” design collective was awarded.

literature

  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Musikermuseen in Deutschland (Ed.): Musikermuseen in Deutschland. On the track of notes (= Explorise Atlas . Volume 4). 2nd edition, Grebennikov, Berlin a. a. 2019, ISBN 978-3-941784-54-3 , p. 108 ff.
  • Peter Braun : Composers and their houses . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24613-2 , p. 7 ff.
  • Konstanze Musketa : Music history of the city of Halle: Guide through the exhibition of the Handel House . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1998, ISBN 3-910019-13-7 .
  • Konstanze Musketa, Christiane Rieche: Handel, the European. Guide through the exhibition in the Handel House . Handel House, Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-910019-25-6 .
  • Christiane Rieche: Historical musical instruments in the Handel House. Guide to the exhibitions . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 2006, ISBN 3-910019-22-6 .
  • Konrad Sasse : The Handel House in Halle. George Frideric Handel's birthplace. History and guide through the exhibitions . VOB Kreuz-Verlag, Halle an der Saale 1958.
  • Walter Serauky : The Handel House in Halle on the Saale (= series of publications by the Red Tower construction works . Issue 4). With a foreword by Adolf Heilmann and a chronological table on the history of the Handel House by Erich Neuss , Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle 1949.
  • Edwin Werner : The Handel House in Halle: History of the Handel House and guide through the Handel exhibition . 5th, modified edition, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 3-910019-24-2 .
  • Edwin Werner: History: The Handel House in Halle was opened 50 years ago . In: Handel House Communications 1/1998, pp. 8–13.

Web links

Commons : Handelhaus Halle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Konstanze Musketa, Christiane Rieche: Handel, the European . Halle (Saale) 2009, p. 136.
  2. a b c d Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 95.
  3. a b c Konstanze Musketa, Christiane Rieche: Handel, the European . Halle (Saale) 2009, p. 132.
  4. ^ A b Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 96.
  5. ^ A b Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 97.
  6. a b c Konstanze Musketa, Christiane Rieche: Handel, the European . Halle (Saale) 2009, p. 133.
  7. ^ A b Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 99.
  8. Hans-Martin Pleßke: Music memorials in the German Democratic Republic . In: Fontes Artis Musicae 13 (1966) 2/3, pp. 161–166, here: p. 163.
  9. ^ Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 100.
  10. ^ A b Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 101.
  11. ^ Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 102.
  12. ^ Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 103.
  13. Handel-Haus visitor service , haendelhaus.de, accessed: October 14, 2019.
  14. ^ A b Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 104.
  15. ^ Christiane Rieche: Historical musical instruments in the Handel House. Guide to the exhibitions . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 2006, ISBN 3-910019-22-6 , p. 6f.
  16. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Musikermuseen in Deutschland (Ed.): Musikermuseen in Deutschland. On the track of notes (= Explorise Atlas . Volume 3). Grebennikov, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-941784-42-0 , p. 114.
  17. Clemens Birnbaum, Christoph Rink: Preface . In: Handel portraits in the collections of the Handel House Foundation . Compiled and edited by Edwin Werner. Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-930550-98-2 , p. 4.
  18. ^ Edwin Werner: Preliminary remark . In: Handel portraits in the collections of the Handel House Foundation . Compiled and edited by Edwin Werner. Friends and sponsors of the Handel House in Halle, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-930550-98-2 , pp. 5–8.
  19. ^ Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 105.
  20. Thomas Buchholz: Chronicle of the Hallische Musiktage 1955-2005 . LVDK Saxony-Anhalt, Halle / Saale 2005, p. 19.
  21. Christoph Rink: Chronology of the Handel price . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2012, pp. 20–25, here: p. 24.
  22. Christoph Rink: Chronology of the Handel price . In: Announcements of the Friends and Supporters of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2012, pp. 20–25, here: p. 25.