Hans Bischoff (pianist)

Hans Bischoff (born February 17, 1852 in Berlin , † June 12, 1889 in Niederschönhausen near Berlin) was a German pianist, piano teacher and editor.

Live and act

Bischoff was trained by Theodor Kullak and Richard Wüerst in Berlin. There he also studied philosophy and modern languages - he received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1873 with a thesis on Bernard de Ventadorn . From 1873 he worked as a piano teacher (later also music theory) in Berlin, first at Theodor Kullak's New Academy of Music, then at the Stern Conservatory . On the stage he mainly appeared in chamber music , at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin he co-organized a series of concerts. However, Bischoff has acquired lasting importance through his editorial work.

Hans Bischoff died in 1889 at the age of 37 and was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg . His grave has not been preserved.

Publications

The editor Bischoff "was a phenomenon in terms of accuracy"; his critical editions in Steingräber-Verlag are "still of great importance today because he was the first to list all the important variants in the foreword or in footnotes"; Editorial additions are "so clearly differentiated from the original text by the thin print and small print that confusion is impossible". Published in detail

• Selected piano compositions by Georg Friedrich Händel (1880),
• Piano works in seven volumes by Johann Sebastian Bach (1880–1888),
• 50 etudes from the "Gradus ad Parnassum" , 12 selected sonatas for pianoforte and 12 sonatinas for pianoforte by Muzio Clementi (1888–1893),
• Selected piano compositions by Franz Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber (each 1893) and
• Complete sonatas, fantasies and rondos for piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1894).

When Theodor Kullak was unable to reprint the work of his deceased brother Adolph Kullak because of “excessive work” , he asked his pupil Bischoff to take over the editing. In 1876, Bischoff was responsible for the "second revised edition" of this "ingenious method of piano playing", and in 1889 he had a "third revised edition" followed.

literature

• Annette Oppermann: Musical classic editions of the 19th century. A study on the history of German editions using the example of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Beethoven's piano sonatas . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, pp. 245-253.
• Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , entry "Bischoff, Hans". Macmillan, London 1980.

Web links

• Works by and about Hans Bischoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Lempfried: Introduction to Adolph Kullak's Aesthetics of Piano Playing at www.koelnklavier.de (as of December 8, 2018).

Individual evidence

1. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians names the violinist W. Helmich as the second co-organizer.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 77.
3. ^ Paul Badura-Skoda : Bach interpretation. The piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach . Laaber, Laaber 1990, p. 188.
4. ↑ Bischoff's “Fame as Editor” had grown with the Bach Edition so that after his death “numerous editions he had prepared appeared and were reissued well into the 20th century”, see Annette Oppermann: Musikalische Klassiker-Ausgabe des 19. Century. A study on the history of German editions using the example of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Beethoven's piano sonatas . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 246.
5. ↑ Quoted from Theodor Kullak's “Foreword to the Second Edition”, see Adolph Kullak: Ästhetik des Klavierspiels. Reprint of the second edition from 1876. Edited and provided with an introduction by Martin Gellrich . Con Brio, Regensburg 1994, SV
6. ↑ Quoted from Hans Bischoff's “Foreword to the Second Edition”, see Adolph Kullak: Ästhetik des Klavierspiels. Reprint of the second edition from 1876 , p. VIII.