Heinrich Aloys Praeger

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Heinrich Aloys Praeger (also: Heinrich Hijman Chaim Aron Aloys Präger or Heinrich Aloys Präger ; born December 23, 1783 in Amsterdam ; died August 7, 1854 in Magdeburg ) was a Dutch-German music director , violinist and composer , as well as Kapellmeister . He was also considered an important virtuoso on the guitar .

Life

Heinrich Hijman Chaim Aron Aloys Präger came from a Jewish family and was born in Amsterdam in the 18th century as the son of Aron Hijman Prager Preger Laitsan (1756–1815) and his wife Eva Joseph Berlijn (1762–1835). During the time of the Electorate of Hanover , Präger spent his youth in the city of Braunschweig . After a musical education, he then joined a theater company traveling from place to place for a few years as an employed music director during the so-called “ French era ” .

In 1810, Präger worked briefly as music director under Ernst Petermann in Nordhausen , where he appeared with his own theater company in the winter of 1810/1811 and in June 1811.

From 1814 to April 1815, Präger was employed by Joseph Seconda's company in both Dresden and Leipzig . Prägers wife Elisabeth Wilhelmina hatchets Hendrik Hirsch Davis Davison Enthoven (born 1788) gave birth at this time their son and future music teachers Ferdinand (Christian Wilhelm) Praeger Also starting in 1815 and until 1817 worked Präger in Konigsberg , interrupted by a trip to Riga to there to give concerts in September 1816.

After Präger had worked as music director in Tilsit in 1817 and 1818 , in the same year "[...] probably in Münster" appeared for the premiere on November 6, 1818 of his own opera Der Kyffhäuser Berg .

As the successor to Friedrich Schneider , Heinrich Aloys Präger then worked for a few years from 1821 to 1828 as music director in Leipzig at the city theater there . From these years he edited the musical monthly Polyhymnia published in Meißen von Klinkicht from the second year of 1826 and up to the 7th year in 1831 .

Meanwhile, from the spring of 1828 to 1829, Präger occupied the position of music director at the Magdeburg city ​​theater there .

In 1829 Heinrich Aloys Praeger went to Hanover in order to succeed Wilhelm Sutor as Kapellmeister of the Royal Hanoverian Orchestra from April 8 of that year and until January 3, 1831 . As a member of the Hanoverian court orchestra , he was obliged to perform in public operas and concerts, especially in the palace opera house at the time . His successor there as Royal Kapellmeister and later General Music Director was Heinrich Marschner .

In the winter of 1831/1832 Präger was hired as one of the two music directors at the Aachen theater , alongside Friedrich Wilhelm Telle .

As "[...] Mr. Präger aus Bielefeld ”the musician also had a concert appearance in Cologne in 1838 . He died in Magdeburg in 1854.

Works (selection)

  • Bless him and her! Lyric Festival in 1 Acts, performed on October 24th, 1827 at the Leipzig City Theater / poemed by W [ilhelm] Gerhard. Set to music by H [einrich] A [lois] Präger , Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, 1827

Literature (selection)

Archival material

Archives by and about Heinrich Hijman Chaim Aron Aloys Präger can be found, for example

  • as letters from Carl Maria von Weber from Dresden of March 3, 1820 and March 12, 1824 (?) to Präger in Leipzig
  • as five different manuscripts by Präger, including a certificate and two letters to Louis Spohr

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the birthday is called “[…] December 25, 1783”; compare Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): Praeger, Heinrich Aloys , in this .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 180
  2. ^ In addition, Praeger's music directorate at the theater in Leipzig is given as early as 1818; compare Hugo Thielen: Praeger, Heinrich Aloys. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 289
  3. ^ The Singspiel Der Kyffhäuserberg from 1816 is attributed to Heinrich Marschner; compare, for example, Wilhelm Pfannkuch: Marschner, Heinrich. In: New German Biography . Volume 16 (1990)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen : Praeger, Heinrich Aloys. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 289.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe . Digital edition: Heinrich Aloys Präger (Version 3.0.1 of February 2, 2017, last change of this document on May 27, 2015), last accessed on February 19, 2017
  3. ^ A b Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): Praeger, Heinrich Aloys , in this .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 180
  4. ↑ a b c Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Volume 8, Munich: KG Saur Verlag, 2007, p. 50; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
  6. ↑ Compare the information from the Kalliope Association
personal data
SURNAME Praeger, Heinrich Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Präger, Heinrich Hijman Chaim Aron Aloys; Praeger, Johann Hubert Joseph Heinrich Aloijs; Präger, Henri Aloys; Praeger, Henri Aloys; Praeger, Enrico; Präger, Heinrich Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-German music director, violinist and composer, as well as Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1854
Place of death Magdeburg