Heinrich Boell

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Heinrich Georg Boell (born September 13, 1890 in Weißenburg , † October 10, 1947 in Bonn ) was a German Protestant church musician , organist and choir director .

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Boell was born in 1890 as the son of the innkeeper Ludwig Friedrich Boell and his wife Eugenie Valerie Boell, née Beckenhaupt, in the city of Weißenburg. After graduating from high school, Heinrich Boell first studied philosophy and Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg and Strasbourg, where he turned to church music in general and organ music in particular from 1909 to 1912 under Hans Pfitzner and Ernst Münch . Then he was drawn to the Kgl. Conservatory Leipzig , where he deepened his musical techniques with Karl Straube and Robert Teichmüller and expanded his repertoire.

In the meantime, as early as 1911, as a 21-year-old student, he went on concert tours in Germany and abroad, where he received great attention as an organist and pianist as well as as a conductor . After completing his studies, after the end of the First World War, he pursued the goal of founding the Aachen Bachverein through an appeal in the Politisches Tageblatt on February 1, 1919 , but the company failed just a few months after the founding meeting. As early as September 1, 1919, Boell took over the direction of the symphony and choir concerts of the Solingen City Music Association until 1930. With this Boell joined a teaching post at the Musikhochschule Köln , where from 1925 he was director of the department for Protestant church music. During this time, on his initiative, the madrigal choir of the music college was founded, which focused on early music and the performance of Bach cantatas with a small orchestra. Likewise, on May 21, 1931, Boell founded the Bach Association in Cologne , just like years before in Aachen . He did not limit himself to the performance of old music , which he offered every two weeks at the Carthusian Church there, but was also open to new music . In recognition of his development work, Boell was dedicated to Boell in 1934 by the later artistic director of the Cologne Bach Society, Hermann Schroeder, whose "Six Organ Choirs on Old German Sacred Music, Op. 11".

However, Heinrich Boell was systematically forced out of his offices by the National Socialist policy in 1933/34. So he preferred to move to Breslau in 1935 , where he founded the Silesian State Music School in Breslau as the central musical training facility and headed it until 1945, where Kurt Masur , among others, was studying at that time .

But after the Second World War, the native of Alsace moved back to the Rhineland, where in 1946 he took over his old professorship at the Cologne University of Music and also the management of the Bach Society and the church music position at the Luther Church in Bonn-Poppelsdorf . He died just a year later.

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  1. ↑ 75 years of the Aachener Bachverein , Aachen 1987, pp. 15–18. The determination of this anniversary year is based on an erroneous oral tradition.
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SURNAME Boell, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boell, Heinrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church musician, organist and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenburg (Alsace)
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1947
Place of death Bonn