Heinrich Ehrlich
Karl Heinrich Alfred Ehrlich (born October 5, 1822 in Vienna , † December 30, 1899 in Berlin ) was a pianist , composer and music writer.
Life
After graduating from high school, Ehrlich devoted himself to music and trained under the direction of Adolf Henselt , Carl Maria von Bocklet and Sigismund Thalberg to play the piano and learned composition from Simon Sechter .
From 1840 to 1844 he gave concerts in Hungary, Romania and Vienna, was correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung in the revolutionary year of 1848 , became court pianist to King George V of Hanover in 1852 and moved to Wiesbaden in 1855 , two years later to England and finally settled in Berlin in 1862 low. Here he earned the reputation of an outstanding Beethoven player. From 1864 to 1872 he was a piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory . His students included Franz Mannstädt , Friedrich Spiro and Felix Dreyschock as well as the critics Paul Marsop and Wilibald Nagel .
In addition to his teaching activities, he was the political correspondent for magazines in Berlin
- Nordic bee (Russian newspaper, 1862 and later),
- Vossische Zeitung (1867–1869) and
- L'Indépendence (1867-1869);
also music critic and music consultant for
- Berliner Tageblatt (1878–1898),
- Grandstand (1878),
- Present (1872-1892),
- Neue Berliner Musikzeitung and
- The salon for literature, art and society .
In 1875 he received the title of professor. Through his journalistic work he developed into a writer and published musical studies and two novels with impressions of his wandering years, which were very popular in his time.
As a composer he emerged with a piano concerto and piano variations on an original theme. That has become an international success Daily studies of Carl Tausig have not only been given out by him, but almost all created himself, he has veiled. The melodies of Franz Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody are not originally Hungarian either, but rather go back to Ehrlich's concert piece in Hungarian ways for piano. He was one of the first to collect Romanian folk melodies.
Since 1855 he was married to Maria Luise Jork (1833 / 34–1888), daughter of a surgeon.
It is often erroneously called “A. Ehrlich “, a pseudonym of Albert H. Payne, confused.
Works (selection)
- Adventures of an upstart (Frankfurt 1858, 2 vol.),
- Arts and crafts (Frankfurt 1862, 3 vols.)
- Highlights and shadows from the world of music (Berlin 1872);
- The development of music aesthetics from Kant to the present day (Leipzig 1881);
- Art of living and art life (Berlin 1884).
- Novellas from the Life of Musicians (Berlin 1885)
- From all keys. Studies on Music (Berlin 1888)
- Thirty years of artistic life (Berlin 1893)
- Modern music life. Studies . (Berlin 1895)
literature
- A. Ehrlich, Famous Piano Players, Berlin 1893, pp. 89f.
- Franz Brümmer , Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, volume 3, p. 117 (digitized version)
- Gustav Adolf Trumpff: Honestly, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 363 ( digitized version ).
- Honestly Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 229 f. (Direct links on p. 229 , p. 230 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Berlin IV a, No. 704/1899
- ↑ List of teachers at the Stern Conservatory (1850–1936)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honestly, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Honestly, Karl Heinrich Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-German pianist, critic and music writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1899 |
| Place of death | Berlin |