Heinrich Germer (composer)

Heinrich Germer (born December 30, 1837 in Sommersdorf , † January 4, 1913 in Niederlößnitz ) was a German musicologist and music teacher .

life and career

Germer received his training at the seminar for teachers in Halberstadt and at the composition school of the Berlin royal academy. He then spent two years as a music teacher with a Polish noble family in Pawlowice. From 1863 he worked in Dresden and in 1884 founded the Dresden Music Pedagogical Association. From 1897 he lived in Niederlößnitz, where he died on January 4, 1913 as the owner of the Villa Josephine (Grenzstraße 21, today Heinrich-Zille-Straße 68).

Germer made himself known through smaller pedagogical writings, his own etudes and instructive academic editions of classical piano works. Among the piano teachers of the 19th century he held an outstanding position u. a. with his main work for the methodology of piano lessons, Technique of Piano Playing, op . To this day, Carl Czerny's studies in particular, selected and edited by Heinrich Germer from 1888, are used in classical piano training.

Fonts

• Task of piano lessons. Incomplete copy of the template: Danowski, Zurich 2009.
• How do you play the piano? Five didactic treatises on tone formation, accentuation, dynamics, tempo and presentation . Leede, Leipzig [1881].

literature

• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 7. Leipzig 1907, p. 657 ( online access at Zeno.org , accessed on June 13, 2012).

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Germer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author: Germer, Heinrich . In: Bach Bibliography, accessed June 13, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address book Dresden and suburbs, 1913. Part VI. Niederlößnitz, p. 410. ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.