Heinrich Huber

Heinrich Huber

Heinrich Huber (born November 2, 1879 in Rain , † August 11, 1916 in Schongau ) was a German church musician , music teacher and composer of the late Romantic period .

Life

Heinrich Huber was born in 1879 as the fourth of five children of Heinrich and Rosa Huber. He received his first music lessons from his father, who, however, died in 1887. From 1892 to 1899 he completed a degree in education in Lauingen and then worked as an assistant teacher in Füssen until 1902 . In 1903 he began to study at the church music school in Regensburg and in 1904 took over the post of choirmaster in Schongau, which he held until the end of his life. Also in 1904 he married Emma Bader, with whom he had a son, who died as a toddler, and 3 daughters. In 1916 Heinrich Huber succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis from which he had suffered from birth.

Compositional creation

Heinrich Huber's life as a composer was composed almost exclusively in the years 1908 to 1916 and consists almost entirely of sacred vocal music for Catholic worship: six Latin ordinaries , two requiems , numerous pange lingua and libera me , as well as sermon chants, offerings and German hymns. His catalog raisonné includes 26 operas, of which numbers 2, 8, 13, 20, 23 and 24 have not survived. In addition, smaller compositions were not included in the count. Until 1913 he had his works printed by the Alfred Coppenrath publishing house in Regensburg, from 1914 on he worked exclusively with Anton Böhm & Sohn in Augsburg, which made him famous beyond the region.

The style of Heinrich Huber's compositions was shaped by the Cecilian influence of the Regensburg church music school at the beginning of his career . However, Huber broke up soon from this influence and took early to his typical mixing style from Renaissance - polyphony , classical elements and romantic style features, said he mainly in the latter Anton Bruckner and Richard Wagner served as a model.

Works

• 6 measurement ordinaries:
  • Missa in hon. Beatae Mariae Virginis (F major) for four-part mixed choir; op. 1 (1910)
  • Missa “Ave verum corpus” (D major) for four-part mixed choir; op. 4 (1912) (alternative version for choir and wind ensemble or organ)
  • Missa in hon. St. Familiae (F major) for four-part male choir; op. 6 (1912)
  • Guardian Angel Mass (F major) for three-part mixed choir and organ or harmonium; op. 7 (1912)
  • Missa “Salve Regina Pacis!” (Peace Mass) (G minor) for four-part mixed choir and organ; op. 25 (1916)
  • Mass in A flat major for three-part female choir and organ; op. 26 (no year)
• 2 Requien:
  • Requiem in E minor for four-part mixed choir and organ; op. 5 (1913)
  • Requiem in C minor for four-part mixed choir and organ; op. 21 (1916)
• Other sacred chants:
  • Ten German church chants and two pange lingua for four-part mixed choir; op. 3 (1910)
  • Ave Maria (D flat major) for soprano solo, four-part mixed choir and organ; op. 9 (1914)
  • Twelve pange lingua for different vocal groups and partly with organ; op. 10 (1913)
  • Four Marian antiphons for four-part mixed choir with organ ad lib .; op. 11 (1912)
  • Three Libera me for four-part mixed choir and partly with organ; op. 12 (1913)
  • Eight sermon chants for two- to four-part female choir and organ or harmonium; op. 14 (1913)
  • Fifty offers for the feasts of the Catholic church year for two identical voices and organ or harmonium; op. 15 (1913)
  • Wreath of songs in honor of St. Anthony of Padua for two- to four-part female choir and organ or harmonium; op. 16 (1914)
  • Twelve German church songs for two-part female choir and organ or harmonium; op. 18 (no year)
  • Maria vom Siege - Two songs from Mary for the veneration of Mary in times of war ; op. 19 (no year)
• Secular chants:
  • War song: Up, my people! (B flat major) for a voice or unison choir and organ, piano or brass; op. 17 (1915)
  • The Fatherland for four to six-part mixed choir and four-part accompaniment ad libitum; op. 22 (1916)

literature

• Harald Johannes Mann: Heinrich Huber - Schongau choir regent and church composer from Rain am Lech . Schongau 1991.

References and comments

1. ^ Missa Ave Verum Corpus. Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Musical-literary monthly report 1912

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Heinrich Huber in the International Music Score Library Project
• Anecdotal short biography of Heinrich Huber
• Biography on the website of the city of Rain