Heinrich Reimann

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Heinrich Reimann (born March 12, 1850 in Rengersdorf , Glatz district , province of Silesia , † May 24, 1906 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist , organist and composer .

Life

Heinrich Reimann was the son of the composer Ignaz Reimann (1820–1885). He attended high school in Glatz and studied philology at the University of Breslau from 1870 to 1874 . After receiving his doctorate in 1875, he worked as a grammar school teacher in Strehlen (from 1876), Wohlau (from 1878), Berlin (from 1879), Ratibor (from 1880) and Glatz (from 1884) until he became the grammar school director in Gleiwitz in 1885 .

After conflicts with his superiors, he resigned and moved to Berlin in 1887, where he worked in various professions, including music critic, librarian at the Royal Library , organist at the Berlin Philharmonic and teacher of organ and theory at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory .

In 1890 the singer Amalie Joachim , who gave historical recitals in Berlin on the development of the German song, asked him for support, from which a fruitful collaboration developed. Reimann also published the songs arranged for Amalie Joachim in print.

In 1895 he became organist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , where Albert Schweitzer was his deputy in 1899. In 1897 he received the title of professor, in 1898 he founded a Bach association. He was Karl Straube's teacher and, as a publicist, was one of Max Reger's first mentors .

Heinrich Reimann's grave in Berlin-Westend

Heinrich Reimann died in Berlin in 1906 at the age of 56. His final resting place is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend . A pillar with a base wall made of shell limestone serves as a tombstone, which is composed in the reform style of the time, but also shows echoes of Art Nouveau . A three-part bronze relief with putti making music cites a work by Donatello for the pulpit in the cathedral of Florence . Several components of the grave complex have been lost, including the framing of the grave field with chains.

Fonts

  • Robert Schumann's life and works , Leipzig: CF Peters 1887 ( digitized version )
  • Johannes Brahms (= famous musicians. Life and character studies, together with an introduction to the works of the masters , Volume 1), Berlin: Harmonie Verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, 1897
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (= famous musicians. Life and character studies, along with an introduction to the works of the masters , volume 18), Berlin: Harmonie Verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, 1902 - 2nd edition, revised and expanded by Bruno Schrader ( digitized )
  • Musical reviews , 2 volumes
    • Volume 1, Critical, Historical , Berlin 1900
    • Volume 2, Modernes, Organistica (including Amalie Joachim . A sheet of memory on the grave of an unforgettable woman ), Berlin 1900

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 479.
personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Rengersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1906
Place of death Berlin