Heinrich Schachtebeck

August Louis Hermann Heinrich Schachtebeck (born August 6, 1886 in Diemarden near Göttingen , † March 12, 1965 in Leipzig ) was a German violinist , conductor and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Schachtebeck grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Schachtebeck attended the higher middle school in Göttingen and received his first violin lessons from Eduard Gustav Wolschke , the then chief conductor of the Göttingen city band . From 1904 to 1905 he studied violin with Arno Hilf at the Leipzig Conservatory . He then received private lessons from Walter Hansmann and took part in concerts in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig .

In 1908 he became a violinist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra . In 1909 he became the first concertmaster at the Leipzig Theater . From 1911 to 1914 he was concertmaster of the Philharmonic Winderstein Orchestra . He was also repeatedly appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (1911/12, 1914, 1931, 1933/34). Schachtebeck played from 1915 to 1943 as first violinist in various line-ups in the Schachtebeck string quartet . During the First World War he served as a soldier.

From 1929 to 1936 he was a lecturer at the University of Leipzig , but was dismissed because of his marriage to the Odessa-born pianist and " half-Jew " Augusta Schachtebeck-Sorocker († 1944). The Landestheater Altenburg also quit the position that he could only hold with a special permit, and so from 1944 he was without a permanent position.

In 1945 he became chief conductor of the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra . From 1946 to 1948 he was a violin teacher and acting director of the music academy in Leipzig. From 1948 to 1954 he worked as a professor at the University of Leipzig. He founded the Department of Music Education (today: Institute for Music Education) at the Pedagogical Faculty there. He made several appearances with the Collegium musicum .

Schachtebeck became a member of the German Musicians' Association in 1933. He belonged to the Society for German-Soviet Friendship and the Kulturbund of the GDR . Since 1946 he was a member of the SED and since 1946 of the FDGB .

literature

Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936618-86-0 , p. 192.
Hannes Heer , Jürgen Kesting , Peter Schmidt: Silent voices. The Bayreuth Festival and the "Jews" 1876 to 1945. An exhibition . Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 , p. 353.

Web links

Heinrich Schachtebeck in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 142.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 209.

personal data
SURNAME	Schachtebeck, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schachtebeck, August Louis Hermann Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist, conductor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Diemarden
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1965
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 142.

[2] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 209.