Heinrich Scherrer (musician)

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Heinrich Scherrer (born March 6, 1865 in Eckernförde ; † October 3, 1937 in Schöngeising ) was a German musician, multi-instrumentalist, ensemble leader, arranger and editor.

life and work

Scherrer came from a family of craftsmen and was trained as a saddler in his father's workshop . The musical foundations for him were also laid in the family, since his two grandfathers were respected military musicians. The flute learned Scherrer from his maternal grandfather, a former staff bugler in Schleswig Jägercorps. Scherrer taught himself to play the guitar in self-study at Ferdinando Carulli's guitar school. As a musician in dance bands he earned extra income, and in the following years as a saddler, the guitar was his constant companion , he said . He decided to pursue a professional music career and settled in Munich around 1889 , where he began studying flute at the Royal Music School. In November 1891 he was initially employed as a transverse flutist at the Munich royal court orchestra ; In 1895 this went over to a permanent position. In 1901 he was appointed "royal chamber musician" and in 1908 "royal chamber virtuoso", which was associated with the position of solo flutist in the court orchestra. With these titles, however, there was no significant increase in salary, and his application for promotion to royal court musician was rejected by court conductor Bruno Walter . By decree of Prince Regent Luitpold he was finally granted promotion in 1912, but doubts about his achievements as a flautist increased in the following years, so that Scherrer submitted an application for early retirement in 1916 for health reasons.

Scherrer's house, today Schöngeising town hall

After his retirement, Scherrer settled in Schöngeising, where he bought a former farmhouse in Amperstrasse, which is now called "Scherrerhaus" and serves as the town hall. He continued his musical work there, founded a brass band and a group of singers, and was committed to the revival of the Schöngeisinger nativity scene.

By the time he retired, Scherrer had already expanded his musical work to include arranging and publishing song collections. In 1916 the Bavarian Ministry of War commissioned him to rearrange the pipe and drum music in the Bavarian military music. He was also the conductor of the Munich Mandolin Club in 1893, which he had taken over in 1904. Like Carl Henze , Heinrich Albert and other professional musicians, he worked in the International Guitarists' Association founded in 1899 . In the same year the Munich Guitar Club was founded , headed by Heinrich Scherrer. In 1911 he wrote the epilogue “Some things about plucking” for the songbook of the wandering bird movement Der Zupfgeigenhansl , and in 1914 published his own edition with complete music notation for the guitar. He was also the musical director of the Bogenhauser artists' band . In addition, Scherrer was an important sponsor of lute singers such as Robert Kothe (from the Ensemble der Elf Scharfrichter ) or Oscar Besemfelder . He was considered the "awakening and old master of German guitar playing".

Works

  • Short, popular lute and guitar school. Friedrich Hofmeister, 1911
  • The Zupfgeigenhansl. For a singing voice with guitar accompaniment. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1914. Reprint: (ED 4055). Schott, Mainz 1953.
  • The Art of Guitar Playing: Based on d. Style of play d. old Lautenschläger, Volume 8. Hofmeister, 1920
  • with Karl Plenzat : The song shrine. F. Hofmeister, 1922

literature

  • Rudolf Pettinger: Heinrich Scherrer - a life for music (1865–1937). Self-published, Schöngeising 2008, OCLC 828783689 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fritz Buek: The guitar and its masters. Robert Lienau (Schlesinger'sche Buch- und Musikhandlung) , Berlin-Lichterfelde 1926, p. 117 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Bogenhausen Artists Chapel (1897–1939) . NordOstKultur, biographies.
  3. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 520 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Zentner : Heinrich Scherrer † (obituary). In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Volume 104, 1937, pp. 1257 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Scherrer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherrer, Heinrich Alexander Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, multi-instrumentalist, ensemble leader, arranger and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1937
Place of death Schöngeising