Heinrich Spitta (composer)
Heinrich Arnold Theodor Spitta (born March 19, 1902 in Strasbourg ; † June 23, 1972 in Lüneburg ) was a German music teacher , composer and musicologist .
Life
Heinrich Spitta came from a family of musicians and theologians. His father was the theologian Friedrich Spitta and his uncle the musicologist and Bach biographer Philipp Spitta .
Heinrich Spitta studied under Arnold Mendelssohn and Hermann Grabner and was in 1927 at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on Heinrich Schütz doctorate .
In 1933 Spitta taught as a teacher at the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin and was also appointed to the cultural office of the Reich Youth Leadership . He mainly composed choral works that were used in the celebration of the Hitler Youth (including Heilig Vaterland, 1934; Jahr überm Pflug, 1936). Because of this activity, he was partially placed in the UK during the war and included in the God-gifted list.
From 1950 Spitta taught at the University of Education in Lüneburg , from 1957 as a professor. In 1967 he retired.
Fonts
- Heinrich Schuetz 'orchestral and unpublished works . Goettingen 1927.
literature
- Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 6720–6746.
Footnotes
- ^ Werner Breig : Schütz complete editions . In: Reinmar Emans, Ulrich Krämer (Hrsg.): Music editions in the course of history . de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN, pp. 978-3-11-044090-4, pp. 97–125, here p. 106.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Spitta, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spitta, Heinrich Arnold Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music teacher, composer and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1972 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |