Heinrich Sthamer

Heinrich Sthamer (born January 11, 1885 in Hamburg ; † October 24, 1955 there ) was a German composer and music theorist. Due to the number of his works, he is considered the most important romantic symphony in Hamburg.

Heinrich Sthamer received his first music lessons from Emil Krause (1840–1916), who was professor of piano playing at the Hamburg Conservatory . He then studied at the conservatory in Sondershausen with Carl Schroeder and then in Leipzig, where Arthur Nikisch , Stephan Krehl , Robert Teichmüller and Hans Sitt were among his teachers. In 1907 he settled in Berlin as a teacher of theory and composition, moved to Frankfurt am Main shortly before the outbreak of war , then had to take part in the First World War as a soldier and returned to Hamburg in 1919, where he died on October 24, 1955.

After completing his studies, he was appointed as a theory and composition teacher at the Krüß-Färber Conservatory in Hamburg .

Sthamer's compositional work includes a. 13 symphonies, a violin concerto , piano concertos , an orchestral suite ; the ode for large orchestra and a tenor part The Train of Death , the symphonic painting Morning, Noon, Evening and Night (The Times of Day) , as well as several musical dramas and oratorios: including the operas Sigurd , Das Gastmahl zu Pavia , Gautama , Bürger in Not and the oratorios The high song of the Buddha (text by Hans Much ) and Eine Lebensmesse (text by Richard Dehmel ).

Sthamer also composed numerous works for chamber music , including several string quartets, a sextet for two violins, two violas, two cellos; a cello sonata; a violin sonata; a quintet for wind instruments and a flute sonata. The number of his songs based on texts by Goethe , Ludwig Uhland , Friedrich Nietzsche , Friedrich Hebbel , Theodor Storm , Emanuel Geibel , Richard Dehmel, Christian Morgenstern and Rainer Maria Rilke is also large .

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