Heinrich Stiehl
Heinrich Stiehl , and Henri , complete: Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl (* 5. August 1829 in Lübeck ; † April 19 . Jul / 1. May 1886 greg. In Reval ) was a German composer, organist and conductor.
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Stiehl comes from a family of musicians. His father Johann Jochim Diedrich Stiehl (born July 9, 1800 in Lübeck; † June 27, 1872 ibid) had learned to play the organ from Matthias Andreas Bauck and was his successor in 1835 as organist and foreman of the Jakobikirche . Carl Stiehl was his older brother.
He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, today's Academy of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig , especially when Johann Christian Lobe and Ignaz Moscheles From 1853 to 1866 he was organist at the Walcker - organ of St. Peter's Church in St. Petersburg , and from 1862 to 1869 professor at the Petersburg Conservatory .
Stiehl was the organ teacher of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . As a concert organist, he undertook numerous concert tours through Europe and temporarily lived in Vienna, Paris, Gotha and Lüneburg. From 1874 to 1878 he lived as a conductor of the Cecilia Society in Belfast and then from 1878 to 1880 in Hastings . In that year he was appointed organist at St. Olaikirche in Reval, where he stayed until his death. In addition to the office of organist, he led the Singing Academy in Reval. With her he performed Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Reval and St. Petersburg in 1883 - the first performances of the Passion in the Russian Empire.
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Stiehl created two operas: Jery and Bätely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , premiered in 1873 in the Stuttgart Court Theater and Die Schatzgräber . Pieces for chamber orchestra and piano works in the salon style take up the greater part of his work .
In 1857 he published a chorale book for the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia.
Works
- Trois Pensées Fugitives: pour piano; Oeuv. 11. Hamburg: Cranz o. J.
- Choral book for use by Protestant parishes in Russia. Leipzig: Breitkopf 1857
- Prize Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello; op. 37; crowned by the German Tonhalle in Mannheim in October 1860. Mainz: Schott 1860
- Grand quatuor pour piano, violon, viola et violoncelle; op. 40. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel o.J.
- Overture triomphale à grand Orchester; Op.46 Leipzig: Kistner digitized version , Lübeck City Library
literature
- Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, pp. 285f
- Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952, p. 155
- Gaynor G. Jones: Stiehl, Heinrich (Franz Daniel) , in: Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Stiehl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Heinrich Stiehl in the International Music Score Library Project
- Erik Amburger database at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Individual evidence
- ↑ On him see Stahl (Lit.), p. 143
- ↑ The autograph is preserved in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek : Clytus Gottwald: Die Manschriften der Württembergische Landesbibliothek Volume 6, Part 3, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2004, p. 156 (call number HB XVII 611)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stiehl, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stiehl, Henri; Stiehl, Heinrich Franz Daniel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, organist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1886 |
| Place of death | Reval |