Heinrich Werner (composer)
Heinrich Werner (born October 2, 1800 in Kirchohmfeld , † March 3, 1833 in Braunschweig ) was a German composer .
His greatest and best-known legacy is the folk melody of the Heidenröslein by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
Life
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His father, a teacher and cantor, had a special bond with music; all of his three sons became musicians. Heinrich received his musical training in his parents' house until he was 15 and was already playing the organ in the village church at the age of eleven. At the age of 15 he became a choirboy in Sankt Andreasberg , where his older brother Fritz and younger brother Wilhelm were also. The older brother, meanwhile a music teacher in Braunschweig, brought Heinrich to Braunschweig, let him attend the local high school and enjoy music lessons.
From 1821 he studied in Erfurt and passed his teacher examination there in 1822. At the end of the same year he went back to Braunschweig, became prefect of the choir at the opera and also worked as a music teacher.
Heinrich Werner is said to have created 84 compositions, mostly songs . His most famous song setting is Goethe's " Saw a Knab 'ein Röslein ". On January 20, 1829 it was performed for the first time in a concert by the Braunschweiger Liedertafel, which he directed as a conductor . Werner's composition soon became very popular and was the only one of around 100 settings of the poem to become a folk song, which is still often sung today .
In 1830 he made trips to Holzminden , Hanover and home, in 1831 to Berlin and in 1832 for the last time to his homeland.
In the autumn of 1832 he fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis . He died on March 3, 1833 in Braunschweig and was buried there.
Special honors
His hometown Kirchohmfeld honors him with a memorial stone surrounded by dog roses. In addition, the village community center bears the name Heinrich-Werner-Haus. In addition, during the GDR era, one of the two polytechnic high schools in Worbis, the district town of his home village Kirchohmfeld, was called Heinrich Werner School. In Munich the short Wernerstrasse is named after him.
literature
- Friedrich Mecke: Heinrich Werner . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. 2. Volume Pictures of 19th Century Life. Self-published, Magdeburg 1927, pp. 220–226.
Web links
- Works by and about Heinrich Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich Werner on MusicBrainz (English)
Texts
- Heidenröslein General German shooting and gymnastics songs by Friedrich Erk, M. Schauenburg (M.Schauenburg & Co., 1863)
- Heidenröslein A new German grammar for beginners (c1916)
- Heidenröslein German songbook for American students
- Heidenröslein im Vaterland (1910) by Paul Valentine Bacon
- Heidenröslein Theory and practice of elementary school teaching according to Herbartian principles (1897) by A. Pickel, E. Scheller, Wilhelm Rein
grades
- Sheet music and audio files by Heinrich Werner (composer) in the International Music Score Library Project
- Sheet music in the public domain by Heinrich Werner in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Works by Heinrich Werner (composer) in the Mutopia project
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchohmfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1833 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |