Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze
Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze (born January 1, 1801 in Erfurt , † June 12, 1868 in Celle ) was a German organist and choirmaster .
Life
Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze was the son of Georg Christoph Stolze (1762–1830), who worked in Erfurt as a cantor and organist. From 1814 to 1820 he attended the Ratsgymnasium .
Proud was a student of Johann Christian Kittel , Michael Gotthard Fischer and Ludwig Ernst Gebhardi .
On October 27, 1822, he took over the post of organist at the Marktkirche in Clausthal . In 1824 he was appointed city and palace organist in Celle . At the same time he also took over the position of singing teacher at the local grammar school .
Stolze founded a singing club for mixed choirs in Celle in 1827 and a teacher-singing club in 1841. He owned an extensive musical collection, which is now kept in the church ministerial library and in the city archive.
Works (selection)
- The well-tempered organ or 24 preludes and fugues in all keys.
- One hundred and twenty organ preludes to the most common chorale melodies with reference to the cantus firmus for all Hanover chorale books, but initially composed for his general chorale book for the Kingdom of Hanover. (1843)
- General chorale melody book, initially to the various common church and school hymn books of the evangelical parishes of the Kingdom of Hanover, (containing 258 melodies) together with the intonations, responses etc. for singing choirs and for the organ or the pianoforte in four parts exposed and numbered Bass compiled on two systems. Op. 28. [Score] , Hanover: in the Helwingschen Hof bookstore, 1834
literature
- Gustav Schilling : Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences, or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst , Vol. 6. Stuttgart 1838, p. 508 ff.
- Adelbert Kühn (Ed.): Album for the organ for JG Töpfer's golden official jubilation on June 4, 1867.
Web links
- Works by Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Johannes Zahn : Stolze, Heinrich Wilhelm , in ders .: The melodies of the German Protestant church songs. From the sources , vol. 5: The remaining melodies from the eleven lines on, with appendix and gleanings, as well as the chronological list of the inventors of melodies and the alphabetical register of melodies , Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1892, p. 482; limited preview in Google Book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Proud, Heinrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1868 |
| Place of death | Celle |