Heinrich Zöllner

Heinrich Zöllner, 1899.

Heinrich Zöllner (born July 4, 1854 in Leipzig , † May 4, 1941 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German composer , conductor and librettist .

Life

Heinrich Zöllner was the son of Carl Friedrich Zöllner and like him a leading figure in the male choir of his time.

After two semesters of law at the University of Leipzig, he changed subjects and studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory . There he was a student of Carl Reinecke , Salomon Jadassohn , Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel and Ernst Friedrich Richter . During his studies he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (today Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli in Mainz ( German Choir )). His first position was in 1878 as the University Music Director at the Russian University of Dorpat . In 1885 he was appointed as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory and conductor of the men's choir there. In 1897 he went to New York as the conductor of the Deutscher Liederkranz . In 1898 he was appointed royal university music director in Leipzig and conductor of the university singers' association, and since 1903 he has also been music editor for the Leipziger Tageblatt.

From 1907 to 1912 he was first conductor at the newly founded Flemish Opera Antwerp . In 1914 he moved to Freiburg, where he worked as an opera reporter for the Freiburg newspaper from 1922 to 1932 , but otherwise lived completely withdrawn. Today his work has largely been forgotten.

In 1909 he recorded one of his best-known pieces, Rautendeleins Leid , the introduction to the fifth act of the opera The Sunken Bell , for Welte-Mignon .

Works

Operas

• Frithjof. 1884 Cologne a. 1910 Lyrisch Vlaamsch Tooneel Antwerp (Dutch). Based on the story by Esaias Tegnér (using Zoller 's translation).
• The funny Chinese women. 1886 Cologne City Theater. Text and Music by Heinrich Zöllner. Comic opera in 1 act.
• Matteo Falcone. 1884 New York Metropolitan Opera
• The raid. September 7, 1895 Dresden Court Opera. Opera in 2 acts using the novella “Die Danaide” by Ernst von Wildenbruch . Berlin: Schlesinger; Vienna; Haslinger, [after 1896]
• The wooden sword. 1897 Kassel court theater
• The sunken bell. July 8, 1899 Theater des Westens Berlin. Music drama in 5 acts based on Gerhart Hauptmann's fairy tale poem . Op. 80
• Fist. October 19, 1887 Munich National Theater. Musical drama in a prelude and four acts based on Goethe 's "Faust" (Part I) by Heinrich Zöllner.
• At Sedan . 1895 Leipzig New Theater. Opera in 2 acts. (Text using an episode from Zola's “La débacle” by the composer).
• The shooter king. 1903 Leipzig. Game opera in 3 acts by Julius Kulenkampf . Music Heinrich Zöllner.
• Gypsies. 1912 Stuttgart. Opera in 2 acts based on Maxim Gorki's story by Heinrich Zöllner. Op. 110.

Symphonies (selection)

• Symphony in E flat major Op. 20th
• Symphony in F major No. 2 for large orchestra. Op. 100 (published in 1912. HMB)
• Symphony in D minor No. 3 for large orchestra. Op. 130

Choral and orchestral works, choral and solo songs (selection)

• Schubertiade. Play in 1 act to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Franz Schubert (January 31, 1897)
• The Battle of the Huns. For solos, male choir and orchestra composed and comp. by Heinrich Zöllner. Op. 12
• The festival of the vine blossom. For male choir, solo quartet and orchestra; Op. 14 No. 1 / comp. by Heinrich Zöllner. Poem by Hermann Krone. Leipzig: Siegel's music store, [approx. 1895].
• Columbus. For solos, male choir, etc. large orchestra composed a. comp. by Heinrich Zöllner. Op. 30. (around 1911).
• Elegy for violin with accompaniment by a small orchestra or pianoforte, Op. 46.
• Four songs for mixed choir. Op. 72. Zurich: Hug & Co., 1900.
  • No. 1 My heart is very saddened
  • No. 2 row dance around the first violet
  • No. 3 The pigeon house
  • No. 4 Christmas.
• Two Italian folk songs. For male choir. Zurich: Hug & Co. 1901.
  • No. 1 Santa Lucia
  • No. 2 La Treccia bionda (The Blond Head).
• Beethoven in Bonn. A song from the Rhine in 8 pieces by Heinrich Zoellner. Dresden & Leipzig: Pierson, 1901.
• The island of the dead. Op. 79 for male choir. Poem by Thomas Moore , translated by Ferdinand Freiligrath . Zurich: Hug & Co. 1902.
• Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Omnipotence: For male choir and orchestra or piano or for male choir and the like. Wind instruments. From Franz Schubert . Edited by Heinrich Zöllner.
  • The Almighty / Le Tout-Puissant by Franz Schubert; adaptation française by Charles Mayor; transcription pour choeur d'hommes et orchester par Heinrich Zöllner. Op. 79 No. 2
• Forest Fantasy Op. 83.
• The German folk song. Poem by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt for four-part male choir. Op. 85, no. 1.
• Under the Star-Spangled Banner : Overture for large orchestra, op. 88. (Under The Star-Spangled Banner : overture for grand orchestra) composed by Heinrich Zöllner. Leipzig: Forberg, cop. 1906.
• Bonifacius for male choir, soprano u. Baritone solo and large orchestra. Op. 90. Based on the poem "Winfried" by Wilhelm Osterwald . Leipzig: Leuckart, ca.1903.
• Babylon Op. 145 / Using the epic “The Fall of Babylon”, composed by Adolf Böttger and composed for male choir, tenor & baritone solo & orchestra (possibly with organ) by Heinrich Zöllner in 1925. Op. 145.
• Blacksmith pain. Op. 137 No. 1. Text: Otto Julius Bierbaum . Ludwigshafen: Blatz, ca.1925.
• The boyfriend. Text: Joseph Eichendorff . Ludwigshafen: Blatz [approx. 1925].
• Brahms in Cologne: a memory game with music in 4 pictures. On the 100th birthday of Johannes Brahms by Heinrich Zöllner. Freiburg i. Br .: Rotaprint, 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Seidel, Walter / Sichler, Willmar: Directory of the members of the Association of the Old Paulines in Leipzig 1937, page 57

Web links

• Works by and about Heinrich Zöllner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heinrich Zöllner  in the German Digital Library
• Hans Rectanus:  Zöllner, Heinrich. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
• Catalog raisonné at Klassika