Heinz Wimmer (composer)
Heinrich "Heinz" Wimmer (born January 9, 1897 , † September 22, 1985 ) was a German composer .
Life
Heinrich Wimmer comes from an old Passau family of teachers and was born on January 9, 1897 as the last male descendant. Even as a child he showed a pronounced musical talent. He learned to play the piano and the organ at an early age. He received violin lessons from the music master of the 16th Pöll Infantry Regiment. At the age of 9 he played for the bishop. The young Heinrich Wimmer trained for the pedagogical profession at the preparatory school in Passau and at the teachers' seminar in Straubing . In order to perfect and deepen his musical studies, he studied music theory and composition theory with August Reuss in Munich, with which he had a very friendly teacher-student relationship. Wimmer's career as a primary school teacher began during the First World War and took him to various places in the Bavarian Forest. The other stations were Büchlberg , Perlesreut , Hengersberg and Passau, where he also spent his retirement.
Working as a musician
He gave concerts with opera singers, he studied a stage arrangement of the beautiful miller by Franz Schubert with the village , organized a great musical carnival party every time with the choral society, the proceeds of which could even be used to buy a piano, and led the opera Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck in order to be able to maintain the school feeding of the children. After the war, Wimmer became choir director and music teacher in Passau. Up until old age he devoted himself entirely to music.
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His compositional work is mainly dedicated to the art song . He set texts by Gerhart Hauptmann , Eichendorff , Ruth Schaumann and others and especially by Hans Carossa , who valued Wimmer's compositional style very much for his poems. In his works, there are also cycles as the Sanskrit songs , Ordinary Time , Five Sacred songs and voices of the night , recorded on record. The Rautendeleinlieder based on poems by Gerhart Hauptmann were premiered in 1931 by the Munich Tonkünstlerverband in the Odeon. The radio performance in May 1935 with Elisabeth Hallstein as the soloist made an excellent impression.
A small part of his work was instrumental works for string quartets, piano or chamber orchestra. The Bohemian Forest Idyl, Op. 10, a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra, became particularly well-known and, after its world premiere on the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart, was repeated 50 times on the same station.
“It can be said of all these chants that they are perceived as songs and declaimed intelligently, so that their composers know exactly the needs of the lyrical vowel form and also the needs of the singers; that these songs are partly very simple, partly with a livelier musical interpretation "
“The four songs of Heinz Wimmer based on texts by Gerhart Hauptmann appear in a certain simplicity. They are generally made skilfully and have lyrical qualities "
“A further idea is to let the radio orchestra bring contemporary work in the afternoon. Arnold Laengefeld conducted. The songs of the composer Heinz Wimmer left an excellent impression - warm feeling, understanding curved vocal lines, conveying enrichment - which Elisabeth Hallstein sang internalized. "
Music
- Songs with piano accompaniment
- Songs of the Rautendelein Texts: Gerhart Hauptmann.
- Billinger songs.
- Watzlik songs.
- Holy songs.
- In the annual cycle.
- Indian poetry.
- Voices of the night.
- Carossa songs.
- Passau Nibelung Play (Martin Buchner).
- Songs based on various poets.
- Late erotic songs.
- Echo of the Silence (Wilhelm Bergmeier).
- Songs with instrumental accompaniment, choral works
- Singing voices with chamber music.
- Choral works Country life.
- Religious choral works.
- Instrumental music
- It's a reaper whose name is Death, String Quartet, Opus 3
- Bohemian Forest Idyll (1937), Symphonic poem for chamber orchestra, Opus 10
- Elegy and dance, trio for violin, cello and piano, opus 11
- Little House Music (March 10, 1946), Trio for 2 violins and viola, Opus 11a
- Eight variations on an Irish folk song, piano for two hands Opus 18
- Romantic Sonatina (1960), violin and piano Opus 20
Sound carrier
- Bohemian Forest Idyll / songs, audio CD, EAN: 4018673946217, date of publication: May 18, 1998, Kammerorchester Regensburg, Isenberg (artist), Märkl (artist).
literature
- Elisabeth Pasquay: The story of a family of teachers. Approval thesis, 1969. Download (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- Elisabeth Pasquay: The Mittinger family - a story from an eventful time. Download (PDF; 1.6 MB).
- Dina Wimmer From my time. Download (PDF; 18.3 MB).
- Martina Goller: The music in teacher training in Lower Bavaria and its charisma, illustrated by the example of Lower Bavarian teacher composers at the Deggendorf preparatory school and at the Straubing teacher training college. Approval work, Deggendorf, 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elizabeth Pasquay: The story of a family of teachers.
- ↑ Elizabeth Pasquay: The story of a family of teachers.
- ↑ Dr. Richard Wünsch on the premiere of the Rautendeleinlieder on December 5, 1931
- ^ W. von Bartels in the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten of August 24, 1937
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 1 (PDF; 288 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 2 (PDF; 324 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 3 (PDF; 308 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 4 (PDF; 233 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 5 (PDF; 493 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 6 (PDF; 244 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 7 (PDF; 416 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 8 (PDF; 500 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 9 (PDF; 154 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 10 (PDF; 355 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 11 (PDF; 143 kB)
- ↑ Volume 1 Part 12 (PDF; 569 kB)
- ↑ Volume 2 Part 1 (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Volume 2 Part 2 (PDF; 193 kB)
- ↑ Volume 2 Part 3 (PDF; 194 kB)
- ↑ Volume 3 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wimmer, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wimmer, Heinrich (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1985 |