Hermann Bäuerle (church musician)

Hermann Bäuerle

Title page of Kyriale parvum (1922)

Hermann Bäuerle (born October 24, 1869 in Ebersberg , Württemberg; † May 22, 1936 in Ulm ) was a German Catholic clergyman, church musician and headmaster.

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Hermann Bäuerle was born as the son of a teacher in the Backnang region of the Kingdom of Württemberg. He completed the Konvikte in Ehingen and Tübingen and studied Catholic theology and music at the University of Tübingen from 1890 to 1894 with Emil Kauffmann (1836–1909). In 1895 he was ordained a priest, worked from 1897 as parish administrator in Eintürnen near Bad Wurzach , then attended the church music school (Kimu) in Regensburg in 1898 ( Franz Xaver Haberl , 1840-1910) and in 1899 took a position as Princely Thurn und Taxis'scher court chaplain on. In addition, he was from 1901 to 1908 teacher for harmony and counterpoint at the Kimu Regensburg. In 1903 he founded the "Library of Old Classical Church Music in Modern Notation" and received his doctorate in 1906 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on "Lassos' seven psalms of penance". phil. Two years later he was released as a princely court chaplain and began as a pastor in Reutlingendorf near Obermarchtal, Württemberg. This was followed in 1917 as organist and music director at the Heilig-Kreuz-Münster in Schwäbisch Gmünd and a year later as pastor in Tomerdingen , Oberamt Blaubeuren near Ulm. In 1921 he founded the “Higher Folk Music School” in Ulm , which was elevated to a conservatory in 1922 and which he directed until his death.

Appreciation

Hermann Bäuerle worked as a pastor in several places in Württemberg and Bavaria. He was a lecturer at the church music school in Regensburg, organist and music director in Schwäbisch Gmünd and, for more than 15 years, head of the “higher folk music school”, which later became the conservatory in Ulm.

He published works on church music and liturgy as well as several textbooks from the practice of his conservatory. He put together a general register of 30 years (1876–1906) of the “Cäcilienkalender” or the “Church Music Yearbooks”.

He composed choral works in the Palestinian style, organ works and songs from Mary.

The greatest importance must be given to its new edition of works of classical vocal polyphony in the "Library of old classical church music in modern notation" (Palestrina, Lasso, Vittoria, Fux, Hassler, Casali, Lotti, Gabrieli, Casini, Viadana, etc.) and the transmission of Gregorian chant measure in a reform notation. He tried to renew Catholic church music and gave many choirs easier access to the old compositions.

Honors

• 1906 Dome of Honor of Palestrina
• 1907 papal secret chamberlain with the title " Monsignore "

Publications (selection)

• Repetition of harmony. Leipzig 1902.
• Palestrina has to become more popular. Regensburg 1903.
• The "Seven Psalms of Penance" (Septem psalmi poenitentiales) by Orlando di Lasso: music-philological study. Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, 1906.
• The Vatican chant in reform notation with retention of the nota quadrata. Graz u. Vienna 1907.
• Theory of the Roman Catholic cult. Regensburg 1908.
• Theoretical-practical singing lessons for polyphonic boys or women choir. Bytom 1918.
• Music theory writings in 10 booklets ("music seminar")
  • No. 2: General education and teaching. Stuttgart 1928.
  • No. 3: Musical grammar (general music theory). Stuttgart 1931.
  • No. 5: Musical theory of forms. Stuttgart 1926.
  • No. 6: General Music History. Stuttgart 1928.
  • No. 7: Choral direction. Stuttgart 1926.
  • No. 8: Philosophical training. Stuttgart 1928.
  • No. 9: Organ playing with organ studies. Stuttgart 1926.
  • No. 10 Methodology of piano lessons, with piano literature. Stuttgart 1928.
• Library of classical church music (mainly from Breitkopf & Härtel)
  • Volume 1: Palestrina. 10 masses for four voices, 1903.
  • Volume 2: Palestrina. 52 motets. 1904.
  • Volume 3: Palestrina. Masses for 4 voices. 1905.
  • Volume 4: 10 masses for 5 voices. 1905.
• Missa super "Dixit Maria" / Hans Leo Hassler, critically correct, modernized edition for the liturgy, Leipzig 1950

literature

• Hermann Bäuerle. In: Swabian organ romance. http://www.schwaebische-orgelromantik.de/haben/baeuerle-hermann/baeuerle-hermann.htm
• W. Altmann, P. Frank: concise Tonkünstler-Lexikon, 14th edition, Regensburg 1936.
• Andreas Weissenbäck: Sacra Musica, Lexicon of Catholic Church Music, Klosterneuburg near Vienna 1937, 26.
• Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon, 10th edition (Alfred Einstein), Berlin 1922, 77.
• Hugo Riemann: music lexicon, personal section, 2nd volume, ed. W. Gurlitt, Mainz 1959, 2 supplementary volumes by VC Dahlhaus, Mainz 1972/75.
• Baker`s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 5th Ed., New York, 1954.
• 1200 years of Reutlingendorf, Obermarchtal community, Ulm 1990.
• Bruno Weigl: Handbook of Organ Literature, Leipzig 1931.
• Arthur Hauser: 150 years of the parish church of the Assumption of Mary. Tomerdingen 1993.
• Hans-Michael Körner u. Bruno Jahn :; Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 1, A – G, Munich 2005, 88/89.
• F. Haberl. In: The Music Past and Present, General Encyclopedia of Music. Ed. F. Blume - with a list of the compositions, Kassel, 1999
• HJ Moser: Music Lexicon. Hamburg 1951.
• Bernd Moeller u. Bruno Jahn: German Biographical Encyclopedia of Theology and the Churches (BVTh), Vol. 11, A – L, Munich 2005, 1739.
• Hucke, Helmut: “Bäuerle, Hermann” in:: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), p. 532. [online version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd130634794.html#ndbcontent
• Josef Focht: Bäuerle, Hermann (1869–1936). In: Bavarian Music Dictionary - online http://bmlo.de/b0070 .
• German biography

Web links

• Works by and about Hermann Bäuerle  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schwaebische-orgelromantik.de
2. ^ Hermann Bäuerle in German Biography