Hermann Fey

Hermann Fey (born August 26, 1886 in Gnutz , † 1964 in Lübeck ) was a German music teacher, author and founder of the Lübeck Singing School .

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Fey attended the Segeberg teacher training college from 1904 to 1907 and was a student of Oswalt Stamm (1868–1947). He supplemented his studies at the Lübeck Conservatory, which was newly founded in 1911, and passed the examination for music teachers at secondary schools in Hamburg. In 1915 he became organist at St. Nicolai in Mölln and in 1922 at St. Matthäi in Lübeck. Since the early 1920s he worked as a teacher at a girls' middle school in Lübeck.

On October 8, 1923, he founded the Lübische Singschule based on the Augsburg model . It offered lessons in voice training, speaking technique and general music theory. In addition to a girls' choir, it comprised a women's choir and a men's choir. A first concert took place on January 19, 1924. In the following years the school gained a high reputation. Their concert programs included ecclesiastical and secular works from the Renaissance to the present, as well as the cultivation of folk songs . From 1927 it was supported by city funds. In addition to the management function of his school, Fey remained full-time in the Lübeck school service and was transferred to the Oberrealschule zum Dom , later to the Oberlyzeum on Falkenplatz. The Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded him the title of Music Director . In 1933 the singing school was incorporated into the newly founded State Conservatory, today's Lübeck University of Music . After a deep crisis in which the number of students fell from 489 to 140, a new beginning was achieved in 1936. In 1941 Fey became the organist of the Petrikirche , which was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in March 1942. He kept up the choir work of the singing school as far as possible, and on July 21, 1945 the singing school gave the first Lübeck concert after the war in the Jakobikirche.

In addition to his educational work, he edited collections of songs and researched Theodor Storm's connection to music.

Hermann Fey is related to the writer Friedrich Ernst Peters . The great-grandfathers were brothers.

Fey's estate is in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

Fonts

• Folk songs for children from Schleswig-Holstein: for maintaining singing in the first years of school. Flensburg: Westphalen 1910
• Modern school singing: Efforts to reform in the field of school singing: edited with consideration for the new curriculum from 1914. (Friedrich Mann's Pedagogical Magazine 584) 1914
• Schleswig-Holstein musicians: from the oldest times to the present: a home book. Hamburg 1922
• Folk choir singing in Schleswig-Holstein. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1961

literature

• Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, pp. 232–237
• Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952, p. 174

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Musikhochschule Lübeck: History ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 30, 2011  
2. ^ Hermann Fey: Theodor Storm and his "silent musician" , in: Lübeckische Blätter 1954, No. 9, vol. 29, pp. 95–97, 106–109, 126–127; Theodor Storm as a composer. In: STSG 6 (1957), pp. 38-53.
3. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann (ed.): Inventory overview of the archive of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. (Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, Series B Volume 29) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1998 ISBN 3-7950-0467-5 , p. 264