Hermann Kretzschmar

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Bronze bust in the auditorium of the Institute for Church Music at the Berlin University of the Arts
Walter Queck : Portrait of Hermann Kretzschmar (1904)
Olbernhau, memorial stone to Hermann Kretschmar, who was born here on January 19, 1848

August Ferdinand Hermann Kretzschmar (born January 19, 1848 in Olbernhau ; † May 10, 1924 in Berlin-Schlachtensee ) was a German musicologist and writer and is considered the founder of hermeneutics in music.

Life

Grave of Hermann Kretzschmar in the Nikolassee cemetery

Kretzschmar was the son of the organist and cantor Karl Dankegott Kretzschmar (1794–1868). From 1862 he was a student at the Kreuzschule in Dresden, where he was second prefect of the Kreuzchor from 1867 to 1868 . He then studied philology at the University of Leipzig and music at the Leipzig Conservatory until 1870 , where he did his doctorate. In the summer of 1868 he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (today the German Choir ), of which he was director from 1887 to 1898. From 1871 he taught theory, composition, piano and organ at the Leipzig Conservatory and worked as a conductor for various music societies. In 1876 he became theater music director in Metz and undertook musical history study trips to England and Italy, from 1877 to 1887 he was academic and city music director in Rostock. From 1887 to 1904 he was again active as a university music director in Leipzig. From 1888 to 1898 he was the conductor of the Riedel Choral Society. In 1890 he was appointed associate professor, in 1890 he founded the Leipzig Academic Concerts, which he directed until 1895. In 1904 he was appointed full professor of music at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University .

From 1907 to 1922 he was director of the Royal Institute for Church Music, where his student Carl Thiel was his successor. From 1909 to 1920 Hermann Kretzschmar succeeded Joseph Joachim as director of the Hochschule für Musik, founded in 1869 . He was a privy councilor.

Kretzschmar was married to the British pianist Klara Meller since 1880 .

He died in 1924 and was buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee in Berlin. From 1992 to 2014 his grave was listed as an honorary grave for the State of Berlin .

Works

  • Guide through the concert hall , Leipzig 1887–90
  • Suggestion for the promotion of musical hermeneutics , in: Yearbook of the Peters Music Library , Volume 9 (1902), pp. 45–66
  • New suggestions for promoting musical hermeneutics , in: ibid., Volume 12 (1905), pp. 73–86
  • History of the New German Song , Leipzig 1911
  • History of the Opera , 1919
  • Introduction to Music History , 1920

literature

  • Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Hermann Kretzschmar. A biographical sketch. The Music Week, 19 (1904), p. 146f.
  • Thomas-M. Langner:  Kretzschmar, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 19 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heinz-Dieter Sommer: Practice-oriented musicology. Studies on the life and work of Hermann Kretzschmar . Munich: Katzbichler, 1985.
  • Hermann Kretzschmar. Conference report Olbernhau 1998 , ed. by Helmut Loos and Rainer Cadenbach . Chemnitz: Schröder, 1998.
  • Peter Sühring : Hermann Kretzschmar as a pioneer of a historicizing performance of early music. Attempt to pay tribute to the 75th anniversary of death. In: Concerto No. 147, October 1999, pp. 28-30.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Kretzschmar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Font and pdf directory  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 46
  2. ↑ Complete directory of the Pauliner from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 185
predecessor Office successor
President of the New Bach Society
1900–1902 		Georg Rietschel
Georg Rietschel President of the New Bach Society
1912–1924 		Julius Smend
personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmar, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kretzschmar, August Ferdinand Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Olbernhau
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1924
Place of death Berlin-Schlachtensee