Hermann Krigar
Julius Hermann Krigar (born April 3, 1819 in Berlin ; † September 5, 1880 there ) was a German composer and conductor .
Life
Krigar grew up in Berlin. His father was the Oberbergrat and locomotive builder Johann Friedrich Krigar .
Krigar originally wanted to be a painter, but from 1843 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and then returned to his hometown, where he headed the Neue Berliner Liedertafel from 1854 to 1857 and was appointed Royal Music Director in 1857. In May 1859 he married Emilie Menzel, the sister of the painter Adolph Menzel , with whom the couple shared an apartment from 1860 to 1865; In 1874 he became a professor. Krigar was temporarily a singing teacher at the Askanisches Gymnasium and wrote several articles for the Deutsche Rundschau from 1875 to 1879 . Menzel wrote a necrology on the death of his brother-in-law.
Krigar was close friends with Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing and in 1853 drew the attention of Robert Schumann to his 16-part De profundis for four four-part choirs, solos and orchestra. Schumann then called Wilsing a “profound, great art-assiduous spiritual composer” and remarked that the work was “one of the greatest and most powerful masterpieces that our time produced.”
Works (selection)
- op. 1: Five songs. Trautwein, Berlin 1845.
- op. 16: Six piano pieces (children's pieces). Bote & Bock, Berlin 1859.
- Wilhelmsstrasse and Haack'scher Markt , or Baron and Commis. Local farce with singing. First performance on September 28, 1853 in the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater
literature
- Carl von Ledebur : Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 299 f ., urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10931847-2 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Robert Eitner : Krigar, Hermann. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Volume 17, 1883, p. 171 (deutsche-biographie.de)
- Karla Höcker : A look into old Berlin. Adolph Menzel's brother-in-law Hermann Krigar. In: Velhagen and Klasings monthly books. Vol. 57, No. 12, 1943, pp. 654-656.
- Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein, Thomas Synofzik (eds.): Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin from 1832 to 1883. (= Schumann letter edition. Series II. Volume 17). Dohr, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5 , pp. 329–342.
Web links
- Composer: Julius Hermann Krigar (1819–1880) in lieder.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claude Keisch, Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher: Adolph Menzel , letters. Volume 1, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06740-0 , p. 468.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krigar, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krigar, Julius Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1880 |
| Place of death | Berlin |