Hermann Meinhard Poppen (musician)

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Hermann Meinhard Poppen (born January 1, 1885 in Heidelberg, † April 10, 1956 in Heidelberg) was a German church musician , conductor and musicologist .

Life

Poppen studied in Heidelberg, where he became a member of the Rupertia Association and the Wartburg Academic-Theological Association . In 1912, his teacher Philipp Wolfrum gave him a seven-month study holiday with Max Reger in Meiningen . Poppen was initially university music director at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1914-1918) and at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . Since the church music education did not proceed in the sense of the church leadership, the Evangelical Church Music Institute Heidelberg (today University for Church Music Heidelberg ) was founded in 1931 , the first director of which was Poppen. From 1919 until his death in 1956 he directed the Heidelberg Bach Choir .

Klaus Martin Ziegler was one of his students. One of his grandchildren is the violinist and conductor Christoph Poppen .

Fonts

  • Max Reger. Life and work. 1918. New edition: Breitkopf & Härteln Wiesbaden 1947.
  • The first Electoral Palatinate hymn book and its ways of singing (= publications by the Association for Church History in the Evangelical Church of Baden. Volume 12). Schauenburg, Lahr in Baden 1938.
  • Anton Bruckner . A lecture given on the occasion of the Bruckner memorial hour of the city of Heidelberg on November 15, 1946 (= Heidelberg lectures. 2). Kerle, Heidelberg 1947.
  • with Hermann Grabner : Organ Choral Book for the Evangelical Church Hymn book of the United Evangelical Protestant Church in Baden. Carl Merseburger / Evangelical Press Association for Baden 1952, 1955, 1968.

literature

  • Renate Steiger (Ed.): The University for Church Music of the Evangelical Church in Baden, Heidelberg, formerly Church Music Institute, 1931–2006, and its founder Hermann Meinhard Poppen, 1885–1956. Strube, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89912-079-5 .
  • Otto Riemer (Ed.): Way and work. A celebration for the 70th birthday of Hermann Meinhard Poppen. With the participation of Herbert Haag . Hochstein, Heidelberg 1955.

Letters from H. Poppen are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Löw: Basic lines and materials of the Jena music history. In: Jürgen John (Hrsg.): Jena city history contributions (= building blocks for Jena city history. Volume 1 / writings on city, university and student history of Jenas. Volume 6). Jena 1993, pp. 129–175, here p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Poppen, Hermann Meinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1956
Place of death Heidelberg