Hermann Ritzau (composer)

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Hermann Ritzau (* 1874 ; † July 9, 1954 in Hanover ) was a German composer , conductor and Kapellmeister .

Life

Hermann Ritzau composed, among other things, the music for the production of Goethe's Faust given by Franz Rolan on the occasion of the Schauburg, which opened in Hanover in 1911 .

Decades later Ritzau composed the Maschsee waltz, referring to the construction of the Maschsee in Hanover, and the Hanover-Lied , which was also published as a waltz with the text by Chr. Weigold as a picture postcard in the Hanover publishing house Victor Meyer.

Hermann Ritzau had a daughter who gave birth to his grandson, later graphic artist, painter and university professor Rolf-Hermann Geller , in the last year of the Second World War in 1945 in Güntherstrasse in the Hanover district of Waldhausen . In the last years of his life, Ritzau, who lived in a "[...] socially large house with singers, musicians and visual artists", had a decisive influence on his grandson.

Hermann Ritzau was buried in the Gellers family grave in the Engesohder cemetery in Hanover.

Works (selection)

  • around 1900: [Song of a blacksmith] Seven songs for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte. Op. 28, n °. 4 Song of a blacksmith / composed by Hermann Ritzau , “Dem Königl. Opera singer kindly dedicated to Mr. Heinrich Scheuten ”, with texts by Nikolaus Lenau , Hanover: Bachmann
  • 1911: The love hunt. Operetta in 3 acts , texts by Theodor Fischer, as typescript (64 pages, in Gothic script ), Hanover: Bühnenverlag Niedersachsen
  • 11 variations on “The Carnival of Venice”, for salon orchestra , Hanover: Oertel, [approx. 1930]
  • 1938: Hannover-Lied , with text by Chr. Weigold, edition for voice with piano accompaniment and salon orchestra parts, Hannover: Gries & Schornagel
  • Maschsee waltz
  • A little girl once went into the forest. Marching song , with text by Franz Effner, performed by the group Die 5 Gloria-Gesangs-Guitarristen , page 2 of a shellac record (78 revolutions per minute, 25 cm, die number PBi1784 ; page 1: I went for a walk, folk song ) of the Gloria label ( [LC 0028] GO 13211) from Carl Lindström A.-G.

Archival material

Archival material from and about Hermann Ritzau can be found, for example

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christine van den Heuvel (Responsible): ZGS 2/1 newspaper clippings collection of the Lower Saxony State Administration Office / People: 1) performing arts (theater, film), 2) music (alphabetically) on the website of the Lower Saxony archive information system (Arcinsys)
  2. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1954 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 236ff ,; here: p. 238 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b c Assunta Verrone (responsible): Rolf-Hermann Geller and the logo of the Festival of Philosophy ( memento from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the accademia-di-ipazia.de page
  4. ^ NN : Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch: Theatergeschichtliches Jahr- und Adressebuch , FA Günther & Sohn A.-G., 1912, pp. 90, 131 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  5. ↑ Compare the enlargeable digitized version in the collection of historical picture postcards on the website of Osnabrück University
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Güntherstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 100
  7. ^ Robert Krokowski : Of course. Rolf-Hermann Geller on his 50th birthday , text dated June 4, 1996 in the copy (Ragman's Rake document) on the alabaster.de website , last accessed on June 27, 2016
  8. ↑ Cornelia Regin : StadtA H 1 HR 19 No. 361
personal data
SURNAME Ritzau, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, bandmaster and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1954
Place of death Hanover