Hermann Zivi
Hermann Zivi (also Naphtali Zivi, born May 19, 1867 in Müllheim (Baden) ; buried January 13, 1943 in Tel Aviv ) was a German chasan and composer.
Life
Hermann Zivi was the first of four children of the cantor and teacher Moses Zivi and Sarah Weingärtner and attended school in Müllheim. In teacher training college in Karlsruhe , he was trained by the Chief Cantor Samuel Rubin, a student of Salomon Sulzer . Zivi received his first position as teacher and cantor in Ober-Ingelheim in 1890 , while at the same time he attended the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main and the Mainz Conservatory . His first major composition in 1896 was a choral work for the seventieth birthday of the Grand Duke of Baden Friedrich I. From 1893 he had a teaching position in Düsseldorf and in 1898 he was cantor at the Old Synagogue in Elberfeld .
He could now devote himself more to music and took composition lessons from Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker . In Elberfeld he founded a synagogue choir association and put together a hymn book from liturgical works and his own compositions. At least 23 titles are known from his compositional work, although some of the sheet music has been lost. Zivi mainly composed vocal music, often for the cantor and community, as well as polyphonic choral music and organ pieces. Zivi also composed secular works, such as a symphonic poem About Babylon to Rome (1906), a celebratory anthem for the 300th anniversary of the city of Elberfeld based on the text of the local poet Otto Hausmann (1910), Schütze our German Army (1915) or God be him Emperor's Protection (1916).
In 1928 the synagogue community released him into retirement, where he continued to compose and write musicological articles. On August 1, 1929, the Elberfelder Gymnasium said goodbye to him , where he had been teaching religion in the lower and middle classes since 1907, most recently alongside Rabbi Joseph Norden , with thanks for "his work in the sense of mutual respect for the denominations".
The handover of power to the National Socialists also affected his life. His son Paul had emigrated to Brazil in 1933 . In 1939 he emigrated with his wife Rosa (–1941) to Tel Aviv via Trieste . His daughter Erna Levin (1894–1974) also emigrated to Palestine in December 1939 , and Zivi's grandson Walter Levin was with her . Zivi now lacked the strength for further compositions, he only wrote two larger essays.
Zivi's siblings Helene (* 1879) and Josef (* 1868) were ghettoized in the Müllheim Jewish community center in 1938 and were victims of the Holocaust in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 .
literature
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume 6, Czernowitz 1925, p. 366.
- Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-01012-6 , p. 250.
- Aron Friedmann : Life pictures of famous cantors. Volume 1, Berlin 1918, pp. 240-247.
Web links
- Tina Frühauf: Hermann Zivi in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era (LexM) (with catalog raisonné)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of works by Frühauf (see web links).
- ↑ Otto Hausmann (1837-1916): Hermann Zivi in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
- ^ Report on the school year 1928/29, Elberfeld 1929, p. 28.
- ↑ Stolpersteine in Müllheimer Hauptstrasse 61 near [gowalla]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zivi, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zivi, Naphtali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chasan and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muellheim (Baden) |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried January 13, 1943 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |