Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (born November 14, 1811 in Elbing ; † April 30, 1886 in Berlin ) was a German conductor, composer and music writer who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig , Elbing and Riga .

Life

Truhn is the son of Court Marshal Nathanael Truhn and the grandfather of Selma Erdmann-Jesnitzer nee. Bethge-Truhn, and father of Clara Truhn and Anna Marie Elisabeth Truhn .

As a student of Siegfried Dehn , Carl Friedrich Zelter and Bernhard Klein in Berlin, he worked as a young man from 1835 to 1837 as a theater conductor and music teacher in Danzig. Back in Berlin, he wrote and edited for Robert Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , the Hamburg Correspondent and the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung . In 1848 he returned to his birthplace, where he worked as a music teacher and conductor until 1852. In the meantime he worked as a freelancer in Berlin again, from 1854 to 1858 he was employed in Riga as a singing and theory teacher. Then he finally settled in Berlin. He is the composer of numerous songs and several stage works and was an important organizer in the field of male choirs . So he founded z. B. the Neue Liedertafel in Berlin.

Works (selection)

Songs and chants for male choir

• The fisherman op. 1 (1832)
• The beautiful waitress by Bacharach op.13 (1836)
• Seraphina op.19 (after Heine, Laube, Eichendorff)
• Lieder op.21 (based on Goethe)
• Die Käferknaben for 4 male voices with accompaniment op.30 (1839)
• A love novel in 12 songs op.64
• The Boy's Death (Uhland) op.82
• The Vathers Crypt op.105 (1853)
• L'Abbandonata

Choral works

• Mahadöh for solo voices, eight-part choir and orchestra (1846)
• Der Abschied (after Uhland) for solo voices, choir and orchestra (1850)

Stage works

• The four-year post (after Th. Körner), Singspiel in one act (1833);
• Trilby (after L. Schneider), comic opera in 2 acts (1835);
• Cleopatra , melodrama (for Johanna Wagner, 1853)

Fonts

• On the art of singing and the teaching of art singing (1872)
• The old prima donna and the music fool , Berlin 1844 (digitized version )

literature

• Robert Eitner :  Truhn, Friedrich Hieronymus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 685.
• Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (=  Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 729-885, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5