Hubert Pfeiffer

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Hubert Pfeiffer (born October 14, 1891 in Barmen (today a district of Wuppertal ), † December 25, 1932 in Aachen ) was a German organist , pianist and composer .

Life

Hubert Pfeiffer grew up as the son of master dyer Peter Pfeiffer and his wife Elisabeth (née Giesenfeld) in Barmen. Since an inflammation led to the child becoming completely blind shortly after birth, Hubert was taught at the Düren Provincial Facility for the Blind from the age of 10 . The resident music teacher Clemens Engels recognized his extraordinary musical talent and instructed him in piano, organ and cello playing as well as music theory. In 1910 Hubert Pfeiffer finished his school education and was able to take the organist examination at the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius in Aachen on August 4th of the same year . His further training path led him to the Potthoff-Zimmermann Conservatory in Elberfeld (now also a district of Wuppertal). In addition to studying piano, he was taught counterpoint and composition by Kurt Herold. In 1919 he married Anna Sieper from Barmen; his son Hans Peter was born in 1921. After Hubert Pfeiffer had already worked as a private music teacher in his hometown, he became organist and cantor of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Barmen on January 1, 1922 , an office that he held until January 1, 1926. He then worked as a composer, concert pianist and music teacher in Barmen until his early death caused by blood poisoning.

A street and a square in the south of the Heckinghausen district are named after Hubert Pfeiffer .

Works

With opus number

  • op. 1: Songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (1910)
  • op. 2: Three mixed choirs a cappella (1910)
  • op. 3: Two piano pieces (1911)
  • op.4: Sonata in C major for piano (1912)
  • op.5: Four songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (1912)
  • op. 6: Three songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (1913)
  • op. 7: Travel Pictures. Eight pieces for piano (1914)
  • op.8: Two pieces for piano (1914)
  • op.9: Concert waltz for piano (1914)
  • op.10: Four piano pieces (1915)
  • op.11: Eleven Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Giovanni (Bach) for piano (1916)
  • op. 12: Three roguish tunes. Songs for a voice with piano (1917)
  • op.13: Three chorale preludes for organ (1917/1930)
  • op.14: Scherzo in F sharp minor for piano (1917)
  • op.15: Three pieces for violin with piano accompaniment (1918)
  • op.16: Three songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (1919)
  • op.17: Miniatures for piano (1919)
  • op.18: Fantasy and Fugue in D major for organ (1920)
  • op. 19: Missa "Sursum corda" for three-part female choir, soprano, alto solo and organ (1920)
  • op.20a: Three duets for mezzo-soprano and baritone with piano accompaniment (1919/1921)
  • op.20b: Two duets for soprano and mezzo-soprano with organ (1919/1921)
  • op.21: Two songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (1921)
  • op. 22: Singer of Spring for male choir a cappella (1921)
  • op.23: Laudate dominum for four-seven-part mixed choir with organ (1922)
  • op. 24: Mass in F minor for two-part male, female or boy choir with organ (1922)
  • op.25: Three songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (1923)
  • op.26: Sonata in G minor for piano and violin (1924)
  • op. 27: Resurrection Mass for four-eight-part mixed choir a cappella (1925) [fully valid early version of the E major Mass op. 35]
  • op.28: Motet: When I spoke with human and angel tongues for four-part mixed choir a cappella (1926, new version: 1931)
  • op. 29: By the sea. Song for a voice with piano accompaniment (1926)
  • op. 30: Geistliches Lied: You have transformed your lament for me for an alto part with piano, organ or orchestral accompaniment (1926)
  • op. 31: North Sea Pictures. A series of five piano pieces (1927)
  • op. 32: Mass in D minor for male choir with organ accompaniment (1927)
  • op.33: Sonata in E minor for piano (1927)
  • op. 34: Four mixed choirs a cappella (1928)
  • op.35: Mass in E major for four solo voices, choir, orchestra and organ (1928/1929)
  • op. 36: Four male choirs a cappella (1928)
  • op. 37: Motet: Crucem tuam adoramus for mixed choir and organ ad lib. (1929)
  • op. 38: Antiphon on Death for male choir and boys' voices (1929)
  • op. 39: Five children's songs with piano accompaniment (1929)
  • op. 40: Love. Cantata for male choir, alto solo and orchestra (1930)
  • op. 41: Two three-part female choirs with string orchestra (1930)
  • op.42: Choral motette: Lord, your holy will for four-part male choir a cappella (1930/1931)
  • op.43: Three songs for an alto voice with orchestra (1931)
  • op.44: Music in three movements for an unaccompanied A clarinet (1931)
  • op. 45: Song to the Sun (Elevation). Cantata based on poems by Hans Carossa for alto and baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra (1932) [unfinished]

Without opus number

  • Victory or Death for a three-part female or children's choir
  • Federal March for piano four hands
  • Two-part invention and four lyrical sketches for piano (1918)
  • Tantum ergo for four-part male choir a cappella (1920)
  • Where? for four-part male choir with piano accompaniment (1920, rev. 1929)
  • Jauchz Thy Heiland for four-part mixed choir a cappella (1923)
  • Laetentur coeli for four-part mixed choir a cappella (1923)

Literature / sources

  • Emil Freund: Hubert Pfeiffer (1891-1932). Work - artistic development - total personality , Würzburg-Aumühle (Konrad Triltsch) 1939.
  • Charlotte Potthof: Hubert Pfeiffer . In: Wuppertal Biographies 1st episode . Contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal Volume 4, Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1958, pp. 60-64.

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personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1932
Place of death Aachen