Ignaz Heim

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Ignaz Heim (born March 7, 1818 in Renchen ; † December 3, 1880 in Zurich ) was a Swiss musician and composer who made outstanding contributions to the arrangement and publication of folk songs .

Life

Memorial at Heimplatz

Heim was born in Renchen as the son of a doctor and pharmacist from Renchen and initially also started a pharmacist career at his parents' request. After the death of his father, Heim sold the pharmacy and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau , where he founded the Freiburger Liedertafel and was subjected to harassment after the Baden Revolution of 1848/49. As he had Swiss citizenship like his father, he moved to Switzerland in 1850. From 1852 he was in Zurich, where he led choral societies and conducted church choirs.

He collected and edited folk songs, which he published in two editions: Collection of Folk Songs and New Folk Songs . They differed in editions for male or mixed choir, in the original edition or the different edition for Germany. These collections soon belonged to the standard equipment of choirs and schools and experienced numerous editions. After 1898 stereotype records of his songs appeared.

In Zurich a street and a square are named after him. There, behind the kiosk, is his monument, which was designed by Baptist Hörbst in 1883 . A school and a street is named after him in his hometown Renchen.

He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery . In 1914 Gottfried Lochbrunner published a biography about Heim in the New Year's Gazette of the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich .

Works

  • Collection of folk songs for the mixed choir. Published by the Zurich Music Commission. School synod edited by I. [gnaz] ​​Heim. Ninth stereotype edition. Zurich: self-published by the commission. Depot at Buchbinder Schwarz, Münsterhäuser. Printed by Zürcher and Furrer. 1869.
  • Collection of folk songs for the male choir published by the Zurich Music Commission. School synod edited by I. Heim. 24. Stereotype output. Zurich: Self-published by the commission in 1872.
  • New folk songs for the male choir. Songbook for schools and clubs. Edited with the participation of German and Swiss composers. First volume, eighth stereotype edition. Zurich: Self-published by the publisher in 1875.
  • Collection of folk songs for mixed choir. 1st volume. Songbook for school, home and club. Published by the Zürcherische Liederbuchanstalt, formerly the Music Commission of the Zurich School Synod, edited by I. [gnaz] ​​Heim. 30th edition for Germany. Zurich. Self-published by the Liederbuchanstalt, Rotbuchstrasse 24. Main depot for Germany and Austria-Hungary at P. Pabst, Musikalienhandlung, Leipzig. [Around 1900].

literature

  • Not specified:  Heim, Ignaz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 133-135.
  • EG: Ignaz Heim in: My home country. Baden sheets for folklore , 15th year, Karlsruhe 1928

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personal data
SURNAME Home, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss composer and folk song collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Renchen
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1880
Place of death Zurich