Jakob Heinrich Lützel

Jakob Heinrich Lützel

Jakob Heinrich Lützel (born August 30, 1823 in Iggelheim ; † March 9, 1899 in Zweibrücken ) was a church and folk song composer, choir director, elementary school teacher and organist in Zweibrücken. Due to a mistake by the biographer Ludwig Fränkel, who gave Lützel the first name of his father Johann Heinrich in the General German Biography of 1906 , some of Lützel's works now exist under this name. At times Lützel also published under the pseudonym H.L. Friedemann . The spelling Jacob Heinrich Lützel can also be found occasionally.

Life

youth

After attending the elementary school in his home community Iggelheim, Lützel was allowed to take part in his teacher's preparation for lessons, thereby acquiring basic pedagogical knowledge.

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  Jakob Heinrich Lützel's birth house

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  Inscription in the beam from the Lützelhaus

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  Memorial plaque at the Lützelhaus

At the age of 18 he was admitted to study at the teachers' college in Kaiserslautern , which he graduated with the grade very good in 1843 . This training also included basic knowledge of music and organ playing.

Initially a school assistant and second teacher in Edigheim ( Ludwigshafen am Rhein ), Lützel deepened his knowledge of music through private lessons with the organist Jakob Vierling in Frankenthal and court music director Leppen in Mannheim . On September 5, 1845, he started teaching at the girls' preparatory school in Zweibrücken and in 1850 married Friederica Catharina Schwörer, a baker's daughter from this town.

Choir foundations

Jakob Heinrich Lützel directed the Liedertafel men's choir in this city for twelve years and the Cecilia Association for three years . At the age of 31 he founded the first Protestant church choir in the Palatinate , which was quickly followed by others and from which the Evangelical Church Choir for the Palatinate emerged in 1880 .

With his friend Ludwig Heydenreich , the conductor of the Liedertafel , Lützel founded the Palatinate Singers Association in 1860 . In 1868, Lützel had since retired from school for health reasons, the district government appointed him organ auditor. As the main club music director, he now conducted 87 clubs with around 4,000 singers. At the age of 60, the Ministry of Culture in Munich finally awarded him the title of Royal Professor of Music .

Initiatives

In 1885 Lützel appeared under the pseudonym HLFriedemann. He successfully submitted a reorganization of the divine service to the Evangelical General Synod , according to which the Evangelical Church, apart from a small change in 1925, is still based today.

On the occasion of Lützel's 70th birthday, the city of Zweibrücken granted him honorary citizenship , while his place of birth Iggelheim refused to do so on the grounds that he had "not bothered at all" about it recently.

Until his death in 1899 Lützel was very committed to the installation of the giant organ in the memorial church in Speyer, which was under construction . The organ was consecrated in 1902.

post mortem

Monument on Lützel's grave

The Palatinate Singers' Association used donations to erect a memorial on Lützel's grave in Zweibrücken, which has been preserved to this day. In Iggelheim, when the street was renamed in 1908, the famous son of the community was remembered and the street where the house where he was born was named after him. This house, which has been rebuilt several times to date, received a plaque in 1923 for Lützel's 100th birthday. After all, the Iggelheim elementary school has been called the Jakob-Heinrich-Lützel-Schule since 1986 . The Iggelheim local group of the Association of Christian Scouts ( VCP ), which was re-established in 2012, was incorporated into the Gau Neuburgund district scout association under the name of Siedlung Heinrich Lützel .

Works

Music literature

Jakob Heinrich Lützel published a number of hymn books with various publishers, which were widely distributed:

• Protestant chants for the various festivals of the church year , arranged for a four-part male choir, Eisleben 1853
• 30 chorals of the Protestant Church in their original forms , three-part arrangements for schools, Stuttgart 1855
• Choral book for the Evangelical-Protestant hymn book for church and house , Speyer 1859
• Sacred and secular male choirs for use in seminars and teachers' conferences , 132 choral works and songs from the 16th to 19th centuries, Kaiserslautern 1861
• Easy choirs for churches and schools , Leipzig 1863
• Choral hymn book for church and school choirs , Kaiserslautern 1875
• Choral book for the Evangelical-Protestant Church of the Palatinate. The third edition was made by Jacob Vierling, the fourth edition, Speyer 1877, the fifth edition, Speyer 1885, and the sixth edition, Speyer 1898, come from Lützel
• Choir songs for use in singing lessons in grammar schools, secondary schools and preparatory institutions , Kaiserslautern 1876
• Singing lessons for elementary schools and higher education institutions, Zweibrücken 1885
• Draft for the new evangelical hymn book, 1889. The proposal was not implemented until 1905. The hymn book was valid until 1951
• Melody book for the Protestant military hymn and prayer book for the German army , 1892
• Liederkranz - Collection of monophonic and polyphonic songs for school and life , 5 booklets, Kaiserslautern 1892, up to 1907 14 editions
• Two and three-part sacred choirs with organ accompaniment. Edited and edited by J. Heinrich Lützel. Kaiserslautern: JJ Tascher 1878, 64 pp.

His works also include textbooks for playing the organ and Swiss school song books.

Choral works

• Oh come, you spirit of truth - for four-part mixed choir
• I lift my eyes (Psalm 121) - for four-part mixed choir
• Make the gates wide (Psalm 24) for four-part mixed choir, on the occasion of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Memorial Church in Speyer on September 19, 1890
• Always ready - Federal song of Christian scout associations in Germany
• Faithful love to vow - confirmation song for four-part mixed choir
• The Schwarzenacker waltz "composed for the pianoforte and dedicated to the lively men and women of Zweibrücken"
• Lord the King rejoices in your strength (Psalm 21) - for four-part mixed choir
• Jauchzet Gott alle Lande (Psalm 66) - Motet for four-part mixed choir
• The holy Christ has come - for four-part mixed choir
• Thank the Lord (Psalm 118, 1) - Motet for four-part mixed choir
• God create a pure heart in me - Motet for Pentecost for four-part mixed choir
• Mountains should give way (Isaiah 54,10) - for four-part mixed choir
• The Lord is merciful and gracious (Psalm 103) - for four-part mixed choir
• Indeed, he bore our disease - motet for four-part mixed choir
• Christ is risen (Luk. 24, 34 and 1.Cor. 15, 55 + 57) - for four-part mixed choir
• For the sake of our sin (Phil. 2, 9) - for four-part mixed choir
• Come, holy spirit - for four-part mixed choir
• The Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23) - Motet for four-part mixed choir
• Those who sow with tears (Psalm 126,5) - for four-part mixed choir
• Lord, my God, I trust in you (Psalm 71) - for four-part mixed choir
• Where you are going (Ruth 1:16) - for four-part mixed choir
• How beautiful are you, my fatherland - for four-part mixed choir

literature

• Baldur Melchior: Jakob Heinrich Lützel (1823–1899) and the development of Protestant school and church singing in the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate, especially in the second half of the 19th century . Dissertation, Saarbrücken University, 1980
• Theo Brendel: Jakob Heinrich Lützel - teacher and royal professor of music , in: Iggelheim - a village and its history . Anniversary publication for the 1000th anniversary of the municipality of Böhl-Iggelheim, municipality of Böhl-Iggelheim, 1991, pages 476–479
• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Lützel, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 137-142.

Web links

• Works by and about Jakob Heinrich Lützel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Jakob Heinrich Lützel  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Jakob Heinrich Lützel in the International Music Score Library Project