Joachim Altemark

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Joachim Altemark , (also incorrectly: Altenmark) (born December 28, 1906 as Alfons Emil Joachim Altemark in Berlin ; † June 5, 1963 in Braunschweig ) was a German musicologist , teacher and organist .

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Altemark graduated from high school in Berlin in 1927, then studied there until 1934, where he passed the state examination in 1929 . From 1934 to 1941 Altemark worked as a freelance musician (including organist) in Berlin. In the official telephone books of those years he is listed in 1935 and 1936 as head of the Greater Berlin Work Group for Protestant Church Music and in 1938 as head of the music school for youth and people .

He was considered a composer closely related to the Hitler Youth and wrote numerous contributions to publications for the Hitler Youth. Altemark was also an employee of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft .

On 27 August 1936 he played in the Department of German Music Research in Berlin for the Germany transmitter of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft on historical pianos of the Berlin collection of instruments a little on shellac records preserved program, including two Mozart pieces on a well-preserved square piano Ulm instrument maker Johann Matthäus Schmahl from the year 1770 (listening quotes: see web links)

From 1941 until the end of the war, he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War, Joachim Altemark lived in Goslar , where he was city youth worker from 1946 to 1949. He took care of the reconstruction of the concert industry. In 1948 he gave the first organ concerts in Goslar's St. Stephen's Church . He founded the Collegium musicum in Goslar and became 2nd conductor of the choir association founded in 1946.

From 1949 Joachim Altemark was a music teacher at the Gaußschule grammar school in Braunschweig . In Braunschweig he was also director of the municipal boys' choir .

Joachim Altemark died in Braunschweig in June 1963 at the age of 56.

Works (selection)

  • Works by Joachim Altemark in the WorldCat bibliographic database
  • The Protestant choral music in practical editions: reference work for practical choral work in d. Church . Trowitzsch, 1937.
  • The organ working group of the Hitler Youth in Leipzig . In: MiluV.2 1939, p. 241 ff.
  • Old music in an old city. Thoughts on the Buxtehude Festival in Lübeck . In: Music in youth and people . Official music magazine of the Reich Youth Leadership , the Werkscharen and the Nazi community "Strength through Joy" in the German Labor Front. Edited by the Reich Youth Leadership and the National Socialist Community "Strength through Joy". Wolfenbüttel, Kallmeyer. Vol. I / 1937/38, pp. 21-26.
  • Thoughts while playing the organ . In: Gotthold Frotscher (ed.): The organ in the present . Kallmeyer, Wolfenbüttel 1939, pp. 23-26.
  • The g'larten host didn't think so! A bundle of ready-made music evenings for d. Work on d. Music schools, in d. Formations where d. Nazi community "strength through joy" u. for otherwise in d. Music work for those active to use, but above all for eager imitation. Berlin-Lichterfelde, Vieweg, 1940, 109 p., Ill.
  • The festive day: song games . Herzog, Goslar 1949.
  • Organ works that play by themselves . In: Instrument building magazine. Vol. 9 (1955), pp. 260-262 and 325-327.
  • The noise with which the musician disturbs us. Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1962.
as editor
  • Joachim Altemark (Ed.): Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: 3 Duets for 2 Violas - C major - G major - G minor. Musical notes. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1966, (EB 5657).

literature

  • Anonymous: Altenmark, Joachim, JS Bach, trio sonatas (Möseler) . In: Zeitschrift für Musik , vol. 115 (1954), p. 233.
  • NN: 50 years of Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig on the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c N. N .: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. P. 94.
  2. ↑ Official telephone books for Berlin and the surrounding area , 1935 to 1941, accessed on ancestry.com on January 9, 2016.
  3. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Music in the Nazi State . S. Fischer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-560851-7 (( limited preview in Google book search)).
  4. ↑ Michael Gerhard Kaufmann : Organ and National Socialism: the ideological appropriation of the instrument in the “Third Reich” . Vol. 5 of the series of publications of the Walcker Foundation for Organ Research, Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1997, ISBN 978-3-92067-036-2 , pp. 118 and 359.
  5. ↑ German Broadcasting Archive : Document of the Month January 2006 - The Young Mozart , German Broadcasting Archive, dra.de, accessed on January 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Hannelore Giesecke: Now everything has to turn: Goslarer Allerlei 1948-1970. Compiled from collected newspaper reports . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-73220-850-0 , p. 282.
personal data
SURNAME Altemark, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altemark, Alfons Emil Joachim (full name); Altenmark, Alfons (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, teacher and organist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1963
Place of death Braunschweig