Johann August Günther Heinroth

Johann August Günther Heinroth (also: Johann August Günther Heinrodt ) (born June 19, 1780 in Nordhausen , † June 2, 1846 in Göttingen ) was a German music director, teacher , composer and writer .

Life

Johann August Günther Heinroth received his musical training from his father. In 1799 he went to study literary history , theology and education at the University of Leipzig and in 1800 he moved to the University of Halle , where he completed his studies as a Dr. phil. completed.

After completing his studies, he took a position as private tutor in Gittelde . In 1804 he became a singing teacher in Seesen at the Jacobson School founded by Israel Jacobson . He participated in Jacobson's reform of Jewish cult and song both in Seesen and in Berlin, where the synagogue was relocated at the end of 1815 to the house of the sugar producer and banker Jacob Herz Beer and Amalie Beer , parents of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer .

As the successor to the late Johann Nikolaus Forkel , he was appointed music director at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1818 , where he read about music theory and aesthetics. In the year of his appointment, he founded the Göttingen Singing Academy , which he headed until his death. In 1820 he was also given a teaching position for singing at the theological faculty . In 1823 he founded the Academic Concerts . He worked for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , the Allgemeine musical newspaper and the Caecilia. A magazine for the musical world .

family

Johann August Günther Heinroth was the son of the organist Christoph Gottlieb Heinroth (1736-1818) and the Magdalena Sophia Johnen († 1822). In 1806 he married Johanne Henriette Philippine Keidel (* 1780) in Göttingen. Her son Johann Heinrich Jacob (1807–1850), pastor in Limmer, was the father of the Chamber Court President Wilhelm Heinroth . Her son August (1822–1906), Dr. phil., was the father of the ornithologist Oskar Heinroth .

Awards

• Corresponding member of the German National Association for Music and its Science; Document signed by Louis Spohr and Gustav Schilling

plant

• De carminis heroici dignitate philosophica et morali. 1795 (together with Christian August Heinrich Clodius)
• Brief outline of the Jacobsohns school in Seesen. 1805.
• Nine German songs. 1813.
• I look in vain for words in D minor, 1820.
• Hymn book containing 166 chorale melodies. 1825.
• 169 chorale melodies: after Böttner; Accompanied with harmonies in which the middle voices are very lightly placed in order to promote the polyphonic chant, together with an appendix containing the antiphons for preachers and congregations that are used in ordinary church services. Goettingen 1829.
• Six four-part chants for male voices. 1830.
• Poems, Fables and Stories for Declamation , Issue 2. 1840.
• Poems, Fables and Stories for Declamation , Issue 3. 1842.
• Battle song at Jena for the Piano Forte in the form of a ballad (Mars called in a thunderous tone).
• 8 easy four-handed pieces for teachers and students.
• Collaborator at the Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences: or Universal Lexicon of Music. (Editor: Gustav Schilling). Volume 5, 1837, Volume 1838, Supplementary Volume 1841, Supplementary Volume 1842.

literature

• Ulrich Konrad : Johann August Günther Heinroth. A contribution to Göttingen music care and musicology in the 19th century. In: Martin Staehelin (Ed.): Music care and musicology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, contributions to their history. Göttingen 1987 (= Göttinger Universitätsschriften, Series A: Schriften, Vol. 3), pp. 43–77.
• Ulrich Konrad: Sources on the music history of Göttingen in the 19th century. The letters of Johann August Günther Heinroth to Johann Friedrich Naue, Robert Schumann and Louis Spohr. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1987. pp. 215–242.
• Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Digital edition ( digitized version )

Web links

• Heinroth, Johann August Günther at www.deutsche-biographie.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover 1846. P. 386.