Johann Rudolf Weber

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Johann Rudolf Weber (born September 23, 1819 in Wetzikon , † September 22, 1875 in Beatenberg ) was a Swiss music teacher and composer . He is regarded as the “singer fathers” of the Canton of Bern .

biography

Johann Rudolf Weber received musical support from the Wetzik village pastor Hans Konrad Nägeli . In 1832, through the priest's mediation, he became a student of his brother in Zurich , the famous composer Hans Georg Nägeli , and thus came into contact with the Wetziker School , whose ideas he would spread in the future. In 1835 he entered the Zurich teacher training college under Ignaz Thomas Scherr . After completing his training, he met his future wife Anna Maria Hottinger during his first job in Hirslanden , and with her he had two sons: Gustav and Oskar .

Thanks to a state scholarship , Weber was able to continue his education in Germany, including with Friedrich Silcher in Tübingen and with Johann Georg Frech at the Esslingen School Teachers Seminar . The Zurich coup in 1839 prevented a return to Zurich, so Weber settled in the canton of Bern. In Wangen an der Aare , he met the seminar director Karl Rikli , who in 1842 enabled him to work at the Bern teachers' seminar in the Johanniterkommende Münchenbuchsee . He also gave singing lessons at the teachers' seminar in Hindelbank . In 1848 he became president of the Bernese Cantonal Choir and published a school hymn book including singing teaching.

With the political upheaval caused by the newly elected conservative government in 1850, Weber was dismissed in Münchenbuchsee. He moved to Bern and founded a music school, which in 1858 led to the foundation of the Bern Conservatory Music School . In 1860 he returned to the teachers' college in Münchenbuchsee, but stayed in Bern. In the same year he became President of the Music Commission of the Federal Singers 'Association and in 1861 the first editor of the Swiss Singers' Journal , which he had initiated as President of the Canton Albanian Association. Until 1872 he acted as jury president at five federal singing festivals and wrote the singing teaching materials for the Bernese elementary school, which were later adopted in other cantons (Zurich, St. Gallen, Appenzell, Aargau, Solothurn, Thurgau and Schaffhausen).

In 1875, health problems forced Weber to resign from all offices. After a short stay at Brestenberg Castle , he died shortly before his 56th birthday while taking a cure on the Beatenberg. His song composition Es Lives in Every Swiss Breast is a well-known choral song to this day. The Weber Street in Bern is named Weber since 1916 by Johann Rudolf.

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  1. ↑ Historical-Topographical Lexicon of the City of Bern
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Johann Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzikon
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1875
Place of death Beatenberg