Johannes Jehle

This article concerns Johannes Jehle organ builder, for the phytomedicine see Johannes A. Jehle

Johannes Jehle (born March 30, 1881 in Markgröningen ; † March 21, 1935 in Ebingen ) was a German organ builder , music dealer , music publisher , composer , poet , choirmaster , church musician and pianist .

Live and act

Johannes Albert Emil Traugott Jehle was born as the fifth child of Friedrich Martin Jehle and his first wife Mathilde Zeller, who died shortly after his birth. After moving to Ebingen in 1885, he spent his school days and attended grammar school in Tübingen from 1895 to 1896. He began his apprenticeship and traveling years with a commercial apprenticeship in a jersey factory in Ebingen, which he completed in 1899. Then followed a year in the office of the organ building company Weigle in Echterdingen and between 1900 and 1902 he switched to organ building at the organ building company Gebrüder Link in Giengen an der Brenz . In 1902/03 he learned French in Switzerland in Neuchâtel and Bôle before he worked as a piano tuner and music dealer in France , initially at Morocy in Lyon , where he also had to study the piano works of the music publisher in order to be able to play them to customers. He then found employment as an organ builder with Ferdinand Leroux in Nantes. In 1904/05, on his return to Germany, he worked as a businessman and instrument technician at the Laukhuff organ factory in Weikersheim .

In 1905 Jehle became a founding partner of the music store and harmonium company Kaim & Sohn in Augsburg , of which he remained a partner and managing director until 1907.

Music house and publisher

In autumn 1907 he rented business premises for the shop and workshop in Ebingen and founded the "Johannes Jehle music store". He tuned and repaired organs in the voting district allocated by the Link organ company, as well as harmoniums, pianos and small instruments, and traded in musical instruments, accessories, sheet music, musical rollers and their playback devices, and later also with records. After the market street fire in January 1911, he acquired the house at Untere Vorstadt 15, where he reopened his business. His music publisher published works by some old masters, but above all by contemporaries such as Karl Friedrich Gerok , Hilda Kocher-Klein, Fritz Lubrich , Hans Joachim Moser , Wilhelm Rudnick and Johannes Schrenk. The works of his father Friedrich Martin Jehle , his son Martin Friedrich Jehle , his brother Richard Jehle and his own compositions, mainly for piano solo (two and four hands) and for female choir, also appeared here. Despite the stroke he suffered in December 1928, he was still able to complete the second edition of the annotated publisher's directory in April 1933, two years before his death.

Musical work

In 1907, Jehle dedicated his march “Furchtlos und treu” for piano solo to Duchess Wera von Württemberg , for which he was awarded a golden “bust pin”. He was in the Landsturm in the First World War and had to guard prisoners of war in the workers' settlement of the Ebingen ammunition production site. There he composed a German melody for “Heil dir im Siegerkranz” instead of the English one, which he published as a field postcard around 1915 in his publishing house. At Ebingen concerts he performed as a pianist as a soloist or as accompanist, organized lieder recitals in the Kapellkirche and directed the “teaching choir”, where he taught singing with the aid of sound devices, similar to Carl Orff later . At the beginning of 1920 he took over the choir of the Ebingen Jungfrauenverein , for which he composed works with his own texts as well as Christian and secular poets. He used well-known melodies as chorals, advocated the use of old chorales in the church modes and advocated unanimous execution. He was in lively exchange with the Dresden cantor Alfred Stier and the Berlin pastor Otto Riethmüller , who pursued similar goals. Likewise with the Beuron Fathers Prior P. Domenikus Johner and monastery organist P. Fidelis Böser, who were active on the Catholic side with the spread of Gregorian chant. In the mid-1920s he also took over the men's choir of the youth club . Jehle held singing weeks throughout Württemberg until 1928, organized an annual parish choral singing week in Esslingen, is considered a pioneer of the singing movement and, as a music historian in the field of liturgy, gave lecture evenings on liturgical and church music topics.

Under his pseudonym Michael Wolf he composed the melody for Friedrich Rückert's “Request to the Peace King Jesus”. Other pseudonyms were Gotthold Ulrich and Hermann Henning. His best-known work, “Gott ist mein Psalm”, appeared in his publishing house from 1921 to 1928 as three- and four-part songs “for virgins' associations, women's and school choirs” in five volumes and in 1928 as an anthology. The four bells of the southern church in Esslingen am Neckar still play the cantus firmus (lower voice) of his song “Oh stay with us, Herr Jesu Christ”, composed in 1926, every evening at 6 p.m.

Private

Jehle married Bertha Schmidt on January 22, 1913. The couple had five children, including their son Martin Friedrich Jehle . He was a brother-in-law of the Waiblingen composer and church musician Johannes Schrenk.

Publications

Compositions

• Fearless and faithful. March for Pianoforte , Musikverlag Jehle, Ebingen and Anton Böhm and Son, Augsburg and Vienna 1907.
• Fearless and faithful. March for 36 instruments , (infantry music ), Anton Böhm and Son, Augsburg and Vienna 1907.
• Geistliches Gesangbüchlein , Musikverlag Jehle, Ebingen, 1st part: 1918, 2nd part: 1921.
• Liturgical celebrations , (multi-part work), published by Musikverlag Jehle, Ebingen
  • No. 1. Thanksgiving Service (Psalm 107) , 1925.
  • No. 2. Death and Eternity , 1925.
  • No. 3. Jerusalem , 1926.
  • No. 4. All that has breath, praise the Lord , 1926.
  • No. 5. Supreme Majesty, Priest and Prophet , 1928.
• God is my psalm , songs anthology, Musikverlag Jehle, Ebingen 1928.

Essays

• Practical choral singing , in: Singer greeting. Monthly of Christl. Singer Association, Stuttgart, 42nd year, 1920 No. 3 (March), p. 18f. + No. 4 (April), p. 26f.
• The Wittenbergisch nightingale. Or: Luther as music master , Musikverlag Jehle, Ebingen 1925.
• Daniel Speer. The creator of the first organ chorale book , in: Schwäbischer Merkur, No. 136, June 14, 1933.

See also

• Jehle Music History Collection

literature

• By the composer Johannes Jehle , in: Schwarzwälder Bote from April 29, 1987.
• Hubert Henkel: Jehle, Johannes , in: Lexikon deutscher Klavierbauer, Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 290.
• Volker Jehle: Jehle, Johannes Albert Emil Traugott , in: BBKL , Vol. XXII. Nordhausen: Bautz 2003, columns 608-625.
• Volker Jehle: In November 1907 an Ebinger era began. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Jehle music store , in: Zollern-Alb-Kurier on November 7, 2007.
• Volker Jehle: Johannes Jehle (1881-1935) , in: Musikhistorische Sammlung Jehle. Inventory. Compiled, corrected, supplemented, with foreword and index provided by Volker Jehle according to Martin Friedrich Jehle's directory. Collaboration: Ursula Eppler , fourth, corrected and supplemented edition 2015, pp. 17–23; including individual editions, autographs, letters, publishing documents by Johannes Jehle.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBKL ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Hundred Years of Musikhaus Jehle Ebingen , eppler-jehle.de, accessed on August 5, 2015.
3. ↑ Heil Dir im Siegerkranz (field postcard)  in the German Digital Library .
4. ↑ Jehle: Vita , schwaebische-orgelromantik.de, accessed on August 5, 2015.
5. ↑ Jehle Music History Collection. Inventory