Josef Pembaur the Elder

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Josef Pembaur around 1890

Josef Pembaur the Elder (born May 23, 1848 in Innsbruck ; † February 19, 1923 there ) was an Austrian conductor , composer and music teacher .

Life

Portrait of Pembaur by Gustav Klimt , 1890

The son of a civil servants and council studied Jus at the University of Innsbruck , but then turned to music and studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Anton Bruckner composition and organ, and at the Munich Conservatory with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger music theory and organ, and also in case Giuseppe Buonamici , Franz Wüllner and Julius Hey . In Munich he made friends with Peter Cornelius .

In 1874 he succeeded Matthäus Nagiller as director of the Innsbruck Musikverein and ensured a boom in Innsbruck's musical life. Pembaur directed an orchestral association he founded and the academic services in the Jesuit Church , the Academic Choral Society, the Innsbrucker Liedertafel and the Tyrolean Choir Association, which he brought back to life in 1881. He founded a mixed choir for annual performances of oratorios .

At the Musikverein's school he taught solo singing, piano, music theory and, at times, the organ. His students included Ludwig Thuille , Vinzenz Goller , Anton Schmutzer , Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn , Josef Prantl , Martin Spörr  and Josef Eduard Ploner . He pushed through better pay for teachers, which enabled him to attract better teachers and raise the school's reputation. In 1912 he managed to get the Musikverein, which had previously used various inadequate rooms, its own building, today's Tyrolean State Conservatory .

As a composer, Pembaur created a symphony , an opera , oratorios, one German and eight Latin masses , a requiem , marches, piano music, chamber music, 56 male choirs, seven mixed choirs and around 70 songs. His male choirs have been performed not only in Europe but also in America. While he showed interest in modern music as a conductor, as a composer he remained a post-romanticist influenced by Robert Schumann . He also published a number of treatises and essays, especially in the annual reports of the school of the Innsbruck Music Association.

Private

His sons Josef and Karl also became musicians, his son Walter became a politician.

Honors

  • Order of the Iron Crown
  • Title Academic Music Director of the University of Innsbruck, 1883
  • Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , 1900
  • Honorary Choirmaster of the Tyrolean Singing Association
  • Naming of Pembaurstrasse in Innsbruck's Pradl district

Works (selection)

  • Spring overture , around 1880
  • In Tyrol. Symphony, op. 39, 1884
  • The Battle of Berg Isel 1809 , oratorio, before 1888 (text by Bartholomäus Del Pero )
  • Pictures from the life of Walther von der Vogelweide , oratorio, before 1888
  • Deutsche Messe , op.62, before 1897
  • Gypsy love , opera, 1898
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra , op.86, around 1910

literature

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ From town and country. Josef Pembaur †. In:  Tiroler Anzeiger , February 20, 1923, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / tan.
personal data
SURNAME Pembaur, Josef the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1923
Place of death innsbruck