Julius Arbor

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Julius Arbor

Heinrich Wilhelm Julius Laube (born May 19, 1841 in Schlotheim , Thuringia, † November 22, 1910 in Hamburg ) was a German conductor and orchestra leader.

Life

Laube initially received violin and piano lessons at the age of eight and later joined the military band of the 31st Infantry Regiment in Erfurt as an oboist . After stints as city music director in Mühlhausen and court music director in Sondershausen , he took over the management of the Erfurt regimental band in 1868, which was moved together with the regiment to Altona / Elbe after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 . Here and in neighboring Hamburg, Laube successfully established so-called “popular concerts” in the following years, which were aimed primarily at a broad and less well-off audience. These concerts mostly took place during the week in various concert halls on the Reeperbahn , cost only 50 pfennigs admission and brought mainly popular light music, which the audience "followed with beer, sandwiches, cigars and cozy entertainment".

In 1877 Laube retired from the military and founded his own band, with which he continued the popular concerts. At the same time he tried to introduce his audience to "more serious" music, among other things through premieres of contemporary composers such as Brahms , Grieg , Liszt , Saint-Saëns and others. a. As a great fan of Richard Wagner , Laube gave several benefit concerts for the construction of the Bayreuth Festival Hall (reference?).

In April 1882 the "Laube'sche Orchester" was engaged by Angelo Neumann to - under the direction of Anton Seidl  - briefly rehearse the entire Wagner 's Ring des Nibelungen in Hamburg , and then (in May 1882) to perform it in London. Later the musicians formed the orchestra of the traveling Richard Wagner theater .

Julius Laube also worked together for years with Peter Tchaikovsky , who visited him in Hamburg and, in return, invited his orchestra to Saint Petersburg and Pavlovsk . In the summer months, Laubes Orchester made several tours at home and abroad. (Reference?)

In the long run, decent success with the audience could not be ignored by the rather conservative Hamburg music business. In the 1890s, for example, there was a closer collaboration with the financially troubled Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra , for which Laube also conducted “folk concerts” and helped out with musicians from his own orchestra. Even Gustav Mahler attacked as Kapellmeister at Hamburg's theater often on foliage musicians back and led in 1893 the revised version of his Symphony No. 1 with the arbor's Chapel on. (Reference)

In 1908 Julius Laube retired, and two years later he died of a stroke. The tradition of the “popular concerts” he founded is still alive today. a. maintained by the Laeiszhalle opened in 1908 . (Reference?)

literature

  • Claus Gossler: The performance of “popular concerts in the Philharmonic style”. The Hamburg music director Julius Laube (1841–1910) . In: Tiedenkieker. Hamburgische Geschichtsblätter NF No. 6, 2015, pp. 1–14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Angelo Neumann: Memories of Richard Wagner . Verlag Ludwig Staakmann, Leipzig, 1907, pp. 222-233, archive.org
  2. Angelo Neumann: Memories of Richard Wagner . Verlag Ludwig Staakmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 249, archive.org