Julius Otto Grimm

Portrait photography around 1900

Grimm sculpture on the promenade (at the level of the Kreuzschanze bus stop ) in Münster.

Julius Otto Grimm (* February 22 ^{. Jul} / 6. March  1827 ^greg. In Pärnu in the Governorate of Livonia ; † 7. December 1903 in Münster ) was a German composer and conductor , who long in Westphalia had Munster.

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After studying philology and philosophy at the University of Dorpat , from which he graduated in 1848, he began his professional career as a tutor in Saint Petersburg . At the same time he composed his first works. Another study followed in Dresden in 1851/52. In 1853 he met the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms in Leipzig ; thus began a lifelong friendship. In 1855 he took a position as a music teacher and choir conductor in Göttingen , and in 1860 the position of conductor of the Musikverein Münster. From 1878 Grimm worked as a lecturer for music theory and singing in Münster and also headed several music associations. During his 40 years in Münster, he received numerous honors and appointments.

Works

Orchestral music

• Orchestral suite No. 1 in canon form op.10
• Orchestral suite No. 2 in canon form op.16
• Two marches op.17
• Symphony in D minor op.19
• Orchestral Suite No. 3 op.25

Chamber music

• Sonata for violin and piano in A major op.14

Piano music

• Five piano pieces, Op. 2
• Three elegies op.6
• Two Scherzi for piano 4 hands
• Four piano pieces "in a free canonical manner"

Choral music

• “An die Musik” for solos, choir and orchestra op. 12
• “Kaiserhymne” for male choir and orchestra op. 21
• "Evening party"
• "Spring Song"

Songs

• Six songs op.1
• Six songs op.3
• Six songs op.11
• Six songs op.15
• "German Folk Songs"

literature

• Reinhold Sietz:  Grimm, Julius Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 86 ( digitized version ).
• Monika Werra: Contemporary Music in Münster - The Brahms Reception 1862 to 1876 in Münster's musical life ; in: Franz-Josef Jakobi, Urban Society in Transition. Studies on the social history of Münster in the 19th and 20th centuries , Münster 1995, pp. 357–394
• Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1889, p. 338 ( digitized version )
• Helmut Scheunchen: Lexicon of German Baltic Music . Wedemark-Elze 2002. pp. 89ff.
• Richard Barth (ed.): Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Julius Otto Grimm . Berlin 1912.

Web links

Commons : Julius Otto Grimm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julius Otto Grimm in the archive of the city of Münster
• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Julius Otto Grimm. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Grimm, Julius Otto . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Article on Grimm in the Münster Wiki
• Advertisement with audio samples and excerpts from the score of Grimm's Symphony in D minor
• Julius Otto Grimm collection in the University and State Library of Münster