Julius Stockhausen (musician)

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Julius Stockhausen (1859)
Julius Stockhausen

Julius Christian Stockhausen (born July 22, 1826 in Paris , † September 22, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German singer ( baritone ), singing teacher and conductor .

Life

Stockhausen was born as the son of the harpist and composer Franz Stockhausen (1792–1868) and the Alsatian soprano Margarethe Stockhausen . Jewelry born. As a child he learned to play several instruments. He received his vocal training from Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García at the Paris Conservatory .

Stockhausen sang Mendelssohn's Elias in Basel in 1848 and became a member of the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1857 . At the end of 1861 he founded an orchestra and a choir in Gebweiler , his father's hometown, which he took over. In 1862 the violinist Friedrich Hegar took over the position of deputy conductor there.

From 1862 to 1867 Stockhausen was the conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic Concerts and the Singakademie there . In October 1869, King Karl von Württemberg appointed him Königlich-Württembergischer Kammersänger, which was associated with a fixed salary, so that he moved with his family to Cannstatt near Stuttgart , where he lived until spring 1874.

From 1874 to 1878 Stockhausen was the conductor of the Stern 's choral society in Berlin. From 1878 to 1880 and from 1883 to 1884 he was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. Among his students were Karl Scheidemantel , Jenny Hahn , Therese Behr-Schnabel , Johannes Messchaert (also: Johan), Hermine Spies , Hugo Goldschmidt and Max Friedlaender .

Close friends with Johannes Brahms , he was one of the first to campaign for his songs. Brahms again dedicated his romances based on Ludwig Tieck's Magelone-Lieder, Op. 33, of which Stockhausen - with Brahms on the piano - was the first song to be premiered, Op. 33 No. 1, in Hamburg. The other songs in the cycle were also performed shortly afterwards.

family

Grave Julius Stockhausen, Ohlsdorf Cemetery ,
(left: "spiritual", right: "secular song")

Stockhausen married Clara Toberentz on June 10, 1864 in Hamburg (born February 9, 1842 in Berlin; † December 31, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main). His daughter Julia Wirth b. Stockhausen (1886–1964) married the son of the German violinist Emanuel Wirth , Joseph Wirth, doctor and administrative director of a municipal hospital. She wrote a biography about Stockhausen. One son (* 1877) was given the first name Johannes after Johannes Brahms , with whom Stockhausen was friends.

Julius Stockhausen was buried on the grave of his family in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , grid square AD 20 (south of Chapel 7).

Student (selection)

Works

  • Julius Stockhausen's singing method . Leipzig: CF Peters 1884.
  • Stockhausen, Julius: A Method of Singing . Translation: Sophie Lion. London: Novello, Ewer and Co. 1884.
  • Julius Stockhausen's singing technique and voice training (with Max Friedlaender). Frankfurt am Main: CF Peters 1886/1887.

literature

  • Julia Wirth, Julius Stockhausen, the singer of the German song. Depicted according to documents of his time , Frankfurt am Main: Englert and Schlosser 1927
  • Foundation Dr. Hoch's Conservatory. Joseph Hoch on the 100th anniversary of his death , Frankfurt am Main: Kramer 1974, ISBN 3-7829-0152-5
  • Peter Zahn, The Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main (1878-1978) , Frankfurt am Main: Kramer 1979, ISBN 3-7829-0214-9
  • Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Julius Stockhausen , ed. by Renate Hofmann, Tutzing: Schneider 1993, ISBN 3-7952-0750-9 ( digitized version )

Web links

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

Documents

Letters from Julius Stockhausen are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wirth (1927), pp. 216f.
  2. ↑ Wirth (1927), pp. 334-336.
  3. ^ Renate and Kurt Hofmann, Johannes Brahms as pianist and conductor. Chronology of his work as an interpreter , Tutzing 2006, p. 71f.
  4. ↑ Beatrix Borchard: Obituary for a 'Brahms granddaughter' Renate Wirth (October 8, 1920 - February 24, 2011) ; in: dies., Kerstin Schüssler-Bach: Brahms Studies , Vol. 16; Tutzing: Schneider, 2011; Pp. 187-188.
  5. ↑ Gerd Stolz: Heinrich Adolph Meyer and his "Haus Forsteck" in Kiel . Husum 2004, ISBN 3-89876-175-4 , p. 55
  6. ^ Obituary in: Aar-Bote Bad Schwalbach , December 5, 1930, see: Alfred M. Knauer: Mathilde Knauer-Haas, Großh. Hess. Chamber singer, † December 3, 1930 , Mainz, Zaberndruck, 1931.
personal data
SURNAME Stockhausen, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockhausen, Julius Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (baritone), singing teacher and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1906
Place of death Frankfurt am Main