Karl August Groos

Karl August Groos (born February 16, 1789 in Saßmannshausen ; † November 20, 1861 in Koblenz ) was a German Protestant clergyman, editor of song collections and composer.

Life

Karl August Groos studied Protestant theology in Marburg and Heidelberg. From 1821 he was pastor in Bendorf . In 1826 he exchanged brief letters with Friedrich Schleiermacher about a pamphlet by Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück . From 1827 to 1838 he was the military pastor in Koblenz. In 1838 he took over a pastor's position there and was appointed to the consistory of the Rhine Province as a consistorial councilor .

In 1817/18 he stayed in Berlin and, together with Bernhard Klein , published the “emotionally charged” songbook German songs for young and old , published by Georg Andreas Reimer . Several song melodies in the collection come from the two editors Groos and Klein, although not assigned by name. Today Karl August Groos is mainly known as the composer of the melody of the freedom song Freedom, reminiscent of the Wars of Liberation , which I mean based on a text by Max von Schenkendorf . The spiritual rewording, Freedom, which I mean, is not a shadow image (1847) by Christian Heinrich Zeller is sung to the same melody. Other songs such as the Pomeranian song “Wenn in silenter Stunden” (1850) by Gustav Adolf Pompe or Abend will be performed again by Hoffmann von Fallersleben or were also sung to the same melody.

Works

Freedom i mean
Oh God, how painful it is to part
From all countries in the world
Up, you gymnasts, up, looking up
I am the shepherd boy of the mountain

literature

Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Karl Hermann Prahl: Our folk songs. 4th edition. Engelmann, Leipzig 1900, p. 294 ( digitized version ).
Carl von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present. Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 209 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Hermann Mendel: Musical Conversations Lexicon. An encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences. 4th volume. Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1874, p. 391 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Kleine Schriften 1786-1833, Volume 1 (= Critical Complete Edition Part 14). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3110176580 , S. CVI ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Entry on Karl August Groos in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Works by Karl August Groos in the database deutscheslied.com
Sheet music and audio files by Groos, Karl in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

↑ Monthly Bulletin for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland, Volume 59 (2010), p. 101 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

↑ Markus Dröge (Hrsg.): Pragmatic, Prussian, Protestant -: the Evangelical Community of Koblenz in the field of tension between Rhenish Catholicism and Prussian church politics (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, Association for Rhenish Church History, Volume 161). Habelt, 2003, ISBN 377493200X , pp. 48, 219, 265 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

↑ Claudia Schnurmann: Bridges made of paper. Atlantic knowledge transfer in the letter network of the German-American couple Francis and Mathilde Lieber, 1827–1872. LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 9783643126788 , p. 60 ( limited preview in Google book search).

↑ German songs for young and old. Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin 1818 ( digitized version ).

↑ Lisa Feurweise (Ed.): German songs for young and old (= Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music Volume 7). AR Editions, Middleton 2002, ISBN 0-89579-517-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

^ Wiegand Stief, Otto Holzapfel : "German songs for young and old". Supplements to the volume from 1818 around 1825/35. In: Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 43rd year (1998), pp. 50-62 ( JSTOR 848079 ).

↑ Michael Fischer: Freedom that I mean (2008). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
↑ Ludwig Erk , Wilhelm Greef (Ed.): Liederkranz. Second issue. 2nd improved edition. Bädeker, Essen 1844, p. 59 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Groos, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Groos, Carl August; Groos, Karl; Groos, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German evangelical clergyman, editor of song collections and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saßmannshausen
DATE OF DEATH	November 20, 1861
Place of death	Koblenz

[1] Monthly Bulletin for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland, Volume 59 (2010), p. 101 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Markus Dröge (Hrsg.): Pragmatic, Prussian, Protestant -: the Evangelical Community of Koblenz in the field of tension between Rhenish Catholicism and Prussian church politics (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, Association for Rhenish Church History, Volume 161). Habelt, 2003, ISBN 377493200X , pp. 48, 219, 265 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[3] Claudia Schnurmann: Bridges made of paper. Atlantic knowledge transfer in the letter network of the German-American couple Francis and Mathilde Lieber, 1827–1872. LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 9783643126788 , p. 60 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[4] German songs for young and old. Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin 1818 ( digitized version ).

[5] Lisa Feurweise (Ed.): German songs for young and old (= Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music Volume 7). AR Editions, Middleton 2002, ISBN 0-89579-517-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[6] Wiegand Stief, Otto Holzapfel : "German songs for young and old". Supplements to the volume from 1818 around 1825/35. In: Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 43rd year (1998), pp. 50-62 ( JSTOR 848079 ).