Karl Emanuel Klitzsch

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Memorial plaque with half relief from Klitzsch in Schönheide

Karl Emanuel Klitzsch (born October 30, 1812 in Schönheide , † March 5, 1889 in Zwickau ) was a German organist, composer, city music director in Zwickau and music writer. He worked for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , founded by Robert Schumann in 1834, and organized the Zwickau Schumann Festival in 1847 and 1860. He published his compositions in Leipzig under the pseudonym "Emanuel Kronach".

Life

Klitzsch was born as the son of the teacher and organist Johann Christian Klitzsch in Schönheide in the school diagonally opposite the church, which was called "church school" to distinguish it from the other schools in the village. From 1825 to 1833 he attended high school in Schneeberg and then studied philosophy, Latin and Greek in Leipzig. After learning the flute and violin as a child, he also devoted himself to music studies in Leipzig and published two works on writing and music. From 1840 on he was a teacher for Latin and Greek at the grammar school in Zwickau. In favor of musical studies he gave up the teaching profession in 1853, earned a living as a private teacher for two years and in 1855 became organist at the St. Marien Church in Zwickau. When a memorial plaque was unveiled on the house where he was born, it was revealed that he was "the center of all musical life in Zwickau". In 1865 Klitzsch was given the task of church music director at St. Mary's Church, which he held until April 1, 1886.

Relationship with Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann and Karl Emanuel Klitzsch seem to have been friends. In his letter to Klitzsch of December 19, 1849, Schumann used the salutation “good friend” , and in a letter to his old teacher in Zwickau in 1853 he also called Klitzsch a friend. In a letter to Klitzsch, he asked him to review the 1849 song album for the youth op. 79 in a music magazine, "because I think you understand me best of all" . It goes on to say: "You will best pronounce what I meant (with the composition)" . At the music festival in Zwickau in 1847, which mainly performed works by Schumann, conducted by Klitzsch and the composer, who took over the baton for his own works, while Klitzsch performed the other works. He had composed a dithyram especially for the evening music in honor of Clara and Robert Schumann. As music director of the city of Düsseldorf, Robert Schumann reported in a letter to Klitzsch in the fall of 1851: "I am very satisfied in my position here, and I hardly know that it does not use my physical strength too much (conducting is very exhausting) one I wanted more. "

Numerous prominent musicians took part in the second Zwickau Schumann Festival, which took place on June 7th and 8th, 1860 on the occasion of Schumann's 50th birthday and was organized by Klitzsch and Bernhard von Schönberg , including Franz Liszt , Theodor Kirchner and Ferdinand David . In a private concert that Klitzsch gave in his house on the afternoon of June 7th, Franz Liszt played Schumann's Piano Sonata in F sharp minor op.11.

Compositions

In addition to an extensive activity as a music critic, especially in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Klitzsch composed under the pseudonym Emanuel Kronach. He created numerous chamber music works, but also church music, orchestral and vocal symphonic works.

Honors

Klitzsch's grave in Zwickau's main cemetery still exists as a grave of honor. In 2012, a commemorative event was held there on the occasion of the 200th birthday. In the same year there was a special exhibition in the Robert Schumann House . In 1908 the community of Schönheide brought a copper plaque with the text music director Prof. Dr. Emanuel Klitzsch was born in this house. on Oct. 31, 1812 . This memorial plaque has had a place in the Schönheide brush and local history museum since around 2012 .

additional

The day of Klitzsch's birth is given in the church register as October 30 at around 1 a.m. Klitzsch himself repeatedly mentioned October 31st as his birthday, presumably assuming that he was not born in the first hour of the 30th, but after midnight, i.e. on the 31st. Since October 30th is entered as the day of baptism in the church book, it should actually have seen the light of day on October 30th and was baptized on the same day. According to this, the dates on the two memorial monuments dedicated to him, the obelisk in Zwickau's main cemetery and the memorial plaque in Schönheide are probably incorrect.

literature

  • Robert Schumann, Diaries , Volume 2, ed. by Gerd Nauhaus , Leipzig 1987, p. 623
  • MGG , 1st ed., Volume 14, pp. 1515f.
  • Helmut Loos, The Zwickau Schumann Celebration of 1860 , in: Schumanniana nova. Festschrift Gerd Nauhaus for his 60th birthday , Sinzig 2002, pp. 400–422
  • Ute Scholz, an (un) forgotten Zwickau composer and music organizer. On the 200th birthday of Schumann's friend Karl Emanuel Klitzsch (1812-1889) , in: Vogtländische Heimatblätter 4/2012, p. 25

Web links

Commons : Karl Emanuel Klitzsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski: Robert Schumann - Eine Biographie, 2nd edition, Rudolf Kunze, Dresden 1869, p. 203 ( digitized version ), accessed on November 11, 2019
  2. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), Reprint 1992, p. 224, digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
  3. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), Reprint 1992, p. 322 digitized in the State and University Library Dresden
  4. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), Reprint 1992, p. 323 digitized in the State and University Library Dresden
  5. ↑ Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski: Robert Schumann - Eine Biographie, 2nd edition, Rudolf Kunze, Dresden 1869, p. 10 digitized , accessed on October 6, 2017
  6. ^ Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski: Robert Schumann - Eine Biographie, 2nd edition, Rudolf Kunze, Dresden 1869, p. 375 f. Digitized version , accessed on October 6, 2017
  7. ^ Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski: Robert Schumann - Eine Biographie, 2nd edition, Rudolf Kunze, Dresden 1869, pp. 203 f. Digitized version , accessed on October 6, 2017
  8. ^ Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski: Robert Schumann - Eine Biographie, 2nd edition, Rudolf Kunze, Dresden 1869, p. 231 digitized , accessed on October 6, 2017
  9. ^ Franz Brendel , Die Schumannfeier in Zwickau , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 52, No. 25 of June 15, 1860, pp. 222–224 ( digitized version )
  10. ^ City of Zwickau: An (un) forgotten Zwickau composer and music organizer for the 200th birthday of Karl Emanuel Klitzsch (1812–1889) ( CV on Zwickau.de ), accessed on November 11, 2019
  11. ↑ Report on the website Zwickau.de , accessed on November 11, 2019
  12. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), p. 321 ( digitized version in the Dresden State and University Library )
  13. ↑ a b c d Ute Scholz: An (un) forgotten Zwickau composer and music organizer. On the 200th birthday of Schumann's friend Karl Emanuel Klitzsch (1812-1889) , in: Vogtländische Heimatblätter 4/2012, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Klitzsch, Karl Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kronach, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönheide
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1889
Place of death Zwickau