Karl Thiessen
Karl Thiessen (born May 5, 1867 in Kiel ; † 1945 ) was a German composer , pianist and music writer .
Life
Karl Thiessen was born as the only son of a leather merchant in Kiel, but grew up in Meldorf , where he first attended elementary school and then high school. Thiessen received flute, piano and violin lessons as a teenager. In 1888 he enrolled at the Grand Ducal Music and Orchestra School in Weimar (today's Liszt School of Music Weimar ) and was instructed in piano and counterpoint by its founder and director, Carl Müllerhartung . Three years later, Thiessen went to the Royal University of Music in Würzburg, where he studied score playing and conducting with Karl Kliebert (1849–1907), music theory with Max Meyer-Olbersleben and piano with van Zeyl. After completing his studies, he was first choirmaster in Emden and Aurich , moved to Zittau in 1897 and became master of the Liedertafel, music teacher and music writer there.
Works
- op. 1: Five songs for voice and piano
- No. 1: When hiking ( Max Haushofer )
- No. 2: Now the moon is rising ( Theodor Storm )
- No. 3: How the young flowers quietly dream ( Hoffmann von Fallersleben )
- No. 4: Nightingale (Theodor Storm)
- No. 5: There is no breeze in the branches ( Julius Sturm )
- op. 2: Three character pieces humbug for piano
- op. 3: Scenes from children for piano
- op. 4: Two girls' songs for medium voice and piano
- op. 5: Six waltzes for piano four hands
- op. 8: forest loneliness. Song for mixed choir
- op. 9: dream images. Suite in 3 movements for string orchestra
- op. 11: King Fialar. Symphonic poem for large orchestra
- op. 13: Impromptus for piano
- op. 15: Three male choirs
- op. 16: Tarantelle for violin and piano
- op. 17: Morning for male choir (J. Resa)
- op. 18: Romance for string orchestra and 4 horns
- op. 19: Lure for female choir with piano
- op. 20: Sketches. Four piano pieces
- op. 21: Three male choirs in folk tone
- No. 1: In a Stranger (B. Roquette)
- No. 2: That is probably an old teaching ' ( Karl Stieler )
- No. 3: impatience (Rodenberg)
- op. 22: Moods. Three pieces for violoncello and piano
- op. 23: New Spring for 6-part mixed choir
- op. 24: German folk song for male choir
- op. 25: Reigen and Barcarole for piano
- op. 27: Wegwart for mixed choir and female soloists
- op. 28: Seven Mazurkas for piano
- op. 30: Three character pieces for piano
- op. 31: Two fantasy pieces for 2 pianos
- op. 32: Ten dance pictures for piano four hands
- op. 33: Five Low German folk songs for women's tales
- op. 34: Three Low German folk songs for women's tenterzett ( Klaus Groth )
- op. 35: Berceuse, Minuet and Mazurka for violin and piano
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Art. Karl Thiessen , in: Hermann Fey : Schleswig-Holsteinische Musicians. Ein Heimatbuch , Hamburg (Carl Holler) 1921, pp. 113–117.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiessen, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, pianist and music writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |