Kurt Wichmann

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Kurt Wichmann (born March 31, 1890 in Magdeburg ; † October 9, 1976 ) was a German oratorio singer ( bass ), singing teacher and music journalist.

Life

Kurt Wichmann initially became a businessman because his father could not finance his studies. He studied musicology with Max Schneider at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . From the 1920s he worked as a song and oratorio singer. He performed with the Dresden Kreuzchor under Rudolf Mauersberger in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the Kreuzkirche and in Brahms ' Ein deutsches Requiem in the Auferstehungskirche . In 1929 he was involved in a preview of the 7th German Brahms Festival in Jena under Wilhelm Furtwängler . Together with the pianist Werner Tell , he went on concert tours to the Ukraine in 1942 .

After the Second World War he worked as a singing teacher. At the beginning of 1948 he became a lecturer in singing and voice training and, in the summer semester of 1948, professor and dean of the Faculty of Music at the State University of Theater and Music . He then taught at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . His students included u. a. Günter Benndorf , Ursula Brömme , Kurt Hübenthal and Johannes Künzel .

In 1961 he was with the music pedagogue Fritz Reuter at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation on the presentation of the recitative and its manifestations. A contribution to vocal pedagogy for Dr. paed. PhD . Wichmann worked as a lecturer for singing at the Institute for Music Education at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1966 he was the editor of Pier Francesco Tosi's singing school manual for the art of singing , which was translated into German by Johann Friedrich Agricola in the 18th century . In addition, Wichmann published on singing methodology and early music .

His second son is the composer Thomas Buchholz , born in 1961.

Awards

He was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Science Union and was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1986 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Everyone can sing! A singing lesson for everyone . District cabinet for cultural work, Halle 1964.
  • On the performance of the recitative and its manifestations. A contribution to vocal pedagogy . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1965 (also dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin, 1961)
  • The ornamental song and the execution of the appoggiatura . A contribution to vocal pedagogy . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1966.
  • Johann Friedrich Agricola , Pier Francesco Tosi : Instructions for the art of singing . Facsimile reprint of the Berlin 1757 edition, with introduction and commentary by Kurt Wichmann, Deutscher Verlag für Musik VEB, Leipzig 1966 (revised reprint with afterword and commentary: Breitkopf and Härtel, Wiesbaden et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7651-0295-4 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portraits of artists and intellectual workers . In: Freiheit , November 9, 1946, p. 5.
  2. ^ Wichmann, Kurt in the database Musiconn.performance , performance.slub-dresden.de, access: May 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Published by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 30.
  4. ^ Festschrift of the "Franz Liszt" University of Music, Weimar, on the centenary of its founding as an orchestral school. 1872-1972 . Edited by an editorial collective under the direction of Edgar Hartwig . Liszt University of Music, Weimar 1972, p. 92.
  5. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens †: Large singing dictionary . Volume 1: Aarden - Castles . 4th, expanded and updated edition, Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 347.
  6. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens †: Large singing dictionary . Volume 1: Aarden - Castles . 4th, expanded and updated edition, Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 602.
  7. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens †: Large singing dictionary . Volume 4: Franc - Kaidanoff . 4th, expanded and updated edition, Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 2162.
  8. ^ Eckart Schwinger: The artist portrait: Johannes Künzel, song and oratorio singer . In: Neue Zeit , April 2, 1983, vol. 39, issue 77, p. 6.
  9. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). S. I-VIII, here: S. VIII.
  10. ↑ High awards given . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 25, 1986, vol. 42, issue 98, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Wichmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oratorio singer (bass), singing teacher and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1976