Lebrecht Grabau
Johann Christian Lebrecht Grabau (born April 4, 1780 in Kothen (Motten) , † October 1, 1852 in Bremen ) was a German teacher and organist .
biography
In 1800 Grabau took a job as a teacher and organist in the Blue Orphanage in Bremen.
In 1811 he founded the Grabau'schen Singverein , which became an important institution in Bremen's musical culture, alongside the Bremen Sing-Akademie and the Union Concerts . An organ in connection with a Terpodion was purchased at the expense of the Singverein , instruments from which Grabau conducted the choir.
Grabau worked in the Church of St. Remberti and at times with the Bremen music director Karl Friedrich Ochernal.
family
Lebrecht Grabau married Margarethe Anna Adelheid, née Arensberg. The marriage resulted in the following children, all of whom became well-known artists or musicians:
- Eleonore Henriette Magdalena Grabau (born March 29, 1805 in Bremen, † November 18, 1852 in Leipzig ), mezzo-soprano
- Georg Christian Grabau (1806–1854), organist in Verden
- Adelheid Grabau (1807–1854), concert singer in Bremen and Leipzig
- Andreas Grabau (1809–1885), also Johann Andreas Grabau , cellist in Leipzig
- Christian Grabau (1810–1874), painter and etcher
- Maria Grabau (1812–?), Concert singer
The later civil engineer, inventor and aluminum entrepreneur Ludwig Grabau was born on May 6, 1848 in Bremen as the son of the painter Christian Grabau († 1915).
Literature (selection)
- Klaus Blum: Music lovers and Musici. Musical life in Bremen since the Enlightenment. Published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the collaboration between the Philharmonic Society and the Philharmonic State Orchestra. Schneider, Tutzing 1975, ISBN 3-7952-0177-2 ( table of contents ).
- Regina Contzen, Edith Laudowicz , Romina Schmitter (Hrsg.): Women stories - biographies and women places from Bremen and Bremerhaven. Catalog accompanying the exhibition of Bremen Women's Stories in the Focke Museum, State Museum for Art and Cultural History from May 1 to August 21, 2016. Published by the Bremer Frauenmuseum e. V., Edition Falkenberg, Rotenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 ( flyer for the exhibition).
Web links
- Portrait of Lebrecht Grabau by the lithographer August Barlach published by F. Müller, Bremen after 1852; in the digital portrait index of Foto Marburg
Remarks
- ↑ a b Edith Laudowicz wrote about the Grabau couple: "[...] The couple had five children." In the names given below, the son and painter of the same name Johann Christian Lebrecht Grabau does not appear. However, this is explicitly mentioned both at the German National Library (see the information under the GND number) and in the portrait index (see in the Web Links section ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library (DNB)
- ↑ a b c d e Edith Laudowicz: Grabau, Eleonore Henriette Magdalena. ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the bremer-frauenmuseum.de page , last accessed on May 10, 2016.
- ↑ Compare, for example, Gottfried Christoph Härtel : Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 25 (1823), p. 109 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
- ^ Friedrich Wellmann: Ochernal, Karl Friedrich. In: Bremische Biographie des Nineteenth Century , p. 358 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Vol. 60, VDI-Verlag, 1916, p. 135 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grabau, Lebrecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grabau, Johann Christian Lebrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, organist and choir director, founder of a family of artists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kothen (moths) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1852 |
| Place of death | Bremen |