Lothar Kempter

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Lothar Kempter

Lothar Kempter (born February 5, 1844 in Lauingen (Danube) , † July 14, 1918 in Vitznau ) was a German- Swiss composer and conductor .

Life

At the request of his father, the church musician and seminar music teacher Friedrich Kempter from Lauingen, he began studying law at the University of Munich . In 1868 - after his father died - he turned to music. At the Royal Music School in Munich , he studied with the Hans von Bülow Ensemble , Josef Rheinberger composition , Franz Wüllner choral singing and Karl Baermann piano . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the special houses association .

In 1871 he moved to Magdeburg and became the second conductor of the orchestra at the city theater. In the same year he married the singer Caroline Leonoff . He then gained three more years of orchestral experience at the Strasbourg theater . In 1875 he was hired as Kapellmeister by the Aktientheater in Zurich . In 1879 he became director of the Tonhalle concerts. In 1886 he took over the position of teacher of theory and composition at the Zurich Music School for almost thirty years . In 1892 he received Zurich citizenship. In 1911 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. From 1875 to 1915 he conducted the opera orchestra and thus made a major contribution to the development of musical life, in particular to the spread and establishment of Richard Wagner's musical dramas in the largest city in Switzerland .

His oeuvre includes stage works, festivals, songs, male choirs, cantatas and some instrumental works.

He found his final resting place in the Rehalp cemetery in Zurich .

Works

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1905 Fanfares for the "Sempacherlied"
  • 1906 festival overture
  • 1906 Prelude for wind orchestra - Prelude pour orchester d'Harmonie
  • 1906 minuet
  • 1906 folk song
  • 1909 Festival Anthem - Hymne de fête
  • 1909 Before the battle
  • 1909 Renaissance gavotte
  • 1909 evening mood
  • German greeting festival march to the VI. General German Journalists 'and Writers' Day in Zurich

Stage works and festival music

  • 1870 The Flagellantin Opera
  • 1876 The Murtenschlacht Festival cantata for the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Murten - Text: Jakob Arnold von Salis
  • 1889 Fanfares for 3 trumpets for the Wagner cycle in Zurich in April 1889
  • 1891 Festival 1891
  • 1893 Sleeping Beauty lyrical play by Ricarda Huch , for soli, choir and piano or orchestra
  • 1895 Rellechor for female voices - from the festival for the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival in Winterthur - Text: Leonhard Steiner
  • 1896 The Festival of Youth a dramatic idyll by Hermann Stegemann
  • 1900 Festival occasionally for the 50th anniversary of the Zurich student choir, text: A. Zimmermann
  • 1900 The Sansculottes Opera in 3 acts, text: Hans Hochfeldt
  • 1902 Wilhelm Tell incidental music for Friedrich von Schiller's drama
  • 1903 Festival for the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival in Zurich
  • 1905 The Battle of Sempach 1386 Representation in living pictures Text: compiled by A. Müllhaupt
  • 1905 After a thousand and one hundred years, a round dance for the Swiss Song Festival in Zurich
  • 1907 Swiss national anthem for the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival in Zurich. 1907 Cantata for male choir, solos and orchestra. Text by Josef Victor Widmann
    1. Merciful Brothers (song of the monks): "Death comes quickly to men" for choir
    2. Music at the end of the Rütli scene for orchestra
    3. Wedding music (Hohle Gasse) for wind instruments
  • The miracle legend game by Richard Voss
  • Agnes Bernauer music to Friedrich Hebbel or Arnold Otts drama
  • Music to Goethe 's "Faust"
    1. Instrumental piece "Very slowly"
    2. Faust, church scene, ghost choir
    3. Christ is risen; Dies irae
  • Hannele Music for Gerhart Hauptmann's drama
  • Music for the comedy "Die Journalisten"
    1. March and polonaise
    2. We celebrate with singing and speaking today
  • Julius Caesar incidental music for the 5th act of the drama by William Shakespeare for wind instruments and percussion
  • The Maiden of Orléans incidental music to Friedrich von Schiller's drama
    1. Coronation March (4th act, performance 6); together with: Closing music (5th act, 14th scene) for orchestra
    2. Entreact for orchestra
    3. Te Deum for mixed choir and harmonium
  • Karl the Bold Incidental music for "Karl the Bold and the Confederates" by Arnold Ott
    1. Victory song: "Die Not zu End" for choir
    2. Folk song: "It's beautiful in the Schwizerländli!" for choir
    3. Media vita in morte sumus: "In Singenden Lebens Mitten" for choir
  • Much ado about nothing incidental music for William Shakespeare's drama
    1. Instrumental piece for 2 clarinets, bassoon, with tambourine and triangle
    2. Women's choir "Requiem aeternam dona ei"
    3. "How the Blum is broken" (4th act) for female choir
  • The dream, a life of music for Franz Grillparzer's drama
  • Timon von Athen ballet music for William Shakespeare's drama, for wind instruments, harp and triangle

Choral music

  • 1896 Schmiedelied opus 16a - for male choir and orchestra or piano - Text: Leonhard Steiner
  • 1897 Four chants for four-part male choir opus 23
    1. The waves tower uphill - Text: Alexei G. Tolstoi
    2. The blackbird sang - Text: Ernst Lenbach
    3. Lark and nightingale - Text: Ernst Schulze
    4. Mr. Olaf - Text: Gustav Kastropp , from "King Elf's Songs"
  • 1897 S 'Blüemli Swiss folk song in Japanese garb, for mixed choir and piano
  • 1906 The death of Sardanapal opus 47. for male choir, baritone solo and orchestra - Text: Maurice Reinhold von Stern

Chamber music

  • 1906 Hochzeitklänge opus 39, suite for flute and piano
    1. Wedding morning
    2. Wedding march
    3. At the wedding
    4. Festive polonaise
    5. A dance
    6. Luck on the way
  • Fantaisie pastorale pour flûte avec piano opus 71

Fonts

  • 1869 studies in harmony and counterpoint teaching

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Friedrich Kempter in Swabian Organ Romanticism
  2. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Kempter, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauingen
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1918
Place of death Vitznau