Ludwig Boslet

Ludwig Boslet (born December 12, 1860 in Biedershausen , † January 23, 1951 in Trier ) was an important organist and late romantic composer in the dioceses of Speyer and Trier .

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Boslet grew up with his parents Jakob Boslet and Barbara Buchheit in the village of Biedershausen near Landstuhl . After finishing elementary school, he attended the preparatory institute in Blieskastel and then the teacher training college in Speyer to become a teacher. At the age of 20 he got his first job, first in the village of Neunkirchen am Potzberg , where he didn't like it later in Deidesheim . In his memoirs, Boslet writes about the branch church in Neunkirchen: “Only the case of the organ stood; the organ itself was missing. ... By chance, when I was 18, I heard the then famous organ virus Lux from Mainz play wonderfully. I made up my mind to achieve something similar. Then ... I made a quick decision to visit the music professor Lützel in Zweibrücken. Without hearing me play, he explained to me, 'You want to go to a music academy; I'm coming to Stuttgart in a few days and I know the professors who are highly regarded all over Europe, and I am sending you the statutes of the Music Academy. '”Through Lützel's mediation, Boslet started with Professor Immanuel Faißt in Stuttgart . But just one year later, the organ student had to quit and return to school because his financial resources were used up. His new job leads him to Königsbach on the Weinstrasse .

From there, where he had already received much recognition, he came to Ludwigshafen in 1881 for an audition , where he was heard by the music enthusiast Albert von Jäger (1814–1884), the former director of the Palatinate Railways. He was so enthusiastic about Boslet's talent that, with the help of wealthy friends, he was able to collect enough money within 14 days so that he could continue his studies with Faißt for four semesters and then complete three semesters with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger in Munich . There he passed his state examination in 1885 and then worked for fourteen years in Ludwigshafen as a concert organist, choir director and teacher, where he was able to gain a good reputation. An offer from Paris by the organ virtuoso Alexandre Guilmant , who was enthusiastic about his 3rd organ sonata published in 1895, he rejected as well as offers from Lucerne , London and the USA because he felt too close to his homeland and had his livelihood. But in 1899, contrary to his original intention, Boslet moved to the Palatinate western border to St. Ingbert to the St. Josef Church. In his memoirs it can be read: “If I had found more accommodation there,” he would have stayed in Ludwigshafen.

Franz Woll , brother of the poet Karl August Woll , who had previously worked for 40 years and previously held the position of organist at St. Josef, died in St. Ingbert . On October 17, 1897, Boslet had given an organ concert in the city. In St. Josef he was probably impressed by the sonorous, romantic organ by H. Voit & Söhne , which at that time was the largest organ in what is now the Saarpfalz district with 36 stops . The position, which included the same tasks as the one in Ludwigshafen, was, according to him, "well endowed" and, contrary to his original intention, not a transit station; he stayed there ten years. During this time the church choir expanded considerably.

In 1909 Boslet went to the Trier Cathedral and two years later, on September 1, 1911, he succeeded Jodocus Kehrer (1855–1937), who retired for reasons of age. A Weigle organ, completed in 1908, was his working tool there, about which he had already expressed his enthusiasm in 1909. In addition to his organist activities, he taught organ, piano, singing and music theory at the Gustav Erlemann Church Music School founded by Gustav Erlemann in 1903 . He carried out these activities until his own retirement in 1937.

His works are not traded very highly during his lifetime. In 1931 Otto Burkert wrote about Sonata No. 6 ironically: “Inferior, like all previous women. The first theme of the second movement is even melodically shallow ”.

Works

opus	Surname	key	year	publishing company	CD	Comments, further information
1	Theme with variations	G minor	1890	Berlin: Verlag Hymnophon, previously Eisoldt and Rohkrämer	Yes
2	Festive Fantasy and Elegic Fugue	C major		Trier: Music Publishing House Hans Kessler	Yes
3	Sonata No. 1	G minor	1890	Bremen: Schweers		Study from the time of Rheinberger
4th	Motet f. according to Chorus "How lovely are your apartments, oh Lord"			Berlin: Verlag M. Leuckart, later Eisoldt and Rohkrämer
5	Freedom of nature (Ludwig Uhland) for gem. Choir			Berlin: Verlag M. Leuckart, later Eisoldt and Rohkrämer
6th	Sonata No. 2	D minor	1892	Berlin: Eisoldt	Yes
7th	Great fantasy for organ	E major		Berlin: Verlag Julius Schneider, from 1912: Trier as op. 2	Yes
8th	Festive aftermath to “ Ite, missa est ” and theme with variations “ Caro mio ben ” based on Tomaso Giordano			Julius Schneider Publishing House, Berlin
9	Religious mood	A flat major		Hildesheimer, Speyer
10	Sonata No. 3	C minor	1895	Leipzig: Otto Junne	Yes
11	Character piece for piano		1898	Berlin: Verlag Hymnophon
12	Introduction and triple fugue	C minor	1900	Regensburg: Feuchtinger & Gleichauf		together with an organ accompaniment to the Choral-Te-Deum published in the magazine "Die Orgel". Later in Op. 22 added as No. 9
13	Big festival fantasy for organ	C major	1893	Zittau-Zurich: Verlag Loebel	Yes	“On May 13, 1894, played in public on the large organ in Speyer Cathedral” (Ludwig Boslet). Dedicated to Domkapellmeister Joseph Niedhammer . Fugue theme: Sanctus ad 3.  Choral Mass In festis duplicibus (Medicaea). Composed in Ludwigshafen (details from Boslet).
14th	Ariosa and Fugato	A flat major	1898	Leipzig: Verlag Robert Forberg
15th	Organ Sonata No. 4	B flat minor			Yes	Dedicated to the Geneva cathedral organist Otto Barblan
16	Prelude and epilogue for use in Catholic worship		before 1898	Leipzig: Verlag Robert Forberg
17th	Prelude and Ciacona	A minor		Berlin: Eisold
18a	Foreplay Moderato con moto	D major		Regensburg: Feuchtinger & Gleichauf		in: "100 larger and smaller original compositions for the organ for church use and for study collected and edited by Joh. Diebold"
18b	Post-game Maestoso	C major		Regensburg: Feuchtinger & Gleichauf		in: "100 larger and smaller original compositions for the organ for church use and for study collected and edited by Joh. Diebold"
18c	Fantasy and double fugue in, Moderato	E flat minor / E flat major		Regensburg: Feuchtinger & Gleichauf		in: "100 larger and smaller original compositions for the organ for church use and for study collected and edited by Joh. Diebold"
19th	“ Veni creator ” and “ Pange lingua ” for four-part mixed choir a cappella
22nd	12 Great Organ Pieces I-II		before 1925	Regensburg: level		I Prelude and double fugue in D major, fantasy to an old hymn in G major, celebratory prelude in B flat major, Fantasy in A minor / A flat major, introduction and double fugue in B minor, celebratory prelude in D major; II Introduction and Fugue in A minor, Follow-up (canon) in F major, Introduction and triple fugue in A minor (Nacdhspiel), Prelude in G major, Festival prelude in F major, Adagio (free canon) in G minor
23	Prelude (Quasi Fantaise) et Fuga	E minor	1903	J. Rieter-Biedermann, Leipzig	Yes	Dedicated to Wilhelm Carl Julius Hoyerman .
24	Prelude and Fugue	E minor		Leipzig: Otto Junne
25th	Three clay pieces for organ No. 5	F major	1903	J. Rieter-Biedermann, Leipzig	Yes	Celebratory prelude, recitative, finale; Manuscript: University of Rochester
26th	Interlude and postlude		1906	Leipzig: Otto Junne		in the first volume of the three-volume work "Organ pieces by modern masters"
27	Fantasy for the organ		1906	Schwann publishing house, Düsseldorf		in: "experienced concert organist"
30th	Organ Sonata No. 5	D major	1908	Schweers & Haake, Bremen	Yes
31	Fantasy “ Ecce sacerdos ” for six-part mixed choir and organ		1912	Schwann publishing house, Düsseldorf		published in Alphonse Moortgat: "Orgelmuziek"
32	Missa solemnis for seven-part mixed choir and organ		1912	Publishing house A. Böhm , Augsburg		"Sr. Kgl. Highness The Prince Regent Luitpold v. Bavaria very submissive. "
33	Toccata, Introduction and Fugue		1913	Publishing house A. Böhm, Augsburg	Yes	Dedicated to the Strasbourg university lecturer and organist Marie-François-Xavier Mathias
34	Five festival preludes		before 1927	Publishing house A. Böhm, Augsburg
35	Organ Sonata No. 6	C minor	1914	J. Rieter-Biedermann, Leipzig	Yes	Dedicated to the lecturer at the Munich Academy Ludwig Felix Maier
36	Seven new festival preludes		before 1927	Publishing house A. Böhm, Augsburg
37	Introduction and fugue	B flat major	cor 1927	Publishing house A. Böhm, Augsburg
38	Two Christmas pieces	C major		Publishing house A. Böhm, Augsburg	Yes	Christmas idyll in G major, Pastoral in G major
41	Five hymns for the Feast of Corpus Christi for four-part mixed choir with orchestra accompaniment
45	Introduction and fugue to “Maria zu liebe” for organ		1932	M. Hoffmann, Kronach
46	Two fantasies about chorale melodies and a theme from Palestrina					Published by the library of the Trier Cathedral Choir. Cathedral organist Dr. Dedicated to Paul Schuh
47	Fantasy on a theme by Palestrina ad " Missa brevis "					Published by the Bibl. Of the Trier Cathedral Choir. From the Paul Schuh estate

Of the total of 47 opus numbers, only the music recordings listed above have been made so far.

literature

• Gustav Bereths: Contributions to the history of Trier cathedral music, B. Schott's sons, Mainz 1974, p. 51ff. u. 114-118
• Ludwig Boslet: autobiography, manuscript in the Trier diocese archive, section 91, file no.114
• Wilhelm Jakob Jung: Music history of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein from the years 1850-1918, ed. by Siegfried Fauck, Ludwigshafen 1968
• Wilhelm Rau: The Palatinate Tonkünstler of the Present - Ludwig Boselt, in: Palatine Museum, Jg. 17 (1900), p. 170ff

Web links

• Ludwig Boslet: Fantasy about "Mary love you" (5:20)
• Download of various organ works in sheet music

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Boslet on FamilySearch.org according to the civil status register 1818–1875, Landratsamt Biedershausen, Bavaria
2. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: Die Neue Platte from April 25, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Jakobi: Saarpfälzisches Präludienbuch, Vol. 1: St. Ingberter Spätromantik, Musikverlag Robert Car, Mandelbachtal, 2006
4. ↑ Valentin Schmitt: A pioneer of music in the young Ludwigshafen. Albert von Jäger - lawyer, musician and patron, died 75 years ago in: Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen, Schifferstadt Jg. 15, No. 41 of February 19, 1959
5. ^ ^{A b} Ludwig Boslet: autobiography, manuscript in the diocese archive Trier, section 91, file no.114
6. ↑ http://www.trierer-orgelpunkt.de/domorgel3.htm Josef Still: High pressure organ, electricity and bankruptcy The Swabian company Weigle built a double organ from 1899 to 1908
7. ↑ Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Verlag Traugott Bautz ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Otto Burkert: Handbook of Organ Literature, ed. by FEC Leuckart, Leipzig 1931
9. ^ Trier organ point