Martin Jacobi

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Martin Jacobi (born May 17, 1865 in Schwetz , West Prussia , † October 24, 1919 in Munich ) was a German composer and musicologist .

Live and act

Jacobi first studied music with Fritz Volbach at the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin, then with Wilhelm Tappert (1830–1907) and Heinrich Reimann as well as singing with concert baritone Felix Schmidt at the Royal University of Music . This was followed by a musicological degree at the University of Erlangen , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After that he lived mainly in Berlin as a freelancer. He mainly composed songs and duets, but also an opera and an operetta.

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Works

  • The cultural value of the Schaubühne , Borna-Leipzig 1907. (Diss.)
  • Melody wreath for the German house . Lecture pieces for piano two and four hands, violin and piano as well as voice, Berlin-Tempelhof (1908).
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (= Folk Books of Music No. 116), Bielefeld-Leipzig 1910
  • Op. 1: A frost fell in the spring night (songs / text by H. Heine)
  • Op. 2: When I hardly saw you. (Songs and chants / text by T. Storm), Berlin 1890
  • Op. 5: Four songs and a singing voice with piano accompaniment
    • No. 1: Softly pulls through my mind. (Text by H. Heine)
    • No. 2: Found. (Text by JW von Goethe)
    • No. 3: By the beehives in the garden. (Text by Otto Roquette)
    • No. 4: Wanderer's Night Song (text by JW von Goethe)
  • Op. 8: Two songs for a single voice with piano accompaniment. (1. Lullaby: Text Robert Reinick / 2. Above all peaks)
  • Op. 10: your picture. Comic operetta in one act, Berlin 1892
  • Op. 12: Two songs. (No. 1 The Sick Heart)
  • Op. 19: From the children's world. (Songs)
  • Op. 22: I'll send you a violet in the morning. (Text by H. Heine)
  • Op. 29: Just a little luck. (Songs)
  • Op. 30: Four Songs (No. 1 Blessed People)
  • Op. 31: Rommance pour violoncelle with accompagment de piano
  • Op. 32: Four pieces for violin & piano (duo), Mainz 1902
  • Op. 33: Three songs (No. 1 Leaves are falling / No. 3 shooting stars)
  • Op. 34: Three songs (No. 3 in front of the heavenly gate), Mainz 1903
  • Op. 35: Four songs for medium voice and piano, Mainz 1908
  • Op. 39 / No. 1: Preghiera (duo)
  • Op. 39 / No. 2: Serenata (Duo)
  • Op. 41: Three poems by Frida Schanz. (Songs / 1. About a decent reason / 2. When the soul remains pure / 3. Children and old people). Berlin 1912
  • Therese. Opera. (Text by Norbert Kern), (Munich) 1917
  • The field post letter. In: Award-winning ballads composed for the week , Berlin 1908, pp. 26–31. (with Eduard Morasch)

literature

  • Paul Frank: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon. 12th edition. Leipzig 1926.
  • German Biographical Yearbook. Transition Volume 2: 1917-1920. List of dead 1919. p. 335.
  • Hermann Kretzschmar: History of the new German song. Leipzig 1911.

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personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwetz , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1919
Place of death Munich