Max Chop
Friedrich Johann Theodor Maximilian Chop [ kʰoːp ] (born May 17, 1862 in Greußen , † December 20, 1929 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German music writer.
Life
Max Chop grew up in Sondershausen in a Thuringian legal family. His parents were Albert Chop, district judge in Greußen, and his wife Minna Bohn. His grandfather Friedrich Chop temporarily headed the government in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
Chop initially studied law and finance in Jena and Leipzig for a short time. During this time he already appeared in public as a critic and publicist. The piano virtuoso Franz Liszt convinced him to study music in 1885. Known from this period are "two orchestral suites , three piano concertos, a piano trio, the orchestral work The Mermaid , piano pieces and songs".
On October 18, 1888, he married Louise Hulda Selma Kubies, and the sons Herbert and Walter Chop resulted from the marriage. However, his wife died early and on August 30, 1900 he entered into a second marriage with the pianist Celeste Groenevelt . A child they shared died shortly after birth in 1904.
From 1888 he was editor of the Märkische Zeitung in Neuruppin , which he headed until 1902, then in Berlin from 1903 to 1906 the German Army Musician Newspaper and from 1906 the Deutsche Musikdirigenten-Zeitung . In 1920 Chop took over the publishing management of Signals for the Musical World , which his wife published after his death until it was discontinued in 1941.
Chop published numerous professional articles, reviews and biographies, also under his pseudonym M. Charles or Monsieur Charles. From 1910 he wrote the program books for the symphony concerts of the State Opera Orchestra. Worth mentioning are the 36 volumes "Explanations of masterpieces of musical art", which have appeared in the Universal Library , and the two-volume work "Contemporary sound poets", "Vademecum for Wagner friends", "Guide through music history" and "Guide through opera music" . He published biographies on August Bungert , Frederick Delius , Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek , Wilhelm Rinkens and Giuseppe Verdi . He is the dedicatee of Hugo Kaun's 2nd Piano Concerto op. 115 .
In the winter semester of 1914/15 he gave a successful series of lectures at the Royal Conservatory for Music in Sondershausen and was then appointed professor by His Highness, Prince of Schwarzburg Günther Victor .
Until his death, Max Chop lived on Augsburger Strasse , in what is now Fuggerstrasse. He was buried in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery (field DI, row 15, grave 12); the grave site was abandoned in the mid-1990s.
literature
- Karl Lenzen: Chop, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 214 ( digitized version ).
- Philip Jones: The Collected Writings of the German Musicologist Max Chop on the Composer Frederick Delius . The Edwin Mellen Press 2002, ISBN 0-7799-3302-8 .
- Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . Limpert, Dresden 1929.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Charlottenburg I, No. 905/1929
- ↑ Max Chop †. In: Vossische Zeitung . December 21, 1929, Das Unterhaltungsblatt, No. 601, morning edition, p. 11
- ^ Philip Jones: The Collected Writings of the German Musicologist Max Chop on the Composer Frederick Delius . The Edwin Mellen Press 2002, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chop, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chop, Friedrich Johann Theodor Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greetings |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1929 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |