Max Fiedler (composer)

Max Fiedler (* 1868 in Parchwitz , † 1924 in Hirschberg ) was a German cantor and composer .

Life

Max Fiedler was school and music teacher at the Protestant elementary school II in Hirschberg, cantor at the Gnadenkirche there and “local composer”.

He was born in Parchwitz in 1868 as the son of a royal court actuary and died in Hirschberg in 1924 .

music

As far as the miraculously preserved, partly handwritten music documents show, his musical work comprises at least 89 pieces: vocal music for school and church choirs , marches , piano music and much more. Closely connected to his Silesian homeland in his compositions , works such as B. Rübezahl's greeting ( premiered in 1911 by the chapel of the Grenadier Regiment Kronprinz ) and for the 51st foundation festival of the Hirschberg men's choir in 1914 Mein Deutschland, wie bis du so schön , as the Generalanzeiger für das Riesengebirge reported on January 22, 1914. He also sets poems to music, for example by Friedrich Rückert , Fritz von Unruh , Ludwig Thoma , Emanuel Geibel , Ludwig Ganghofer or Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué . To introduce the superintendent Lic. HW Marko into office in 1907, Max Fiedler composed a prayer for the introduction of a clergyman for mixed choir. But again and again there are songs that take up the texts of the Silesian poets from their homeland, e.g. B. Sehnsucht by Josefine Moos , Greetings to Schläsing by Max Heinzel and Waldhornklänge by Fritz Winkel - compositions that are published by various German music publishers.

In 1912 he won recognition in a competition for his submitted march, which was bought for 300 marks. When he was in the Wiesenstein house in Agnetendorf on August 20, 1914 , he signed the guest book there. ' Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann reverently appropriated ' is his setting of Das Reiterlied , which is published by Aurora-Verlag.

Works

Others

It is not known whether the two musicians of the same name knew about each other. The Berlin State Library, Prussian Cultural Heritage , has some of the music it has left behind in its music department "side by side".

See also : August Max Fiedler

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Fiedler, Hartmut: Duplicity of Memory - Max Fiedler. In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel. 42nd year 2007, Würzburg, 2/07 April - June  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.