Max Peters (composer, 1849)

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Max Peters (born October 16, 1849 in Arendsee (Altmark) , † February 14, 1927 in Berlin ) was a German composer , organist and piano virtuoso.

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From 1864 to 1867 he first attended the Schneidersche Musikschule in Dessau . This was followed by organ training with August Gottfried Ritter in Magdeburg and studies at the Neue Akademie für Tonkunst in Berlin with Theodor Kullak (piano) and Richard Wüerst (composition). After extensive concert tours, he was employed as the municipal music director in Pernau ( Livonia ) from 1883 to 1893 . 1894–1895 he worked as a theater conductor in Freiberg in Saxony. In 1896 he was appointed to Moscow as the conductor of the Moscow Liedertafel , where he worked at the same time as the conductor of the German Choral Society and as an organist at the St. Michaeliskirche. During a trip to Switzerland, he was surprised by the outbreak of the First World War , so that a return to Moscow was no longer possible. From 1916 he worked as an organist at the Melanchthon Church in Berlin. As a composer, he wrote songs ( Wald , Lurlei -lieder, 5 Baltic-Russian poems), choirs ( Consecration of Singing op. 58, two riddle poems op. 62), instrumental works and two operettas.

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

literature

  • The Moscow Song Board 1861–1911. To celebrate its 50th anniversary 26. – 29. Nov. 1911 . Lißner i Sobko, Moscow 1911, pp. 30, 48 f., 52 u. 120, OCLC 174861754 .
  • Hermann Abert : Illustrated music lexicon . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1927, p. 354.
  • Peters, Max . In: Alfred Einstein (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 11th edition. tape 2 : M-Z . Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 1374 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Concise Tonkünstlerlexikon. 14th edition. Bosse, Regensburg 1936; Reprint: Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1971, Vol. 1, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , p. 456.
  • Helmut Scheunchen : Lexicon of German Baltic Music. v. Hirschheydt, Wendemark-Elze 2002, ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 , p. 195 f.
  • Klaus-Peter Koch : German musicians in Saint Petersburg and Moscow . In: Heike Müns (Ed.): Music and Migration in East Central Europe . Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57640-2 , p. 402.
  • Klaus-Peter Koch: Saxony-Anhalt and Eastern Europe. On the migration of musical personalities . In: Musical culture in Saxony-Anhalt since the 16th century. Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-940744-05-0 , p. 29 f.

Letters from Max Peters are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher C. F. Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, organist and piano virtuoso
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Arendsee
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1927
Place of death Berlin