Max Springer

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Max Springer (born December 19, 1877 in Schwendi , † January 20, 1954 in Vienna ) was a German organist , composer , music teacher .

Max Springer grew up in the community of Schwendi in Württemberg . He was initially a student of the Beuron monastery and came to Prague as an organist of the St. Emmauskloster , a branch of the Beuron monastery, where he worked at the German university a. a. studied with Antonín Dvořák and Josef Klička . As early as 1910 he worked as a lecturer for composition at the Vienna Music Academy , in 1923 he was appointed full professor and he was given the title of "Hofrat". In 1926 he became director of the Vienna Music Academy. The community of Schwendi made him an honorary citizen in 1933. Max Springer's students are Johann Bauernfeind , Kurt Wöss , Erwin Weiss , Karl Josef Walter , Marko Tajčević , and Anton Nowakowski .

Works (selection)

  • Six Fughetten on the name BACH op.14 . Coppenrath-Verlag, Regensburg, 1908
  • 8 postludes on the most common Ite missa est. op. 20
  • 4 preludes and a fantasy on the Easter Hallelujah op.21
  • Missa "Lauda Sion" op. 22
  • “Te deum” , op. 28, for mixed choir and organ accompaniment, Bonifatius-Druckerei, Prague, 1914
  • Mass in honor of the Blessed Crescentia Hoess , op. 31
  • Little Preludes for Organ op.35
  • Concerto for violin and organ op.40

literature

  • Heinz Lohmann : Handbook of Organ Literature (Breitkopf and Härtel, 1975/1980)
  • Bruno Weigl: Handbook of Organ Literature (FEG Leuckart, Leipzig, 1931)
  • Max Hammer: Schwendi. Home register of a community in Upper Swabia (Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1969)
  • Ingenious organ virtuoso and gifted composer. Newspaper article in the Schwäbische Zeitung from January 31, 2004
  • Description of the composer in "Bigger and Smaller Organ Works" op. 54C Johannes Diebold (Pustet, Regensburg, 1910)
  • Klaus Beckmann: Repertory Organ Music (Schott, Mainz, 2001)
  • Alexander Rausch : Max Springer. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Springer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwendi
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1954
Place of death Vienna