Moritz Vogel

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Music director Prof. Moritz Vogel at the organ of the Matthäikirche in Leipzig

Moritz Wilhelm Vogel (born July 9, 1846 in Sorau , † October 30, 1922 in Leipzig ) was a German organist , composer , music teacher and music critic .

Life

education

Moritz Vogel received his first musical training at the music teacher seminar in Steinau an der Oder . There he was a student of Ernst Heinrich Leopold Richter . Then he attended the conservatory in Leipzig, where he trained as an organist and singing teacher.

activity

From then on, Leipzig remained the center of his life. Here he shaped the musical life of the city as organist and cantor during his more than 25 years of activity. In 1885 he was given the task of founding and directing the choir for the newly built St. Peter's Church , the first and only church choir that existed in the city at the time alongside the St. Thomas Choir . From Easter 1888, Vogel was asked to act as a choirmaster for the Matthäikirche and to serve in both communities with the help of a prefect. In 1892 he was appointed organist of the Matthäikirche, which meant that he resigned from the position of choirmaster of the Peterskirche.

In addition to his church music activities, Vogel directed the Ossian Choral Society for the care of sacred music. With this choir, Vogel established the tradition of the so-called “cheap concerts”, in which no fixed entry fees were required, only voluntary donations.

Due to his special educational talent, Vogel was also a sought-after piano and singing teacher. In 1885 he was appointed music teacher at the municipal advanced training school for girls. On August 29, 1894 he was employed as a subject teacher for music at the municipal high school for girls at today's Gaudigplatz , which from 1899 was also connected to a seminar for teachers . On September 7, 1903 he was given the title of music director and in 1914 he was appointed professor.

In 1901 he published in Leipzig publisher Hugo & Co. to briefly and easily comprehensible history of music from the first beginnings of Christian music down to the present time specifically of the German folk song . In 1928 the 28th edition of his songbook for higher girls' schools was published by the same publisher . Collection of one-, two-, three- and four-part songs and chants of spiritual and secular content .

As a composer, he published piano pieces, cantatas , choral music , duets and songs. Up to the present day individual writings and compositions by Moritz Vogel have been reissued, most recently in 2003 in the series The 19th Century - Motet Composition, his well-known setting of the Beatitudes (op. 66,2).

On the occasion of his retirement from teaching at the Second Higher Girls' School with a teacher’s seminar on October 1, 1914, the farewell speech about him said: “The art to which you have dedicated your life has also had a direct impact on you as the art of living. In a happy combination of art and a sense of reality you taught us the harmony theory of life. "

Just three years after retiring, he suffered a stroke from which he recovered only with difficulty. He could no longer play his instrument, the organ.

An obituary for his death in 1922 stated: “A goal was set for creative work in the broad field of musical art and teaching. A rich, distinguished person and artist went there to be a loyal, dear friend to us. "

Moritz Vogel was buried with great sympathy in the New Johannis Cemetery in Leipzig.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 19th Century - Motet Compositions, No. 8, Friedemann Strube Verlag Berlin and Munich, 2003.
  2. ↑ Paul Gedan (Ed.): The municipal teacher seminar in Leipzig. Commemorative publication to celebrate twenty-five years of existence, Leipzig 1924, p. 21
  3. ↑ Ibid.

Works (selection)

  • Moritz Vogel: New German Youth Song: 43 single and polyphonic songs composed for school and home, Leipzig 1881
  • Moritz Vogel: Ossian. One hundred sacred and secular chants by older and newer composers for male choir, Leipzig, Merseburger, 1884
  • Moritz Vogel: Bridal song. Seal from “Palm Blätter” by K. Gerok for mixed choir, Leipzig, Licht & Meyer, around 1890
  • Moritz Vogel: treasure trove of songs for women's choir. One hundred popular folk and other songs for two sopranos and alto, Leipzig, Peters, around 1890
  • Moritz Vogel: The tonal system and notation developed following school singing lessons and encouraged younger singing teachers, Leipzig, Hesse, 1891
  • Moritz Vogel: Liederschatz for mixed choir. 100 popular folk and other songs for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, Leipzig, Peters, 1900
  • Moritz Vogel: Practical course for piano lessons from the first beginning to the intermediate level, Leipzig, Leuckart, undated [work in several volumes]
  • Moritz Vogel: History of music from the beginnings of Christian music down to the present, Leipzig, Gebr. Hug & Co., 1901
  • Moritz Vogel: Singing lessons in elementary school with special emphasis on lower and middle school, Leipzig, Gebr. Hug & Co, around 1913
  • Moritz Vogel: Twenty-five years of choral service at the Church of St. Matthäi in Leipzig, Leipzig [sn], 1913
  • Moritz Vogel: Songbook for secondary schools for girls. Intermediate level, Leipzig, Gebr. Hug & Co, 1914, 24th edition.
  • Moritz Vogel: Songbook for secondary schools for girls. Lower stage, Leipzig, Gebr. Hug & Co, 1917, 15th edition.
  • Moritz Vogel: Songbook for secondary schools for girls. Upper level, Leipzig, Gebr. Hug & Co, 1918, 31st edition.
  • Moritz Vogel: Girls' songs for two voices, Leipzig, Gebr. Hug & Co., 1920, school edition. 4th ed.
  • Moritz Vogel, myrtles and roses. 87 of the most beautiful songs, arias, etc. Duets in medium Voice range with piano accompaniment .; ed. u. instructed by Rudolf Dost, Leipzig; Zurich, Hug, 1928
  • Moritz Vogel: Spring song. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Zurich, Hug & Co., 1955, choir part. m. solo
  • Moritz Vogel: The first prelude pieces for use in piano lessons, Leipzig, Peters, 1957, [Neudr.]
  • Moritz Vogel: Magic Flute Sonata, Wiesbaden, Breitkopf and Härtel, 1980
  • Moritz Vogel: Blessed are the merciful, Munich, Friedemann Strube, 2003, full score

swell

  • Paul Frank: Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon, ed. v. Wilhelm Altmann , Wilhelmshaven 1971, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2
  • Hugo Riemann: Musiklexikon, ed. v. Alfred Einstein, Berlin 1929
  • German Biographical Archive, New Series, 1343, 371–372

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personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Moritz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer, music teacher and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorau
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1922
Place of death Leipzig