Oskar Eichberg

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Gustav Mahler's letter to Oskar Eichberg

Ferdinand Oskar Eichberg (born January 21 or January 22, 1845 in Berlin ; † January 13, 1898 there ) was a German pianist, composer, editor and author.

Life

Oskar Eichberg, son of the music teacher Georg Ferdinand Eichberg and his wife Betty, née Cohn, was trained by Friedrich Kiel and Carl Albert Löschhorn . He was mentioned in Giacomo Meyerbeer's diary of April 15, 1860 as a "piano player" and appeared publicly as such and as an organizer of concerts. In a review of a soiree that Eichberg had organized in 1867, one could read: "Mr. Eichberg finally revealed a not inconsiderable facility for the technology of his instrument, and in the future, too, [...] should increasingly meet the strictest requirements [...] “At this soiree, the Sonata for Violin and Piano Opus 35, No. 1 in D minor by Friedrich Kiel was performed publicly for the first time. In 1874 Eichberg initiated the first Berlin performance of Franz Liszt's Saint Elisabeth . His address at the time can be found in the letter he wrote to Liszt on the occasion: Alte Jakobstraße 146.

Eichberg was also active as a music teacher and was chairman of the Association of Music Teachers in Berlin for a long time. He was a board member of the Wagner Association and an editor at the Berlin Börsen-Courier , for which he wrote music reviews . After a performance of excerpts from Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which was largely judged negatively by his fellow critics, he was a "lone critic" who discovered relationships with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . Mahler responded with a letter expressing deep gratitude for Eichberg's understanding.

Eichberg composed the song cycle Hafisa based on texts by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt and set poems by Heinrich Heine , Friedrich Rückert and Eduard Mörike to music . He also published several musicological writings: In 1882 he published Parsifal: Introduction to the poems of Wolfram von Eschenbach and Richard Wagner. In addition to a compilation of the main musical motifs in Wagner's Parsifal , in 1887 his work Richard Wagner 's Symphony in C major came out. A work on Anton Rubinstein was also translated into English by George E. Prince and published under the title Analytical and Historical Remarks on Anton Rubinstein's Cycle of Seven Pianoforte Recitals in 1886. At times Eichberg was also entrusted with the publication of the General German Musicians Calendar , and he was also the first to edit the program books of the Hermann Wolff Concert Directorate.

relationship

It is apparently unclear whether or how Oskar Eichberg was related to other people named Eichberg who distinguished themselves musically in the 19th century. He was probably not related to Julius Eichberg , according to a post on IMSLP . A brother of the deceased named Richard is mentioned in a report on the funeral service organized by the Berlin Music Teachers Association after Eichberg's death; this is likely to be the music teacher Richard Johannes Eichberg , who was born in 1855 and died in 1919.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Eichberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b contribution to the discussion on imslp.org
  2. ^ Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1860–1864 . In: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Sabine Henze-Döhring (ed.): Correspondence and diaries . tape 8 . Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3-11-091811-0 , p. 656 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 11, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Death register StA Berlin III, No. 57/1898
  4. ↑ Musikpädagogische Blätter , Vol. 1-2, W. Peiser Verlag 1896, p. 311
  5. ↑ Neue Berliner Musikzeitung , XXI. Volume, No. 6, February 6, 1867, p. 42
  6. ^ Letter to Liszt dated November 28, 1874
  7. ↑ Friedrich Jansa, German sound artists and musicians in word and image , Jansa 1911, pp. 249 and 317
  8. ↑ a b Report on a memorial event in Musikpädagogische Blätter 21, 1898, p. 64
  9. ^ Richard Sternfeld, Richard Wagner and the Bayreuther Bühnenfestspiele , 1907, p. 44
  10. ↑ life data on weber-otalausgabe.de
  11. ^ Norman Lebrecht: Why Mahler ?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World . Faber & Faber, 2010, ISBN 978-0-571-26080-5 , pp. 79 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 11, 2017]).
  12. ↑ List of Eichberg's compositions on recmusic.org ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.recmusic.org
  13. ^ Wilhelm Altmann, Chronicle of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1882-1901). At the same time a contribution to the assessment of Hans von Bülow, with picture panels and the facsimile of a letter Bülow , Schuster & Loeffler 1902, p. 24 note 1
personal data
SURNAME Eichberg, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichberg, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pianist, composer, author
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1845 or January 22, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1898
Place of death Berlin