Oskar Schwalm

Oskar Schwalm (born September 11, 1856 in Erfurt , † February 11, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German composer and music publisher .

Life

Schwalm studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1879 to 1882, particularly with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn . He then worked as a music critic for Leipzig newspapers. 1886–1889 he headed the Leipzig music publisher C.F. Foresees a successor . He published the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik as well as the works of Carl Maria von Weber , Peter Cornelius and Franz Liszt and became director of the Allgemeine Musikverein . He was a member of the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig .

Schwalm composed piano and vocal music especially for teaching purposes, for example 122 two- and three-part songs and the song collection for schools: 141 one-, two- and three-part songs (Hermann Gesenius, Halle 1902). In 1888 he published the Catechism of Music with brief explanations of the basic music terms, which Hugo Riemann included in his music paperback .

In 1889 Schwalm moved to Berlin and headed the Berlin agency of the Julius Blüthner piano factory . Later he founded and managed his own company Julius Blüthner , which also represented Feurich piano and grand piano manufacturing . In 1923 he took over the concert hall building on Lützowstrasse in Berlin, which was built in 1907 at the instigation of Robert Robitschek for concerts by the teachers of the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and other musicians.

Schwalm's daughter Hedwig Schwalm (* 1899) married the pianist Michael Raucheisen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saxon biography: Schwalm Oskar (accessed on February 24, 2016).
2. ^ Hugo Riemann: Musik-Lexikon, first volume . Salzwasser-Verlag , Paderborn 2015 (reprint of the original from 1916), ISBN 978-3-84608-632-2 , p. 523.
3. ↑ Stefan Strauss: The forgotten hall . Berliner Zeitung February 3, 2001 (accessed February 24, 2016).