Otto Riemer

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Otto Moritz Martin Riemer (born September 2, 1902 in Badeleben ; † June 26, 1977 in Waibstadt ) was a German music historian , writer and critic .

Life

Riemer was born in Badeleben ( Neuhaldensleben district , Province of Saxony ) near Magdeburg as the son of a pastor . After attending the Magdeburg High School (1913–1921), he studied musicology, education and philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Leipzig and Halle. He heard u. a. with Hermann Stephani , Nicolai Hartmann , Heinz Heimsoeth , Hermann Abert , Friedrich Blume , Felix Krueger , Hans Joachim Moser , Paul Menzer , Theodor Draw and Ottomar Wichmann . From 1924 to 1926 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory , where Carl Adolf Martienssen (piano) and Fritz Reuter (theory) were among his teachers. In Halle he took singing lessons from Hans Klemann . In 1927 he was at Arnold Schering at the University of Halle-Wittenberg with the dissertation Erhard Bodenschatz and his Florilegium Portense to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1929 to 1933 he worked as a music critic in Görlitz. Then he became a teacher of music history at the Magdeburg Music Teachers' Seminar. He also continued to work as a music critic. Riemer soon worked as a music advisor for the administrative district of Magdeburg and as municipal music representative. From 1937 to 1943 he was head of the cultural department in the public education office of the city of Magdeburg. He was also chairman of the state examination board for private music teachers. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

From 1949 he worked as a music critic in Heidelberg. In 1954 he became a lecturer in music history at the music college. In 1962 he received a teaching position at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He was also a member of the Society for Music Research .

Riemer was married and had one son.

Fonts (selection)

  • Erhard Bodenschatz and his Florilegium Portense . Ms. Kistner & CFW Siegel, Leipzig 1928.
  • Music and musicians in Magdeburg. A historical overview of Magdeburg's contribution to German music . Heinrichshofensche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1937.
  • (Ed.): Way and work. A celebration for the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Hermann Meinhard Poppen . Hochstein, Heidelberg 1955.
  • Choir sound in the spirit of the times. A study on the 75th anniversary of the Heidelberg Bach Association . Bach Society, Heidelberg 1960.
  • Introduction to the history of music education (= pocket books on musicology . 4). Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1970, ISBN 3-7959-0021-2 (3rd edition 1983).

literature

  • Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, Sp. 1059.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . de Gruyter, Berlin 1956.
  • Friedrich Herzfeld (ed.): The new Ullstein lexicon of music. With 5000 keywords, 600 music samples . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-550-06523-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Otto Riemer: Erhard Bodenschatz and his Florilegium Portense . Ms. Kistner & CFW Siegel, Leipzig 1928, p. 119.
  2. ^ A b c d e Ralph-Jürgen Reipsch: Telemann care in Magdeburg from the end of the 1920s to 1945 . In: Carsten Lange, Brit Reipsch (ed.): From dealing with Telemann's work then and now. Telemann reception in three centuries. Report on the international scientific conference, Magdeburg, March 15 and 16, 2012, on the occasion of the 21st Magdeburg Telemann Festival (= Telemann conference reports . Volume 19). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim u. a. 2017, ISBN 978-3-487-15544-9 , pp. 219–249, here: p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Riemer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemer, Otto Moritz Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian, writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bath life
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1977
Place of death Waibstadt