Otto Steinkopf

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Old Pommer, Otto Steinkopf, 20th century, MDMB 1304, Museu de la Música de Barcelona

Otto Steinkopf (born June 28, 1904 in Stolberg; † February 17, 1980 in Celle ) was a German musician and builder of historical woodwind instruments . He is honored as “ Nestor of the revival of historical woodwind instruments”.

Life

Otto Steinkopf learned to play various wind instruments as a boy. After graduating from high school in Magdeburg in 1922, he first studied a few semesters at the Bergakademie in Clausthal , then music in Berlin and later musicology with Curt Sachs . He attended the Stern Conservatory . After an interlude as a dance musician, during which he acquired skills on the saxophone , he became a bassoonist in Guben and Kiel in 1932 . From 1937 to 1940 he was principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , after a short military service from 1943 he played in the Berlin Chamber Orchestra of Hans von Benda . From 1945 to 1947 he was a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker , from 1947 to 1950 he was the municipal music director in Wernigerode . From 1952 to 1962 he played bassoon in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and was a lecturer for saxophone at the Berlin University of Music .

From 1950 to 1953 Steinkopf restored instruments in the Musikinstrument-Museum in Berlin and began to copy old musical instruments. In 1953 he performed at the Heinrich Schütz Festival in Herford with a Krummhorn quartet that he had built . In 1954 he became a member of the Cappella Coloniensis , the world's first orchestra with historical instruments, and built historical musical instruments for this ensemble on behalf of the WDR .

He played many of the instruments he built in concerts and on recordings. From 1955 he concentrated on the construction of historical woodwind instruments, from 1964 until 1970 he headed the studio for renaissance instruments of the Moeck company in Celle. His former instrument maker, Günter Körber, continued the workshop in Berlin and later in Brensbach .

Services

Otto Steinkopf was the first to rebuild a number of Renaissance and Baroque instruments in the 20th century. He copied crumhorns , Kortholte , Rankette , dulcians , shawms and Pomerania , and teeth , in addition also baroque bassoons and Baroque oboe . In 1959, together with Helmut Finke , he reconstructed the winding baroque clarin trumpet.

Most of the time he did not copy the museum instruments meticulously, but attached great importance to usability for "modern" musicians by tuning the instruments in cf tuning to a '= 440 Hz and, if he considered it necessary, adding or removing keys and double holes .

After Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940), who revived interest in recorders, viols and harpsichord instruments at the beginning of the 20th century, Steinkopf initiated a second phase in the revival of historical musical instruments from 1950.

Publications

Fonts
  • With Volker Kernbach: Instructions for making music on Pomeranian, Dulcian and Ranketten. Moeck, Celle 1978.
  • About the acoustics of the wind instruments. Moeck, Celle 1983, ISBN 3-87549-020-7 .
  • Karl Ventzke (Ed.): Theobald Boehm (1794–1881): Scheme for determining the position of holes on wind instruments. With an afterword by Otto Steinkopf (= Edition Moeck. 4020). Moeck, Celle 1980, ISBN 3-87549-011-8 .

literature

  • Friedrich von Huene:  Steinkopf, Otto. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Nikolaus Delius: On the straight path to crooked horns or Otto Steinkopf's Tutes. In: Tibia , 3/1977. Pp. 361–364 ( online ; PDF file; 11.3 MB).
  • Hermann Moeck: Otto Steinkopf †. In: Tibia , 2/1980, page 117 f. ( Online ; PDF file; 14.1 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Moeck: Otto Steinkopf †. In: Tibia , 2/1980, p. 117 f.
  2. ↑ Lorenz Welker:  Zinc. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, factual part, Volume 9 (Sydney - Cyprus). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1998, ISBN 3-7618-1128-4 , Sp. 2383–2390, here Sp. 2388 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Steinkopf, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and builder of historical woodwind instruments
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1980
Place of death Celle