Paul Homeyer

Paul Homeyer (born October 26, 1853 in Osterode am Harz , † July 27, 1908 in Leipzig ) was a German organist at the Leipzig Gewandhaus .

At an early age he took music lessons from his father, the organist Heinrich Homeyer, and his grandfather Johann Joseph Adam Homeyer , organist at St. Cyriakus in Duderstadt. After attending grammar school in Hildesheim , he studied in Göttingen and at the Leipzig Conservatory . His teachers there were Robert Papperitz and Salomon Jadassohn .

In 1881 he started working as an organist in the Riedelverein in Leipzig. He also played as an organist for the Bach Society. At the Gewandhaus in Leipzig he played the organ at concerts from 1884 and was organist at the synagogue from 1885 . As a teacher for organ and music theory, he worked from 1885 at the Royal Saxon Conservatory in the field of music.

In the following years he traveled to Italy, Austria, the Orient and various cities in Germany, where he gave concerts. Franz Liszt was very impressed by Homeyer’s skills at the Tonkünstler meeting in Karlsruhe in 1883 . Homeyer could play works based on the old and newer organ literature.

He gave concerts with organ compositions of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach , Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . In recognition of his work, King George of Saxony appointed him professor in 1903.

literature

• Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Leipzig 1905.