Peter Heinrich Ortmann

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Peter Heinrich Ortmann (born December 31, 1892 in Cologne , † October 13, 1953 in Düsseldorf ) was a German composer , choir director and music teacher .

Life

Peter Heinrich Ortmann was born as the son of the innkeeper Heinrich Ortmann and his wife Angeline Krall in Cologne and attended elementary school in Düsseldorf . He received his first piano lessons from W. Münstermann and between 1907 and 1909 at the Academy for Music in Düsseldorf with O. Waldeck. From 1909 to 1912 he studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and then moved to the Regensburg Church Music School . Between 1914 and 1917 Ortmann was choir conductor at the collegiate church in Bonn and from 1918 music teacher at the Academy for Music in Düsseldorf. Ortmann wrote mainly choral works, a. a. for the Free Singing Community, Düsseldorf, which he headed as choir director from 1919.

Works (selection)

Peter Heinrich Ortmann's work was mainly focused on the tendency song . In 1934 the entire library of music from the Free Singers' Community, including all of Ortmann's compositions, had to be handed over to the Gestapo in Düsseldorf and was then probably destroyed. However, the composer reconstructed a large part of his oeuvre between 1945 and 1948, on which the following list is essentially based.

With opus number

  • 3 pieces for male choir op.5 (Peter Marx)
    • May morning
    • May sun
    • Foolish love
  • Lullaby "Goldne Wiegen schwingen" for mixed choir op. 6 ( Achim von Arnim )
  • Die Schmiede im Walde for mixed choir or male choir op.7 (J. Stauffacher)
  • Messengers of Love for baritone and male choir op.10 ( Ludwig Pfau )
  • 5 little songs for medium (high) voice with piano op.11 ( Heinrich Heine ) (premiere 1920, Düsseldorf)
    • Your face so lovely and beautiful
    • I want to dive my soul
    • I hear the song
    • It's a roar and howl
    • Where I am, darkened around me
  • Allerseelen im Walde for baritone and male choir op.12 ( Martin Greif )
  • In the cemetery for male choir op.13 (Ludwig Pfau)
  • My celebration for mixed choir or male choir op.14 (Karl Stursberg)
  • Resurrection for mixed choir op.16 (E. Kiesewetter)
  • Frau Hitt for soprano (tenor), solo or double quartet, small and large male choir and piano op.17 ( Karl Egon Ebert )
  • Dawn of Freedom for female, male and mixed choir op.18 (Erich Heimann)
  • Lied des Trutzes for mixed choir or male choir op.19 ( Otto Erich Hartleben )
  • Lament for baritone and male choir op.20 ( August von Platen-Hallermünde )
  • Brother Liederlich for baritone and male choir op.21 ( Detlev von Liliencron )
  • Consecration choir "To enter into life" for mixed choir op. 23 (Hermann Ohr)
  • Miner! Woke up! for male choir op.25 (Peter Mazeim)
  • 2 pieces for male choir op.26
  • Springtime for male choir op.27 (Hermann Franke)
  • Tendons for women's choir op.29 (Arthur Ebert)

Without opus number

  • Des Sturmes Gesang ( John Henry Mackay ) for baritone, mixed choir and wind quintet (WP 1926, Düsseldorf)
  • Organum comitans ad Graduale parvum (Publisher: Pustet, Regensburg)
  • Organum comitans ad Vesperale parvum (Publisher: Pustet, Regensburg)
  • Two Christmas carols for female or male choir or mixed choir (Georg Kramer)
    • Midsummer song
    • At Christmas solstice

literature

  • Art. Ortmann, Peter Heinrich, in: Erich H. Müller (Ed.), German Musicians Lexicon , Dresden (Wilhelm Limpert) 1929, Sp. 1017-1018.
  • Art. Ortmann, Peter Heinrich, in: Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 , Berlin (Walter de Gruyter & Co) 1954, Col. 920–921.
  • Art. Ortmann, Peter Heinrich, in: Franz Josef Ewens, Lexikon des Chorwesens , Mönchengladbach (Verlag Deutsche Sängerzeitung GmbH.) 2 1960, p. 202.
  • Cape. IX "Storming the world with song ..." The literary and musical initiatives in the Rhineland , in: Ulrich Klan and Dieter Nelles, "There is still a flame". Rhenish anarcho-syndicalists in the Weimar Republic and in fascism , Grafenau-Döffingen (Nevertheless-Verlag) 1990, pp. 317–337.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the kind information provided by the Düsseldorf City Archives.
  2. ↑ Ulrich Klan and Dieter Nelles: "There's still a flame alive". Rhenish anarcho-syndicalists in the Weimar Republic and in fascism , Grafenau-Döffingen (Nevertheless-Verlag) 1990, p. 326.
  3. ↑ Manuscript in private ownership.
personal data
SURNAME Ortmann, Peter Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1953
Place of death Dusseldorf