Robert Radecke

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Robert Radecke

Albert Martin Robert Radecke (born October 31, 1830 in Dittmannsdorf near Waldenburg ( Silesia ), † June 21, 1911 in Wernigerode ) was a German composer , conductor and music teacher .

Life

Radecke was the son of a Protestant cantor and organist. His musical talent showed up early on. He received his academic music training from 1848 at the Leipzig Conservatory . His teachers here included Julius Rietz (composition), Ignaz Moscheles (piano) and Ferdinand David (violin).

Robert Radecke played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . In 1852, two years after graduating, he became second director of the Leipziger Singakademie and the following year Kapellmeister of the Leipzig City Theater . He only held this office for a short time before moving to Berlin in 1854 .

In Berlin he initially played chamber music (as second violinist in Ferdinand Laub's quartet ) and as a piano virtuoso, before he distinguished himself from 1858 by organizing orchestral and choir concerts on his own. In 1863 he was appointed music director at the Royal Court Opera and in 1871 he was employed as the Royal Kapellmeister for life.

His grave of honor in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin

In 1878 he became a teacher at the Stern Conservatory , which he was director from 1883 to 1888. In 1875 Robert Radecke became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts , in 1881 he was elected senator and six years later chairman of the senate of the music section.

His last place of work was the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin, of which he was appointed director in 1892 and remained until he was 77 years old.

Robert Radecke's grave, which was one of Berlin's honorary graves from 1990 to 2015 , is located in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Beginning of the song "From my youth"

Radecke was married to Charlotte Jonas (1837-1880), a daughter of the Protestant theologian Ludwig Jonas (1797-1859). Her son Ernst Ludwig Sigismund (1866–1920) worked from 1893 to 1920 as a pianist, conductor and general music director in Winterthur (Switzerland). The couple also had six other children: Anna (1863–1863), Elisabeth (1864–1927), Paul (1868–1871), Charlotte (1870–1939), Walther (1872–1956) and Joachim (1874–1895). Robert Radecke's older brother Rudolf Radecke was also a choir director and music teacher in Berlin.

Partly due to its prominent position in the Berlin musical life in the second half of the 19th century Robert Radecke among others, was Johannes Brahms , Max Bruch , Clara Schumann , Joseph Joachim , Pietro Mascagni , Eugen d'Albert , Lilli Lehmann and Philipp Spitta known and partly friends. Joseph Joachim was the godfather of Radecke's grandson Joachim Ulrich (1897–1984), the son of his daughter Elisabeth, and from 1957 to 1964 managing director of Mittelrhein-Verlag .

Works

Robert Radecke composed orchestral music, chamber music, but above all numerous songs. His best-known by far is “From my youth” (Op. 22 No. 1) based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert , which has taken on the character of a folk song .

His catalog raisonné includes 58 numbers, with several songs almost always grouped into one number. A so-called song game, Die Mönkguter , is also part of it. It is about people on the Mönchgut (Mönke Gut) peninsula on Rügen . Among the orchestral works, the overtures “Am Strande” and Shakespeare 's “ King John ” as well as the symphony in F major (Op. 50) should be mentioned.

In March 2016 the world premiere of some of his orchestral works (including the Symphony in F major, Op. 50) was released by the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kaspar Zehnder .

In November 2016 the second CD was released with the piano trios op 30 and 33 and the Fantasiestücke op 7 for cello and piano, recorded by the Trio Fontane, Zurich.

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literature

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer : Letters and Diaries. Volume 8: 1860 - 1864. Edited and commented by Sabine Henze-Döhring . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-11-019231-4 , p. 696 (comments).
  • Jörn Ulrich: Prussia was the godfather - fragments of a family and life story, Hachenburg 1988.

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personal data
SURNAME Radecke, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radecke, Albert Martin Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Dittmannsdorf near Waldenburg ( Silesia )
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1911
Place of death Wernigerode