Siegfried Ochs

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Siegfried Ochs (born April 19, 1858 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 6, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German choir director and composer . As a composer he also used the pseudonym Diego Fischer.

Life

Ochs initially studied chemistry at Heidelberg University , but was also working on the side at the local theater as a répétiteur and decorative painter. In 1878 he went to the Berlin Royal Academic College for Performing Music , which was then under the rectorate of Joseph Joachim (1831-1907). He is also considered a student of Friedrich Kiel . In 1882 he founded the Berlin Philharmonic Choir , which he directed until his death. In 1920 the choir was dissolved for financial reasons and continued as the choir of the Hochschule für Musik, where Ochs was a teacher. His autobiography , Done, Seen , published in Leipzig in 1922 , cannot be considered reliable in every detail.

During the Third Reich , the works of the Jew Siegfried Ochs were banned, and several members of his family were murdered in concentration camps.

He composed a comic opera , choirs, duets, songs. His best-known works are the song " Thanks be to you, Lord " (which Ochs presented as a work by Georg Friedrich Handel in his oratorio Israel in Egypt and which was long considered as such, but is now performed under Ochs' name) and the parody 14 well-known composers, including Bach , Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven and Wagner , by amalgamating their respective styles with the folk song Come a bird flew .

tomb

He is buried in the urn cemetery on Richtstrasse . His grave is designated as the honor grave of the city of Berlin .

Works

Own works

  • The glove . Poem by Fr. Schiller. For a cheerful lecture with piano accompaniment arranged by Diego Fischers. Berlin, Raabe & Plothow, 1883.
  • Humorous variations on "a bird comes flying" . Northwest German Philharmonic under Peter Falk. 1994th CD (Philips)
  • Thank you sir . Insertion in George Frideric Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt .

As an interpreter

“Saul, Saul, what are you persecuting me” (Heinrich Schütz - SWV 415), Berlin Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Siegfried Ochs, recorded on Feb. 24, 1928

Fonts

  • What happened, what was seen . Grethlein & Co., Leipzig / Zurich 1922 (autobiography)
  • The German choral society for mixed choir . Part 1-4. Hesse, Berlin 1923–1928 (on the structure and management of the association [Part 1] as well as examples from performance practice from Schütz to Reger [Part 2–4])
  • About the way of listening to music: a lecture given at the German Society in Berlin in 1914 . Werk-Verlag, Berlin 1926

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Petersen : A case of falsified biography. On the longevity of an anecdote about Brahms' 4th Symphony . In: New magazine for music. 180, 2019, H. 5, pp. 40-41.
  2. ↑ Martin Staehelin: "Thank you, Lord" - To explain a Handel forgery of the early twentieth century . In: Göttingen Handel Contributions . tape 2 . Bärenreiter, 1986, ISBN 3-7618-0779-1 , ISSN  0177-7319 , p. 194-206 ( digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed on 31 January 2016]).
  3. ↑ The present recording from 1928 (Electrola EJ250, mx CLR3908-2) is also the first ever recording of a composition by Heinrich Schütz . See: Martin Elste : Heinrich Schütz between romance and objectivity. Selected stations in a media work biography. In: Early Music and Performance Practice. Festschrift for Dieter Gutknecht on his 65th birthday. Lit, Wien etc. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0998-0 , pp. 63–80, here: p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Ochs, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischers, Diego (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1929
Place of death Berlin