Theodor Pröpper

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Theodor Pröpper
relief at the Hoffmeister-Pröpper-Brunnen in Balve

Theodor Pröpper (born May 26, 1896 in Balve ; † July 31, 1979 there ) was a German composer , church musician and local poet .

family

The Pröpper family came from Beckum near Balve, his father was a house painter. Theodor Pröpper attended elementary school in Balve and then trained as a painter. Theodor Pröpper was the father of the theologian Thomas Pröpper (1941–2015).

Life

From 1912 to 1914 he studied at the church music school in Paderborn . In 1914 he began working as an organist in the parish church of St. Blasius in Balve. Pröpper interrupted his organist activity in Balve for further studies at the State Academy of Music in Munich . There he passed his exam - with distinction - from the Reger student Joseph Haas . In addition to this training, he was a private composition student of Gottfried Rüdinger . After completing his studies, he took up his post as church musician in Balve again in 1925. After the Second World War, Pröpper was elected Deputy Mayor of Balver on February 7, 1946. In 1949 Pröpper was one of the founders of the Balver Höhlenspiele community . Theodor Pröpper was buried in the cemetery in Balve. His literary estate is in the parish archive of St. Blasius Balve .

meaning

In 1921 he was one of the founders of the Balver Heimwacht and in the same year with Franz Hoffmeister one of the founders of the Sauerland Heimatbund . On the occasion of the founding in 1922, the first cultural performances in the Balver cave were organized by him and Franz Hoffmeister.

For the new version of the diocesan chant introduced in 1948 for the Archdiocese of Paderborn , Sursum Corda , he compiled the organ book, which was published two years later. In 1953 the Archbishop of Paderborn and later Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger appointed him church music director.

Hoffmeister-Pröpper fountain in Balve

From 1930 to 1934 Pröpper was a member of the city council for the center . As a declared Nazi opponent, he was deposed by the National Socialists . Josefa Berens , who later gave herself the stage name "Berens-Totenohl" and belonged to the völkisch Sauerland artist circle (SKK), had already declared in 1930 that Pröpper, as a Catholic "Heimatbund-Proleten", had to be "shut up". When the council of the town of Balve was only granted an advisory function in 1934 , it stopped working on the council. When the Balver Home Guard into line was, he put in protest in 1934 chaired the home guard down and let the note in the log.

After the Second World War he was one of those who worked tirelessly for the Sauerland Heimatbund to be re-established in the summer of 1950. "In the following years he tried his best to give the idea of ​​home a new, permanent foundation. That was not easy, because for some the term home still exuded the evil odor of the blood and soil ideology, for others it was always valid Increasing fascination with technology as the epitome of backwardness and provinciality. Pröpper, on the other hand, addressed and wrote with a lot of rhetorical temperament, for example in an essay Modern Homeland Care . In it he primarily addresses the youth ".

Compositions and literary works

Grave in the Balver cemetery

Many of the musical works are only preserved in unpublished manuscripts and are therefore difficult to access.

His catalog of works - up to and including 1970 - comprises 244 titles (music and literature).

Musical and music theory works

  • Organ book for the Sursum Corda . Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1950.
  • Klingemund. Sauerland songbook . Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1960 (231 songs written and set to music by Pröpper himself, 89 of them in Sauerland-Low German language).
  • Tu es Petrus (composed in 1941 Opus 26)
  • Musical theory of forms. Notes on the theory of music - counterpoint .
  • Psalm chant in the vernacular. A contribution to the Ulenberg Renaissance . In: Musica sacra , Vol. 84 (1964), pp. 56-64.

Literary works

  • I want to step up to God, who makes my youth happy . Laumann, Dülmen 1938.
  • The Balver Zeitwendspiel (choral consecration game). Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1949.
  • The shining bow. A Christmas book (reflections, stories and poems for Advent and Christmas). Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1959.
  • People from Talfeld (stories). Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1959.
  • Sound and message (poems). Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1965.
  • Dai mute queen. Plattduitske poems . Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1969.
  • Impressions (poems). Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1971.

Local history works

  • In step of the year. Homeland book . Sauerland book community, Antefeld / Bestwig 1931.
  • Franz Hoffmeister, the guardian of the Sauerland folklore. Life and work. A book from home . Publishing house of Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1949.
  • One day calls it to the next - 100 years of church music in the St. Blasius Church in Balve . Gebr. Zimmermann, Balve 1968.

Sound carrier

  • Tu es Petrus , CD, world premiere of the cantata in the Balver Höhle in 1997 on the initiative of the Balver Höhle Festival Association , performers: Märkisches Jugendsinfonieorchester and Oratorienchor Letmathe, mpc records, catalog no. 58802002
  • Now open all gates wide! Songs, motets and organ music for Advent and Christmas.

Awards

literature

  • Peter Bürger : In the reypen Koren. A reference work on dialect authors, language certificates and Low German activities in the Sauerland and neighboring areas . Machine and Local History Museum Eslohe, Eslohe 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-022810-0 ; on Theodor Pröpper pp. 500–504.

Web links

Commons : Theodor Pröpper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolf Kalipp: Theodor Pröpper - an appreciation . In: Sauerland. Journal of the Sauerländer Heimatbund , vol. 47 (2014), issue 4 (December), p. 188.
  2. ↑ a b 50 years of local politics in Balve, overview
  3. ^ A b Rudolf Rath: Theodor Pröpper from Sauerland - a powerful engine for faith and home . In: Sauerland. Journal of the Sauerländer Heimatbund , ISSN  0177-8110 , vol. 45 (2012), issue 1 (March), pp. 4-6.
  4. ^ Maria Elisabeth Brockhoff: Music history of the city of Paderborn . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1982, ISBN 3-87088-269-7 , p. 236.
  5. ^ Peter Bürger: Peace Landscape Sauerland. Antimilitarism and Pacifism in a Catholic Region . Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-3848-7 , p. 71.
  6. ↑ Josef Lenze (1986): 80 Years of the Balve Music Association - a chapter of Balver's history. Chapter III "In the Time of Distress 1933-1945
  7. ↑ Erika Fischer: Theodor Pröpper - Maria Kahle. An exchange of letters worth considering ( memento of the original from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sauerlaender-heimatbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Pröpper, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, church musician and local poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Balve
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1979
Place of death Balve