Theodor Schneider (musician)

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Jakobikirche in Chemnitz - Theodor Schneider's place of work

Theodor Schneider (born May 14, 1827 in Dessau , † June 15, 1909 in Zittau ) was a German musician .

Life

Theodor Schneider was born on May 14, 1827 in the capital of Anhalt, Dessau. His father Friedrich Schneider worked as an organist and court conductor and became known as a composer of church music. His grandfather Johann Gottlob Schneider senior had also worked as an organist. He worked in Alt- and Neu-Gersdorf in Oberlausitz . Theodor Schneider met his grandfather there, as he only died in 1840 at the age of 87. The two organists Johann Gottlob Schneider junior in Neu-Gersdorf and Johann Gottlieb Schneider in Hirschberg in Silesia were his two uncles and closely followed their nephew's musical development.

After attending high school in Dessau, Theodor Schneider lost interest in playing the violin. At the age of 17 he began his music career as a cellist in the court orchestra at the Anhalt court in Dessau, after he had taken over the direction of the choir from his father in 1853. In 1854 he was appointed cantor and music director at the castle church in Dessau. From at least 1859 he worked for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik .

In January 1860 he was appointed the first church music director in Chemnitz, Saxony . There he worked as a cantor at the Jakobikirche and at the Johanniskirche and received the honorary title of professor .

He saw a memorial for his father Friedrich Schneider unveiled in his native Dessau in 1893, for which he thanked the family on behalf of the family. In 1898, at the age of 71, he retired and moved to Zittau, where he died in 1909.

literature

  • Eduard Bernsdorf: New Universal Lexicon of Music Art: For artists, art lovers and all educated people. Volume 3, Offenbach 1861, p. 496.
  • Egbert Wünsche: The Saxon organ king Johann Schneider - a son of Neugersdorf. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 42, 1996, No. 6, pp. 358-363. (The author here gives April as the month of birth instead of May.)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Eisenhardt: Dessau, city of music. 2006, p. 15.
  2. ^ Announcements of the Chemnitz History Association , 68th year.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1909
Place of death Zittau