Theodor Streicher

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Theodor Streicher (born June 7, 1874 in Vienna , † May 28, 1940 in Graz ) was an Austrian composer.

Life

As the great-grandson of Andreas and Nannette Streicher and the grandson of Johann Baptist Streicher, Theodor Streicher came from a long-established Viennese family of musicians and piano makers. His father Emil Streicher sold his parents' company to the Stingl brothers in 1896 because Theodor Streicher did not want to take it over, but only wanted to work as a composer.

Streicher studied acting with Ferdinand Gregori , singing with Ferdinand Jäger and Julius Kniese , counterpoint and composition with Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen, and piano and instrumentation with Ferdinand Löwe from 1895 to 1900 . As a composer, however, he was essentially self-taught. His thirty songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1903) were so successful that he was celebrated as Hugo Wolf's successor and “savior of the German song”.

In the years that followed, song settings formed the focus of his compositional work. However, public interest in his works quickly waned, and after 1920 he was rarely performed. Even the Theodor Streicher community , founded in 1934 by the musicologist Victor Junk , which endeavored to spread his work, could not change anything.

Streicher was first married to Marie Potpeschnigg (1875–1915), the daughter of the pianist Heinrich Potpeschnigg , a close friend of the composer Hugo Wolf. He had seven children with her, some of whom were musicians. After Marie's death, Streicher married the poet Edith Thorndike (1882–1964), from whom he set some texts to music. After divorcing her, he married Margarete Pap in 1925, who died of tuberculosis two years after the wedding. After several strokes, Streicher spent the last years of his life in sanatoriums near Graz and Vienna. He died in 1940 in the Wetzelsdorf district of Graz .

Awards

Works

Vocal works and piano music

Songs
  • Drei Lieder op.1, Vienna: Rättig 1895
  • Four songs op.2, Vienna: Rättig 1895
  • Two songs op. 3, Vienna: Rättig 1895
  • Four songs op.4, Vienna: Rättig 1895
  • A tone painting for pianoforte op.5, Vienna: Rättig 1895
  • Drei Lieder op.6, Vienna: Rättig 1896
  • Thirty songs from the Knaben Wunderhorn , Leipzig: Lauterbach & Kuhn 1903
  • 25 Hafez songs, 1908
  • Michelangelo, 12 songs, 1922
  • Show songs, 1929/30
Choral works
  • The Battle of Murten , for baritone, male choir and orchestra, 1908
  • Wanderer's Night Song , for male choir a cappella, 1908
  • Scenes and Images from Goethe's Faust: Easter choir songs for choir alone, 1913

Chamber music

  • Sextet for 2 violins, viola, violotta , violoncello, double bass, 1912
  • Gavotte and minuet, for violin, viola and violoncello, 1915

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personal data
SURNAME Streicher, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1940
Place of death Graz