Agnes Hundoegger

Agnes Hundoegger (born February 26, 1858 in Hanover ; † February 23, 1927 there ) was a German musician and music teacher. As the founder of the Tonika-Do teaching , she made an outstanding contribution to elementary musical training.

Life

Advertisement by the Tonika-Do-Bund (Hanover), late 1909

Agnes Hundoegger grew up in an educated middle class family ; the father was the chief physician of the Hanover City Hospital. The child's musical talent was discovered and promoted at an early age. At the age of sixteen Hundoegger began studying music at the State Academic University for Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; her singing teacher was Elise Breiderhoff , her piano teacher Ernst Rudorff . After graduating in 1881 "with special distinction" in both subjects, she continued her vocal training in Frankfurt am Main with Julius Stockhausen .

Hundoegger then worked as a pianist, oratorio and lied singer, piano and singing teacher in her hometown of Hanover. In 1896, she got to know the tonic-sol-fa system, first through textbooks, then in a summer course run by the Tonic Sol-Fa Association (Tonic-sol-fa Society) near London .

“The impressions and experiences of the one month in which I felt that I belonged to this large community there marked a turning point in my life and my professional activity. Very soon, with shame, I had to pack my German musician arrogance. It was not a matter of personal artistic achievement, but of the ability to teach a given topic and a certain class level and to solve a task with pedagogical understanding. "

- Agnes Hundoegger

At home, Agnes Hundoegger immediately began to try out the new experiences with children's groups. As with John Curwen , the founder of the tonic-sol-fa system, Hundoegger's lessons focused on singing tone sequences and songs using solmization syllables and hand signals. She modified the British concept on some points. Curwen had adopted the rhythmic language of the Galin-Paris-Chevé method , but instead of the associated time notation he developed his own "signs that are not always easily recognizable to the eye"; Hundoegger went back to the French time notation. As early as 1897 she presented the result by publishing her guide to the Tonika-Do method for use in schools. The purpose of the guideline was to “make a method accessible to German musicians and school singing teachers by which children, even without a particular natural disposition, learn to read and sing any melody correctly and purely from the sight in a relatively short time ”.

In 1909 Hundoegger founded the Tonika-Do-Bund and the Tonika-Do-Verlag to promote the spread of the Tonika-Do teaching and to intensify the internal exchange of ideas. In 1923, four years before her death, she was able to establish that the "Tonika-Do thing [...] had grown from a small seed, without any loud propaganda, with calm steadiness into a strong trunk".

Agnes Hundoegger was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery . Her tomb can be found in Department 30 , grave number 1023-1024 .

Works

• Guide to the Tonika-Do Method for School Use (1897)
• Guide to the Tonika-Do teaching, 2nd edition of the guide from 1897 (1908)
• 100 canons for young people who enjoy singing in notes and tonic-do script (1925)
• Exercise book for the guidelines of the Tonika-Do teaching (1926)
• Old, old-fashioned and newer one- and two-part songs (1927)
• Tonika-Do quartet play (1927)

literature

• Malte Heygster, Manfred Grunenberg: Handbook of relative solmization. Schott, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-7957-0329-8 .
• Eva Rieger: Agnes Hundoegger (1858–1927). The hometown closed to her ideas. In: Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.) (1990): Sophie & Co. Significant women of Hanover. Biographical portraits. Fackelträger, Hannover 1990, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 139–155
• Klaus Mlynek : Hundoegger, Agnes. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 180f.
• Klaus Mlynek: Hundoegger, Agnes. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 311f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Agnes Hundoegger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Agnes Hundoegger. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karina Seefeldt, see web links.
2. ↑ Quoted according to Karina Seefeldt, see web links.
3. ↑ Agnes Hundoegger: Guide to the Tonika-Do teaching. Tonika-Do-Verlag, Berlin and Hanover 1925 (5th edition). P. 6 (from the preface to the 1st edition 1897).
4. ↑ Agnes Hundoegger: Guide to the Tonika-Do teaching. Tonika-Do-Verlag, Berlin and Hanover 1925 (5th edition). P. 2 (from the foreword to the 1st edition, 1897).
5. ↑ Agnes Hundoegger: Guide to the Tonika-Do teaching. Tonika-Do-Verlag, Berlin and Hanover 1925 (5th edition). P. 9 (from the foreword to the 3rd edition 1923).
6. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover, 2012