Ulrich Hildebrandt

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German doctor, see Ulrich Hildebrandt (Mediziner) .

Ulrich Hildebrandt (born July 1, 1870 in Treptow / Rega ; † February 17, 1940 in Stettin ; full name Karl Sigismund Ulrich Hildebrandt ) was a German church musician .

Life

Karl Sigismund Ulrich Hildebrandt was the 8th and last child of Gustav Hildebrandt (1822–1911) and his wife Maria, geb. Rhades. The father was a lawyer in the Pomeranian countryside and a lawyer in Treptow / Rega. The mother came from a medical family in Szczecin .

In 1878 the family moved to Stettin, where the father was later a syndic and secret judge at the general government.

Ulrich Hildebrandt already had reduced eyesight as a six-year-old and suffered from an eye disease that was incurable at the time. He learned Braille and used a " Hammond typewriter " in school. Nevertheless, he had to leave high school. At the age of eleven he became completely blind. He received private tuition and had books sent to him from the libraries for the blind in Paris, Leipzig and Hamburg. Hildebrandt then went to Berlin, attended lectures at the university and studied the organ with Heinrich Reimann .

His musical talent was noticed early on and he received lessons in piano and organ as well as in composition. At the age of fifteen he gave his first concerts in Stettin. From 1894 Hildebrandt was the representative of the aged organist Gustav Flügel , since 1898 his full-time successor at the Castle Church in Stettin . Hildebrandt was in close contact with the Szczecin organ builder Grüneberg in order to be able to implement his ideas and plans. The result was an expressive organ that he said was often supplemented and refined, but which went under in 1945. In 1917 he became "Royal Music Director", in 1928 he was made an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Greifswald .

Hildebrandt married the teacher Anni Renner (1877-1965) in the castle church in 1901, whom he had heard singing in a concert. His daughter Eva (1902–1996) became a singer and pianist, but after her marriage she devoted herself to the work of her husband Karl Foerster . His son Wolfgang Hildebrandt (1906–1999) became a stage designer and, after the death of his father, a freelance painter.

Works

At the age of twenty Hildebrandt wrote his first sonatas, which were occasionally performed. From 1892 to 1923 he wrote music reviews for the Ostsee-Zeitung ("UH"). Hildebrandt worked on the " Hymnal for Pomerania " (Stettin 1931), to which he contributed the nos. 398, 421 and 468.

• The Oceanids . Choral work with orchestra. Text: Robert Prutz (op. 5)
• Mary's Lament . Scene from a medieval passion play (op.10)
• 30 chorale preludes (op.11)
• Male choirs (op.12)
• Two ballads (op.13)
• The golden sun . Choral cantata (op.15). First performance February 17, 1910 in the Stettiner Musikverein
• Now all the world rejoice in the Lord . Choral cantata (op. 16) (German, French, English, Dutch). World premiere in the Szczecin Castle Church
• In following Jesus . Spiritual alternation (op.17)
• Matten Has . Text: Klaus Groth (op.19)
• Get up, be light. For baritone or alto and organ (op.20)
• Songs of longing . For medium voice and organ (op.21)
• Four student songs. (op. 23)
• Two military marches. (op. 25)
• Eight German folk songs. Women's choir (op. 26 and 32)
• Four popular Christmas songs. (op. 27)
• Four songs from "Einsame Feuer". Text: Karla König (op. 29)
• Reformation cantata . Text: Joh. Jüngst (op. 30)
• Four spiritual songs. Text: Gustav Schüler (op. 31)
• Bell hymn . (op. 35)
• Jesus, my joy . Liturgical alternating song (op.36)
• Two cheerful male choirs. (op. 37)
• Chorale book. For use by organists (Leipzig 1931) (op. 38)
• Choral book for the Protestant hymn book for Brandenburg and Pomerania , after 1931 ( digitized version )
• Various choirs for female voices and male choirs (op. 39 to 42 and 44)
• Organ chorale to verse 7 of the morning song "The golden sun": "Human being, what was it?" (Op. 45)

literature

• Anni Hildebrandt: Ulrich Hildebrandt . In: Pomeranian Life Pictures . Volume IV. Böhlau: Cologne Graz 1966, pp. 432-441.