Folksong book for male choir
The folk song book for male choir - published at the instigation of His Majesty the German Emperor Wilhelm II - first appeared in 1906 . It was popularly known as the Emperor's Songbook or Kaiserliederbuch for short .
history
The Volksliederbuch is an extremely extensive collection of 610 folk songs in older and newer movements, which was published in several volumes in 1906 after three years of work. It formed the prelude to a series which - at the instigation of the emperor - followed the model of the folk song book for male choir, the “folk song book for mixed choir” in 1915 and later in 1930 the “folk song book for the youth”.
A working and selection committee was set up specifically for this project. This included the chairmen Max Friedlaender and Rochus Freiherr von Liliencron as well as Johannes Bolte , music director Ferdinand Hummel and Sing-Akademie director Georg Schumann , all from Berlin . From February to October 1904, 25 meetings were held. In addition, written reports and votes were received for 8,000 songs, as the abundance of songs could not be mastered otherwise. 610 songs were ultimately selected.
Among the “most knowledgeable and most tried and tested specialists” of the time, arrangers were also selected for folk songs that were not available in the corresponding movements for male choir at that time. In addition to the primarily involved members of the commission, of whom Georg Schumann, personally appointed by the emperor to the folk songbook commission, provided most of the arrangements, there were also Engelbert Humperdinck , Max Bruch , Gustav Schreck and Richard Strauss .
After completing the folk song book for male choirs, the emperor awarded numerous medals, for example the chairman of the working committee v. Liliencron the diamonds for the Order of the Red Eagle 1st class with the crown; Professor Felix Schmidt and the bookseller Henri Hinrichsen ( CF Peters ) received the 3rd Class Crown Order ; Friedländer, Bolte, the director of the Singakademie Schumann, H. Kretzschmar and music director Hummel the Red Eagle Order 4th class. The composer Hegar in Zurich and the honorary chorister Kremser (Vienna) received a portrait of the emperor.
In 1955 a new folk song book for mixed choir was published in the GDR with reference to the historical model .
Publications
- Commission for the German Volksliederbuch (Ed.): Volksliederbuch for male choir. Published on the instigation of His Majesty the German Emperor Wilhelm II. CF Peters , Leipzig 1906
- Commission for the German folk song book (Hrsg.): Volksliederbuch for mixed choir. Published on the instigation of His Majesty the German Emperor Wilhelm II. CF Peters, Leipzig 1915
- State commission for the folk song book (Hrsg.): Folk song book for the youth. Publishing house CF Peters, Leipzig 1930
- Ernst Hermann Meyer , Karl Schleifer, Wilhelm Weismann (Hrsg.): New folk song book for mixed choir. On behalf of the German Academy of the Arts. Peters, Leipzig 1955
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland 58 (1907), p. 285