Walter Upmeyer

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Reinhold Hubert Eduard Walter Upmeyer (born December 1, 1876 in Hanover ; † January 2, 1961 there ) was a German musician , musicologist and music collector specializing in early music (especially the Baroque ).

Walter Upmeyer, photographed around 1920 by Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski

life and work

Upmeyer's father, who came from Bückeburg , was a royal commercial judge and later a merchant in Hanover. He attended Realgymnasium I there until he graduated from high school and then began to study modern philology (art history, philosophy, modern languages). He studied four semesters in Munich, one semester in Göttingen and then several semesters in Kiel, where he received his doctorate on December 9, 1899 with a work on character drawings in the old French heroic poem "Raoul de Cambrai" under Heinrich Koerting .

Upmeyer was “initially a high school teacher by profession” and “in his younger years a teacher at the secondary school”, where he pursued this career up to a professorship .

On December 6, 1911, he officially changed his family name from the very common name Meyer to Upmeyer. He was guided by the Uphof located in Helpup near (today: in) Oerlinghausen , the story of which he had published. " Meyer " originally referred to the general manager of the first Count's Uphof, later the name Upmeyer stood for the owners and residents of the Uphof.

His enthusiasm for music was primarily for the work of Richard Wagner , and in the summer of 1925 he was a cellist in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra . From the beginning of the 1920s, however, he began to specialize more and more in baroque music. Upmeyer worked a lot with Christian Döbereiner and his Munich orchestra, which specializes in "old" music. Upmeyer often made his own harpsichord available for concerts in Hanover, organized by the Mozart community there at the time, which is described in an obituary as "the first in Hanover at the time".

Walter Upmeyer's house in Hanover, Wiesenstrasse 20 (around 1900)

Walter Upmeyer was friends with Heinrich Vogeler ; his impressive half-timbered house at Wiesenstrasse 20 in Hanover was "furnished and decorated with pictures by the Worpswede friend Vogeler". Upmeyer did research in numerous libraries for works of early music, of which he made over 100 newly accessible to the public. These are mainly compositions by Tomaso Albinoni , Johann Christian Bach , Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , Filippo Banner, Luigi Boccherini , Antonio Caldara , Nicolas Chédeville , Domenico Dalla Bella , Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , Anton Filtz , Francesco Geminiani , Joseph Haydn , Michael Haydn , Johann Krieger , Pietro Locatelli , Francesco Manfredini , Gottlieb Muffat , Felice Maria Picinetti, Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny , Johann Joachim Quantz , Franz Xaver Richter , Alessandro Scarlatti , Gaetano Maria Schiassi , Heinrich Schütz , Carl Stamitz , Johann Stamitz , Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi . Upmeyer was the initiator and co-founder of Nagel's music archive , in which he published most of the works. Many of his scores were also published by Bärenreiter-Verlag , such as Vivaldi's Twelve Concerti L'Estro Armonico .

Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski is one of the photographers who portrayed Walter Upmeyer .

Upmeyer was the father of the dancer Almut Winckelmann . For her 1942 at the Kassel State Theater premiered " Romantic dance game" The golden pot after the novella by ETA Hoffmann instrumented Walter Upmeyer piano pieces by Robert Schumann .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. In: About the character drawing in the old French hero poem 'Raoul de Cambrai'. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the philosophical faculty of the Königl. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, presented by Walter Mayer from Hanover. Kiel 1900. p. [85].
  2. ↑ Art and Knowledge: Prof. Dr. Walter Upmeyer [obituary]. In: Kasseler Post from January 11, 1961.
  3. ↑ HH: He was a specialist in early music. On the death of Prof. Dr. Walter Upmeyer. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine from January 9, 1961.
  4. ^ Walter Meyer: On the history of the Uphof. First part of the family history. Meyersche Hofbuchdruckerei, Detmold 1909.
  5. ↑ HH: He was a specialist in early music. On the death of Prof. Dr. Walter Upmeyer. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine from January 9, 1961.
  6. ↑ HH: He was a specialist in early music. On the death of Prof. Dr. Walter Upmeyer. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine from January 9, 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Upmeyer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Upmeyer, Reinhold Hubert Eduard Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, musicologist and music collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1961
Place of death Hanover