Wilhelm Bünte

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Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Bünte (born November 14, 1828 in Brake near Sulingen ; † September 25, 1913 in Friedrichsbrunn ) was a German choir director , teacher , music director , professor and composer .

Life

family

Wilhelm Bünte was the son of a teacher and cantor . He had three brothers.

According to the address book of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Hanover for 1866, they also lived in the city

  • August Heinrich Diedrich Bünte , one of Wilhelm's three brothers, teacher at the middle school, court and church singer, resident at Ernst-August-Platz 4 ;
  • (Johann) Heinrich Bünte , teacher at the Citizens' School I in Burgstrasse , Burgstrasse 21 II;
  • Ms. Bünte , teacher at the middle school, Friedrichstrasse 12a ;
  • August Victor Bünte , timber merchant, Osterstraße 100 , I.

Another family member was Karl August Wilhelm Bünte (born January 28, 1860), son of the teacher Heinrich Bünte and Amalie Kracke (* in Hanover).

Career

Wilhelm Bünte was initially trained by his father and later also by a private teacher . As a teenager he attended the preparation institute of the cantor Grove in Langenhagen from 1844 to 1847 and then worked as a private tutor himself in Rothenkirchen and Ebstorf from 1847 to 1849 . He then attended the advanced seminar in Hanover and was employed as a teacher at the local free school in 1852 .

In 1854 Bünte took over the management of the song board "Frohsinn", which was founded in 1851 and which was renamed "Hannoverscher Männergesangsverein" a few years later. In 1856 the choir gave its first concert in the auditorium of the Lyceum .

In 1857 King Georg V appointed Wilhelm Bünte as the solo singer of the newly created Royal Palace Church Choir ("Court and Cathedral Choir"). At the same time, Bünte took over the leadership of the boys' choir of the palace church choir until 1866, the end of the Kingdom of Hanover . In addition, Bünte led other choirs in the city.

After Wilhelm Bünte worked as a teacher at the Stadttöchterschule II in 1866 and lived at Aegidienstraße 20 , he later held the position of music teacher at the Hanoverian Higher Töchterschule I from 1879 to 1898 .

Meanwhile, Bünte became a member of the Hanover Art Association in 1881 . The guest performances of the Hannoversche Male Choir, led by Bünte, also made him known nationwide. Bünte composed choral music himself, especially for male choirs.

During the imperial visits to Hanover, Kaiser Wilhelm II had several opportunities to attend performances by the Hanover men's choir. In 1888 Wilhelm Bünte was awarded the title of “Royal Music Director”. The achievements of the Hanoverian men's choir, which he directed, gave the emperor the idea of inviting the Association of the United North German Song Tables to a singing competition for May 25-27, 1899 .

Bruno Hilpert , JB Zerlett, Josef Frischen and Hans Stieber were successors in the management of the Hanoverian men's choir.

Although Wilhelm Bünte died in Friedrichsbrunn, he, like his brother August Heinrich Diedrich Bünte , who followed him as Royal Music Director in 1890 , was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Wilhelm-Bünte-Strasse

The composer and choir director was posthumously honored by naming Wilhelm-Bünte-Strasse , which was laid out in the Südstadt district of Hanover in 1928 .

Works (incomplete)

  • Wilhelm Bünte: Choir song book for use in Progymnasien for 2 sopranos, alto and male voices , 3rd edition, (in Gothic script ) revised by Rudolf Bünte and Charles Bünte , Hannover-List; Berlin: C. Meyer, 1914
  • Wilhelm Bünte, text by H. Riedel: Spring dream. It has with soft white linen ... ; Opus 25, No. 3 (choral score, for 5-part male choir), Hannover: Hampe [1951]

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Hugo Thielen: Bünte, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm (see literature )
  2. ↑ a b c Compare the address book from 1866 (AB), p. 172; online via Genwiki
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the AB, p. 171; online via Genwiki
  4. ^ Karl August Wilhelm Bünte: Contributions to the moral history from Tandareis and Flordibel , H. Fiencke, 1893, passim ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ a b c Frank Thomas Gatter: The Choir Movement in Northern Germany 1831 to 2006. From the united north German song tables to the Lower Saxony-Bremen Choir Association . Lilienthal; Bremen: Eres Edition, 2007, ISBN 978-3-87204-439-6 , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wilhelm-Bünte-Strasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 267
personal data
SURNAME Bünte, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bünte, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director, teacher, music director, professor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake near Sulingen
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1913
Place of death Friedrichsbrunn