Wilhelm Popp (composer)

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Wilhelm Popp

Wilhelm Albrecht Otto Popp (born April 29, 1828 in Coburg , † June 25, 1903 in Hamburg ) was a German composer and flautist. He also used the Frenchized name Guillaume Popp and the pen name Henry Alberti .

Life

Wilhelm Popp was court pianist and flautist at the “Ducal Saxon Court Theater in Coburg-Gotha”. He received his flutist training from Caspar Kummer and Louis Drouet ; there is no information about his pianist training. According to tradition, he must also have been a piano virtuoso, as he performed with various orchestras.

After falling out with the theater manager in Coburg, he himself asked for his release and moved to Hamburg in 1867. There he was principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra. During his lifetime Popp was a well-known and valued composer and in D. Ehrlich's "The History of the Flute" published in 1920 his works were described as "very well known in the musical world". After that he can hardly be found in any encyclopedia and only a small part of his complete works, which contains almost 600 compositions, has been reissued to this day. Most of his oeuvre includes pieces for flute and piano, and in keeping with the trend of the time, he has written countless arrangements and fantasies on well-known melodies and operatic paraphrases of every level of difficulty. His own compositions are very interesting, be it countless melodic character pieces, be it his six sonatinas or his concertos, also these in different levels of difficulty, so that both the flute beginner and the flute virtuoso can enjoy this literature.

Works

  • History of music . Portraits, biographies and samples from the works of the most famous composers of the 18th and 19th centuries (published around 1860)
  • Various textbooks for flute
  • The Böhm flute, transition studies from the old to the new system when learning the Böhm flute, practically presented with clarification of the advantages collected

Compositions

  • Swedish Concerto (op. 266)
  • Prélude dramatique pour flûte ou violon, violoncelle et orgue (harmonium) - Dramatic prelude for flute or violin, violoncello and organ (harmonium) (op.355)
  • Flower Piece (op.383)
  • Hungarian Rhapsody for flute and piano (op.385)
  • 6 sonatinas (op. 388 No. 1–6)
  • An Evening on the Alm, sound painting for pianoforte, 1888 (op.390)
  • Little Flute Concerto (op.437)
  • Russian gypsy song for flute and piano (op. 462/2)
  • Little melodic duets (op.480)
  • "Youth Trios" - Six sound images for flute, violin and piano (op. 505)
  • Easy Etudes (op.520)
  • Staccato - Fantasy for flute and piano
  • Valse Gracieuse (op.261)
  • Nightingale Serenade (op.447)

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  • Text and image: Edition Kossack Musikverlag
  • List of compositions: Klassika

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuscript parts in the Saxon State Archive Leipzig , holdings: Musikverlag Benjamin / Sikorski.
  2. ↑ Autograph in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig , holdings: Musikverlag Benjamin / Sikorski.
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alberti, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1903
Place of death Hamburg