Wilhelm Stahl (organist)

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Wilhelm Stahl

Wilhelm Stahl (born April 10, 1872 at the Ziegelhof in Groß Schenkenberg , † July 9, 1953 in Lübeck ) was a German music teacher, organist, musicologist and music librarian.

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Stahl was the son of a master brickworker . He first attended the village school in Groß Schenkenberg. After the early death of his father in 1883, his mother moved with him and his brother to Lübeck, where he graduated from high school. From 1888 he attended the preparatory institute and then the teachers' college. In 1892 he passed the 1st and in 1894 the 2nd teacher examination. In 1897 he became a teacher at the third St. Lorenz Boys School in Schwartauer Allee and at the same time, after training in organ playing by Karl Lichtwark , he became the first organist of the newly founded St. Matthäi Church , which was inaugurated in 1900. An organ was only available to him from 1902. In 1922 he moved to Lübeck Cathedral as organist .

Sitting on the far right of the teaching staff (1907)

From 1900 he taught at the Realschule am Domkirchhof; From 1903 until the teachers 'seminar was closed in 1925, he was responsible as a seminar teacher for musical training in the Lübeck teachers' seminar in the seminar house that opened in October of that year . From 1906 to 1907 he studied for this at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden and obtained his diploma as a concert organist with the final examination. In 1921 he received the title of professor from the Lübeck Senate . After the teachers' seminar was closed, he taught temporarily at the Oberschule zum Dom and from 1915 onwards, part-time and finally full-time as the successor to his teacher Carl Stiehl, he was in charge of the music department of the city ​​library . His special concern was to make the rich old stock usable and to use it for performances. Stahl accompanied the festive service on the organ for the dedication of the memorial , according to a design by Asmus Jessen , red clay tablets bore the more than 800 names of the fallen in black, the cathedral parish on the Sunday of the Dead , 23 November 1924. The main pastor Christian Reimpell , who left the following year , was able to do so No longer hold due to illness. The sermon was held by the 2nd Pastor Herrmann and he accompanied the event. After the sermon, Pastor Franz Linde awaited the congregation at the entrance of the ambulatory where the panels were located. After its unveiling , he handed it over to the church council in the person of Hermann Julius Hartwig, whereupon the choir of the high school sang to the cathedral . Afterwards , Pastor Linde blessed the memorial.

He gave numerous courses at the adult education center and supplementary music lessons , which from 1933 onwards was incorporated into the newly founded State Conservatory, today's Lübeck University of Music . Here he held numerous seminars in harmony, music history, liturgy and organ playing. He was also responsible for the Conservatory's library. As an expert he examined organs and bells.

Since 1918 he was a member of the Lübeck Masonic Lodge Zur Weltkugel .

The University of Kiel awarded him an honorary doctorate for his music history in Lübeck .

Works

  • Folk songs for children from Lübeck and the surrounding area with melodies, explanations, game descriptions. Lübeck: Borchers 1915; 2nd probably edition 1925
  • Emanuel Geibel and the music. Berlin: K. Curtius 1919
  • History of School Singing Lessons. Stuttgart: Union 1913
  • Historical development of Protestant church music. Berlin: M. Hesse [1920], 2nd amend. u. exp. Ed.
  • Low German folk dances. 1921, 1923. Reprint 1998
  • Franz Tunder and Dietrich Buxtehude. Leipzig: Ms. Kistner & CFW Siegel 1926
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  • Hanseatic songbook for sociable circles. Lübeck: Borchers 1927
  • Music books in the Lübeck city library. Lübeck: Lübeck City Library 1927
  • History of church music in Lübeck up to the beginning of the 19th century. Lübeck: Quitzow 1931
  • The music department of the Lübeck city library in its older holdings. Lübeck: City Library 1931
  • Folk dances from the North Frisian Islands. Kassel: Bärenreiter 1935. Reprint 1998
  • Dietrich Buxtehude. Kassel: Bärenreiter 1937; 2nd edition 1952
  • The Lübeck Evening Music in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 19 (1937), pp. 1–64, also separately: Lübeck: Robert 1937
  • Gottfried Herrmann. Leipzig 1939. Reprint: Nendeln / Liechtenstein: Kraus-Reprint 1976
  • Lübeck's organs. Lübeck: Ernst Robert 1939
  • Music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952

literature

  • Arndt Schnoor: Wilhelm Stahl (1872-1953). Lübeck: Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2007 (Publications of the Lübeck City Library, Third Series, Volume 56)
  • Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952, s. 142

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Under On Sunday of the Dead. Section at the cathedral. In: Lübecker General-Anzeiger , Volume 43, 2nd Supplement, No. 276, edition of November 25, 1924.
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher, organist, musicologist and music librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Schenkenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1953
Place of death Lübeck