Wilhelm Tappert

Wilhelm Tappert before 1892 (right: portrait of Anton Schöner , 1896))

Wilhelm Tappert (born February 19, 1830 in Ober-Thomaswaldau , Bunzlau district ( Silesia ), † October 27, 1907 in Berlin ) was a German music writer and composer .

Life

Tappert trained as a school teacher and made musical studies under Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn and Adolph Kullak in Berlin from 1856-1858 , where he settled in 1866 and worked as a music critic and teacher. Tappert edited the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung from 1876 to 1880 . He was mainly active as a teacher and music critic.

In early 1897 he was accused of being a bribe. After the unfavorable settlement in court, he submitted his resignation to his newspaper, the Kleiner Journal , which the newspaper did not accept.

Tappert published works on music theory as well as piano pieces, songs, arrangements of old German songs with piano accompaniment and a selection of old lute pieces.

literature

• Ludwig Holtmeier:  Tappert, Wilhelm. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Tappert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Wilhelm Tappert  in the German Digital Library
• Works by and about Wilhelm Tappert at Open Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolph Kohut : painter Anton Schöner - Berlin . In: German Art and Decoration , Volume 14, 1904, pp. 425–426 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library , online since 2011 at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
2. ↑ Deborah Vietor-Engländer : Alfred Kerr - The Biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016, pp. 110–112.