Wilhelm Tschirch
Friedrich Wilhelm Tschirch (born June 8, 1818 in Lichtenau , Province of Silesia , † January 6, 1892 in Gera ) was a German composer . He also appeared under the pseudonym Alexander Czersky .
Life
Wilhelm Tschirch was initially tutored by his father before he went to Berlin to study at the Royal Institute for Church Music . As a particularly gifted student, he came to the music department of the Royal Academy of the Arts and at the same time received lessons from Adolf Bernhard Marx . In 1843 he was elected city music director in Liegnitz and in 1852 he followed a call to Gera , where he remained for life. There he held the offices of a princely court conductor , cantor and music director and was the center of all musical activity. He was a member of the Freemasons' Union and was accepted by the Liegnitz lodge "To the three heights".
His early cantata One Night on the Sea was awarded a prize by the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. For this reason, he also devoted himself to male singing in later works, which were received with enthusiasm by the choral societies and which carried his name to America. In 1869, Wilhelm Tschirch came to the song festival in Baltimore as an envoy of the German Singers Association . He was made an honorary member of many choral societies.
Tschirch's lyrical opera Meister Martin und seine Gesellen was successfully premiered on April 25, 1861 in the Leipzig City Theater.
His younger brothers Ernst and Rudolf were also musicians.
Tschirch published numerous salon pieces for piano under the pseudonym Alexander Czersky.
Two years after his death, the Wilhelm Tschirch memorial designed by Heinrich Günther-Gera was inaugurated on April 1, 1894 on Neustadtplatz in Gera . The larger than life bronze bust on a stone stele was moved to the city park in 1933, from where it disappeared during the Second World War.
Works
- A night on the sea , dramatic tone painting for solo, male choir, etc. Orchestra; Seal by Erdmann Stiller
- The old and the young revelers op. 17, poem by Robert Reinick , for male choir and solo voices
- Die Harmonie op. 19, hymn by G. Rüffer, for male choir with accompaniment of wind instruments
- The penalized stag op. 36, for tenor solo and male choir with piano
- Die Zeit op. 38, for male choir and orchestra
- The tournament op. 43, Dramatic scene for male choir, soprano solo and orchestra
- Master Martin and his journeymen Lyric opera in four acts (Libretto by Heinrich Moritz Horn based on a novella by ETA Hoffmann )
- Am Niagara , op. 78, Concert-Overture for orchestra
literature
- Carl von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present, Berlin 1861.
- Robert Eitner : Tschirch, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 721 f.
- Mendel - Reissmann's Lexikon, the publisher's catalogs, reviews in magazines and the necrologist.
- Wilhelm Tschirch: From my life, Gera: Verlag von A. Nugel 1892, 44 pp.
Web links
- Works by and about Wilhelm Tschirch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wilhelm Tschirch in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Wilhelm Tschirch in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tschirch, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Czersky, Alexander (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lichtenau , Province of Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1892 |
| Place of death | Gera |