Carl Friedrich Zöllner
Carl Friedrich Zöllner ( born March 17, 1800 Mittelhausen in Sanger Hausen, † September 25, 1860 in Leipzig ) was a German composer and is considered the leading figure of the Central German men's choir being in the middle of the 19th century.
Life
Carl Friedrich Zöllner was the third of five sons of the school rector Johann Andreas Zöllner in Saxony- Weimar exclave Mittelhausen. After the early death of his father (1809 ) he went to high school in Eisleben and Eisenach and in 1814 the St. Thomas School in Leipzig.
From 1819 he studied theology here, but which he gave up in 1822, after he had in 1820 assumed the voice teacher position at the Leipzig Council Free School. In 1822, he also set up a private music institution in which especially the chorus was maintained. It opened in 1833 the first publican Club, the founding of many other guided by publicans male choirs followed. In a gala concert to Schiller's 100th birthday he conducted twenty clubs. This came together after his death to Leipzig publican League, which existed until 1945.
From 1840 he taught as a singing teacher at the St. Thomas School.
In 1868 it was erected a monument in Leipzig Rosental.
His son Heinrich Zöllner was also a successful composer and conductor.
The publican - male choir Bernburg eV (founded October 23, 1846 ) is the only up to the present time active choir, which stands in the unbroken tradition of Carl Friedrich Zöllner.
Work
The voice still likes the song from the Rhine wine. His Variations for Organ on God Save the King are still played today. This has become a folk song wandering set to music a poem by Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller, who also Franz Schubert set to music as the opening song of his cycle The Beautiful Miller. Also from other seals of this cycle are musical settings before for four male voices of Carl Friedrich Zöllner. Publicans the Müller- poem set to music in the jug to the green wreath ( op.14, 3), the now famous and still popular sung setting is not by him but by Johann Friedrich Reichardt.