Ferdinand Hiller
Ferdinand von Hiller ( born October 24, 1811 in Frankfurt am Main, † May 11 1885 in Cologne ) was a German composer, conductor and music educator.
Life
His first teacher was Aloys Schmitt, and when he was ten years old, his wealthy father sent him for his compositions and his talent to Hummel in Weimar. There he devoted himself to composition; his works include the Entreactes to Mary Stuart, by which he made the acquaintance of Goethe. Under Hummel Hiller made great progress as a pianist. Hummel took his 15 -year-olds beginning in 1827, a trip to Vienna, where they visited the dying Ludwig van Beethoven. After a short stay at home Hiller went in 1829 to Paris, where he stayed until 1836 ( and Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto for the local premiere brought ). The death of his father made his return to Frankfurt for some time necessary, but on 8 January 1839, he led Milan in his opera La Romilda and began his oratorio to write The destruction of Jerusalem, which is considered one of his best works. Then he went to his friend Mendelssohn in Leipzig, where he headed from 1843 to 1844 a series of concerts by the Gewandhaus ( Leipzig) and his oratorio aufführte.
After another trip to Italy to study church music, Hiller led two other operas, The Dream and Conradin, in 1845 or 1847 in Dresden. As a conductor, he came in 1847 and 1850 Dusseldorf to Cologne and led the Italy Opéra in Paris in 1851 and 1852. Cologne he as head of the Gürzenich Orchestra and the Conservatory of Cologne, today's Academy of Music and Dance Cologne was an authority. Since the year 1853 he was a total of 12 times in charge of the festival manager of the Lower Rhine Music Festivals. He retired in 1884 and died at age 73.
Hiller was a member of the Masonic Lodge to the rising dawn in Frankfurt am Main.
His tomb is located at the Cologne Melaten Cemetery ( HWG btw ref M and T, No. 437).
Hiller is dedicatee of Op 15 Nocturnes of ( Chopin).
Honors
- Ennoblement by Charles I ( Württemberg) ( 1875)
Works (selection)
Stage Works
- La Romilda ( Gaetano Rossi), opera seria ( premiered on January 8, 1839 in Milan )
- A Dream of Christmas Eve (Carl Gollmick ), 3 acts ( premiered on April 9, 1845 in Dresden)
- Conradin (Robert Reinic ) ( premiered on October 13, 1847 in Dresden)
- The lawyer ( Roderich Bendix ), comic opera, Act 2 ( premiered on December 21, 1854 in Cologne)
- The Catacombs ( Hartmann), serious opera, Act 3 ( premiered on 15 February 1862 in Wiesbaden)
- The Deserter (Ernst Pasque ), serious opera, Act 3 ( premiered on February 17, 1865 in Cologne)
Works for Piano and Orchestra
- Piano Concerto No.. 1 in F minor, Opus 5
- Piano Concerto No.. 2, F sharp minor, Op 69
- Piano Concerto No.. 3, A-flat major, Concerto espressivo, op 170
Other works
- Four symphonies, including Symphony in E minor, Op 67 ( There must be spring )
- The destruction of Jerusalem ( oratorio )
- ABC Book for Children of All Ages / drawn by Dresdner artists. With stories and songs by R. Reinic and Sing ways of Ferdinand Hiller. Wigand, Leipzig 1845 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
- In: Düsseldorf Songs Album: 6 songs with piano accompaniment. - Dusseldorf: . Arnz, 1851 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
Publications
- Chats with Rossini, Cologne Gazette, in 1855 ( in a book edition in from the Tonleben our time, Volume 2, pp. 1-84; edition edited by Guido Johannes Joerg, Stuttgart 1993. )
- From the Tonleben our time, 3 volumes, 1868-1871
- Letters to a unnamed. Cologne 1877
- Artist's Life, 1880
- Reminder sheets, 1884
Student
- Caspar Joseph Bramstedt (1833-1902)
- Max Bruch (1838-1920)
- Julius Buth (1851-1920)
- Grüters Hugo (1851-1928)
- Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916)
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)