Peter Piel

Peter Piel ( born August 12, 1835 in Kessenich near Bonn; † August 21, 1904 in Boppard ) was a German composer, music theorist and pedagogue.

Life and work

Peter Piel was born the son of a small farmer, and spent his childhood from the year 1837 in nearby Cologne.

His first lessons in piano, violin and organ received Piel at the preparatory school of Teachers college in Kempen, where he studied from 1854 to 1856. His teacher Albert Michael Jepkens soon noticed the outstanding talent Piel and delegated parts of music teaching at him. After Jepkens ' death put Piel the edition of his collection "Church Songs for polyphonic male choir " continued he significantly advanced in the sequence.

In 1868, Piel was appointed to the newly established Royal School teachers seminar to Boppard, where he was in 1878 then appointed first seminary teacher and in 1887, the royal music director, in which capacity he worked there until his death.

Piel's most important work is his 1889 published " harmony " which would experience a further twelve editions up to 1923; they, like many of his organ pieces were due to his practical experience in teaching his seminar students.

Piel was a dedicated member of St. Cecilia's Association, also also the Choral Association Michael Hermes Dorffs and, with this, Henry Oberhoffer, Stephan Lueck, Heinrich Böckeler and Peter Wagner of the most important reformers of church music in the Rhineland.

Piel remained unmarried all his life. Regular trips to neighboring countries, he formed continues. The guided by him in Boppard Seminar musical performances, especially in the field of Gregorian chant, were among the Cecilian church musicians of his time as an example.

Its documented in 114 provided with opus numbers works, including 41 trade fairs and other uses music for simple church music ratios style of composition is committed to the ideals of Cecilianism and found in the 19th century extensive attention; his numerous works are, however, but today almost completely forgotten.

Works

Compositions

I. vocal works:

  • 41 Trade Shows
  • 200 liturgical songs in Latin and German language
  • Litanies
  • Cantatas
  • Magnificat
  • Te Deum
  • Marian antiphons
  • Requiem
  • Offertories
  • Lamentations
  • Guzzle
  • Ave Maria
  • Hymns

II Organ Works:

  • Organ trios
  • Approximately 250 individual pieces and accompanying settings
  • Organ books for the hymnals of the dioceses of Cologne and Trier

III: Piano Works & Chamber Music:

  • Sonatinas
  • Marches
  • Suites & Sonatas for Piano and Violin

( Catalog of works by Paul Mies, PP, in: Rheinische musicians, ed v. Fellerer KG, Cologne 1960 pp. 200-204. )

Writings

  • About the song. Some of the singing teaching and singing method, Dusseldorf 1873
  • Course for the singing lessons in elementary school after the seminar - training school to Boppard followed method, Dusseldorf 1901
  • Harmonies. With special consideration of the requirements for the church organ playing first for teacher seminars, Dusseldorf 1889
  • Preface to Paul Schmetz, The harmonization of Gregorian chant song. A handbook to learn the chant accompaniment, Dusseldorf 1885
  • Reviews: In the " St. Cecilia Society -Catalog ", Regensburg 1870 ff
  • Lumen Cordium. Catholic Prayer and Hymns in particular for the use of institutions of higher education, ed. v. H. J. Liessem and P. Piel, Cologne 1898
  • Orgelbuch to the liturgical hymns of Lauds divinae, Paderborn 1882
  • Little Handbook of choral singing. Contains liturgist. Chants for hl. Fair and together with a few songs for the various Holy Week contents, Paderborn 1882
  • Liber marianus seu cantiones in honorem BMV, ad quatuor voces adaptatae from auctoribus diversis, Leipzig, 1888.
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