Friedrich Hegar

Friedrich Hegar ( born October 11, 1841 in Basel, † June 2, 1927 in Zurich ) was a Swiss composer, conductor and violinist.

Life

Friedrich Hegar, son of Darmstadt born into a family of musicians, music teacher Ernst Friedrich Hegar, who also worked as a piano dealer in Basel, received his first musical training in violin, music theory and composition. The late 1850s, he began his study of composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.

After graduating in 1860, he worked as a conductor in Warsaw to switch a year later in Alsace Gebweiler, where he was deputy Kapellmeister under Julius Stockhausen. In 1863 he became conductor of the local orchestra association, the association later Tonhalle in Zurich. This was done at the instigation of Theodor Kirchner, with whom he entertained friends for many years. This position he held until 1903. From 1865 he headed also the Joint Choir Zurich and was also conductor at the theater Zurich. The same time he became involved in the Universal Music Society ( AMG). By 1914, Friedrich Hegar headed the Zurich Conservatory, which was founded went to his initiative. He died in 1927 in Zurich and was buried in the cemetery Fluntern.

Hegar had in the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century a formative influence on the development of music in Zurich and Switzerland. As conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra Association, he led his international reputation. As director of the Zurich Conservatory, he was constantly striving to improve the education of young musicians. As a choral conductor he worked on the development of men singing and regarded as the founder of the men's choir ballad. His compositional work consists mainly of songs, choruses and instrumental compositions. Under his leadership, several music festivals in Zurich and in 1900 the first Swiss Tonkünstlerfest took place.

Friedrich Hegar was honored several times. The University of Zurich awarded him the end of the 19th century, the honorary doctorate. In 1917 he became a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

His son was the cellist John Hegar.

Works (selection)

  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op 3
  • Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in C minor, Op 44
  • String Quartet in F sharp minor, Op 46
  • " Reconciliation ", Op 10
  • Song cycle, Op 19
  • Manasseh, for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, Op 16; dramatic poem in three scenes by Joseph Victor Widmann
  • "Mother tongue" ( folk song, Text: Max von Schenkendorfstraße )
  • " You dear little bird " ( folk song, Text: Otto von Redwitz )
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