Friedrich Silcher

Philipp Friedrich Silcherstraße (also Friederich; * June 27, 1789 in Schnait; † August 26, 1860 in Tübingen ) was a German composer and music educator who is mainly known for his songs today. But He also composed and motets, chamber music and two overtures for orchestra.

Life

Philipp Friedrich Silcherstraße saw in the school of Schnait in the Rems valley as the son of the schoolmaster Johann Karl Silcherstraße the light of day. In 1803 he went as an apprentice after Geradstetten. In 1806 he was awarded in Fellbach near Stuttgart at the teacher and organist Nicholas Auberlen Ferdinand, who was a good musician and esteemed editor of Men's choirs, as " school servant " an apprenticeship.

In 1806, he came as a teaching assistant to Schorndorf, where he tutors the District Chief Baron of Berlichingen was well. When he moved in 1809 to Ludwigsburg, he gave Silcherstraße at the Ludwigsburg girls' school employment. Ludwigsburg had recently been temporarily residence of the Duchy of Württemberg, which is why there were staying Carl Maria von Weber and Conradin Kreutzer longer. Both recommended Silcherstraße to choose music as a life's work. So Silcherstraße devoted to the seminar in Ludwigsburg entirely to music, received lessons in piano and composition of Conradin Kreutzer and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Shortly after Kreutzer was moved to Stuttgart, followed him Silcherstraße and became a music teacher. During his two-year stay, he attended piano manufacturer Schiedmayer; He turned now to the very music of Mozart.

Silcherstraße appeared in 1817 as the first music director at the Eberhard -Karls- University of Tübingen.

He is considered one of the main protagonists of choral singing ( cf. glee club ) and arranged numerous choral settings of German and international folk songs, which still belong to the basic repertoire of many choirs and have become in the following generations commonplace. Silcherstraße itself founded in 1829 the "Academic Liedertafel " in Tübingen and director until his death on 26 August 1860. He is buried in the old town of Tübingen cemetery.

He was married to Luise Rosine Ensslin ( born September 6, 1804 in Tübingen, † June 17, 1871 ibid ). The marriage produced two daughters and one son. The birthplace Silcher now serves as a memorial and museum, the center is dedicated to the life and work of this Swabian musician. Will entertain the Museum of the Swabian Choral Association.

He was devoted to the grape variety Silcherstraße.

Work

Silcherstraße has made including by his three Harmonious Württemberg's chorale book deserves as well as by a large number of songs, including some, such as Heinrich Heine I do not know what it signifies and Herder Verhochdeutschung of the East Prussian compatriot Simon Badger Anke van Tharaw have become popular. He also left a Harmony And Theory of Composition (2nd edition, Tübingen 1859).

Selected Songs

• Farewell
• Parting of the journeymen
• Farewell
• Oh, oh, I poor monastery Miss
• Oh clear blue sky
• Oh how it is then possible
• Ade, the little town
• Every year
• Alleweil ka (nn) mer net was funny (s)
• Altdeutsches grave song
• Am Neckar
• To the faithless
• Annie of Tharaw
• Am i net a my boy in the world?
• Burschenlust
• The Finke puzzles
• The monastery Miss
• Loving brings big ' Freud '
• The French Horn
• The Linden Tree ( At the fountain in front of the gates; processing of the composition by Franz Schubert)
• May has arrived
• The soldier
• The Wanderer
• The chosen One
• The three Röselein
• The Lore
• The Lorelei
• The mourners
• The sad Bua
• Down in the Lowlands
• You are the most beautiful of all gifts
• By Wiesetal i 's output now na
• E Bisselé love and e Bisselé Trust
• Honorable he has fallen
• A lad and maiden nimble and beautiful
• A king is the wine!
• A bunch of the hat
• It flies many birds in the nest
• It goes with subdued sound of drums
• It Gfallt mer Nummen some
• Fresh sung (Hab ' often in the company of loved ones ... )
• Faith in Spring
• Good night, good night my fine child
• Hans and Verene
• Holy
• Secret Love
• Herber farewell
• Herzensweh
• Herzerl what soaks you so much
• Pastoral charity
• Hope for the best
• I walked once, walk
• I have seen the spring
• I had a comrade
• I do not know what it signifies
• In May-, in the May- bloom sweet little flower
• In the distance
• In a cool valley
• Now i input to the Brünnele
• Juchhei, you must have I
• No fire, no coal
• Action
• Come with me to the Tale
• Come on, children, let us go to Bethlehem
• Farewell
• Love joke
• Lorelei
• Mädele, jerk jerk, jerk on my right side
• Maidle, let you what verzähle
• Mei Maidle hot e G'sichtle
• Mei mother likes mi net
• My own they should be
• Darken my home mountains
• My little heart does me far too much!
• To me it is given to well-
• Tomorrow I must get away from here
• Tomorrow we have to go away
• Dawn, dawn, shine for early death to me?
• Must I then, because i need to Städtele addition
• Now good-bye, you little alley
• You alone
• O Maidle, you're my Morgestern
• O, how bitter is the vaginal
• Upper Swabian dance song
• Rosenstock, Holderblüt
• Rosemary and Salbeiblättlein
• Sanctus
• Schiffer Song ( It deletes the sea the sun out )
• Scottish bard Choir
• Schwäbisches Liebesliedchen
• ' S Heart
• Target 's old heart be forgotten
• So leb as well, thou silent house
• So then take my hands
• Silent sleeps the singer
• Sweet ' Love loves May
• Dance song
• Unterländer homesick
• Infidelity
• Vögele in the pine forest
• Little bird in the tall tree
• From Frühjohr
• Of all the girls, so flashing and so blank
• What have I done to my ladylove?
• What is it but a devoted child
• Weinlied
• When all the little brook flowing
• Advertising
• As tremble Blümlein outside
• As i so much han but the time
• How lovely echoes through bush and forest
• We want to decorate his crib
• Where a smallest Hüttle is
• What to do with Freud?
• Delight of lovers
• To thee drags 's mi
• At the End '!

Orchestral works

Selected Chamber Music

• Variations for piano on the folk song " in a cool reason "
• Divertissement for flute and piano from the " Freischütz " by CM v. Weber
• Variations on " Nel cor più mi sento " for flute and piano

Selected motets

Six four-part hymns or Figuralgesänge, op 9, contained therein

• Glory to God in the highest
• Look at it to Calvary

Other works

• In: Hermann und Moritz Watch Castle (ed.), Fr Silcherstraße and Fr Erk (musical editor): General German Commersbuch. Look Castle, Lahr 1867 ( Digitized edition of the 11th edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ).