Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Peter Heinrich Freiherr von Herzogenberg ( Picot de Peccaduc ) ( born June 10, 1843 in Graz, † October 9, 1900 in Wiesbaden, Germany ) was an Austrian composer.
Life
Herzogenberg comes from a French aristocratic family that had emigrated to the time of the French Revolution to Austria. Since 1811, the family had the original name " Picot de Peccaduc " Germanized.
Herzogenberg studied for a school in his hometown at the University of Vienna Law and the Conservatory of Friends of Music Society at Felix Otto Dessoff music.
About his teacher he came in contact with Johannes Brahms. In the Viennese society, he met his future wife, Elizabeth of Stockhausen know who was a daughter of the Hanoverian envoy at the court.
After first artistic activity in his home town of Graz in 1872, he moved to Leipzig, where he founded in 1874 together with Franz von Holstein, Philipp Spitta and Alfred Volkland the Leipzig Bach -Verein, which he also initiated in 1875 itself.
Under his suggestion that Bach's cantatas was first available to a wider audience. The study of the works of Bach 's compositional style also influenced the long term. Acquaintance with Brahms deepened, a lively correspondence, even to current composition questions, paved the way for visits Brahms ' in Leipzig.
Since 1885 he taught as a professor of composition at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, had there the appeal Spitta prepared. Between the two families to a lifelong friendship developed, several times they spent their vacations together in the Appenzell region. 1891 Herzogenberg began to build a summer house in nations with a view of the nearby lake. Prior to the completion of the house of Elisabeth Herzogenberg died 44 -year-old on a long-standing heart condition.
1893 Herzogenberg friendly with the younger brother of the musicologist Spitta, the theologian Friedrich Spitta, who taught in Strasbourg. In the wake of the sudden death of Philipp Spitta and the resurgent friendship with his brother, Herzog mountain turned to the composition of sacred music, preceded his work focus on chamber music, choral and solo songs and two symphonies had lain. In the following summers originated in heathen Liturgical chants, the oratorio The Nativity, the chorale cantata God is present, and finally as a two -hour drive, the harvest celebration.
One is reinforcing rheumatoid disease forced Herzogenberg repeatedly to interrupt his Berlin teaching, and he moved to some spa stays in Wiesbaden final in this city, where he died in 1900. His final resting place Herzogenberg on the North Cemetery in Wiesbaden.
His wife Elisabeth von Herzogenberg ( née Stockhausen, born April 13, 1847 in Paris, † January 7, 1892 in San Remo ) was a gifted pianist who for Johannes Brahms often than first reviewer of his work was of great importance, among others.
Works
Herzogenberg composed two symphonies, the symphonic poem Ulysses, Violin Concerto in A major (1899, WoO 4), chamber music and choral works, organ music, piano pieces and songs. His works clearly show the influence of his friend Johannes Brahms. Brahms dedicated Elisabeth of Herzogenberg two Rhapsodies ( Op. 79, Agitato in B minor and G minor Molto passonato ).
Student
- Heinrich XXIV Prince Reuss - Koestritz
- Max Gulbins
- Ethel Smyth
- Siegfried case
- Johan Wagenaar