Heinrich Werner (composer)

Heinrich Werner ( born October 2, 1800 Kirchohmfeld; † March 3, 1833 in Braunschweig ) was a German composer.

His largest and most famous legacy is the folk melody of Heidenrösleins by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Life

His father, a teacher and cantor, the music was connected in a special way; all three of his sons were musicians. Heinrich received up to 15 years musical training in his parents' house and was playing age of eleven the organ in the village church. At 15, he became a chorister in St Andreas hill, where his older brother Fritz and his younger brother Wilhelm were. The older brother, now a music teacher in Brunswick, Heinrich brought to Braunschweig, let him visit the local school and enjoy music lessons.

From 1821 he studied at Erfurt, where he took his teacher training from 1822. Later that year, he went back to Braunschweig, was choir prefect at the Opera and also worked as a music teacher.

Heinrich Werner should have for the most part songs created 84 compositions. His most famous song is setting Goethe's " A boy saw a little rose standing ". On January 20, 1829, was presented in the concert of Brunswick Liedertafel that he was the conductor for the first time. Werner's composition was soon. Were very popular and the only one of about 100 musical settings of the poem for today often sung folk song

In 1830 he made ​​trips to wood Minden, Hannover and in the home, to Berlin in 1831 and 1832 for the last time to his home.

In the fall of 1832 he fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis. On March 3, 1833, he died in Brunswick and was buried there.

Special honors

His hometown Kirchohmfeld honor him with a memorial stone, which is surrounded by bushes. In addition, the village hall is named after Heinrich -Werner - house. In addition, during the GDR era was one of two polytechnic secondary schools in Worbis, the county seat of his native village Kirchohmfeld, Heinrich -Werner - school.