Otto Neitzel

Otto Neitzel ( born July 6, 1852 in Falkenburg, Pommern, † March 10, 1920 in Cologne ) was a German composer, pianist, music writer and university teacher.

Life

Otto Neitzel's parents were teachers Gottfried Neitzel and his wife Louise, née Messerschmidt. He was the second child of six siblings, all of whom were musically talented. Already eight years old when he excited as a child prodigy stir in Pomerania, Kallies, Rummel castle and the surrounding villages. In Berlin, the great talent of the boy by Eduard Grell (1800-1886), confirmed by the violinist Hubert Ries and by composer Wilhelm Tauber, in Szczecin by Carl Loewe. However, the father earned only 15 dollars a month and was therefore unable to bear the costs for further musical education of his gifted son. Neitzel went to Berlin and thus left his home region in the Pomeranian Switzerland forever.

1865 came Neitzel in Berlin as Quartaner to the Joachimsthalerstrasse high school and participated in the New Academy of Music under Theodor Kullak and Richard Wüerst piano lessons. The Friedrich Kiel Society has recognized him as a pupil of Friedrich Kiel. His education was financed by the patron Bernhard Loeser. From 1873 to 1875 he was a pupil of Franz Liszt. 1875 wrote Neitzel in three weeks his dissertation The aesthetic limit of program music and became the Dr. phil. doctorate. Then he accompanied pianist Pauline Lucca and the violinist Pablo de Sarasate on tour.

Neitzel 1878 became director of the Music Association ' in Strasbourg. From 1879 to 1881 he was music director at the Strasbourg city theater and teacher at the Strasbourg Conservatory. Then took him Max Erdmannsdörfer, who had become director there, as a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. In Moscow Neitzel married his student Sophie Romboi, a talented contralto. In 1885 he was then appointed as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory. In Cologne he took over in 1887, the music department of the Cologne Gazette and worked as a music critic. During this time his debut as an opera composer falls ( Angela, 1887, Halle ad Saale).

In winter 1906/ 07 Neitzel was invited to perform in the United States of America, including lectures on piano with explanations, so-called lecture recitals. In Philadelphia Neitzel played Beethoven's G major Concerto, also in Boston under Muck, and the Choral Fantasy and conducted on 7 and 8 February 1909, Ninth '.

In the following years, composed and performed Neitzel tirelessly and worked as a music writer. He came up with many musical greats of his time in contact, so even with Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, for whom he campaigned.

In March 1919 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was a professor.

Neitzel wrote a general opera guide and a work on Richard Wagner's operas. In addition to his own compositions he created piano arrangements of well-known works, such as 1878, the editor of the Spanish dances for piano by Sarasate. Merit full also is his book on Saint- Saëns (1891 ). As a music writer Neitzel wanted to be stimulating and enjoyable, less act as a scientifically trained critics.

His rich musical life ended on March 10, 1920. Neitzel had four daughters, one of which had been trained on the piano and another as a harpist played in the orchestra.

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Musiques pour piano et chant: opus 4, 5, 11, 25-27, 33, 36, 43
  • Life is a Dream, Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra
  • Country, Ode for chorus, orchestra and organ

Operas

  • Angela ( opera ), Halle 1887
  • Dido ( opera ), 1888
  • The old Dessauer ( opera ), 1889, Wiesbaden
  • The Barbarina ( opera ), 1904, Wiesbaden
  • Valhalla in need, 1905, Bremen
  • The judge of Košice ( opera ), 1916, Darmstadt

Writings

  • German opera guide. The leader of the German Opera, Magnus -Verlag, undated, ISBN 978-3-88400-121-9
  • Richard Wagner's operas. Add text, music and scene, Magnus -Verlag 1983, ISBN 978-3-88400-122-6
  • The leader explanatory by the Opera Theatre of the present text, music and scene, 3 volumes, Volume 2: Richard Wagner's operas, AG Liebeskind, Leipzig 1890-1893
  • Beethoven symphonies - after their votes salary explained (with numerous musical examples ), Tonger, Cologne 1891

Inside

  • Thematic Guide to the program of the 69th Lower Rhine Music Festival, Cologne 1892.
  • Camille Saint- Saëns, harmony Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1899
  • Introduction to Hausegger cinnabar, Ahn, Cologne 1898
  • ( with L. Riemann ), Music Aesthetic considerations, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1907, 3rd edition: 1909
  • From my musician's wallet - Serious and Heiteres, Loesdau, Berlin 1914
  • The leader of the German Opera, Cotta, Stuttgart 1920.

Media: 1 ) Edison Phonograph: January 23, 1890, with Rudolf Ibach and son at Neumarkt in Cologne, 1:24 min, Low Adelbert Theodore cheek man, excerpts 3rd movement "Piano Concerto No2 " F Minor, Frederic Chopin, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, NJ, USA. http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/prince-bismarck-and-count-moltke-before-the-recording-horn.htm 2 ) Welter wings: two tape reels, 1910, about 5 minutes, " Davidsbündler Dances", Robert Schumann, Music Instrument Museum Berlin, Germany.

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