Robert Radecke
Robert Radecke ( born October 31, 1830 in Dittmannsdorf near Waldenburg (Silesia ), † June 21, 1911 in Wernigerode ) was a German composer, conductor and music educator.
Life
Albert Martin Robert Radecke was the son of a Protestant cantor and organist. Showed early musical ability. He received his academic music education in 1848 at the Leipzig Conservatory. Here were among his teachers Julius Rietz (composition), Ignaz Moscheles (piano) and Ferdinand David (violin).
Robert Radecke played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 1852, two years after graduation, he was the second director of the Leipzig Academy of Music and the following year Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Stadttheater. This post he held for only a short time before he went to Berlin in 1854.
In Berlin he was initially in chamber music ( so as second violinist in the quartet of Ferdinand leaves) and as a piano virtuoso, before he distinguished himself from 1858 through organized on their own orchestra and choral concerts. In 1863 he was appointed music director of the Royal Court Opera in 1871 and appointed as Royal Kapellmeister for life.
In 1878 he became a teacher at the Stern Conservatory, where he presided until 1888 as a director in 1883. 1875 Robert Radecke became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts, 1881, he was elected to a senator and six years later as Chairman of the Senate of the music section.
His last place of work was the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin, whose director he was appointed in 1892 and remained until the age of 77 years.
The tomb of Robert Radeckes, one of Berlin's honor tombs, located on the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin -Schöneberg.
Robert Radecke was with Charlotte Jonas (1837-1880), a daughter of the Protestant theologian Ludwig Jonas (1797-1859), married. Her son Ernst Ludwig Sigismund (1866-1920) worked from 1893 to 1920 as a pianist, conductor and music director in Winterthur ( Switzerland ). In addition, the couple had six more children: Anna (1863-1863), Elisabeth (1864-1927), Paul (1868-1871), Charlotte (1870-1939), Walther (1872-1956) and Joachim ( 1874-1895 ). Robert Radeckes older brother Rudolf Radecke was also in Berlin choral conductor and music educator.
Works
Robert Radecke composed orchestral music, chamber music, but especially numerous songs. Its by far the best known is "From the youth " ( Op. 22 No. 1) after a poem by Friedrich Rückert, which has assumed the character of a folk song.
His catalog includes 58 numbers, which are almost always several songs are combined into one number. Even a so-called songs game, The Mönkguter, is one of them. It's about people on the peninsula Moenchgut ( Mönke Good) on Rügen. From the orchestral works, especially the overtures " On the beach " and Shakespeare's " King John " and the Symphony in F major ( Op. 50) should be mentioned.
Student
- Camillo Schumann
- Bruno Walter
- George Elbridge Whiting