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Wilhelm Tappert
Wilhelm Tappert (19 February 1830 – 27 October 1907) was a German composer and music writer. Life Born in Ober-Thomaswaldau in the Province of Silesia, Tappert trained as a school teacher and made musical studies under Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn and Adolph Kullak in Berlin from 1856-1858. He settled there in 1866 and worked as a music critic and teacher. From 1876 until 1880, Tappert edited the '' Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung.'' He worked mainly as a teacher and music critic. At the beginning of 1897, he was accused of being corrupt. After the unfavourable settlement in court, he handed in his resignation to his newspaper, the ''Kleinen Journal,'' which the newspaper did not accept. Tappert published music theoretical writings as well as piano pieces, songs, arrangements of old German songs with piano accompaniment and a selection of old lute pieces. Tappert died in Berlin at the age of 77. Publications * ''Hurenaquarium und andere Unhöflichkeiten : Richard Wagner i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tappert
Tappert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fred Tappert (1940–2002), American physicist * Georg Tappert (1880–1957), German expressionist painter * Horst Tappert Horst Tappert (26 May 1923 – 13 December 2008) was a German film and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama ''Derrick''. Biography Horst Tappert was born on 26 May 1923 in Elberfeld ... (1923–2008), German movie and television actor * Wilhelm Tappert (1830–1907), German composer and music writer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Silesia
The Province of Silesia (german: Provinz Schlesien; pl, Prowincja Śląska; szl, Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1740 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871. In 1919, as part of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany, Silesia was divided into the provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia. Silesia was reunified briefly from 1 April 1938 to 27 January 1941 as a province of Nazi Germany before being divided back into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia. Breslau (present-day Wrocław, Poland) was the provincial capital. Geography The territory on both sides of the Oder river formed the southeastern part of the Prussian kingdom. It comprised the bulk of the former Bohemian crown land of Upper and Lower Silesia as well as the adjacent County of Kladsko, which the Prussian King Frederick the Great had all conquered from the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn
Siegfried Wilhelm (von) Dehn (24 or 25 February 1799 – 12 April 1858) was a German music theorist, editor, teacher and librarian. Born in Altona, Dehn was the son of a banker and learned to play the cello as a boy. Intent on becoming a diplomat, he studied law in Leipzig but also took music lessons from J. A. Dröbs. While attached to the Swedish embassy in Berlin, Dehn developed an interest in musical research, studying with Bernhard Klein. He was left destitute by the failure of the family bank in 1830 and decided to devote himself to music; he soon became known and respected widely as a musical theorist and teacher.Warrack and Deaville, ''New Grove (2001)'', 7:140. In 1842, composer Giacomo Meyerbeer recommended Dehn to fill the post of custodian of the Prussian royal library. Dehn threw himself into cataloging the collection, bringing it into order and adding to it copiously from libraries all over Prussia. Among the collections he amassed were those of Anton Schindler an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Kullak
Adolph Kullak (23 February 1823 – 25 December 1862) was a German pianist and music writer. Life Born in Międzyrzecz, Kullak, the brother of the founder of the ''New Academy of Music'', Theodor Kullak, is still significant today through his writings on music theory. His main works are ''Das Musikalisch-Schöne, ein Beitrag zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst'' and ''Die Ästhetik des Klavierspiels''. (1860). He also worked as a piano teacher and as an author for the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung ''Neue Berliner Musikzeitung'' was a musical periodical that appeared in the years 1847–1896 and was published by Bote & Bock. It was a continuation of the Berlin musical newspaper published between 1844 and 1847 by Karl Gaillard. History The .... on Encyclopedia. com Kullack died in Berlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung
The ''Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung'' (subtitled: ''Wochenschrift für die Reform des Musiklebens der Gegenwarts'') was a musical specialist journal, which appeared from 1874 to 1884, first in Leipzig and Kassel, then in Charlottenburg. In the early years it was called ''Allgemeine Deutsche Musik-Zeitung – Wochenschrift für das gesammte musikalische Leben der Gegenwart''. From 1878 to 1881, the music critic Wilhelm Tappert, a "defender of the New German School" was its editor. From 1881 to 1884, the composer was the owner and editor (he too was "active in a progressive sense"). Among the regular contributors was the music writer Heinrich Reimann, the organist and music writer Albert Heintz (responsible for the theme "Richard Wagner"), the composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau Luise Adolpha Le Beau (25 April 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 17 July 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Vietor-Engländer
Deborah Judith Vietor-Engländer (born 1946) is a British literary scholar. Life Vietor-Engländer was born in London. Her father fled Prague in 1939 and found refuge in Great Britain; her sister, Shulamit Engländer Amir, was rescued by Nicholas Winton on the 1939 Children's Transport to London. Vietor-Engländer studied German and French at University College London (B.A.). She then worked as a freelance writer for the BBC German Service and taught at the Polytechnic of Central London. She worked for the Fontane letter edition and wrote her doctoral thesis on Faust in the GDR under Walter Jens at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Married, one daughter. From 1972 to 1992, she had a position teaching at the Saarland University and then at the Technische Universität Darmstadt until 2007. Numerous publications on the problems of exile and the Shoah, including Yiddish in English, on the authors Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinrich Mann, Friedrich Torberg, Hermynia Zur Mühlen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr (''né'' Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: ) was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the ''Kulturpapst'' ("Culture Pope"). Biography Youth Kerr was born in Breslau, Silesia, the son of Helene (Calé) and Meyer Emanuel Kempner, who was a wine trader. He had one sister always known as Annchen: she married Siegfried Ollendorf and ultimately left Germany for Palestine. His family was Jewish. Alfred said while still at school that he intended to shorten his name to ''Kerr'', which became official in 1909. He studied literature in Berlin with Erich Schmidt and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Halle. Alfred Kerr worked as a theatre critic for ''Der Tag'' and later for the Berliner Tageblatt. He wrote weekly Berliner Briefe for the ''Breslauer Zeitung'' from 1895–1900 and for the ''Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung'' from 1897 to 1922. With the publisher Paul Cassirer he founded the artistic review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece. There are many different styles and types of accompaniment in different genres and styles of music. In homophonic music, the main accompaniment approach used in popular music, a clear vocal melody is supported by subordinate chords. In popular music and traditional music, the accompaniment parts typically provide the "beat" for the music and outline the chord progression of the song or instrumental piece. The accompaniment for a vocal melody or instrumental solo can be played by a single musician playing an instrument such as piano, pipe organ, or guitar. While any instrument can in theory be used as an accompaniment instrument, keyboard and guitar-family instruments tend to be used if there is only a single instrument, as these instruments can play chords and basslines simultaneously (chords and a bassline are easier to pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Finscher
Ludwig Finscher (14 March 193030 June 2020) was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. He is respected internationally as an authority on the history of Western Classical music from the 16th century to contemporary classical music, with a view on music in cultural, social, historical and philosophical context, in a clear language for both specialists and lay readers. Life and career Born in Kassel, the youngest of five siblings, Finscher studied musicology, English, German and philosophy at the University of Göttingen from 1949 to 1954. Students at the same time included Gerhard Croll, Carl Dahlhaus and Rudolf Stephan. He earned a doctorate with a thesis about the masses and motets by Loyset Compère, with advisor Rudolf Gerber. From 1954, he worked for the Deutsches Volksliedarchiv (German archive of folk songs) in Freiburg im Breisg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Musik In Geschichte Und Gegenwart
''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference to related subjects. It has appeared in two self-contained printed editions and a continuously updated and expanding digital edition, titled ''MGG Online''. Created by Karl Vötterle, the founder of Bärenreiter-Verlag, and Friedrich Blume, professor of musicology at Kiel University, the first edition was published by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel from 1949 through 1986, comprising a total of 17 volumes (''MGG1''; numbered in columns) and reprinted in paperback in 1989. As early as 1989, its new editor Ludwig Finscher began planning a second, revised edition with 29 volumes, which were published from 1994 through 2008 in cooperation with the publisher J.B. Metzler (''MGG2''; with a topical part in 9 volumes and a persons part in 17 volumes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Music Critics
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 Births
Year 183 ( CLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Victorinus (or, less frequently, year 936 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 183 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * An assassination attempt on Emperor Commodus by members of the Senate fails. Births * January 26 – Lady Zhen, wife of the Cao Wei state Emperor Cao Pi (d. 221) * Hu Zong, Chinese general, official and poet of the Eastern Wu state (d. 242) * Liu Zan (Zhengming), Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 255) * Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
