Carl Martin Reinthaler (13 October 1822 – 13 February 1896) was a German
organist,
conductor
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and composer.
Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler.
Biography
Reinthaler was born in
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in ...
. He received his first music education from
August Gottfried Ritter
August Gottfried Ritter (25 August 1811 – 26 August 1885) was a German romantic composer and organist.
Biography
Co-creator, together with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, of the first example of Romantic Organ Sonata (the first one was composed ...
, an organist at
Magdeburg Cathedral. He studied
theology, and then
music with
Adolf Bernhard Marx, studying from 1849 to 1852 in
Paris and
Rome with a royal scholarship.
He was associated with the
Bremen Cathedral, of which he was director, chorus master of the
Singakademie Bremen
A Singakademie - originally a phenomenon of the German-speaking realm - is a large mixed choral society
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, and
cathedral organist since 1857. A friend of
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
, with whom he corresponded, he was responsible for the Bremen performance of ''
A German Requiem''. Reinthaler also conducted the premiere of the revised version of
Max Bruch's
first violin concerto in January 1868.
In later years, Reinthaler required a wheel chair, which limited his appearances in public musical scenes. He died in Bremen.
Works
*''Jephtha und seine Tochter''.
Oratorio in two parts
*''
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn''.
Opera in four acts
*
Choral
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works:
**''Fünf Sprüche und ein Weihnachtslied'' op. 50. Bremen, Praeger & Meier
**''Eile, Gott, mich zu erretten'' (
Psalm 70
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)
**''Frohlocket mit Händen, alle Völker'' (
Psalm 47) op. 18, 2
**''Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele'' (
Psalm 103
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) op.40
**''Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden'' (
Psalm 117
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)
**''Meine Seele verlanget und sehnet sich'' (
Psalm 42)
**''Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen Zions'' (
Psalm 126
Psalm 126 is the 126th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream". In Latin, it is known as ''In convertendo Dominus''. It is one o ...
)
*Symphony, in D (opus 12)
[Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. , page 367. Library of Congress via Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1912.]
Recordings
* ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn''. Richard Carlucci, Ilia Papandreou, Peter Schöne, Mate Solyom-Nagy, Marisca Mulder, Erfurt PO, Samuel Bächli cpo 2012
* ''Jephta und seine Tochter''. Sabine Ritterbusch, Konstanze Maxsein, Waltraud Hoffmann-Mucher, Jürgen Sacher, Richard Salter, Oliver Zwarg,
Bremer Domchor
The Bremer Domchor (Bremen Cathedral Choir) is a mixed choir at the Protestant Bremen Cathedral in Bremen, Germany.
History
The first choir at the ''Dom'' was founded in 1684 by the theologian and church musician , who was responsible for music ...
, Kammer Sinfonie Bremen,
Wolfgang Helbich
Wolfgang Helbich (8 April 1943 – 8 April 2013) was a German church musician, a choral conductor and academic. He was the founder of the Alsfelder Vokalensemble and served as their conductor for decades, a group that toured internationally and re ...
cpo 1997
References
Sources
* Carl Martin Reinthaler, in particular
this version*
Andreas Moser (ed.) ''Johannes Brahms Briefwechsel'', zweiter Band, vol. vi, Berlin, 1912,
*Oliver Schwarz-Roosmann: ''Carl Martin Reinthaler - Lebensweg eines Bremer Musikdirektors''. Verlag Lit, Münster, Hamburg, London 2003,
External links
*
*
Information about ReinthalerAbout Brahms
see note 16.
Interesting bit about Ein deutsches Requiem
1822 births
1896 deaths
German Romantic composers
German opera composers
Male opera composers
German classical organists
German male organists
German conductors (music)
German male conductors (music)
19th-century classical composers
19th-century conductors (music)
German male classical composers
19th-century German composers
Male classical organists
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