Max Springer (19 December 1877 – 20 January 1954) was a German organist, composer and music educator .
Life
Springer grew up in the municipality of
Schwendi, Baden-Württemberg
Schwendi (; Swabian: ''Schwende'') is a municipality in the district Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located near Laupheim
Laupheim (; Swabian: ''Laoba'') is a major district town in southern Germany in the state of Baden-Württembe ...
. He was initially a pupil of the
Beuron Archabbey
Beuron Archabbey (in German Erzabtei Beuron, otherwise Erzabtei St. Martin; in Latin ''Archiabbatia Sancti Martini Beuronensis''; Swabian: ''Erzabtei Beira'') is a major house of the Benedictine Order located at Beuron in the upper Danube va ...
and came to Prague as organist of the St.
Emmaus Monastery
The Emmaus Monastery ( cs, Emauzy or ''Emauzský klášter''), called Na Slovanech in the Middle Ages, is an abbey established in 1347 in Prague. It was the only Benedictine monastery of the Kingdom of Bohemia and all Slavic Europe.
In the 136 ...
, a branch of the Beuron Monastery, where he studied at the German university with, among others,
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...
and
Josef Klička
Josef Klička (15 December 1855, Klatovy, Kingdom of Bohemia – 28 March 1937, Klatovy) was a Czechs, Czech Organ (music), organist, violinist, composer, Conducting, conductor and pedagogue. He produced several large Organ (music), organ composit ...
. As early as 1910, he taught composition at the
Wiener Musikakademie
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.
With a student body of over three thousa ...
, and in 1923 he was appointed full professor and received the title of "Hofrat". In 1926, he became director of the
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.
With a student body of over three thousa ...
. The municipality of Schwendi made him an honorary citizen in 1933. Among his students were
Johann Bauernfeind,
Kurt Wöss
Kurt Wöss also Kurt Woess (2 May 1914, in Linz, Austria – 4 December 1987, in Dresden, Germany) was an Austrian conductor and musicologist.
Wöss was principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from 1951 to 1954. From 1956 to 1959 ...
,
Erwin Weiss,
Karl Josef Walter,
Marko Tajčević, and
Anton Nowakowski.
Springer died in Vienna at the age of 76.
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Work
* ''Sechs Fughetten über den Namen BACH'' op. 14. Coppenrath-Verlag, Regensburg, 1908
* ''8 Postludien über die gebräuchlichsten Ite missa est.'' op. 20
* ''4 Präludien und eine Fantasie über das Oster-Halleluja'' op. 21
* ''Missa "Lauda Sion"'' op. 22
* ''Te deum'', op. 28, für gemischten Chor und Orgelbegleitung, Bonifatius-Druckerei, Prag, 1914
* ''Messe zu Ehren der seligen Crescentia Höss'' op. 31
* ''Kleine Präludien für Orgel'' op. 35
* ''Konzert für Violine und Orgel'' op. 40
Further reading
* ''Heinz Lohmann
Heinz Lohmann (8 November 1934 in Gevelsberg – 11 March 2001 in Berlin) was a German organist, editor and composer.
Lohmann studied in Detmold and Paris. He worked as Kirchenmusikdirektor at the church ''Zum Heilsbronnen'' in Berlin. He gave ...
: Handbuch der Orgelliteratur (Breitkopf & Härtel
Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf.
The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...
, 1975/ 1980)''
* ''Bruno Weigl: Handbuch der Orgelliteratur (F. E. G. Leuckart, Leipzig, 1931)''
* ''Max Hammer: Schwendi. Heimatbuch einer Gemeinde in Oberschwaben (Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1969)''
* ''Genialer Orgelvirtuose und begnadeter Komponist. Zeitungsartikel der Schwäbischen Zeitung vom 31. Januar 2004''
* ''Komponistenbeschreibung in „Größere und kleinere Orgelwerke“ op. 54C Johannes Diebold (Pustet, Regensburg, 1910)''
* ''Klaus Beckmann: Repertorium Orgelmusik'' (Schott, Mainz, 2001)
References
External links
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German music educators
German classical organists
20th-century German composers
1877 births
1954 deaths
People from Württemberg