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Selmar Bagge (30 June 1823 – 16 July 1896)
[ was a German composer, music journalist and academic.]
Biography
Bagge was born in Coburg
Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it ...
in 1823; his father Johann Bagge was rector of the Latin school there. In 1837 he went to Prague Conservatory
The Prague Conservatory or Prague Conservatoire ( cs, Pražská konzervatoř) is a music school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808. Currently, Prague Conservatory offers four or six year study courses, which can be compared to the level ...
, studying composition with Friedrich Dionys Weber and cello with Johann Hüttner. For two years from 1840 he was first cello in the municipal theatre in Lemberg (present-day Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...
).
He moved to Vienna, where he met the musical circle of Princes Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (; lt, Аdomas Jurgis Čartoriskis; 14 January 177015 July 1861), in English known as Adam George Czartoryski, was a Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author.
The son of a wealthy prince, he began his political c ...
and Konstanty Adam Czartoryski
Prince Konstanty Adam Czartoryski (October 28, 1777 – April 24, 1866) was a Polish nobleman who became colonel in 1809 in the Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum ...
, and he studied music theory with Simon Sechter. In 1851, through Sechter, he became Professor of Composition at Vienna Conservatory. In 1853 he became organist at the Protestant church in Gumpendorf
Mariahilf (; Central Bavarian: ''Mariahüf'') is the 6th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 6. Bezirk). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850. Mariahilf is a heavily populated urban area with many re ...
near Vienna.["Bagge, Selmar"]
'' Neue Deutsche Biographie'', Volume 1 (1953).
He resigned his professorship in 1855. He began to write about music; in 1855 in ''Monatsschrift für Theater und Musik'' he wrote articles critical of Vienna Conservatory, later dealing with general musical topics. In 1859 he became editor of ''Deutsche Musikzeitung'', in which he was one of the first in Vienna to promote the music of Schumann and Brahms.[
In 1863 he moved to ]Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
, and took over the editorship of the ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
The ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'' (''General music newspaper'') was a German-language periodical published in the 19th century. Comini (2008) has called it "the foremost German-language musical periodical of its time". It reviewed musical e ...
''. He left in 1868 to become director of the Allgemeine Musikschule in Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
, where he provided lectures in musicology. He remained there until his death in 1896.[
]George Grove
Sir George Grove (13 August 182028 May 1900) was an English engineer and writer on music, known as the founding editor of ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians''.
Grove was trained as a civil engineer, and successful in that profession, b ...
wrote in '' A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'': "Bagge is a strong conservative and an able writer. Beethoven and Schumann are his models in art, and he has no mercy on those who differ from him.... His music is correct and fluent, but poor in invention and melody."
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1823 births
1896 deaths
People from Coburg
19th-century German composers
German music journalists