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Wilhelm Tappert (19 February 1830 – 27 October 1907) was a German composer and music writer.
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Wilhelm Tappert (19 February 1830 – 27 October 1907) was a German composer and music writer.
Life
Born in Ober-Thomaswaldau in theProvince 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 p ...
, Tappert trained as a school teacher and made musical studies under 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 diplo ...
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
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 ...
and a selection of old lute pieces.
Tappert died in Berlin at the age of 77.
Publications
* ''Hurenaquarium und andere Unhöflichkeiten : Richard Wagner im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kritik''. * ''Wandernde Melodien; eine musikalische Studie''. * ''Für und wider : eine Blumenlese aus den Berichten über die Aufführungen des Bühnenweihfestspieles Parsifal''.Further reading
* Ludwig Holtmeier: Tappert, Wilhelm. InLudwig 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 respecte ...
(ed.): ''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 t ...
''. Second edition, Personal section, volume 16 (Strata – Villoteau). Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel u. a. 2006, subscription required for full access)
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tappert, Wilhelm German music critics 1830 births 1907 deaths People from Silesia