Georg Alfred Schumann ( October 25, 1866 in Königstein - May 23, 1952 in Berlin Lichterfelde-West ) was a German composer , pianist , conductor , teacher and from 1900 to 1950 director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . Georg Schumann was born in October 1866 as the second of a total of twelve children [1] of the town music director Clemens Schumann Sr. (1839-1918) and his wife Camilla Ottilie, née Müller, born in Königstein. [2] He was a brother of the composer Camillo Schumann ; other siblings were Alfred Schumann (1868-1891), who had last been concertmaster of the Bremen Philharmonic , and Clemens Schumann jun. (1876-1938), from 1900 to 1936 violinist in the Dresden Staatskapelle . While Georg Schumann's musical training in Dresden was being continued by the Saxon "Organ King" Carl August Fischer and the former Julius Otto student Friedrich Baumfelder , he was already performing as a soloist with Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Concerto in A minor and awakened the mood with a piano sonata he composed himself Attention of the composer and lecturer Carl Reinecke , who gave him a position at the Leipzig Conservatory , where he studied from 1882 to 1888, mainly under him. Encounters with Franz Liszt , Anton Rubinstein , Johannes Brahms ,Arthur Nikisch , Gustav Mahler , Joseph Joachim , Carl Halir and Max Bruch gradually stimulated Schumann's artistic development. After working as a conductor and choirmaster of the singing club in Danzig (1890) and the philharmonic choir and orchestra in Bremen (1896), he was elected director (1950 honorary director) of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . In 1907 he was appointed as a member, in 1918 as vice president and in 1934 as acting president of the Prussian Academy of Arts , whose master school for composition he headed from 1913 to 1945 as successor to Max Bruch. His students included Hans Uldall , Shukichi Mitsukuri and Pancho Wladigerow , among others . From these positions, Georg Schumann had a decisive influence on German and especially Berlin musical life. Together with Richard Strauss and others, he founded the German composers' cooperative, today's GEMA , of which he became an honorary member. He was a co-founder of the Association of German Concert Choirs , campaigned for artists in need in the Aid Association for German Music Care and got e.g. Musicians like Arnold Schönberg at the Academy of Arts. He was the initiator of the acquisition and preservation of the Bach House in Eisenach and its development as a museum by the New Bach Society with the direct consent of Kaiser Wilhelm II , from whom he solicited financial support for the project. Through a personal guarantee , benefit concerts - e.g. with the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Eisenach in 1905 - and Schumann supported and promoted this project with active collecting activities. With the support of Sergiu Celibidache , conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra , and Hans Chemin-Petits , who was conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Choir , he worked to rebuild musical life in Berlin after 1945. Georg Schumann died in Berlin in May 1952 at the age of 85. The burial took place in the park cemetery of Lichterfelde (grave location: Im Walde 334). Schumann can be assigned to the outgoing late romanticism and neo-romanticism. Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann , to whom he was not related, can be named as role models . He wrote over 100 compositions, mostly choral works, e.g. B. Oratorios , chamber music and orchestral works, including an award-winning symphony (Symphony in B minor) , the choral work Amor und Psyche op. 3 (1888), which was first performed on November 4, 2003 in the Philharmonie Berlin after more than 50 years by the Philharmonic Choir Berlin revived oratorio Ruth op. 50 (1908), variations and gigue on a theme by Handel op. 72 (orchestral variation 1925), a humoresque in variation form, Yesterday evening war Vetter Michel da op. 74 (orchestral humoresque 1925) and most edits for the so-calledKaiserliederbuch , "published at the instigation of Sr. Mj. i.e. German Emperor Wilhelm II”, an extremely extensive collection of over 600 folk songs in older and newer settings.
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Georg Alfred Schumann ( October 25, 1866 in Königstein - May 23, 1952 in Berlin Lichterfelde-West ) was a German composer , pianist , conductor , teacher and from 1900 to 1950 director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin .
Georg Schumann was born in October 1866 as the second of a total of twelve children [1] of the town music director Clemens Schumann Sr. (1839-1918) and his wife Camilla Ottilie, née Müller, born in Königstein. [2] He was a brother of the composer Camillo Schumann ; other siblings were Alfred Schumann (1868-1891), who had last been concertmaster of the Bremen Philharmonic , and Clemens Schumann jun. (1876-1938), from 1900 to 1936 violinist in the Dresden Staatskapelle .
While Georg Schumann's musical training in Dresden was being continued by the Saxon "Organ King" Carl August Fischer and the former Julius Otto student Friedrich Baumfelder , he was already performing as a soloist with Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Concerto in A minor and awakened the mood with a piano sonata he composed himself Attention of the composer and lecturer Carl Reinecke , who gave him a position at the Leipzig Conservatory , where he studied from 1882 to 1888, mainly under him. Encounters with Franz Liszt , Anton Rubinstein , Johannes Brahms ,Arthur Nikisch , Gustav Mahler , Joseph Joachim , Carl Halir and Max Bruch gradually stimulated Schumann's artistic development.
After working as a conductor and choirmaster of the singing club in Danzig (1890) and the philharmonic choir and orchestra in Bremen (1896), he was elected director (1950 honorary director) of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . In 1907 he was appointed as a member, in 1918 as vice president and in 1934 as acting president of the Prussian Academy of Arts , whose master school for composition he headed from 1913 to 1945 as successor to Max Bruch. His students included Hans Uldall , Shukichi Mitsukuri and Pancho Wladigerow , among others .
From these positions, Georg Schumann had a decisive influence on German and especially Berlin musical life. Together with Richard Strauss and others, he founded the German composers' cooperative, today's GEMA , of which he became an honorary member. He was a co-founder of the Association of German Concert Choirs , campaigned for artists in need in the Aid Association for German Music Care and got e.g. Musicians like Arnold Schönberg at the Academy of Arts.
He was the initiator of the acquisition and preservation of the Bach House in Eisenach and its development as a museum by the New Bach Society with the direct consent of Kaiser Wilhelm II , from whom he solicited financial support for the project. Through a personal guarantee , benefit concerts - e.g. with the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Eisenach in 1905 - and Schumann supported and promoted this project with active collecting activities.
With the support of Sergiu Celibidache , conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra , and Hans Chemin-Petits , who was conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Choir , he worked to rebuild musical life in Berlin after 1945.
Georg Schumann died in Berlin in May 1952 at the age of 85. The burial took place in the park cemetery of Lichterfelde (grave location: Im Walde 334).
Schumann can be assigned to the outgoing late romanticism and neo-romanticism. Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann , to whom he was not related, can be named as role models .
He wrote over 100 compositions, mostly choral works, e.g. B. Oratorios , chamber music and orchestral works, including an award-winning symphony (Symphony in B minor) , the choral work Amor und Psyche op. 3 (1888), which was first performed on November 4, 2003 in the Philharmonie Berlin after more than 50 years by the Philharmonic Choir Berlin revived oratorio Ruth op. 50 (1908), variations and gigue on a theme by Handel op. 72 (orchestral variation 1925), a humoresque in variation form, Yesterday evening war Vetter Michel da op. 74 (orchestral humoresque 1925) and most edits for the so-calledKaiserliederbuch , "published at the instigation of Sr. Mj. i.e. German Emperor Wilhelm II”, an extremely extensive collection of over 600 folk songs in older and newer settings.
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Thank you sl much i was looking for a lot of time for some extra then me to play this masterpiece work
Favoloso!!!
Post Debussy's "Berceuse héroïque"
it's already on youtube with score to follow