Bernhard Scholz

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Not to be confused with Bernd Scholz.
Bernhard Scholz
Scholz before 1908
Born(1835-03-30)30 March 1835
Mainz
Died26 December 1916(1916-12-26) (aged 81)
Munich
Occupations
  • Conductor
  • Composer
  • Pedagogue
Organizations

Bernhard E. Scholz, (30 March 1835 – 26 December 1916) was a German conductor, composer and teacher of music.

Life

Bernhard Scholz was born in

printer at Imp. Lemercier in Paris. But music became his career. He was a student of Ernst Pauer (piano) in Mainz, and 1855-56 of Siegfried Dehn (counterpoint) in Berlin. He also took voice lessons with Antonio Sangiovanni in Milan
.

He first taught at the

Frankfurt
, a post he held until 1908.

He died in Munich in 1916.

His Piano Concerto was championed by Clara Schumann, who included it in her repertory.[1]

He was one of four signatories to an anti-"Music of the Future" (anti-New-Weimar-School) Manifesto published in the Berliner Musik-Zeitung Echo on 6 May 1860, along with Johannes Brahms (possibly its author), Joseph Joachim and Julius Otto Grimm.[2]

Works

  • Carlo Rosa, opera (1858 in Munich)
  • Ziethen'sche Husaren, opera (1869 in Breslau)
  • Morgiane, opera (1870 in Munich)
  • Golo, opera (1875 in
    Nürnberg
    )
  • Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, opera (1877 in Wiesbaden)
  • Die vornehmen Wirte, opera (1883 in Leipzig)
  • Ingo, opera (1898 in Frankfurt)
  • Anno 1757, opera (1903 in Berlin)
  • Mirandolina, opera (1907 in Darmstadt)
  • Choral music with orchestra
  • 2 symphonies
  • Piano concerto in B major, Op. 57 (published 1883)
  • 2 string quartets
  • String quintet
  • Piano quartet
  • 2 piano trios
  • 3 violin sonatas
  • 5 cello sonatas
  • Piano music
  • Lieder

Publications

  • Lehre vom Kontrapunkt und der Nachahmung, 1897
  • Wohin treiben wir?, 1897 (a collection of essays)
  • Musikalisches und Persönliches, 1899
  • Verklungene Weisen, 1911
  • Sigfried Dehn: Lehre vom Kontrapunkt, dem Kanon und der Fuge, (Bernhard Scholz, Ed.) 1859/2. Edition: 1883

Footnotes

  1. ^ Joseph Braunstein, Liner notes to the Michael Ponti recording of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7
  2. ISBN 0-8014-9721-3
    .

References

  • Peter Cahn, Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878–1978), Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979.
  • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, (Nicolas Slonimsky, Ed.) New York: G. Schirmer, 1958
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