Heinrich Zöllner

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Heinrich Zöllner, 1899

Heinrich Zöllner (4 July 1854 – 8 May 1941)

conductor
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Biography

The son of composer

Cologne Conservatory and while there he conducted the Cologne Male Voice Choir.[3]

Zöllner moved to the United States in 1890 to become the conductor and director of the Deutscher Liederkranz in New York City.[4] He remained in that position for eight years and achieved considerable success. His cantata, Die neue Welt (The New World), won a prize at the 1892 Cleveland Sängerfest.[3]

Zöllner returned to Leipzig in 1898 to replace

Freiburg and worked part-time as an opera critic for the Breisgauer Zeitung.[3]
He died in Freiburg aged 86.

Works

Zöllner's compositions include ten

choral music, lieder, and numerous smaller vocal pieces. Like his father, Zöllner composed a significant number of pieces for men's chorus. However, unlike his father, he showed a preference for large-scale works with full orchestral accompaniment. He is probably best remembered for his 1899 opera Die versunkene Glocke, which enjoyed frequent revivals up until the outbreak of World War II.[3]

Operas

  • Die lustigen Chinesinnen (1885 Cologne, Stadttheater)
  • Faust (19 October 1887, Munich, Hoftheater)
  • Matteo Falcone (18 December 1893, New York, Irving Place)
  • Bei Sedan (1 September 1895, Leipsig, Neues Theater)
  • Der Überfall (7 September 1895, Dresden, Hoftheater)
  • Das hölzerne Schwert (24 November 1897, Kassel, Hoftheater)
  • Die versunkene Glocke (8 July 1899, Berlin, Theater des Westens)
  • Frithjof (6 October 1910, Antwerp)
  • Zigeuner (15 March 1912, Stuttgart, Hoftheater)
  • Der Schützenkönig (18 December 1913, Elberfeld-Barmen, Stadttheater)

Choral works

Sources

  • Merian, Hans; Egg, Bernhard (1913). Illustrierte Geschichte der Musik von der Renaissance bis auf die Gegenwart [Illustrated history of music from the Renaissance to the present time] (in German) (3 ed.). Leipzig: Otto Spamer. pp. 514, 700, 774. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

References

  1. ISBN 0-02-870240-9
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  2. ^ Merian & Egg 1913, p. 514.
  3. ^ a b c d Deane L. Root: "Heinrich Zöllner", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (accessed 23 January 2009), (subscription access) Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Merian & Egg 1913, p. 700.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Merian & Egg 1913, p. 774.
  • Don Randel
    : The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (Harvard, 1996), p. 1011.
  • Opera Glass

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