Richard Schmidt (cantor)
Richard Schmidt (16 June 1877 – 1958 in Dresden[1]) was a German cantor and organist.
Life
[edit]Schmidt was born in 1877 as the son of the cantor Wilhelm Schmidt (1851–1896) and his wife Auguste Helbig in Oderwitz, Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau, Saxony.[2] After attending the Dresden Kreuzschule (1888–1896), he worked as an assistant organist at the Trinitatiskirche.[1] From 1896 to 1900, he studied piano and organ[3] at the Königlichen Konservatorium Dresden.[2]
From 1900 to 1902 he worked as répétiteur at the Semperoper Dresden.[2] From 1901 to 1916, he was cantor and organist at the Jakobikirche and from 1903 to 1928 a teacher at the Dresden Conservatory.[1] From 1913 to 1928, he was a music teacher at the Dresden Kreuzschule.[1] From 1916 to 1945 he was cantor and organist at the Erlöserkirche,[1] where he was substituted by Cantor Reiche during his military service.[4] From 1928, he was a lecturer in piano, organ and music theory[2] at the orchestral school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.[1] After the destruction in World War II, he participated in countless cantatas and oratorios under Cantor Johannes John at the Herz-Jesu-Kirche.[1]
He was a member of the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband, the Neue Bachgesellschaft and the Tonkünstlervereins Dresden.[2]
Schmidt, Protestant, was married to Elsa Röber from 1904 and father of a son.[2]
Further reading
[edit]- Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon. Für Musiker und Freunde der Tonkunst. 12th, very enlarged edition. Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1926.
- Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Dresdner Kantoren und Organisten berichten über ihre Tätigkeit und über die Musikpflege an ihrer Kirche. In: Matthias Herrmann (ed.): Dresden church music in the 19th and 20th centuries (Music in Dresden. Vol. 3). Laaber, Laaber 1998, ISBN 3-89007-331-X, pp. 415ff, here pp. 444f.
- ^ a b c d e f Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
- ^ Matthias Herrmann: Im Wandel der Zeit. Vom privaten zum städtischen Konservatorium 1918–1945. In Manuel Gervink (ed.): Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (1856–2006). Sandstein, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937602-57-7, pp. 37–75, here p. 41.
- ^ Die Musik der Erlöser- und Andreasgemeinde 1880–1957. johannes-kantorei.webs.com, retrieved 15 January 2021.
External links
[edit]- Literature by and about Richard Schmidt (cantor) in the German National Library catalogue
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