June 2024: Carl Reinecke’s two hundredth birthday is being celebrated in Leipzig at present! · Leipzig Newspaper

In honor of Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (* June 23, 1824 Altona; † March 10, 1910 Leipzig), composer, pianist, composer, instructor on the Leipzig Conservatory and conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1860 to 1895, within the months of Could to September 2024 solely He performed items of music with him in additional than 30 live shows in Leipzig and in 9 live shows in close by Markkleeberg.

A particular occasion is the laying of a wreath on June 23, Sunday, within the Südfriedhof, Part V, at 11 am on the grave of Carl Reinecke adopted by a live performance at 3 pm within the Nice Corridor of the Leipzig College of Music and Theater.

Loads has been written about Carl Reinecke to this point. Even 100 years in the past – and maybe that is nonetheless lacking from the gathering of articles on the Web – a sure B. Licht wrote within the LVZ (June 28, 1924) about my “reminiscences of my time finding out by Grasp Reinecke”. Above all, his strains carry us nearer to Reinecke as an individual:

“My research with Karl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn on the native conservatory stay fond reminiscences to at the present time. When Jadassohn died in 1902 and previous Reinecke retired, my pockets was empty after three years of finding out on the conservatory. Nonetheless, since I needed to proceed finding out writing, I went to my grasp for personal classes, however first I requested in regards to the tax charge, as a result of I couldn’t pay a excessive worth.

With a young smile he mentioned to me in a fatherly tone: ‘My pricey, it isn’t so dangerous in regards to the tax, proper now you do not pay something, and if you happen to handle to get an enormous place, the at all times a price. be nicely nonetheless time.’

I went to Querstrasse 14 (Reinecke’s room) for 3 years; I did not get a job, and the great grasp did not get any cash both. Later I visited the grasp typically to ask him varied questions and discuss to him. In the future I advised him that I couldn’t make a residing in Germany and I needed to return to the USA. Then he mentioned: ‘America solely guarantees geniuses, not quiet musicians.

So I’ve my previous grasp to thank for my residing right here. In the future the dialog turned to how greatest to teach younger individuals about music. Reinecke believed that one ought to examine primarily the pre-classical, classical and romantic intervals and solely then transfer on to the current; as a result of – he determined closely – ‘you do not elevate your baby with schnapps, however with milk.’

One other time, after I gave him an Andante for string quartet in a lesson, the grasp was fired. He discovered within the Andante very like Mendelssohn’s little symphony, which he instantly performed for me on the piano. He spoke enthusiastically of Mendelssohn and mentioned: ‘It’s a disgrace that Mendelssohn was idolized a lot, it could have been higher if he had fought the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, works and talents would have been a lot larger. extra of us now with Mendelssohn. there was lots.’

After the primary efficiency (1904) of the symphonic poem ‘Domestica’ by Richard Strauss within the Gewandhause beneath Nikisch (it was an actual sensation for Leipzig on the time), the maestro got here down from the management field very pleased. I requested him how he appreciated the work, after which there was an extended silence, and all of a sudden: ‘Are you aware what Mr. Strauss obtained from his writer for this work? 40,000 marks, Beethoven by no means acquired a lot for his work.’

On the entire manner that I went with him to the cross road, there was point out of those 40,000 indicators, and of Beethoven; this visionary couldn’t even think about such a sum for work.

Reinecke advised me humorously about Joh’s piano taking part in. As that is very troublesome to play, I used to be curious to see how Brahms would grasp it. I turned the music on the night of the live performance, however my pricey, Brahms didn’t play what was written there, he struck strings within the troublesome passages.’

Reinecke mentioned of Nikisch’s management expertise: ‘The distinction between Slavs, Romanians and us North Germans is that they arrive on stage with fireplace, and we’ve got to heat ourselves up little by little. ‘

I spent a beautiful hour with him when he performed his piano sonatinas and he mentioned with a mischievous smile: ‘I do not even keep in mind after I began taking part in the piano; All I do know is that I used to be good at singing sonatinas after I was 5 and writing after I was six, however my father put them within the oven.’

Our workers might be to know {that a} workers choir additionally took half in a serenade for Grasp Reinecke. As an admirer of my instructor, I serenaded him twice for his birthday at Querstrasse 14 with 4 choirs, together with the employees’ choir ‘Rütli’. The previous grasp himself got here down the 4 flooring and thanked us with heat phrases.

My final dialog with the grasp was a couple of weeks earlier than he died. He was imagined to play three of his personal compositions with the Wille brothers from Dresden, and I advised him: ‘We’re wanting ahead to listening to the grasp!’ Then he mentioned in an excited voice: ‘I consider that individuals wish to hear me play, however I doubt that individuals wish to hear my songs.’

I’ll always remember these phrases, there was a variety of bitterness in them, and I feel it was with somewhat belief in humanity that he mentioned goodbye to this earth.”