Emil Naumann Explained

Emil Naumann (8 September 1827 – 23 June 1888) was a German composer and church musician.

Life

Born in Berlin, Naumann was the son of the physician Moritz Naumann (1798–1871) and grandson of the Kapellmeister Johann Gottlieb Naumann. His sister was the singer and composer Ida Naumann, née Becker (1832–1897).

After studying music in Frankfurt, he was a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1842 to 1844. In 1850, he succeeded Otto Nicolai as court church music director in Berlin. In this capacity, he published "Über die Einführung des Psalmengesangs in die evangelische Kirche" in 1856. Naumann published three volumes of the "Psalms for all Sundays and Holidays of the Protestant Church Year", commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia for the . From 1873, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. There, one of his students was Georg Pittrich (1870–1934).[1] Naumann died in 1888 in Dresden at the age of 66 and was buried in the there.

His writings on music theory also include Die Tonkunst in der Culturgeschichte (2 parts, both 1869) and Illustrierte Musikgeschichte (2 parts, both 1885).[2]

Work

Choral work

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. 16th Report of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Dresden. Studienjahr 1886/87, Dresden 1887; Numbered SLUB Dresden
  2. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-music/90667871FED355141CA3927F649D217E The History of Music