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Johannes ''Johann Fürchtegott Pache'' (9 December 1857, Bischofswerda – 24 December 1897, Limbach) was a German
Pache was born in Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, as son of a teacher. It was his father wish that Johannes should become a theologian as his two elder brothers did. Pache attended the school in Zittau, where his love to music awoke. He played piano, sang in a chorus and accomplished the first compositions. However, he neglected his school duties and stayed down. The father tried to convince him to become a teacher, all in vain. Pache resumed school in Bautzen, where he gave some music lectures and composed his first known pieces. Finally he convinced the father to let him study music in Dresden.
In 1879 Pache got in Herisau his first appointment as organist and music director. Two years later he returned to Dresden, where he earned his money with casual engagements. In 1884 he moved to Leipzig, where he became known as concert pianist and composer. In Naumburg he was appointed music director and founded a widely known chorus. In these years Pache achieved material prosperity, especially after music publishers in Leipzig engaged him as advisor.
Pache moved to Limbach, where he was appointed cantor in 1889. During the few remaining years Pache gained high reputation. He founded a chorus, composed, and he is still today considered the originator of the widely known church music tradition there. In 1902, grateful citizens erected a monument in the town park.
Piece for harmonium
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Digitalisat
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Meyers-Online Lexicon
Pache at TheMusicSack
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composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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and organist.
Life
Pache was born in Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, as son of a teacher. It was his father wish that Johannes should become a theologian as his two elder brothers did. Pache attended the school in Zittau, where his love to music awoke. He played piano, sang in a chorus and accomplished the first compositions. However, he neglected his school duties and stayed down. The father tried to convince him to become a teacher, all in vain. Pache resumed school in Bautzen, where he gave some music lectures and composed his first known pieces. Finally he convinced the father to let him study music in Dresden.
In 1879 Pache got in Herisau his first appointment as organist and music director. Two years later he returned to Dresden, where he earned his money with casual engagements. In 1884 he moved to Leipzig, where he became known as concert pianist and composer. In Naumburg he was appointed music director and founded a widely known chorus. In these years Pache achieved material prosperity, especially after music publishers in Leipzig engaged him as advisor.
Pache moved to Limbach, where he was appointed cantor in 1889. During the few remaining years Pache gained high reputation. He founded a chorus, composed, and he is still today considered the originator of the widely known church music tradition there. In 1902, grateful citizens erected a monument in the town park.
Work
Pache his best known for his chorus compositions, especially for men. Many of his works were sung nationwide at his time. Among them is ''Die Germanenschlacht'' (op. 106), which Pache dedicated toHermann Kretzschmar
August Ferdinand Hermann Kretzschmar (19 January 1848 – 10 May 1924) was a German musicologist and writer, and is considered a founder of hermeneutics in musical interpretation and study.
Life and career
Born in Olbernhau, Saxony, Kretz ...
and his chorus in Leipzig. Moreover, Pache's choruses were highly estimated as memories by the German immigrants in the United States.
Some instrumental pieces for violin and piano reached wide acknowledgment too. Still in 1936, Gamble Hinged Music Chicago published Pache in ''Graded masterworks for strings'' together with Edvard Grieg and Charles Gounod. Moreover, Pache treated selected master pieces.at
Beethoven House
The Beethoven House (German: ''Beethoven-Haus'') in Bonn, Germany, is a memorial site, museum and cultural institution serving various purposes. Founded in 1889 by the Beethoven-Haus association, it studies the life and work of composer Ludwig van ...
His opera ''Tobias Schwalbe'' was based on ''Der Nachtwächter'' by Theodor Körner.
Notes
Literature
* International lexicons of musicians: American Guild of Organists, Novello, Ewer & co, 1906; The Musiclover's Handbook, New York, University Society, 1911 ff.; Alfred Remy & Theodore Baker: Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, New York, G. Schirmer, 1919; Tobias Norlind: Allmant musiklexikon, Stockholm, Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1927–28; Carlo Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti, Milan, Sonzogno, 1937; Paul Arma, Yvonne Tiénot: Nouveau dictionnaire de musique, Éditions ouvricres, 1947; Joaquin Pena: Diccionario de la musica labor, Barcelona, 1954; Laird, Ross, Brunswick-Balke: Brunswick Records: A Discography of Recordings 1916-1931, Collender Company, Brunswick Radio Corporation, 2001 * Hans Volkmann. ''Johannes Pache, ein Meister des deutschen Chorliedes''. Unsere Heimat, Beilage zum Sächs. Erzähler. Nr. 49. 6 December 1937 * Frank Fiedler, Uwe Fiedler: ''Lebensbilder aus der Oberlausitz: 60 Biografien aus Bautzen, Bischofswerda und Umgebung''. Books on Demand, 2017, , pp. 260–265Digitalisat
in the Internet Archive)
External links
Meyers-Online Lexicon
Pache at TheMusicSack
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Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...
* ttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/p/jpache.html Musical settings at REC Music Foundation*
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1857 births
1897 deaths
People from Bischofswerda
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
19th-century German musicians
19th-century German male musicians