Carl Martin Reinthaler
Carl Martin Reinthaler was a German organist, conductor and composer.
Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler.
Biography
Reinthaler was born in Erfurt. He received his first music education from August [Gottfried Ritter], an organist at Magdeburg Cathedral. He studied theology, and then music with Adolf Bernhard Marx, studying from 1849 to 1852 in Paris and Rome with a royal scholarship.He was associated with the Bremen Cathedral, of which he was director, chorus master of the Singakademie Bremen, and cathedral organist since 1857. A friend of Johannes Brahms, with whom he corresponded, he was responsible for the Bremen performance of A [German Requiem (Brahms)|A German Requiem]. Reinthaler also conducted the premiere of the revised version of Max Bruch's first violin concerto in January 1868.
In later years, Reinthaler required a wheel chair, which limited his appearances in public musical scenes. He died in Bremen.
Works
- Jephtha und seine Tochter. Oratorio in two parts
- Das Käthchen von Heilbronn. Opera in four acts
- Choral works:
- *Fünf Sprüche und ein Weihnachtslied op. 50. Bremen, Praeger & Meier
- *Eile, Gott, mich zu erretten
- *Frohlocket mit Händen, alle Völker op. 18, 2
- *Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele op.40
- *Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
- *Meine Seele verlanget und sehnet sich
- *Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen Zions
- Symphony, in D