Moritz Heuzenroeder

Moritz Heuzenroeder (15 July 1849 – 10 November 1897) was a pianist, composer and teacher of music born in Germany who had a substantial career in South Australia.

History

Moritz Heuzenroeder was born in Ottersberg the youngest son of Dr. Heuzenroeder, a prominent physician, and from early childhood was preoccupied with performing music.[1]

He left Germany for Australia around 1872 and settled in Adelaide. He later visited Germany to further his studies.[1]

He was a noted teacher of singing; the baritone Richard Nitschke was one of his pupils.

He was a friend of Hermann Schrader, who considered him a musical genius.

He founded an orchestra at Tanunda, and a choral society at Angaston.

He moved from Adelaide to Tanunda early in 1897; he died unexpectedly the same year. There is no reason to believe he was related to Moritz Joseph Heuzenroeder and his brother Joseph, who migrated to the Barossa Valley in 1845, established the first Tanunda pharmacy in 1849, and an Adelaide shop in the 1860s,[2] or any other person in South Australia. He never married.

Compositions

He composed operettas Singvogelchen ("Singing bird")[3] and Onkel Beckers Geschichte ("Uncle Becker's Story"), which were performed in 1882 and the parody Faust and Gretchen, to libretto by B. Jaentsch, 1883,[4] all performed at the Albert Hall, Pirie Street, Adelaide, by the Deutscher Männer Gesang Verein. In 1886 he founded the Adelaide Harmonie Society, which in 1891 first performed his operetta in two acts The Windmill, the text of which was translated from the French of Mélesville. Soloists were Minna Schrader, Blanche Frances, A. Duncan, G. Dumel-Denger, H. Adams, P. Bartels, and F. H. Stokes.[5] He resigned from the Society in 1890, to be replaced by G. Vollmar, followed by T. H. Jones then Herr Heinicke.[6] He composed the comic opera Immomeena (libretto by Harry Congreve Evans), first performed in 1893, of which the song The Green little Isle of the Sea achieved some popularity.

He composed songsThou art my Queen with words by educationist Alfred Edward Maegraith (father of tropical medicine researcher Brian Gilmore Maegraith, cartoonist Kerwin Maegraith and war hero Hugh Maegraith), first performed in 1890 by Richard Nitschke, and Australia, with words by C. C. Presgrave (better known as a painter and prominent member of the Adelaide Easel Club),[7] again promoted by R. Nitschke.

References

  1. 1 2 "Death of Mr. Moritz Heuzenroeder". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 10 November 1897. p. 7. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "History of homoeopathy in Australia". Barbara Armstrong. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Entertainments". Adelaide Observer (National Library of Australia). 3 June 1882. p. 26. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Albert Hall". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 20 March 1883. p. 7. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Adelaide Harmonie Society". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 19 June 1891. p. 6. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Adelaide Harmonie Society". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 5 February 1896. p. 6. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Australia's Foundation Day". Adelaide Observer (National Library of Australia). 4 February 1899. p. 15. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
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