Albert Riemenschneider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Albert Riemenschneider

Austrian musician and musicologist

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1878

Place of Birth: Berea, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jul-1950

Profession: composer, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Albert Riemenschneider

  • (Charles) Albert Riemenschneider (August 31, 1878 – July 20, 1950) was an American musician and Bach musicologist. Riemenschneider was born into a musical family.
  • His father, Karl H.
  • Riemenschneider, was the president of German Wallace College in Berea, Ohio (which later became Baldwin-Wallace (BW) College).
  • While still a student at the college, he was offered the then vacant position of Director of the Music Department in 1898.
  • This department then became under his directorship the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music.
  • In 1899 he graduated from the college and received its Alumni Merit Award; his wife Selma, née Marting, graduated in 1904, also with an Alumni Merit Award.
  • In 1989 the Riemenschneider family, many of whom graduated from BW, received the college's inaugural Family Heritage Award.In 1932, Albert Riemenschneider and his wife founded the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, the oldest collegiate Bach festival in America.
  • It was modelled on the Bethlehem Bach Festival which was developed by Riemenschneider's friend, Dr.
  • Frederick Wolle. From 1902 to 1903 he studied the piano under Hugo Reinhold and composition under Robert Fuchs in Vienna.
  • In Paris in 1904 and 1905, he studied with Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and became a friend of Marcel Dupré and Albert Schweitzer.
  • The American composer Richard Ellsasser (1926–1972) was his pupil.
  • Riemenschneider performed Bach's music in more than three hundred recitals and concerts in America and Europe.
  • He received an honorary doctorate "D.mus." in 1944 (Grove: 1939) from the Sherwood Conservatory of Music and served as president on several educational and Methodist institutions.
  • In 1947 he retired as director of the conservatorium, but returned later to serve as Acting President for one year.
  • He was invited by the Library of Congress to hold a lecture on Bach in 1950, but it had to be presented posthumously. The most enduring publication of his scholarly works was his Bach — 371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass, ed.
  • Albert Riemenschneider, G.
  • Schirmer, NY, 1941 (see also List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach). Selma Riemenschneider continued the management of the Bach festival until 1954.
  • In 1951 she donated Albert's collection of rare Bach manuscripts to Baldwin-Wallace College, founding a library which in 1969 became the Riemenschneider Bach Institute.Albert and Selma Riemenschneider had three children, Edwin, Paul, and Wilma.
  • Albert died on July 20 1950 in Akron, Ohio, just a few days away from the 200th anniversary of Bach's death.

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