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Christian Felix Ackens (Born January 24, 1816 in Montjoie, Duchy of Jülich, † March 18, 1886 in Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire) was a German choir director, composer and functionary. He was of great importance in Aachen’s club life in his time and was president of the Rhenish Singers’ Association.

On November 18, 1839, the Concordia men’s singing club was founded in Aachen with twenty members. Christian Felix Ackens was the founder and the first conductor of the choir. [first] [2] [3] [4] [5] In the beginning, small Soireen and concerts were held. Over time, charity concerts with considerable number of spectators were added. In 1843, Acken’s founding member of the instrumental association was. From 1847 ackens designed with Concordia A subscription series of three concerts with orchestra in the winter half -year that should enrich Aachen’s musical life. The choir successfully participated in several choir competitions in Belgium in the next few years. [first]

In 1860 Ackens won with the Concordia the Honorary Grand Prix At a choir competition in Liège. [4] [6] On March 20, 1861, the Concordia men’s singing club organized a celebration that was recognized by the recognition of its conductor Felix Acken. The choir had just won a choir competition in Liège and honored Ackens for his twenty -two years as a conductor of the choir. [7] In 1863 the Concordia A singer festival with a choir competition, in which 62 domestic and foreign clubs with 3000 singers took part and a second singing festival, the first of the Rheinische Sängerbund ever, with 1000 singers. [first] [6]

On November 20 and 21, 1864, the Concordia men’s singing association celebrated its twenty -year -old existence and Ackens celebrated its twenty -five years of choir director with a service in the Münster, a celebration and two festive concerts . The choir had 115 singing members in the anniversary year. In the two concerts, 391 singers and 75 instrumentalists participated. The management had Akens. Among other things, the Bacchus-Chor out of Antigone by Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, scenes from the Frithjofsage op. 23 by Max Bruch, the 98th psalm by Franz Wüllner and Dithyramb listed by Julius Rietz. Wüllner and Break conducted their works themselves. The Weihelied, a composition of Ackens ’for solo quartet and male choir, only came from the singers of the Concordia sung for performance. The highlight of the second concert was the violinist Joseph Joachim with the interpretations of Beethoven’s violin concert op. 61 and the Concert in the form of a singing scene No. 8 op. 47 by Louis Spohr. As part of the Feries, Christian Felix Ackens was presented with the insignia of the Order of Crown IV. [first] [5]

Ackens also came to the public as a singer. At the Rheinische Musikfest 1857, after the committed bassist Franz Dalle Aste failed due to illness, parts of the bass area with a performance of the Messiah and the bass section in Schumanns The singers curse Under the direction of Franz Liszt. [8] On June 16, 1859, Ackens sang the bass section in summer Seasons by Joseph Haydn at an urban concert in Aachen under the direction of Franz Wüllner. [9] On April 3, 1860, Ackens sang during a performance of the Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach in the large hall of the Kurhaus under the direction of Franz Wüllner the bass area [ten] and on June 3, 1860 in a performance of the Creation Under the direction of Franz Wüllner the bass section. [11] In autumn 1862, Ackens sang the bass area in Handel’s oratorio Athalia Under the direction of Franz Wüllner [twelfth] and again in the spring of 1863 the bass section with a performance of the Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach under the direction of Franz Wüllner. [13] With Franz Wüllner he was in a lively contact contact. [14]

Ackens became president of the Rheinische Sängerbund and was the secretary of the Lower Rhine music festivals . [3] [15] [4] He was a member of the board for many years Quartet association for chamber music and member of the Cäcilienverein. He temporarily led the cathedral music and was a member of the Catholic Association Constantia . [16] [17] [18]

Ackens was for thirty years Desk chef In an Aachener Manufacturetablishment . For a long time, Aken was a time as an Aachen city councilor. [3] Ackens was involved in several other Aachen clubs. In 1845 he joined the recreational company. He was also active in the Aachen Carnival and was a member of the board of the Florresei. [16] On December 9, 1859, the new Aachen Carnevalsverein was founded on his co -initiative and Ackens became his first president. [19]

In 1885 he fell ill with one Lungs. Then he went to Kursteverle after Neuenahr and EMS. He no longer recovered from this disease and he died in the early morning hours of March 18, 1886 in his apartment on Jesuitenstrasse 15. [3] [4]

His funeral took place on March 21, 1886 with the participation of many clubs. The corpse train led from its house to the Catholic cemetery and was made by several choirs with chants and from the Mohrschen chapel accompanied with funeral marches. MPs from Mönchengladbach, Cologne and Montjoe were present. The funeral was also designed by the choirs. [20] The solemn exequias took place in the parish church of St. Michael on March 23, 1886. On July 29, 1887, Christian Felix Ackens was from the men’s choir Concordia Aachen a grave monument with a height of over six meters on the Catholic churchyard built. The monument was made by the sculptor Reiner from Burtscheid. [21] In its edition of March 19, 1886, the Aachener Zeitung wrote about Ackens: “[…] If one has ever made improvements in musical areas in local city, it was the deceased.” [3]

Essays [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Ackens wrote essays in the Lower Rhine Music newspaper on musical topics.

  • On the church music question. In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper , 11. April 1863, S. 1. [22]

Vowelswower [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • The Hindum girl Op. 3 “The most beautiful ship on Aquitain’s floods”, Romance after the French by C. Brassard for mezzo -soprano or baritone and piano, published at Siegel in Leipzig
  • Three songs for tenor or mezzo -soprano op.5 i The shepherd on the Alp II Of the ship’s complaint III To the lark OCLC 254625182
  • Three songs for four -part male choir op. 14
    • Lullaby. “The timeless and the tulip nods”
    • The wine. “Courted in this year”
    • In the mouth . “Dear moon”
  • Mass for male voices, listed for the twenty -five -year anniversary of the Concordia men’s singing club in the Aachen Münster on November 20, 1864
  • Devsche Lilinani , for four -part mixed choir and organ, risk ID: 1001109390
  • The flower , Text: C. Brassard, for an old or baritone voice with the accompaniment of the clavier and the guitar from C.F. Ackens, Urn: NBN: DE: BSZ: 21-DT-28250 , OCLC 314491685
  • Spring awakens!. Incipit: “How do the air”, text: J. P. Bollig, moved to Leipzig at Leipzig
  • serenade , Incipit: “Still, she sleeps”, for male choir, text: Stephan Schütze, Risk ID: 250003037
  • O Get emanuel, adapted, 1841. alternative title: O Kind Kind Emanuel , recorded by the Stolberger Sing- und Spielgemeinschaft e.v. At the LP Christmas with the Stolberger singing and syndicate , 1976 [23]
  • Weihelied , Text: C. Brassard for solo quartet and male choir
  1. ↑ a b c d The men’s singing club Concordia in Aachen . In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne November 26, 1864, S. first ff . ( Princeton.edu ).
  2. ↑ List of dead . In: Musical Wochenblatt . E. W. Fritzsch, Leipzig April 1, 1886, S. 182 .
  3. ↑ a b c d It is Death . In: Aachener Zeitung . Aachen March 19, 1886, S. 2 ( zeitpunkt.nrw ).
  4. ↑ a b c d Concordia . In: Aachener Zeitung . Aachen March 20, 1886, S. 4 ( zeitpunkt.nrw ).
  5. ↑ a b The twenty -five -year jubilee of the Concordia association in Aachen. In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne November 12, 1864, S. 367 ff . ( Princeton.edu ).
  6. ↑ a b Concert, singer festival and vocal competition in Aachen. In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne September 12, 1863, S. 293 ff . ( Princeton.edu ).
  7. ↑ From Aachen . In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne April 27, 1861, S. 133 f . ( Princeton.edu ).
  8. ↑ Leaves of memory of the fifty -year duration of the Lower Rhine music festivals: dedicated to all participants. From e. early. Long. Participant . M. du Mont Schauberg’sche Buchh., Cöln 1868 ( BSB-Muenchen.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  9. ↑ From Aachen . In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne June 25, 1859, S. 207 ff . ( Princeton.edu ).
  10. ↑ From Aachen . In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne April 14, 1860, S. 126 f . ( Princeton.edu ).
  11. ↑ From Aachen . In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne June 16, 1860, S. 198 ( Princeton.edu ).
  12. ↑ From Aachen . In: Lower Rhine Music newspaper . Cologne December 27, 1862, S. 413 f . ( Princeton.edu ).
  13. ↑ From Aachen . In: Lower Rhine newspaper . Cologne June 27, 1863, S. 205 ( Princeton.edu ).
  14. ↑ Louis Spohr to Christian Felix Ackens in Aachen. In: http://www.spohr-briefe.de . International Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e.V., Retrieved on May 31, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Mixed . In: Oskar Schwalm (ed.): new music magazine . C. F. Kahnt successor, Leipzig January 19, 1887, S. thirty first .
  16. ↑ a b Christina Frohn: “A great striving becomes a great striving if it is short and with meaning” – carnival in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen 1823–1914. Dissertation. University of Bonn, 1999. Urn: nbn: de: hbz: 5-02121 . S. 146 f.
  17. ↑ Instrumental = association . In: Aachener Zeitung . Aachen March 20, 1886, S. 3 ( zeitpunkt.nrw ).
  18. ↑ Quartet association for chamber music . In: Aachener Zeitung . Aachen March 20, 1886, S. 3 ( zeitpunkt.nrw ).
  19. ↑ Association. In: https://www.akv.de . Aachen Carnival Association founded 1859 e. V., Retrieved on May 31, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Burial . In: Aachener Zeitung . Aachen March 23, 1886, S. 2 ( zeitpunkt.nrw ).
  21. ↑ Major and minor . In: Signals for the musical world . No. 47 . Leipzig September 1887, S. 744 .
  22. ↑ Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung April 11, 1863-Princeton Blue Mountain Collection. Retrieved on May 31, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Stolberger Sing- und Spielgemeinschaft e.V.- Christmas with the Stolberger singing and syndicate. Retrieved on May 31, 2020 .