Christian Heinrich Hohmann
Christian Heinrich Hohmann was a German composer, music educator and the author of Violin School.Life
Hohmann was a son of farmer and tailor Georg Hohmann and Anna Hörlein. He worked as a teacher at a teacher training college Altdorf and Schwabach, and wrote several educational books including violin school, which is now known as "Hohmann-Heim". He also reissued the original.
He composed commissioned work including chamber music, organ, piano, song for solo and choir, and gave the songs of Stuntz, Kreutzer, Salieri, Mozart, Breidenstein, Maurer, Hohmann, Freck, Call, Nägeli, Haydn, Schneider, Marschner, Graun, Tröger, Mendelssohn, Keller, Zöllner, Wölfel, Lindpaintner for men's choir with special consideration to pedagogical aspects. Quote: "So all the songs are given in score so that the singer has all 4 voices before him. This facility gives unmistakable advantages."Work
- "Violin school I" 1835 ISMN M-008-00848-1
- "Violin school II" 1836 ISMN M-008-00849-8
- "Violin school III" 1836 ISMN M-008-00850-4
- "Violin school IV" 1836 ISMN M-008-00851-1
- "Violin school V" 1836 ISMN M-008-00852-8
- "The songwriter from Germany. A selection of four-voice songs for the men's choir". 2 Hefte. Altdorf 1843/1848
- "Der Liederbote aus Franken. Eine Auswahl vierstimmiger Gesänge für den Männerchor". 2 Hefte. Altdorf 1843/1848
- "55 two-part folk songs for violin"
Literature
- "Christian Heinrich Hohmann. a well-known Frankish music pedagogue of the 19th century" by Artur Wirth in: JbHVMittelfrk 82, 1964/65, S. 250–255
