Begründer Der Klimatechnik Hermann Rietschel (1847-1914): Letter Warnemünde 1911

You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the engineer Hermann RietschHel (1847-1914), who as founder of Heating and air conditioning applies.

DatedWarnemünde, Hotel Herringer, 30. Aug 1911. -- Written from vacation cure.

Signed "Mens"; this is as nickname Mentioned by Hermann Rietschel in: Klaus W. Usemann: Development of heating and ventilation technology into science: Hermann Rietschel, Leben und Werk, Munich 1993, p. 95.

Addressed to his sister Gertrud Rudorff, b. Rietschel (* 4. July 1853 in Dresden, † 1937), wife of Composers, music teachers and naturalistsHützer's Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).

In the letter, Hermann Rietschel mentions his daughter Else von Salmuth, nee. Rietschel (1872-1930), wife of the Prussian police chief Arthur von Salmuth (1861-1937); once also his deceased first wife Martha, nee. Leinhaas (1850-1905). His second wifeMagdalene Rietschel, b. Piesnack (1856-1916), whom he only married in 1910, he calls "Helene" in the letter – this is also mentioned as her nickname in the work by Klaus W. Usemann (on p. 565).

Scope:eight written pages (17 x 13 cm); Owithout envelope.

Excerpts:"My beloved little sister! […] You write that you can only move with the help of a stick – has that gotten any better? Did you and Melusine use the bath? [...] We are here in Warnemünde, where we like it very much. If you haven't seen the sea for a long time, it's wonderful to be able to spend a few weeks there again. It's a wonderful beach here, and there's almost always a strong wind [...]. The fact that we went here is due to my promise to Georg that I would give him Urfeld back from August. We didn't like to get divorced from there because it was really good for Helene and me [...]."

Note: In Urfeld (Kochel am See) Hermann Rietschel spent parts of the summer months from 1886 to 1914, together with others Intellectuals such as musicians, painters, writers, engineers, doctors and early SPD politicians. -- Melusine Rudorff (1881-1959) is the daughter of his sister; In 1920 she married the merchant and former colonial official Ernst Schulze (*1877).

Georg means Hermann's brother, the theologian Georg Rietschel (1842-1914).

"In the insane heat we traveled away from U[rfeld] and spent the night in Berlin in the unventilated and 30° warm apartment. We traveled here in a hurry – the heat had just gotten to us [...]. After completing my work, I first want to go to Dresden to see the big international hygiene exhibition, of which I'm actually a member. I found Else a bit more comfortable to look at. Contrary to expectations, she came to Urfeld with the boys, while Arthur left for Liegnitz with Eva from Herrenalb, where they had all stayed. Without us knowing anything about it, Else had an operation performed on her by an important surgeon in Italy (after all, she had the same ailment as Martha, only to undergo a minor operation). Luckily everything went well."

Then about his brother Georg Rietschel: "He is a lovely gorgeous man! He's finally decided to say goodbye - I'm very happy about that. Unfortunately, one feels that he has gone through a difficult time, he is quite alert, but he has lost his mental freshness and elasticity."

Then a passage about illness (from himself, his wife and sister).

"How are Ernst and your children doing now? I hope only good news will come from you. Are you staying in Lauenstein for a long time? Did you also suffer from the heat there? It is a difficult time of need, how the poor are supposed to feed themselves in the future is a mystery to me. The fields and meadows look like a shroud, the drive from Urfeld to here has really touched me and made me sad.

If you drive around the world like we are now and have to live and eat in the inns with all [...] the cleaned, noisy people and can't sleep [...] from reckless talking in the evening - then you see first how beautiful a home of your own is. I'm seriously thinking of selling Urfeld, I've advertised, lowered the price - but no one comes and when one comes, then this and that doesn't fit, the house is too expensive for some, the other is delighted, but looks for one smaller house or his wife fears difficult household [...]. I'm secretly happy about it, because it's an incomparably beautiful piece of land and the thought of hanging around inns from now on is so dreadful that all other reasons for selling fade into the background. [...] be heartily greeted by Helene and your old faithful man."

Condition:letter folded; Paper slightly browned and somewhat stained. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Corner 23-08 autograph autograph

About Hermann Rietschel, his father Ernst Rietschel and his brother-in-law Ernst Rudorff (source: wikipedia):

Herman Immanuel Rietschel (* 19. April 1847 in Dresden; † 18 February 1914 in Charlottenburg) is considered the founder of heating and air conditioning technology. He was a son of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel and brother of the theologian Georg Rietschel. The physician and general practitioner in Dresden Wolfgang Rietschel was his half-brother.

Life: Rietschel was the fourth child of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel and his third wife, Marie Hand. His mother died just a few months after he was born.

Due to his inclination towards science and technology, Rietschel switched from the humanistic Ernestinum in Dresden to the local polytechnic at the age of 14 and became a member of the Corps Altsachsen. At the same time, he worked in a large Dresden metalworking shop and later also in the Egestorfschen Maschinenfabrik (Hanomag) in Hanover-Linden.

In 1867 Rietschel went to Berlin to complete his studies in mechanical engineering at what was then the Royal Industrial Academy.

In 1870, after completing his studies, the company Rietschel & Henneberg (special pipes for heating construction) was founded in 1871 by Rietschel and his friend Rudolf Henneberg, which also celebrated national success and recorded rapid growth in the following years. The fittings, boilers, radiators, pumps and fans required for the installation were designed and manufactured by Rietschel himself. Thanks to the creativity of the two founders, the company, which started as a craft business, quickly developed into an industrial company.

In 1880, in addition to his practical tasks, Rietschel also devoted himself to literary activities for the first time, since the activities in the growing company alone were not enough for him. At that time, he first worked on the section on heating and ventilation in the German building book. In the same year, Rietschel also founded the Association of German Engineers for Heating and Health Systems, of which he remained Deputy Chairman until 1883. In 1881 he joined the Association of German Engineers (VDI), initially without belonging to a VDI district association. He later belonged to the Berlin district association of the VDI. In the years 1899 and 1900 he was a board member of the entire association.

Increasingly, Rietschel was consulted by clients from the public administration as a consultant on health technology issues. This was also the time when the first contacts were made with the Charlottenburg Technical University, which was just being founded, and whose aim was to set up a chair for heating and ventilation. Rietschel then left his flourishing company and continued to work as a practical scientific civil engineer. In this function, he was also involved in the jury as an expert and consultant for assessing the designs for the heating and ventilation systems of the new Reichstag building.

With his association, Rietschel organized and designed the first German hygiene exhibition in Berlin. A day before the 30th On April 1, 1882, when the exhibition was to be officially opened, a major fire destroyed the work to which he had devoted all his energy for two years. It is a testament to his energy and tenacity that he began the work all over again and finally opened the exhibition on January 1st. May 1883 finally opened. Hermann Rietschel took on this task because he saw the close connection between scientific hygiene and heating and ventilation technology.

As a result, Rietschel was commissioned by the Royal Ministerial Building Commission in Berlin and the Royal Provincial School College of the Province of Brandenburg to carry out a scientific study on the ventilation and heating of schools.

At the end of 1883, Rietschel was awarded the title of professor in recognition of his scientific merits. At 13th. In July 1885 he was appointed to the world's first chair for ventilation and heating at the Royal Technical University of Berlin, which still exists today as a department of the Technical University of Berlin under the name Hermann Rietschel Institute.

From 1885 to 1887, Rietschel set up a test facility for building technology studies there and justified the need for this in a detailed report, citing the lack of development in heating and ventilation technology at that time. In the years that followed, all the tests that Rietschel and his employees reported on in numerous publications were carried out in this building.

In 1893 his scientific guide to the calculation and design of heating and ventilation systems was published, the calculation methods of which are still used today and have been expanded and updated in numerous editions. This publication, which caused quite a stir in specialist circles, heralded a new era for the field of heating and ventilation technology.

Rietschel became rector of the Technical University of Berlin in 1893 and its prorector in 1894. In 1904 the application for a new building for the testing institute was approved, which was established in 1907 under the name of testing institute for heating and ventilation systems.

In 1894 Rietschel acquired a villa built by Otto March in Berlin-Grunewald, which is now a listed building.

In 1908 Hermann Rietschel fell seriously ill for the first time and had to be suspended from work for two years. In October 1910 he had to retire prematurely. In 1913 his health allowed him to give the opening lecture at the “Cologne” Congress for Heating and Ventilation, which, as reported, was enthusiastically received by his peers.

Rietschel died in 1914 in his Charlottenburg apartment at Giesebrechtstraße 15. He found his final resting place in the Grunewald Cemetery.

Work: Rietschel is regarded as the founder of modern heating, air conditioning and ventilation technology, which was recognized as a new discipline in mechanical engineering through his work. His four-volume guide to calculating and designing heating and ventilation systems is still regarded as the standard work in building technology. He also recognized the interaction between hygiene and technology for heating and ventilation and advocated a comprehensive approach to these topics.

Rietschel developed the idea of ​​using the heat (waste heat) generated during the generation of energy as district heating for heating buildings and districts.

He also developed the well-known ribbed radiator and provided the basis for its calculation. He designed the heating and ventilation systems for the Reichstag building in Berlin, the theaters in Berlin, Munster, Ulm and Strasbourg, for the Hamburg City Hall, the Ministry of Justice in Tokyo and the Parliament building in Bern. Rietschel is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern mechanical engineering.

His other research interests include:

pipe network calculations

radiator tests

Installation instructions for gas furnaces

steam heating

water heating

district heating and district heating

church heaters

Economics of heating systems

ventilation systems

indoor climate

Testing of heating fittings

Testing of filter materials

Hygienic requirements for heating systems

Investigations of thermal insulation materials

awards during his lifetime

1894: Red Eagle Order IV. Class

1900: Commander's Cross II. Class of the Albrecht Order

1906: Order of Merit of Saint Michael II. Class

1907: Honorary doctorate from the Royal Saxon Technical University in Dresden

honors

Today, the following institutions and awards bear his name:

Rietschel plaque of the Federal Industry Association for Heating, Air Conditioning and Sanitary Technology (since 1924)

Hermann Rietschel Medal of the VDI (since 1991)

Hermann Rietschel Institute of the Technical University of Berlin (since 1965)

Rietschel Diploma from the Federal Industry Association for Technical Building Equipment eV

Memberships and committee activities

Member of the Corps Altsachsen

Founding member and temporary board member of the Association of German Engineers for Heating and Health Technology Systems since 1880

Member of the Academic Association Hütte, since 1867

Member of the Reich Health Council, 1899–1910

Chairman of the Berlin VDI, 1896

Head (Dean) of Department I of Architecture, 1889-1890 and 1899-1900

Rector of the Royal Technical University of Berlin, 1893–1894

Prorector of the Royal Technical University of Berlin, 1894–1895

Board member of the Deutsches Museum Munich, 1903

Honorary member of the Austrian Association of Architects, 1912

Corresponding member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1914

Honorary Member of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London 1912

Publications (excerpt)

Ventilation and Heating of Schools, 1886

Theory and practice of determining the pipe size of hot water heaters, 1897

Lectures on Heating and Ventilation, 1890/91

Guide to the calculation and design of heating and ventilation systems, 1893

Safety rules for heating systems, in: Health Ing. 26, 1903, pp. 422-27

Determining the limits of air exchange, in: German quarterly writing for public health care, 1913

Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel (* 15. December 1804 in Pulsnitz, Electorate of Saxony; † 21 February 1861 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony) was one of the most important German sculptors of late classicism. The sculptures he created, such as the Goethe-Schiller monument in Weimar or the Lessing monument in Braunschweig, have had a decisive influence on the image of Germany as a land of poets and thinkers.

Life and work: Ernst Rietschel was born the third child of the bagman Friedrich Ehrlichgott Rietschel and his wife Caroline in Pulsnitz (Saxony). After taking his first drawing lessons and breaking off his commercial apprenticeship in his hometown, he began studying at the Royal Saxon Art Academy in Dresden in 1820. In the years that followed he had his first minor successes and awards with drawings; attention was drawn to the young artist, who was studying in Franz Pettrich's studio from 1823. There he created his first independent work, a figure of the sea god Neptune for the market fountain in Nordhausen, commissioned by the Gräflich Einsiedelsche Eisenwerke Lauchhammer.

In 1826, the Count von Einsiedel arranged for Rietschel to move to the studio of Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin. As early as 1827 he won a scholarship to Rome, which he initially put off in order to work on various monument projects in Rauch's studio. In 1828 he represented his workshop at the laying of the foundation stone for the Dürer statue in Nuremberg. On his return journey he visited the aging Goethe in Weimar. A second visit together with Rauch followed in 1829. In August 1830 Rietschel began his journey to Italy. A year later, he received an order for a monument to the late Saxon King Friedrich August in Dresden.

In 1832 - not even 28 years old - he received the professorship for sculpture at the Dresden Art Academy. In 1833 he moved into his studio in Brühl's garden pavilion. In collaboration with many important architects, including Gottfried Semper, he was responsible for the sculptural decoration of many buildings, especially in Dresden. At the beginning of 1836 he was made a full member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, only weeks later an honorary member of the Art Academy in Vienna. In the years that followed he received many important commissions, some of which he worked on for years. Through the design of works such as the Lessing monument in Braunschweig (1854) (and many others), Rietschel became known beyond the borders of the German Confederation as the most important monument artist of his time. As a medalist, he designed, among other things, a portrait medal for Carl Gustav Carus.

In the winter months of 1851/52, Rietschel traveled to Italy and Sicily to cure his lung disease. In 1855 he participated in the Paris art exhibition with a statue of Lessing. In the same year he was awarded the Grand Medal of Honor and made a Knight of the French Legion of Honour. In 1856 the Stockholm Academy made him an honorary member. In 1857 he visited his master Christian Daniel Rauch again in Berlin. In the same year, on April 4 September, his Goethe and Schiller monument was unveiled in Weimar. In 1858/1859 Rietschel received the commission for the Reformation monument in Worms. One of his most important creations is the Luther monument there. He became an honorary member of other academies and institutes (Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Rome, Antwerp). He was also born on March 31st. May 1858 admitted to the Prussian order Pour le Merite for science and art.

He finally succumbed to his long-standing lung disease on April 21. February 1861. Three days later he was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden. A large part of Rietschel's extensive estate was presented between 1869 and 1889 in the Palais in the Great Garden in what was then the Rietschel Museum. It has been in the possession of the Dresden Sculpture Collection in the Albertinum on the Brühlsche Terrasse since 1889, and some of it is also exhibited there. Parts of the personal estate are with the descendants (drawings, sketches, diaries and letters in the Rietschel archive, Remscheid).

Marriages and Descendants: In 1832 he married Albertine Trautscholdt (1811–1835), to whom he had been engaged for a year. A year later his first daughter Adelheid (1833-1907) was born. His second daughter Johanna was only three weeks old: she died in April 1835; in July of the same year his wife Albertine died. Nevertheless, his creative work remained unchecked. In November 1836 he married his second wife Charlotte Carus (1810-1838), a daughter of the physician Carl Gustav Carus, who died on November 28, 1836. August 1837 son Wolfgang gave birth. In May 1838 he suffered another stroke of fate: his second wife also died. As after the death of his first wife, he modeled her portrait bust.

On 2. On May 18, 1841 he married his third wife Marie Hand (* 26. May 1819; † 18 July 1847), sixth child of the Jena professor Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand. on the 10th His second son, Christian Georg, was born on May 19 of the following year, followed in 1845 by his daughter Margarethe Charlotte. Margarethe was not supposed to be a year old. In 1847 their son Hermann Immanuel was born. After six years of marriage, Maria Hand died a few months after the birth of her son Hermann on April 18. July 1847. on the 30th On April 1, 1851, Ernst Rietschel married a fourth and last time. On April 4, Frederike Oppermann (1820–1906) brought July 1853 gave birth to a daughter who was named Gertrud Charlotte Marie. In 1876 Gertrud Rietschel married the composer, music teacher and conservationist Ernst Rudorff.

His great-grandson, the writer and graphic artist Christian Rietschel, republished his memoirs from my life in 1963. The descendants of Ernst Rietschel are very numerous today. Especially the two sons from the 3. Ernst Rietschel's marriage to Maria Hand, Georg Rietschel and Hermann Rietschel produced numerous descendants. These include Christian Rietschel, Hans Rietschel, Wigand von Salmuth, Jörg Hilbert, Horst and Christopher Buchholz and Susanne Falk. Today, the descendants of Ernst Rietschel meet at irregular intervals to commemorate the artist's birth and death, thus commemorating the life and work of their ancestor.

Works (selection)

Neptune figure for a fountain in Nordhausen am Kornmarkt (1828), today's location in the city park "Promenade" (a replica from 1838 is in front of the coach house of Klein-Glienicke Palace, Berlin)

King Friedrich August Monument in Dresden (1828–1835; since 2008 on the Schlossplatz)

Busts and reliefs for the auditorium of the Augusteum in Leipzig (1833–1836)

Gable reliefs for the Royal Court Theater in Dresden (around 1841; destroyed by fire in 1869; Rietschel gable rescued from the ruins and reused as spolia in Bautzen in 1905)

Gable relief at the opera house Unter den Linden in Berlin (1844)

Pietà in marble for the Friedenskirche in Potsdam (1847–1854)

Monument by Albrecht Daniel Thaer in Leipzig (1850)

Lessing monument in Braunschweig (1849/1853) (executed by Georg Howaldt in Braunschweig)

Gellert monument in Hainichen (model 1855; completed in 1865 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwenk)

Goethe and Schiller Monument in Weimar (1856)

Quadriga with Brunonia for the Brunswick Palace (1857) (executed by Georg Howaldt in Brunswick)

Carl Maria von Weber Monument in Dresden (1858)

Luther monument in Worms (commissioned in 1858, continued from 1861 according to Rietschel’s concept with the participation of his students Adolf von Donndorf, Johannes Schilling and Gustav Adolph Kietz and inaugurated in 1868)

Ernest Friedrich Karl Rudorff (born 18. January 1840 in Berlin; died 31. December 1916 in Lichterfelde near Berlin) was a German composer, music teacher and conservationist.

Life and work: Ernst Rudorff was a child of the marriage of the law professor Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff (1803-1873) to Friederike Dorothea Elisabeth Rudorff, nee. Pistor (1808–1887), called Betty. As a young girl, his mother was an active member of the Berliner Singakademie and a childhood heartthrob of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who gave her the song Ist estru?, which she had written and set to music. dedicated. Ernst Rudorff received his first piano lessons from his godmother Marie Lichtenstein (1817–1890), a daughter of Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein and friend of Clara Schumann.

Music:Rudorff was a student of Woldemar Bargiel from 1852 to 1857 and, through his mediation, received some piano lessons from Clara Schumann, with whom he had been a lifelong friend ever since. From 1859 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he was a student of Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy and Julius Rietz. He also received lessons from Moritz Hauptmann and Carl Reinecke. In 1865 he became a piano teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, where he founded the Cologne Bach Society in 1867.

In the fall of 1869 he became professor of piano and organ at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he worked until his retirement in 1910. In addition, from 1880 to 1890 he led the Stern'schen choral society as Max Bruch's successor and conducted on 5. May 1882 the first concert of the newly founded Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, later the Berlin Philharmonic.

In November 1871 he acquired a villa at Wilhelmstraße 26 (now Königsberger Straße 26) in Lichterfelde near Berlin, built by the architect Johannes Otzen, where he lived until his death. The house was the residence of the Rudorff family until it was destroyed in 1943.

Rudorff's compositional work is committed to the music of the Romantic period and shows, among other things, the influence of Robert Schumann. He is assigned to the group of so-called "Berlin Academics", which also included Friedrich Kiel, Max Bruch and Heinrich von Herzogenberg.

He was the editor of Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe, the piano concertos and piano sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Weber's letters to Hinrich Lichtenstein.

Conservation: Ernst Rudorff grew up in Berlin, where he also spent most of his life. He regularly withdrew from city life to his parents' Knabenburg estate in Lauenstein am Ith, a village in the Weser-Leine mountainous region in Lower Saxony. There he acquired the ruins of Lauenstein Castle with the castle hill, on which a beer pub was to be built in order to preserve them and keep them accessible to the general public.

Rudorff experienced the onset of the "new era" in his youthful idyll; Coupling and community division in the village mark also affected the parental property. He saved old oaks on a footpath in Lauenstein, prevented paddocks from being set up in a meadow valley and created forest edges, hedges and gallery forests along the stream. This enabled him to create species-rich meadows. He managed to get trees and hedges planted in the land that had already been broken up.

He brought impressions of the landscape from the Siebengebirge back to his home in Brandenburg. Around 1886, in a petition, he called for the protection of landscape peculiarities and in his diaries at the time there are thoughts about founding an "Association for the Protection of Nature". Many defining landscape elements in and around Lauenstein would no longer exist today without his work.

In 1897 Rudorff coined the word "Heimatschutz" in a detailed account of his thoughts and demands. Together with the two articles in the Grenzbote, this was the reason for the founding of the German Federation of Homeland Security on 30. March 1904. Rudorff was opposed to Germans of Jewish faith and women signing the founding appeal. In his writings, too, he used völkisch arguments. With his idea of ​​nature conservation as "homeland security" he wanted to fight the "materialism" he hated and the "ideas of the Red International".

In his adopted home of Lauenstein, Rudorff Street is named after him; In 2006 the "Ernst-Rudorff-Wanderweg" was inaugurated; until 2016 there was an "Ernst-Rudorff-School" in the village; There is a memorial stone in the Lauensteiner Bürgergarten and there is a memorial for him and his family in the cemetery at St. Anne's Chapel.

Family: Ernst Rudorff married Gertrud Charlotte Marie Rietschel (1853–1937), a daughter of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel, in 1876. From the marriage he had three children: Hermann, Elisabeth and Melusine.

Herman Rudorff:Hermann Rudorff (* 2. December 1877 in Lichterfelde near Berlin; † 1. February 1916 ibid) studied jura and received his doctorate; For a time he was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Homeland Security Association and a volunteer at the State Office for the Preservation of Natural Monuments in Prussia under Hugo Conwentz. When he died in 1916 at the age of only 39 after a long illness, he was a member of the government council in the Berlin police headquarters, and Benno Wolf took over his duties in the State Office for the Preservation of Natural Monuments. Ernst Rudorff hoped that his son would continue to take care of homeland and nature conservation and was very sad when he died so young.

Elisabeth Rudorff: Elisabeth Rudorff (* 13. May 1879 in Lichterfelde near Berlin; † 27 May 1963 in Hamelin) went through the usual educational path for girls. After the early death of her brother and father in the same year, the 37-year-old, unmarried Elisabeth felt obliged to continue her father's work. Even during his lifetime she worked as his secretary and knew his contacts. In 1922 she was a founding member of the Volksbund Naturschutz (Volksbund Nature Conservation), active in the federal leadership from 1930 and took part in national nature conservation days. In the spirit of her father, "she supports the demand for a nature conservation law that, in addition to the preservation of species and communities, also includes the protection of scenic beauty and uniqueness."

In 1938 she published her father's autobiography - but without such passages in which Jewish personalities were mentioned. When the Rudorffs' house in Berlin-Lichterfelde was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943, Elisabeth moved permanently to Lauenstein. Because she didn't have the money to buy more objects worthy of protection, she got involved with publications, petitions and applications to the responsible people and authorities and mobilized associations and individuals to support her concerns.

She was active on the board of the Lauenstein local history and tourism association into old age. In 1948 she submitted an application in which many natural areas in Lauenstein and in the Ith were to be placed under nature protection. It was only 60 years later that the Ith was declared a nature reserve.

Melusine Schulze-Rudorff: In 1920, Melusine Rudorff (1881–1959) married the merchant and former colonial official Ernst Schulze (1877–?), son of the Berlin music professor Johannes Schulze and her father's godson. Both later bore the surname Schulze-Rudorff. In 1926 their son Hermann Schulze-Rudorff was born, who died at the age of 6 (1932). The family lived in Bielefeld.

factories

writings

Scriptures on Conservation

On the relationship of modern life to nature. Berlin 1880.

The protection of the scenic nature and historical monuments of Germany. Lecture given in Berlin at the General German Association on 30. March 1892. Berlin 1892.

Homeland Security. 1897 (Reprint: Reichl, St. Goar 1994, ISBN 3-87667-139-6)

memoirs

From the days of romance. Portrait of a German family, ed. by Elisabeth Rudorff, Leipzig 1938 (heavily abridged edition in one volume) - complete edition in 3 volumes, ed. by Katja Schmidt-Wistoff: Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38162-6

letters

Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Karl Reinthaler, Max Bruch, Hermann Deiters, Friedrich Heimsoeth, Carl Reinecke, Ernst Rudorff, Bernhard and Luise Scholz (= Johannes Brahms. Correspondence, volume 3). ed. by Wilhelm Altman. Berlin 1908 (extended edition 1912).

Letters from and to Joseph Joachim, ed. by Johannes Joachim and Andreas Moser. 3 volumes. Berlin 1911-1913. (Correspondence with Rudorff in volume 2 and 3)

Editorship

Carl Maria von Weber, Letters to Hinrich Lichtenstein, ed. by Ernst Rudorff, Brunswick 1900

Moritz Hauptmann, Exercises for simple and double counterpoint by Moritz Hauptmann. Compiled by Ernst Rudorff, Leipzig 1870, from his students’ study books for use in teaching.

compositional work

(List of works by Ernst Rudorff, compiled by Stephanie Twiehaus. In: From the days of romance. volume 3 Frankfurt / New York 2006, pp. 336–345.)

orchestral works

Romance for cello and orchestra op. 7

Overture to Ludwig Tieck's fairy tale Der blond Eckbert, Op. 8

Overture to Otto der Schütz op. 12

Ballad (Introduction, Scherzo and Finale) Op. 15

Serenade No. 1 in A major op. 20

Serenade No. 2 in G major op. 21

Variations on an original theme in D minor, Op. 24

Symphony No. 1 in B flat major op. 31

Symphony No. 2 in G minor op. 40

Romance for violin and orchestra op. 41

Romantic Overture Op. 45

Symphony No. 3 in B minor op. 50

Intermezzo in the form of Variations in E major, Op. 59 (after variations for two pianos op. 1, unpublished)

chamber music

String sextet for three violins, viola and two cellos in A major, Op. 5 (1865)

piano music

Variations in E major for two pianos op. 1, dedicated to “Dr. Clara Schumann in deepest admiration” (1863)

Six pieces for piano four hands op. 4

Eight Fantasy Pieces Op. 10

Fantasy in three movements op. 14, "Dedicated to Herr Johannes Brahms in veneration"

Two concert etudes op. 29

18 Children's Waltz for Piano Four Hands, Op. 38

Three Romances Op. 48

Capriccio Appassionato Op. 49

Impromptu op. 51

Six Piano Pieces Op. 52

Four Four-Hand Piano Pieces Op. 54

Variazioni Capricciose Op. 55

Two Ballads Op. 56 (unreleased)

choral music

Four songs for mixed choir op. 6

Six songs for three and four-part women's choir op. 9

Four songs for mixed choir op. 11

Four songs for mixed choir op. 13

Romance Elevator. A spring celebration for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 18 (according to Ludwig Tieck)

Two songs for soprano, alto, female choir and orchestra op. 19

Six songs for female choir op. 22

Six songs for female choir op. 23

Four songs for six-part choir op. 25

Song to the stars for six-part choir and orchestra op. 26 (according to Friedrich Rückert)

Six songs for four-part choir op. 27

Four songs for mixed choir op. 30

Four songs for mixed choir op. 36 (To the moon; To the heap of mountains; A hunter stalks; Spring net)

Herbstlied for six-part choir and orchestra op. 43 (according to Klaus Groth)

Songs for mixed choir op. 53 (unreleased)

Ave Maria am Rhein for soprano, female choir and orchestra op. 58 (after Emanuel Geibel, unpublished)

Ten songs for three and four-part women's choir and piano op. 60 (arrangements by own a cappella choirs, unpublished)

Works for voice and piano

Six songs op. 2

Six poems by Joseph von Eichendorff op. 3

Four songs op. 16

Four songs op. 17

Three Poems op. 28

Three songs op. 32

Four songs op. 33

Three Duets for Two Female Voices and Piano Op. 34

Three Duets for Two Female Voices and Piano Op. 35

Five songs by Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben op. 37

Eight Tuscan Songs by Ferdinand Gregorovius op. 39

Three songs by Robert Reinick op. 42

Three songs op. 44

Three songs op. 46

Four songs op. 47

Four songs op. 57 (unreleased)

edits

Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor for two pianos D 940, arrangement for orchestra

Robert Schumann: Garden Melody Op. 85/3 and at the fountain op. 85/9 for piano four hands, arrangement for violin and orchestra or Piano

Rudorff Collection: Rudorff inherited an important collection of music autographs from his maternal grandfather, Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor, which he had arranged for by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Rudorff enlarged this collection. In 1917 it was acquired by the Peters Music Library in Leipzig and with it came to the Music Library within the Leipzig City Library. Among her important unique pieces are seven chorale preludes assigned to Johann Sebastian Bach, which were only published in 1985 by Franz Haselböck.

Correspondence Rudorff: Rudorff's correspondence with Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms came into the possession of the Saxon State Library Dresden (SLUB) and is available in digitized form:

Letters from Clara Schumann to Ernst Rudorff (with full text). Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), retrieved on 4. July 2021.

Letters from Ernst Rudorff to Clara Schumann (with full text). Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), retrieved on 4. July 2021.

Letters from Johannes Brahms to Ernst Rudorff. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), retrieved on 4. July 2021.

Letters from Ernst Rudorff to Johannes Brahms. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), retrieved on 4. July 2021.