You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the engineer Hermann RietscHel (1847-1914), the as founder of the Heating and air conditioning technology applies.
DatedGrunewald-Berlin, 3. July 1901.
Addressed to his sister Gertrud Rudorff, b. Rietschel (* 4. July 1853 in Dresden, † 1937), wife of Composers, music educators and natural scientistshützer's Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).
Hermann Rietschel mentions his wife Martha, née, in the letter. Leinhaas (1850-1905) and his daughter Else von Salmuth, née. Rietschel (1872-1930), wife of the Prussian police chief Arthur von Salmuth (1861-1937).
Scope:six written pages (22 x 13.8 cm); Owithout envelope.
Excerpts:"My beloved Gertrude! If there weren't birthdays in the world, we wouldn't hear anything from each other. The 4th July now gives me the opportunity to contact you and send you the warmest and most faithful wishes for you and yours. Your l. Card tells me that the doctor is satisfied with Ernst's condition and so we hope that he will recover properly and that the serious illness can soon be considered over. [...] I have lived like a hermit in the last few months, I have so much work to do, I sit down every morning ½ 7 a.m. already at the desk – a book has to be finished. I find that the older you get, the more you have to work hard - it's not nice anymore."
Probably based on his work ", published by Springer in 1902Guide to calculating and designing ventilation and heating systems"?
"It really saddens me that we see so little of each other - who knows how long this life will last. [...] Martha is about to leave for Urfeld, she wants to travel tomorrow or the day after. Else and the children come to Urfeld. Martha is under attack and I feel sorry for her that she can't recover now. An excess of bad people, from the laziest to the meanest sort, has made her life very bitter in the last few months; I had to have the doorman thrown out by the court. You should work and create mentally - there are times that you don't like."
Then about health concerns; a suspicion of a serious illness had not been confirmed.
"I am grateful and happy from the bottom of my heart that I don't have to worry too much and that I have been given the gift of life again, because I have to see the favorable solution as a great gift. Else's children had measles, the rest in Urfeld will be good for them, as long as there is peace, quiet and joy there. Urfeld with the children is quite a lot for Martha, I don't know what it will be like in later years. [...] Farewell, greet Ernst a thousand times and be embraced and kissed by your old, faithful Hermann. I hope on the 20th dss. Unfortunately, in order to be able to travel to Urfeld, we have to do so on the 10th. August for 8 days in Mannheim, where I have to give a lecture."
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 politicians of the SPD.
Condition:letter folded; Paper slightly browned and slightly wrinkled. bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Corner 23-08 Autograph Autograph Single
About Hermann Rietschel, his father Ernst Rietschel and his brother-in-law Ernst Rudorff (source: wikipedia):
Hermann 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 doctor 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 his birth.
Due to his inclination towards science and technology, Rietschel moved from the humanistic Ernestinum in Dresden to the Polytechnic there at the age of 14 and became a member of the Corps Altsachsen. At the same time, he worked in a large metalworking shop in Dresden and later also in the Egestorfsche 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 began 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, as the activities in the growing company alone did not satisfy him. At that time, he initially edited the section on heating and ventilation in the German Construction Book. In that 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 1899 and 1900 he was a board member of the entire association.
Rietschel was increasingly called upon 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 University of Technology, which was just being founded, with the aim of setting up a chair for heating and ventilation. Rietschel then resigned from his flourishing company and continued to work as a practical, scientific civil engineer. In this role, he was also involved in the jury as an expert and consultant for assessing the designs for the heating and ventilation systems for the new Reichstag building.
With his association, Rietschel organized and designed the first German hygiene exhibition in Berlin. One day before the 30th In April 1882, when the exhibition was to be ceremoniously opened, a major fire destroyed the work to which he had devoted all his energy for two years. It speaks for his energy and his tenacity that he started the work again and finally opened the exhibition on January 1st. It finally opened in May 1883. 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 ventilation and heating in schools.
At the end of 1883, Rietschel was awarded the title of professor in recognition of his scientific achievements. 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 under the name Hermann Rietschel Institute as a department at the TU Berlin.
From 1885 to 1887, Rietschel built a test facility for building technology investigations and justified its necessity in a detailed report, citing the lack of development of heating and ventilation technology at that time. In the following years, all of the investigations about which Rietschel and his colleagues reported in numerous publications were carried out in this building.
His scientific guide for calculating and designing heating and ventilation systems was published in 1893, the calculation methods of which are still used today and have been expanded and updated in numerous editions. With this publication, which caused a serious stir in specialist circles, a new era began for the field of heating and ventilation technology.
Rietschel became rector of the Technical University of Berlin in 1893 and its vice-rector in 1894. In 1904, the application for a new building for the testing institute was approved, which was built in 1907 under the name 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 became seriously ill for the first time and had to be on leave from work for two years. In October 1910 he had to take early retirement. In 1913, his health allowed him to once again give the opening lecture at the “Cologne” Congress for Heating and Ventilation, which, as is reported, was enthusiastically received by his colleagues.
Rietschel died in his Charlottenburg apartment at Giesebrechtstrasse 15 in 1914. He found his final resting place in the Grunewald cemetery.
Work: Rietschel is considered the founder of modern heating, air conditioning and ventilation technology, which gained recognition as a new field of mechanical engineering through his work. His four-volume guide to calculating and designing heating and ventilation systems is still considered a standard work in building technology today. 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 when energy is generated as district heating to heat buildings and districts.
He also developed the well-known finned radiator and also provided the basis for its calculations. He designed the heating and ventilation systems for the Reichstag building in Berlin, the theaters in Berlin, Münster, Ulm and Strasbourg, for the Hamburg town hall, the Ministry of Justice in Tokyo and the Federal Palace in Bern. Rietschel is considered one of the pioneers of modern mechanical engineering.
His other research interests include:
Pipe network calculations
Radiator examinations
Installation regulations for gas ovens
Steam heating
Water heating
District heating and district heating
Church heaters
Economic efficiency 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 from the Federal Industrial 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 Industrial 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 Systems, since 1880
Member of the Hütte Academic Association, since 1867
Member of the Reich Health Council, 1899–1910
Chairman of the Berlin VDI, 1896
Head (Dean) of Department I for 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 German Museum Munich, 1903
Honorary member of the Austrian Architects' Association, 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 widths of hot water heaters, 1897
Lectures on heating and ventilation, 1890/91
Guide to calculating and designing heating and ventilation systems, 1893
Safety rules for heating systems, in: Gesundheit-Ing. 26, 1903, pp. 422–27
Determination of the limits of air exchange, in: German quarterly publication 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 country of poets and thinkers.
Life and work: Ernst Rietschel was born in Pulsnitz (Saxony) as the third child of the Beutler Friedrich Ehregott Rietschel and his wife Caroline. After his first drawing lessons and a broken business apprenticeship in his hometown, he began studying at the Royal Saxon Art Academy in Dresden in 1820. In the following years he had his first minor successes and awards with drawings; People became aware of the young artist, who began studying in Franz Pettrich's studio in 1823. There he created his first independent work on behalf of Gräflich Einsiedelsche Eisenwerke Lauchhammer, a figure of the sea god Neptune for the market fountain in Nordhausen.
In 1826, the Count von Einsiedel arranged for Rietschel to move to Berlin to Christian Daniel Rauch's studio. As early as 1827 he won a Rome scholarship, which he initially postponed in order to work on various monument projects in Rauch's studio. In 1828, as a representative of his workshop, he took part in the laying of the foundation stone of the Dürer statue in Nuremberg. On his return journey he visited the aging Goethe in Weimar. A second visit with Rauch followed in 1829. In August 1830 Rietschel began his trip to Italy. A year later he received an order for a monument to the late Saxon King Friedrich August in Dresden.
In 1832 - when he was not even 28 years old - he received the professorship for sculpture at the Dresden Art Academy. In 1833 he moved into his studio in the Brühl 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, and just weeks later he was made an honorary member of the Vienna Art Academy. In the following years 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 federal government 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 took part 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 Honor. 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 the 4th In 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 the 31st. In May 1858, he was admitted to the Prussian Order of Pour le Merite for Science and Arts.
He finally succumbed to his long-standing lung disease on the 21st. February 1861. Three days later he was buried at 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. Since 1889 it has been in the possession of the Dresden sculpture collection in the Albertinum on Brühl's Terrace 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; his wife Albertine died in July of the same year. Nevertheless, his creative work remained unchecked. In November 1836 he married his second wife Charlotte Carus (1810–1838), a daughter of the doctor Carl Gustav Carus, who died on November 28. August 1837 gave birth to son Wolfgang. Already in May 1838 he had to accept another stroke of fate: his second wife also died. As he did after the death of his first wife, he modeled her portrait bust.
On 2. In May 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 in May of the following year, followed in 1845 by his daughter Margarethe Charlotte. Margarethe wasn't supposed to live 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 January 18th. July 1847. On the 30th In April 1851, Ernst Rietschel married for the fourth and final time. Frederike Oppermann (1820–1906) brought on 4. In July 1853 she gave birth to a daughter named Gertrud Charlotte Marie. Gertrud Rietschel married the composer, music educator and conservationist Ernst Rudorff in 1876.
His great-grandson, the writer and graphic artist Christian Rietschel, republished his memories of my life in 1963. Ernst Rietschel's descendants are very numerous today. Especially the two sons from the 3rd generation. Ernst Rietschel's marriage to Maria Hand, Georg Rietschel and Hermann Rietschel, produced numerous offspring. These include Christian Rietschel, Hans Rietschel, Wigand von Salmuth, Jörg Hilbert, Horst and Christopher Buchholz as well as Susanne Falk. Today, Ernst Rietschel's descendants meet at irregular intervals to mark the artist's birth and death anniversaries and thus remember the life and work of their ancestor.
Works (selection)
Neptune figure for a fountain in Nordhausen am Kornmarkt (1828), current location in the “Promenade” city park (a replica from 1838 is in front of the coach house of Klein-Glienicke Palace, Berlin)
King Friedrich August Monument in Dresden (1828–1835; on Schlossplatz since 2008)
Busts and reliefs for the auditorium of the Augusteum in Leipzig (1833–1836)
Gable reliefs for the Royal Court Theater Dresden (around 1841; destroyed by fire in 1869; Rietschel gable rescued from the ruins and reused as a spolie in Bautzen in 1905)
Gable relief at the Unter den Linden opera house in Berlin (1844)
Pietà in marble for the Peace Church 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; only executed in 1865 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwenk)
Goethe and Schiller Monument in Weimar (1856)
Quadriga with Brunonia for the Braunschweig Castle (1857) (executed by Georg Howaldt in Braunschweig)
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)
Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff (born 18. January 1840 in Berlin; died 31. December 1916 in Lichterfelde near Berlin) was a German composer, music educator and conservationist.
Life and work: Ernst Rudorff was a child from the marriage of the law professor Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff (1803–1873) and Friederike Dorothea Elisabeth Rudorff, née. Pistor (1808–1887), called Betty. As a young girl, his mother was an active member of the Berlin Singing Academy and a youth crush of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who gave her the self-written and set song Is it true? 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 intervention, received some piano lessons from Clara Schumann, with whom he became 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 Association in 1867.
In the fall of 1869 he became professor of piano and organ at the Royal University of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he worked until his retirement in 1910. In addition, from 1880 to 1890 he was the successor to Max Bruch as head of the Stern'sche Choral Society and conducted on the 5th. May 1882 the first concert of the newly founded Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, later the Berlin Philharmonic.
In November 1871 he purchased a villa at Wilhelmstrasse 26 (today Königsberger Strasse 26) in Lichterfelde near Berlin, built by the architect Johannes Otzen, where he lived until his death. The house served as a residence for the Rudorff family until it was destroyed in 1943.
Rudorff's compositional work is indebted to the music of the Romantic period and shows, among other things, the influence of Robert Schumann. He is considered to be part of the circle 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 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Weber's letters to Hinrich Lichtenstein.
Nature conservation: Ernst Rudorff grew up in Berlin, where he spent most of his life. He regularly withdrew from city life to his parents' estate Knabenburg in Lauenstein am Ith, a village in the Weser-Leine mountains in Lower Saxony. There he acquired the ruins of Lauenstein Castle with the castle hill, on which a beer bar was to be built in order to preserve it and keep it generally accessible.
Rudorff experienced the intrusion of the “new era” into his youthful idyll; Coupling and community division in the village mark also affected the parents' 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. In this way he achieved that species-rich meadows were created. He ensured that trees and hedges were planted in the already broken land.
He brought landscape impressions from the Siebengebirge with him to his homeland in Brandenburg. Around 1886, in a petition he called for the preservation of the landscape's peculiarities, and his diaries contain 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 presentation of his thoughts and demands. Together with the two articles in the Grenzbote, this was the reason for the founding of the German Federal Homeland Security on December 30th. March 1904. Rudorff was against Germans of the Jewish faith and women also signing the founding call. He also used ethnic arguments in his writings. With his idea of nature conservation as “homeland protection,” he wanted to combat the “materialism” and the “ideas of the Red International” that he hated.
In his adopted hometown of Lauenstein, Rudorff Street is named after him; The “Ernst Rudorff hiking trail” was inaugurated in 2006; Until 2016 there was an “Ernst Rudorff School” in town; There is a memorial stone in the Lauenstein community garden and there is a memorial for him and his family in the cemetery at the St. Annen Chapel.
Family: Ernst Rudorff married Gertrud Charlotte Marie Rietschel (1853–1937), a daughter of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel, in 1876. He had three children from the marriage: Hermann, Elisabeth and Melusine.
Hermann 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 the Federal Homeland Security and a volunteer in the State Office for Natural Monument Preservation in Prussia under Hugo Conwentz. When he died in 1916 at the age of just 39 after a long illness, he was a government councilor at the Berlin police headquarters, and Benno Wolf took over his duties in the State Office for Natural Monument Preservation. Ernst Rudorff hoped that his son would continue to work on homeland and nature conservation and was very saddened when he died so young.
Elisabeth Rudorff: Elisabeth Rudorff (* 13. May 1879 in Lichterfelde near Berlin; † 27. May 1963 in Hameln) went through the usual educational path for girls. After her brother's early death and her father's death in the same year, the 37-year-old, unmarried Elisabeth felt obliged to continue her father's work. She worked as his secretary while he was still alive and therefore knew his contacts. She was a founding member of the Volksbund for Nature Conservation in 1922, active in the federal leadership from 1930 and took part in supra-regional 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 any passages in which Jewish personalities were mentioned. When the Rudorffs' home in Berlin-Lichterfelde was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943, Elisabeth moved permanently to Lauenstein. Because she lacked the money to continue purchasing objects worthy of protection, she got involved through publications, submissions and applications to 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 until she was very old. In 1948 she submitted an application in which many natural areas in Lauenstein and Ith should be protected. It was only 60 years later that the Ith was declared a nature reserve.
Melusine Schulze-Rudorff: 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, in 1920. Both later bore the surname Schulze-Rudorff. In 1926 her son Hermann Schulze-Rudorff was born, who died at the age of 6 (1932). The family lived in Bielefeld.
factories
Fonts
Writings on nature conservation
About the relationship of modern life to nature. Berlin 1880.
The protection of the natural landscape and historical monuments of Germany. Lecture given in Berlin at the General German Association on December 30th. March 1892. Berlin 1892.
Homeland Security. 1897 (reprint: Reichl, St. Goar 1994, ISBN 3-87667-139-6)
Memoirs of life
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 Altmann. Berlin 1908 (expanded edition 1912).
Letters from and to Joseph Joachim, ed. by Johannes Joachim and Andreas Moser. 3 volumes. Berlin 1911–1913. (Correspondence with Rudorff in volumes 2 and 3)
Editorialship
Carl Maria von Weber, letters to Hinrich Lichtenstein, ed. by Ernst Rudorff, Braunschweig 1900
Moritz Hauptmann, tasks for single and double counterpoint by Moritz Hauptmann. Compiled for use in lessons from his students' study books by Ernst Rudorff, Leipzig 1870.
Compositional work
(List of works by Ernst Rudorff, compiled by Stephanie Twiehaus. In: From the days of romanticism. 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 The Blonde Eckbert op. 8
Overture to Otto the Schütz op. 12
Ballade (Introduction, Scherzo and Finale) op. 15
Serenade No. 1 A major op. 20
Serenade No. 2 G major op. 21
Variations on a Theme in D Minor, Op. 24
Symphony No. 1 B major op. 31
Symphony No. 2 G minor op. 40
Romance for violin and orchestra op. 41
Romantic Overture op. 45
Symphony No. 3 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 adoration” (1863)
Six four-hand piano pieces op. 4
Eight fantasy pieces op. 10
Fantasy in three movements op. 14, "Dedicated to Mr. Johannes Brahms in homage"
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 (unpublished)
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
The elevator of romance. A spring celebration for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 18 (after Ludwig Tieck)
Two songs for soprano, alto, women's choir and orchestra op. 19
Six songs for women's choir, op. 22
Six songs for women's choir, op. 23
Four songs for six-part choir, op. 25
Singing to the Stars for six-part choir and orchestra, op. 26 (after 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; At the mountain dump; A hunter stalks; Spring net)
Autumn song for six-part choir and orchestra op. 43 (after Klaus Groth)
Songs for mixed choir op. 53 (unpublished)
Ave Maria am Rhein for soprano, women's choir and orchestra op. 58 (after Emanuel Geibel, unpublished)
Ten songs for three and four-part women's choir and piano op. 60 (arrangements of our 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 (unpublished)
Edits
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor for two pianos D 940, arrangement for orchestra
Robert Schumann: Garden Melody op. 85/3 and Am Springbrunnen 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 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Rudorff expanded this collection even further. 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 its important unique pieces are seven chorale preludes assigned to Johann Sebastian Bach, which were only published by Franz Haselböck in 1985.
Rudorff correspondence: Rudorff's correspondence with Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms came into the possession of the Saxon State Library in Dresden (SLUB) and is available in full digital form:
Letters from Clara Schumann to Ernst Rudorff (with full text). Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.
Letters from Ernst Rudorff to Clara Schumann (with full text). Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.
Letters from Johannes Brahms to Ernst Rudorff. Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.
Letters from Ernst Rudorff to Johannes Brahms. Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.