August Wiltberger

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August Wiltberger (born April 17, 1850 in Sobernheim / Nahe ; † December 2, 1928 in Lessenich / Meßdorf near Bonn) was a German composer , seminar professor of post-romanticism and royal music director.

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He received his first lessons from his father, who was a teacher and organist in Sobernheim. From 1868 to 1871 he attended the teachers' college in Boppard . The local music teacher Peter Piel became his role model. From 1871 to 1873 he worked as a teacher in Bad Salzig am Rhein. In 1873 he followed his appointment as a music teacher at the preparatory institute in Colmar and worked at the grammar school and the secondary school for girls in Saargemünd from 1876 . In 1880 he went to the newly founded teachers' college in Münstermaifeld , in order to then work as Töpler's successor until his retirement in Brühl near Cologne in 1888 . Wiltberger was married to Theresia Wiltberger, nee Grünewald.

Since 1879 he was a member of the advisory board of the Cecilia Association , whose objectives he actively supported with the training of teacher students and organists. He is in the same breath as composers like Haller , Peter Griesbacher, Immanuel Faißt and Vinzenz Goller and like them wrote almost all of his compositions for amateur choirs. His printed opus, mostly published by Schwann in Düsseldorf, ends with no. 163. Shortly before he died in 1928, he became an honorary citizen of Bad Sobernheim .

The August Wiltberger Choir , founded in 2007, is named after the composer. It is the choir of the parish community Bad Sobernheim .

A memorial plaque for August Wiltberger and his brother Heinrich was ceremoniously unveiled in Bad Sobernheim on Pentecost Sunday , May 19, 2013 on the east side of the Maltese Chapel , in the immediate vicinity of the former home of the brothers' birthplace. The memorial plaque originally hung over the entrance to the birth house, which later became the Catholic primary school . After its demolition, it was loaned to the town's local museum.

Works (selection)

  • Missa in honorem Sanctae Theresiae , op. 1 (1879)
  • Missa brevis "O sacrum convivium" , op. 9
  • Elementary Organ School , op.43 (5 books)
  • Saint Cecilia , op.53 (1896)
  • Missa jubilaei , op. 55 for 4 st. Male choir and organ
  • Ave Maria. Marienlieder op. 72. Schwann, Düsseldorf [1955]
  • Violin Concertino , op.75
  • Sonata for violin and piano op.92 Schwann, Düsseldorf (1902)
  • Three lyrical pieces for violin and organ , op.99
  • Small suite for violin choir and organ, op.117
  • 2 string quartets , op.127
  • Holy Christmas , op.131 (1909)
  • Memory and Vow , Vaterländische Festkantata op.160 (1924)
  • Te Deum laudamus , op.161 for 4 st. Male choir and organ. Schwann, Düsseldorf

literature

  • Hans Gappenach: Rhenish Musicians , 4th episode (published by Karl Gustav Fellerer, 1966)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Category: Wiltberger, August . imslp.org. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Wiltberger, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and seminar professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Sobernheim / Nahe
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1928
Place of death Lessenich / Messdorf