Carl Wilhelm (choir director)

Carl Wilhelm

Carl Wilhelm (born September 5, 1815 in Schmalkalden ; † August 26, 1873 there ) was a German conductor , choirmaster and composer , his most famous composition is the song Die Wacht am Rhein .

Life

Wilhelm was a student of Aloys Schmitt . From 1841 to 1864 he was the conductor of the Krefeld Liedertafel . In 1853 he was accepted into the Freemasons ' league .

In Krefeld in 1854 he set the poem Die Wacht am Rhein , written by Max Schneckenburger in 1840, to music. In recognition of the success and the national importance of this song, he received numerous honors and medals on June 24, 1871, a personal letter of appreciation from Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . From the same year he received an annual donation of 3,000 marks from the German government , which was more than four times the wages of the workers at the time.

Another well-known composition is the Cavalry March (Wrangel March) , AM III, 53 .

From 1865 onwards, Wilhelm worked as a music association conductor in Schmalkalden.

Carl Wilhelm Monument in the Stadtgarten in Krefeld (2007)
Carl Wilhelm's birthplace in Schmalkalden
Memorial plaque on the birthplace

Web links

Commons : Karl Wilhelm (composer) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Carl Wilhelm in the catalog of the German National Library

Works by and about Carl Wilhelm in the German Digital Library

Sheet music and audio files by Carl Wilhelm in the International Music Score Library Project

Sheet music in the public domain by Carl Wilhelm in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
^ State centers for political education Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Historical songs from eight centuries. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-87474-851-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wilhelm, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wilhelm, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor, choir director and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schmalkalden
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1873
Place of death	Schmalkalden

[1] Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .

[2] State centers for political education Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Historical songs from eight centuries. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-87474-851-0 .