Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing

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Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing (* 21st October 1809 in Hörde , † 2. May 1893 in Berlin ) was a German composer of the Romantic .

Life

Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing was a great-grandson of the cantor Johann Gottlieb Preller at the Marienkirche in Dortmund . He received his training in Wesel , Dortmund and Soest (teachers' seminar). In the field of music he was initially self-taught . Between 1829 and 1834 he worked as an organist at the Protestant main and Mathena church in Wesel, but fell out with the local presbytery . Only after moving to Berlin in 1834 did he receive composition lessons, like Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , he was a student of Ludwig Berger .

His psalm composition De profundis , dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And awarded the golden art and science medal by him, was highly praised by Robert Schumann . On March 16, 1853, he wrote to his pupil Hermann Krigar , who had sent Schumann a copy of the score: “Of all the sacred new music that I know, I know nothing that can be compared to this. [...] The artist who created it is, according to the height of his music, too firmly founded a spirit for the judgment of the world to harm him. "In his famous Brahms essay" Neue Bahnen "he calls Wilsing a" profound, great art-zealous spiritual composer ”among the“ highly aspiring artists of recent times ”and judges his De profundis :“ A De profundis for fourfold choir with orchestra, released this year, is one of the greatest and most powerful masterpieces of our time produced. "

A severe mental illness later prevented Wilsing from composing, and his fear of people prevented him from being better known. Krigar writes in a letter to Schumann: “This means that he often completely closes himself off even to his closest acquaintances [...] He himself is not able to take even one step for his work [...], himself the danger that nobody gets to see it. ”In addition, at the end of his life Wilsing burned all personal documents.

family

Wilsing married Juliane Pauline Adelheid Hitzig (born September 26, 1827 in Potsdam) around 1850, a daughter of Moses Gustav Adolph Moritz Hitzig (1786–1840) and Julie Gardann. In 1856 their son Daniel Moritz Johannes was born, the couple's only child.

Works

  • De Profundis for four four-part choirs, soloists and orchestra on the 129th Psalm ( Vulgate totalization) (1850), OAK MUSIKVERLAG 2013 ISMN M-700235-26-0
  • Oratorio Jesus Christ (1875/93), Berlin State Library , EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-46-8
  • Trois Grandes Sonates pour le Piano Forte , op. 1, dedicated to Monsieur Louis Berger , Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin & Posen, od
  • Five songs , op.5
  • Caprice for piano op .6
  • Sonate pour le Piano-Forte , op. 7, dedicated to a son ami Rudolphe Jacobi , Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin & Posen, od
  • Fantasia per il Piano-Forte , op.10, dedicated suo amico Ed. Schröder , Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin, od
  • Humoresque for piano op.11
  • Sonata for pianoforte and violin (1832); Verlag Dohr ISMN M-2020-1160-7
  • Judgment Day, EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2014 ISMN M-700235-49-9
  • The song of the butterfly for a soprano voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte , above; Text by Johann Gottfried Herder , Ed. Bote & C. Bock, Berlin & Posen, 1858. New edition: EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-55-0
  • Four chants for a deep voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte , above; Text: Victor Strauss (No. 1), Johann Gottfried Herder (No. 2 & 3), Adelbert von Chamisso (No. 4); Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin & Posen, 1858.
  • Hebrew Melodies - Original Hebrew Melodies , o. O .; Text: Lord Byron , Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin 1841.
  • Reminder hours , above; Salon piece for piano.

literature

  • Willy Fentsch: Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing on his 100th birthday , in: Die Musik , Vol. 9, Volume 33 (1909/10), pp. 156–160 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Schumann's letters. New episode , ed. by F. Gustav Jansen, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1904, p. 367f.
  2. ^ New magazine for music , October 28, 1853.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilsing, Daniel Friedrich Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romantic composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Listen near Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1893
Place of death Berlin