Edgar Wollgandt

Edgar Wollgandt, around 1905

Edgar Wollgandt (left) in the Gewandhaus Quartet (around 1920)

Edgar Wollgandt (born July 18, 1880 in Wiesbaden , † December 25, 1949 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German violinist .

Life

His tomb (2011)

His father was the bassoonist and royal chamber musician Adelhardt Wollgandt. After attending a Wiesbaden high school, Wollgandt initially did his military service as a one-year volunteer . He studied violin at the Wiesbaden Conservatory until 1897, then from 1897 to 1900 at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Hugo Heermann . At the same time he played in the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra .

From 1900 to 1903 he was engaged at the Hannoversche Hofkapelle and in 1901 became solo violinist and deputy concertmaster there. In the same year he was appointed Royal Chamber Musician . In 1901 and 1902 he was a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra . In 1903 he became first concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and first violinist of the Gewandhaus Quartet , whose position he held until 1941. In 1916 he was called up for military music service with the Reserve Infantry Regiment 107 in Borna.

In 1928 he received a professorship and taught at the State University for Theater and Music in Halle . In 1941 he became a violin teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory . His students included u. a. Gerhard Bosse and Arnold Matz .

Since 1906 Wollgandt was married to Käthe Nikisch, the daughter of the actress Amélie Heussner and the conductor Arthur Nikisch . Wollgandt is buried in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

literature

• Friedrich Frick: Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century . Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3907-8 , p. 578.
• Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936618-86-0 , p. 184 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Edgar Wollgandt in the catalog of the German National Library