Eduard Nößler

Eduard Karl Nößler (spelling also Nössler , born March 26, 1863 in Reichenbach im Vogtland , † September 19, 1943 in Bremen ) was a German organist and choir conductor.

biography

Nößler was the son of a bookseller from Reichenbach and Leipzig . He graduated from a teachers' seminar and then the conservatory in Leipzig. His first composition was written in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was Kapellmeister and Choir Director at the Bremen City Theater . From 1886 he took over the management of church music at the Liebfrauenkirche in Bremen and the Bremen men's choir. In 1893 he became organist and director of the choir at Bremen Cathedral . At the same time he headed the Singakademie in Bremen. He performed a variety of concerts with secular and church music. In 1896 he founded the Neue Singakademie , which he also directed. So from 1898 he also directed the instrumental club and the men's choir Neue Liedertafel der Union von 1801 , the artistic association in Bremen.

In 1907 the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen awarded him the title of professor. In 1925 he also took over the teacher's choir and together with the cathedral choir he went on various concert tours, including to Dresden , Vienna , Salzburg and Munich . His works include symphonies, piano sonatas, choral pieces, hymns and theater music.

The publishing bookseller, export merchant and Japanese consul in Bremen Maximilian Nößler was his brother. Around 1912 he bought a country house in Baden (Achim) , where his brother Max also owned a house.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Frank: Sacred choral music of the romantic . Ed .: Siegfried Bauer. Carus edition 70.200. Carus publishing house.