Ernst David Wagner
Ernst David Wagner (born February 18, 1806 in Dramburg , † May 4, 1883 in Breslau ) was a German composer , music director , organist and music teacher .
Life
Ernst David Wagner first attended the teachers' seminar in Cöslin before completing his musical studies at the Royal Music Institute in Berlin from 1830 under, among others, August Wilhelm Bach . He then took over the work of organist and cantor at St. Matthew's Church in Berlin and had been organist and choirmaster at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Berlin) , which was destroyed by air raids in the Second World War, from 1848 , where he was appointed Royal Music Director in 1858 .
Particularly important among his compositions is his work Musical Ornamentation , which is also a reference work for all kinds of older ornamentation methods in the field of vocal and instrumental music. He also worked as a music teacher and was among other things the editor of a children's piano school and the arranger of other educational works as well as an opera album with works by important composers.
Works
Compositions
- Musical ornamentation (Berlin, 1868)
- Psalms and motets for male choir
- Chorals
- Organ preludes
- Christmas cantata
Textbooks and arrangements
- Children's piano school (Richard Birnbach, Berlin)
- Spring blossoms - 48 fantasies about popular folk songs
- Golden youth dance album , 80 easy dances for pianoforte
- Opera album in 4 volumes
literature
- Carl von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 621 f ., urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10931847-2 ( full text in the Google book search).
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Ernst David Wagner in the International Music Score Library Project
- Works by Ernst David Wagner in the RISM catalog
- Ernst David Wagner at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Henze-Döhring (Ed.): Giacomo Meyerbeer - Correspondence and Diaries . Walter de Gruyter, 1959, ISBN 3-11-018030-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Salomon Kümmerle: André's Handlexikon der Tonkunst . André, 1875 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Requiemsurvey.org. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Ernst David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, music director, organist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dramburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1883 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |