Ernst Wollong

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Ernst Wollong around 1920

Ernst Wollong (born March 5, 1885 in Heidelberg , † May 1, 1944 in Jena ) was a German teacher and music director .

Life

After his adoption by Lisette Caroline Emilie Wollong, née Bültmann and Carl Ludwig Ferdinand Wollong, he grew up in Bielefeld . Lisette Caroline Emilie Wollong died in 1897 and Carl Ludwig Ferdinand died in 1902, which motivated Ernst to move to Gütersloh , where from 1902 to 1905 he attended the school teachers' seminar for organist and cantor service, as well as choral conductor. When he finished his apprenticeship in 1905, Ernst Wollong moved to live with his birth mother in Stuttgart . His mother Rosa was the widow of the businessman Paul Nanz, who lived at Vogelsangstrasse 35 in Stuttgart. Ernst Wollong studied music in Stuttgart until 1907 at the private training institute of music director Carl Buttschardt. He then moved to Berlin to study church music, majoring in organ and choral conducting, as well as pedagogy and music history at the Academy of Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg (today Berlin University of the Arts ).

Grave site at the Mörla cemetery , today an individual monument

After a brief activity as a répétiteur at the Stuttgart theater and as an organ soloist, Ernst Wollong joined the teachers' seminar in Rudolstadt on March 11, 1910 as a music teacher . From 1919 he worked as a teacher at the German Advanced School in Rudolstadt. Between 1920 and 1930 he initiated the legendary historical music festivals in the courtyard of Heidecksburg Castle in Rudolstadt with the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt . Ernst Wollong's first marriage was to Helene Adelheid Rühle († 1921) and his second marriage to Eva Mund. The sons Hans-Ludwig and Matthias come from the first marriage .

Ernst Wollong died on May 1, 1944 of a heart condition.

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Wollong composed, among other things, a piano trio , works for choirs with orchestra and organ pieces. These include the funeral march Den gefallenen Helden for large orchestra, choir and organ (premiered on May 31, 1918 in Rudolstadt) as well as Andante cantabile for violin and piano and elegy for cello and organ (both published by Dambacher in Berlin).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Rudolstadt: Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt Holdings overview Selected inventory histories and inventory contents. Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt Stock overview, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Wollong, Ernst. In: Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon. Limpert, Dresden 1929.
personal data
SURNAME Wollong, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and music director
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1944
Place of death Jena