Erwin Wolf (trumpeter)

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Erwin Georg Wolf (born December 7, 1919 in Plauen ; † September 30, 1994 in Münster ) was a German trumpeter and university teacher .

Life

Erwin Wolf was born in Plauen in Vogtland in 1919 at the beginning of the Weimar Republic and grew up during the National Socialist era . He received his first musical training in the “Stadtpfeife” in Mylau . From 1938 he was hired as a trumpeter by the Plauen Theater and the Dresden Radio Orchestra. When the Second World War broke out , he was drafted and joined the Air Force Music Corps in Dresden. In addition, he was the first trumpeter of the Dresden Philharmonic until May 1941 .

At the end of the war, Wolf was in English captivity , from which he was released at the instigation of Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , who then employed him as solo trumpeter in the newly founded Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra . A little later he returned to Dresden for family reasons and was still in the Soviet occupation zone on August 1, 1946, chamber virtuoso of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden.In the German Democratic Republic, which was founded soon after, Wolf worked both as a solo trumpeter in the Saxon State Orchestra in Dresden and as a lecturer at the Dresden University of Music Carl Maria von Weber . 1957 left Erwin Wolf and his family the GDR but for political reasons and was in the Lower Saxon state capital Hanover an engagement at the State Theater in Hanover on August 1 of the year in the wake of Walter Holy . In 1961 he was appointed principal trumpeter of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra , and Wolf often appeared as principal trumpeter of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover. In the meantime, Wolf had founded the Hanoverian Youth Symphony Orchestra together with Heinz Hennig and Barbara Koerppen in 1961 .

Erwin Wolf later resigned from the Hanover State Theater, as he was now fully dedicated to his new teaching position as a professor of trumpet at the State University for Music and Theater in Hanover. When he retired on September 1, 1981, he was replaced there by Siegfried Göthel .

At this point he was already showing clear signs of Parkinson's disease .

Erwin Wolf has two sons: Dieter , born on July 25, 1949 in Dresden, who also became a trumpeter, and Werner, born in Dresden in 1944, who worked as a double bass player.

Student (selection)

Erwin Wolf's students were:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Frank Keim : Keyword Wolf, Erwin . In another: The big book of the trumpet. Instrument, History, Trumpeter Lexicon , Volume 1, Schott Music, Mainz / London / Berlin / Madrid / New York City / Paris / Prague / Tokyo / Toronto 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-0530-5 and ISBN 3-7957-0530 -4 ; passim , especially p. 481 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Dieter Wolf: Erwin Wolf [1919–1994] - A wearer of the German trumpet has died . In: Jean-Pierre Mathez (Ed.): Brass Bulletin . No. 88 , 1994, pp. 78-83 .
  3. ^ A b Heinrich Sievers : The music in Hanover. The musical currents in Lower Saxony from the Middle Ages to the present with special consideration of the music history of the state capital Hanover . Sponholtz Verlag, Hannover 1961, p. 165 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b Compare Das Orchester , Volume 54, Issues 7–12. Deutsche Orchestervereinigung, 2006, p. 200 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1961 . In: Hanover Chronicle . P. 251 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Music and Education. Journal for Theory and Practice of Music Education , Volume 14. B. Schott's Sons, 1982, p. 122 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Erwin Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trumpeter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1994
Place of death Muenster