Franz Wagner (Kapellmeister)

Franz Wagner (1962)

Franz Wagner (born August 5, 1894 in Oberhausen , † January 26, 1975 in Erlangen ) was a German conductor and pianist .

family

Franz Wagner was the first of three children of the musician, instrument dealer and miner Franz Wagner from Neisse, Upper Silesia (now Nysa , Poland ). His first marriage was to Josepha Schneider (1891–1938) and his second marriage to Elisabeth Rasp (1910–1993). The second marriage has two sons.

Life

Franz Wagner received piano lessons first from his father and then from Eduard Schütt in Merano . As early as 1907 he played in the chapels of large hotels in many Central European countries . He survived the First World War as a military musician . In 1919 he completed a semester at what was then the Academy of Music in Munich, but until 1925 he only studied privately with the Munich piano teacher Anna Hirzel-Langenhan , from whom he took on pupils after she left.

In 1925 he gave concerts in many cities in Spain with the cellist Alexander Baryanski . In 1926 Wagner founded a chamber orchestra and worked with it from 1928 to 1934, mainly in Munich at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof , with broadcasts on Bavarian radio . In the summer seasons 1933–1941, Wagner led the Berchtesgaden Kurkapelle as the successor to Erich Kloß and Michael Schmidt and organized chamber music evenings and symphonic concerts. At the same time, he traveled extensively, for example as a companion to the Spanish violinist Joan Manén or as a soloist with piano concertos by Mozart , Beethoven , Liszt and Tchaikovsky as well as works by Eduard Schütt. In 1934/35 he was also Kapellmeister at the Bavarian State Theater .

In 1940 Wagner enrolled again at the Munich Academy of Music and Music and, under Joseph Haas , took up all three classes with a major in conducting in one year. From 1941 until the theater was closed due to the war on September 1, 1944, he succeeded the conductor Bernhard Stimmler as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt (then an operetta theater ), where he directed around 27 productions. After the theater was destroyed, Wagner went to Berchtesgaden and organized the “Bavarian Show” for the American occupation troops in May 1945. Until the 1950s he gave concerts as a companion in several German cities and radio stations a. a. with the violinists Boris Jankoff and Wolfgang Hock . 1949–1969 he again directed the Berchtesgaden spa orchestra. One last engagement as a pianist and deputy conductor led him in 1973 to the Bad Füssing spa orchestra .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} MusiXplora Universität Leipzig, Ed. Josef Focht, accessed on June 18, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Berchtesgadener Anzeiger - Marktbote from August 2, 1989
3. ↑ Munich Latest News 1929 No. 13, p. 9
4. ↑ A.Helm: Das Berchtesgadener Land through the ages (reprint of the original edition from 1929) . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, 1973.
5. ↑ Berchtesgadener Anzeiger - Marktbote from June 28, 1989
6. ^ Hallesche Nachrichten, 14. – 15. March 1941
7. ↑ Traunsteiner Nachrichten - Chiemgau-Bote, 8. – 12.1934, No. 282
8. ^ The Donaubote (Ingolstadt) of March 27, 1943
9. ↑ Berchtesgadener Anzeiger of December 2, 1957, p. 5
10. ↑ Südost-Kurier Bad Reichenhall No. 8, vol. 1 (1946), p. 4
11. ↑ Berchtesgadener Anzeiger of May 11, 1965, pp. 5 and 8
12. ↑ Berchtesgadener Anzeiger of June 28, 1989 and August 30, 1989
13. ^ Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Stift, Markt, Land . Plenk, 1991, ISBN 978-3-927957-10-7 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2020]).