Friedrich Wöbbeking

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Friedrich Wöbbeking (born February 23, 1835 in Osterwald ; † July 18, 1919 in Walsrode ) was a German tuba player , military and chamber musician .

Life

Friedrich Wöbbeking served in the Hanover 6th Infantry Regiment from 1855 to 1867 during the time of the Kingdom of Hanover . During this time, during the reign of King George V in the royal seat of Hanover from 1862, he was initially employed as a dietician for the newly created position as tuba player in the Hanover State Orchestra under the direction of Joseph Joachim and in which Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves established only a decade earlier Active at the Royal Court Theater .

After the tubist position was established as a permanent position in 1868, Friedrich Wöbbeking received the title of Royal Prussian chamber musician in 1871, the year the German Empire was founded .

Friedrich Wöbbeking retired on April 1, 1904. His successor was the tuba player Fritz Werner .

Wöbbeking died in Walsrode in 1919.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): VI. Period / 1852 to 1866 / The Joachim period , in this: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , pp. 183-186
  2. ^ Heinrich Sievers : Werner, Fritz , in ders .: 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. Published on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Opera House Orchestra by the Society of Friends of the Opera House Orchestra, Hanover: Sponholtz Verlag, 1961, p. 165; online through google books