Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (composer)
Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt , sometimes also Friedrich-Wilhelm Voigt , (born March 22, 1833 in Koblenz , † February 22, 1894 in Bernburg ) was a Prussian military musician and composer .
Life
Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt was the son of the bar booist Christian Voigt. After attending secondary schools in Koblenz and Trier , he studied music at the Music Conservatory in Cologne and at the Conservatories in Leipzig and Berlin . For his final thesis, a choral symphony for a large orchestra, Einfest Burg , he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Art and Science.
In 1857, at the age of 24, he became a staff hoboist in the Prussian First Guards Regiment on foot . The music corps he directed was stationed in Potsdam and was the only one to provide music at court, which shows his high level of performance under Voigt's staff leadership.
In 1866 Voigt was appointed music director. He then took part in the German War of 1866 and the Franco-German War of 1870/71. From the latter there are a number of notes from letters that Voigt wrote home from the field and which convey a special view of this war. After the campaign he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.
In addition to a few other instrumental pieces, Voigt mainly composed marches. One day after the imperial proclamation in Versailles on January 18, 1871, the regimental music under Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt played the march “Salus Caesari nostro Guilemo” composed by him especially for this event in a trio with the hymn from Handel's oratorio “ Judas Maccabäus ”, “See , he comes with a prize ... ”, which later entered the Prussian Army March collection with the number 205 . More of his marches were also included in this collection and are still played by Bundeswehr orchestras today. His over 100 compositions also contain overtures, larger and smaller vocal pieces, string quartets and other chamber music works. In 1889 he worked on the Finska rytteriets marsch , which Princess Charlotte of Saxony-Meiningen brought with her from her trip to Sweden. The piece is known in Germany to this day as the Swedish Riding March .
From 1874 he taught at the Berlin Royal University of Music and from 1886 he was professor here. In 1887 Kaiser Wilhelm I. appointed Voigt as the first German army music officer and thus the highest ranking military musician in the empire.
Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt was married to Pauline Dumack since 1859. He died in 1894 and was buried in the New Cemetery in Potsdam.
literature
Busch, Heinz: From the army march to the big tattoo. A lexicon on the history of German military music . Bonn 2005. Toeche-Mittler, Joachim: Army marches. Volume 1. A historical chat between regimental music and trumpet corps all about German military music . 3rd, supplemented edition Stuttgart 1980.
Web links
- Regimental music on www.erstes-garderegiment.de
- Text accompanying the sheet music edition (2013) of his Nocturne op.75 for clarinet, horn or viola (violoncello) and piano
- Voigt's notes from the Franco-German war
- Voigt's March The German Imperial Guard - audio sample
Individual evidence
- ↑ Busch, Heinz: From the army march to the big tattoo. A lexicon on the history of German military music . Bonn 2005, p. 118.
- ^ Toeche-Mittler, Joachim: Army marches. Volume 1. A historical chat between regimental music and trumpet corps all about German military music . 3rd, supplemented edition Stuttgart 1980, p. 71.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voigt, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voigt, Friedrich-Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1894 |
| Place of death | Bernburg |