Fritz Werner (tuba player)

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Fritz Werner (born August 1, 1876 in Reinsdorf near Eckartsberga ; † March 9, 1944 in Roßla ) was a German tuba player , military and chamber musician .

Life

Fritz Werner served at the time of the German Empire in Gießen in the 116th regiment there , before he succeeded Friedrich Wöbbeking as tuba player at the court theater in Hanover on August 1, 1904 . In the following year, Werner was appointed royal ( Prussian ) chamber musician on April 1, 1905 and was thus a civil servant at the time .

Fritz Werner retired on July 1, 1938. He died in Roßla near the Kyffhäuser Mountains in 1944 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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
  2. ^ Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): VII. Period / 1866 to 1920 / The Prussian period , in this: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , pp. 186-192
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tuba player, military and chamber musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinsdorf (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1944
Place of death Rossla