Georg Ahl

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Georg Ahl (born July 7, 1878 in Fallersleben , † 1945 in Berlin ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

Ahl was one of three children of the concert singer Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Ahl (1845-1921) and Bertha Boës (1839-1919). Maternal great-uncle was the Germanist August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben . Georg Ahl's father, a businessman in Fallersleben and a singer, went to the United States in 1890 with his wife and children for several years , where he appeared as a tenor singer in larger cities and took over the management of a larger choral society in Pittsburgh as a singing and music teacher.

After their return, the family settled in Berlin, where Georg Ahl studied from 1905 to 1908 at the Hochschule für Musik with Paul Juon and Max Bruch . He played the violin and worked as a conductor . From 1908 to 1916 he was music director at the Haubinda rural education home . Then he did military service . After the end of the World War he was musical director at Schloss Bieberstein from 1919 . From 1919 to 1922 he was musical director in Berlin. From 1922 to 1924 he was on a concert tour in the United States in order to collect donations for musicians in need in Central Europe on behalf of the Aid Association for German Music Care.

Georg Ahl also taught composition. Fritz Stege was one of his students .

literature

  • Paul Frank (Hrsg.): Kurzgefassttes Tonkünstlerlexikon: for musicians and friends of the music art . - 12th edition - Leipzig: Merseburger, 1926
  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . - Dresden: Limpert, 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ahl, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand. In: Erika Poettgens: Hoffmann von Fallersleben and the land of the Dutch tongue: correspondence, network of relationships, imagery. Waxmann Verlag, 2014, p. 24. ISBN 978-3-830-98095-7
  2. ^ I. HA Rep. 191, No. 3916 , Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage .
  3. ↑ Stege, Fritz. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, Vol. 9, p. 627.
personal data
SURNAME Ahl, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Fallersleben
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Berlin