Georg Wille

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Georg Wille (before 1899)

Georg Wille (born September 20, 1869 in Greiz , † November 9, 1958 in Dresden ) was a German cellist and teacher.

Life

Wille was born in 1869 as the son of the Greiz City Music Director Gustav Wille in the royal seat of the Principality of Reuss older line . After receiving his first music lessons from his father, he majored in cello from 1885 to 1890 with Julius Klengel , principal cellist at the Gewandhaus and professor at the Leipzig Conservatory . There he also received the Schumann Prize. He was trained in theory and composition by the Bach researcher Wilhelm Rust .

From 1889 to 1899 he was a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . He began as an aspirant of the city orchestra, was accepted into the orchestra pension fund or deputy solo cellist in 1891 and promoted to solo cellist in 1891, succeeding Carl Schroeder . From 1891 to 1899 he was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet . In Leipzig he also belonged to the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palm trees .

In 1899 he moved to the court orchestra in Dresden , where he was solo cellist until 1925. In 1902 he became court concertmaster and in 1908 royal professor at the Dresden Conservatory . He helped initiate the orchestra school in Dresden, which he headed from 1925. He also directed the school orchestra there and set up a support foundation in 1927. Until 1944 he was the only honorary member of the Dresden band. From 1889 to 1914 he was a member of the Dresden Petri Quartet . After Henri Petri's death , the string quartet was renamed the Dresden String Quartet of the Royal Chapel and was taken over by Gustav Havemann (from 1923 Max Strub ) as primary violinist. As a musician he performed a. a. with Johannes Brahms and Artur Rubinstein . Music school director Bruno Hinze-Reinhold tried to get Wille to teach at the Staatliche Musikschule Weimar in 1926 , but this failed because of the low salary.

In Hamburg publishing of Daniel rahter he gave scale studies out for cello.

His brothers Alfred Wille (1868–1950) and Paul Wille (1873–1929) were also orchestra musicians.

Awards

In 1901 he was awarded the Order of Merit for Art and Science (Anhalt). He also received the House Order of Albrecht the Bear . On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1949 he became an honorary citizen of Greiz .

literature

  • Friedrich Jansa (ed.): German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures . 2nd edition, published by Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1911, p. 316.
  • Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm : The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 166.
  • Hugo Riemann's music lexicon . 8th completely revised edition, Hesse, Berlin a. a. 1916, p. 1237.

Web links

Commons : Georg Wille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 183.
  2. ↑ Lodge brothers from the field of music and theater , mzddp.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ortrun Landmann : Directory of names of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden: own names, names of the administrators, the musical directors and the former members from 1548 to 2013, in systematic-chronological order . Presented in 2013, updated and corrected annually since then (status: August 2017), p. 21 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ The Orchestra School of the Saxon State Orchestra (1923–1937) , staatskapelle-dresden.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.
  5. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 180.
  6. ↑ Michael Waiblinger, Strub Quartet, Booklet, Meloclassic 4002, 2014.
  7. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , p. 179.
  8. ^ Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 180.
  9. ^ Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 176.
  10. ↑ Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Digital edition, http://weber-habenausgabe.de/A007797 (Version 3.4.0 from January 20, 2019). This document was last amended on April 14, 2017.
  11. ^ Greizer Heimatbote October 1964 , vogtlandspiegel.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Will, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1958
Place of death Dresden