Joseph Franz Wolf

Joseph Franz Wolf (born June 2, 1802 in Tschirmkau , Leobschütz district , province of Silesia , † December 10, 1842 in Breslau ) was a German composer , music teacher and organist.

Life

Franz Wolf was the son of an organist who gave him his first organ and piano lessons. Since his parents were not wealthy, he had to break off his education at the Leobschützer Gymnasium prematurely after the fifth grade when he was orphaned.

From 1820 he attended the Catholic teachers' college in Breslau , where Joseph Ignaz Schnabel taught him and Friedrich Wilhelm Berner trained as an organist. As a master student of Schnabel, he assisted him in conducting the cathedral choir and the winter concerts . After Schnabel's death in 1831, he succeeded him as a music teacher at the University of Breslau . In addition to piano and organ, he also mastered string and brass instruments. Among his best-known students were the organist Franz Dirschke and the later cathedral music director Moritz Brosig . He also taught numerous private students.

In 1830 he was employed as the second cathedral organist to relieve the cathedral organist Joseph Gottwald . After Gottwald's death in 1833, he took over his office in 1833. His way of playing was considered to be quite "Protestant"; He was an admirer of Bach and his suggestions for improving church music caused incomprehension in the circle of his superior canons.

Under Johann Theodor Mosewius , he actively participated in the Singing Academy . In 1834 he was appointed King. Appointed Music Director. In 1842 he died of a serious ear problem.

Create

Composing church music was one of Wolf's duties as a cathedral organist. Are known u. a. his German Mass , other masses with orchestral accompaniment, several offerings, graduals, Vespers psalms with orchestral accompaniment, four-part chants, songs for one voice and piano, an overture for large orchestra, piano variations, a trio for piano, violin and cello and many hymns .

literature

• Lothar Hoffmann-inheritance law (Ed.): Silesian Music Lexicon . Weißner, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-89639-242-5 , pp. 808 .
• CJA Hoffmann: The Tonkünstler Silesia; A contribution to art history ... Anderholz, Oppeln 1830, p. 471 f .