Joseph Wagner (church musician)

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Max Joseph Wagner (born October 22, 1891 in Dresden ; † November 30, 1965 ibid) was a German church music director and organist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden.

Life

Joseph Wagner was the eldest of six sons of the teacher and organist Georg Maximilian Wagner (1861–1941) and his wife Klara, née. Müller (1865-1947). He was born on October 22nd, 1891 in Dresden, where the family lived at Scheunenhofstrasse 1. His father worked as a "permanent teacher" at the Catholic district school in the 1890s.

So far nothing is known about Wagner's youth and his education (studies). From 1937 (?) To 1955, in addition to his teaching profession, he worked as a choir instructor for the Dresden Kapellknaben at the Catholic Court Church , today's cathedral of the Dresden-Meißen diocese . A recording from that time (1941) with Joseph Wagner and his student Konrad Wagner on the Silbermann organ of the Catholic Court Church, which was released on CD in 1998, is remarkable in that this instrument was relocated shortly afterwards and only a long time after the end of the second World War was rebuilt or reconstructed. During his term of office, the reconstruction of the Kapellknabeninstitut took place after the destruction of the "Spiritual House" in Dresden's Schloßstraße at a new location at Schweriner Straße 15.

In his role as Dresdner church music director, he was also involved in the construction of organs in churches, so the construction of the Jehmlich -Orgel in the Catholic Church of the Assumption in Glauchau , in their consecration , he played the instrument first on 8 March 1964th He was also involved in the consecration of the overhauled and expanded organ of the Catholic parish church of St. Josef in Welzow in November 1946.

At the end of 1955 Wagner retired and handed over his duties to his successor Konrad Wagner , who had the same family name but was not related to him. Joseph Wagner lost his entire family except for one daughter in World War II .

Joseph Wagner died in November 1965 a few weeks after he had turned 74 in his native Dresden. His grave is preserved in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden's Friedrichstadt .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Scans of the original civil status documents viewed on ancestry.com on May 6, 2019.
  2. Music and Society, Volume 16, p. 139.
  3. ^ Celebrate the Dresden Kapellknaben. In: Day of the Lord Online. St. Benno Buch und Zeitschriften Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, March 29, 1998, accessed on May 9, 2019 .
  4. Record in the SLUB media library
  5. THE CATHOLIC PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARIÄ ASCENSION GLAUCHAU , 4.7 Organ, p. 10.
  6. Chronicle of St. Joseph. Catholic parish St. Antonius Grossraeschen, April 17, 1996, accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  7. Beginnings in the "Trümmerburg": 50 years ago Konrad Wagner took over the management of the Dresden Kapellknaben. In: Day of the Lord Online. St. Benno Buch und Zeitschriften Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, October 20, 2005, accessed on May 6, 2019 .

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