Max Högg

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Max Högg (born May 15, 1854 in Schwab-Munich ; † March 17, 1933 in Füssen ) was a German musician, composer and conductor.

Life

Högg was the son of the teacher, cantor and sacristan Carl Högg and received early music lessons on the violin and the piano. He later learned several wind instruments. On June 1, 1874, he volunteered as a candidate for the Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" No. 3 in Augsburg. In 1877 he successfully applied for the position of music master at the Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment in Munich and succeeded music master Carl Hagel, who had retired from military service. As such, he was initially the superior and later the mentor of Georg Fürst , who was to become his successor in 1911. In addition to his work as a music master, Högg studied counterpoint and arrangementFranz Lachner and composition with Joseph Rheinberger . From 1911 he was employed as a trainer for the prospective military bandmasters at the Munich Academy of Music .

Works

  • Helvig March
  • High Württemberg (March)
  • General-Grauvogl-March
  • Good Bavarian, potpourrie
  • Colonel Dürkheim March
  • Colonel Count Bothmer-March
  • Prince Arnulf March
  • White-Blue March (publisher Siegfried Rundel)

literature

  • Armin and Wolfgang Suppan (eds.): The brass music lexicon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Högg, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwab-Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1933
Place of death Feet