Max Ludwig (musician)

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Max Ludwig (born October 25, 1882 in Glauchau , † 1945 in Leipzig ) was a German conductor , organist , choir director , composer and university professor .

Life

family

Max Ludwig was the son of master weaver Johann Heinrich Ludwig (1845-1909) and his wife Marie, née Baumann (1846-1909).

In 1921 he married Marie Haedicke. The marriage had the children Joachim (1923–1944), Maria (* 1926) and Christa (1926–1928).

Career

After attending the teachers' college in Waldenburg , he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1908 to 1910 . He was a student of Ferruccio Busoni , Max Reger and Robert Teichmüller .

Grave site of Max Ludwig and relatives

After completing his studies, he first took over the management of the teachers' choir in Halle (Saale) , then he conducted the New Leipzig Male Choir and mixed choirs inside and outside Leipzig. He became famous as the conductor of the Riedel Association , as the director of the Leipzig Schubert Association and co-conductor of the Leipzig Philharmonic Concerts. In the winter season 1930/1931 he conducted in the Albert Hall next to Alfred Szendrei , the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra .

Max Ludwig worked full-time as a cantor and organist at the St. Peter's Church in Leipzig and as a professor of music theory and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. Antiochus Evangelatos , Erich Sehlbach and Hans-Martin Majewski were among his students .

Max Ludwig composed several choir and organ works.

His grave is in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

Honors

  • 1932: Appointment as Professor of Music

Works

  • Now the day is divorced according to a poem by Heinrich Brandt (for SATB choir)
  • Who only lets God rule (chorale prelude)

literature

  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon. Limpert, Dresden 1929, p. 538.
  • Johannes Hohlfeld : On the 50th birthday of Professor Max Ludwig, conductor of the Leipzig Schubert Association and teacher at the Leipzig State Conservatory, on October 25, 1932. J. Bohn & Sohn, Leipzig 1932, DNB 580962350

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music and Society. Volume 15, 1965, p. 177.
  2. ↑ Now the day is divorced on the Carus-Verlag website
  3. ↑ Who only lets God rule on the website of the Carus Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, organist, choir director, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Leipzig