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