Nicolai von Wilm
Peter Nicolai von Wilm (born March 4, 1834 in Riga , † February 19, 1911 in Wiesbaden ) was a German-Baltic composer , pianist and conductor . He wrote more than 250 works, including the only known string nonet .
Life
Nicolai von Wilm grew up in a music-loving family (court attorney Jakob Heinrich von Wilm and Johanna Charlotte nee Stieda) in Riga, where he also received his first musical training. From 1851 to 1856 he graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory . In 1857 he accepted the position of second conductor at the city theater in Riga, but in 1860 he went to St. Petersburg . In 1860 von Wilm became a music teacher at the Nikolai Institute there. In 1873 he went to Germany, first to Dresden, and from 1875 he lived in Wiesbaden, where he died in 1911. He kept in touch with his Baltic homeland, attended the Riga Song Festival in 1880 and became an honorary member of the Rigaer Liedertafel in 1883.
Musical creation
Von Wilm composed a large number of two- and four-hand piano pieces for the young. In addition, songs with piano accompaniment, sacred and secular choral music and a large number of chamber music works (string sextet, string quartet, two violin sonatas, cello sonata, two suites for piano and violin, a duo for harp and violin) and a concert piece for harp.
Catalog raisonné
A list of his compositions was published by Leuckart in Leipzig in 1899, including the string sextet Op. 27, 1882.
A directory of all works can be found in Scheunchen's Lexicon of German Baltic Music (see literature) and online on the pages of the International Music Score Library Project .
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1411 f .
- Paul Th. Falck: Nikolai von Wilm. A memorial sheet. In: Baltic Monthly No. 1 (Vol. 53, Vol. 71) 1911, pp. 489–498 ( digitized in the LNB ).
- Arnold Niggli : Nikolai von Wilm. A biographical-critical sketch. In: Neue Musik-Zeitung № 19 (vol. 9) 1888, pp. 225–227 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
- Hugo Riemann : History of Music since Beethoven (1800–1900). Spemann, Berlin / Stuttgart 1901, p. 601 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).
- Helmut Scheunchen : Lexicon of German Baltic Music . Harro von Hirschheydt, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . Pp. 295-307.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Nicolai von Wilm. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Sheet music and audio files by Nicolai von Wilm in the International Music Score Library Project
- Scores of works by Nicolai von Wilm on free-scores.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . tape 20 . Leipzig 1909, p. 654 .
- ^ Directory of the compositions by Nicolai von Wilm that have appeared in print up to now . Leuckert, Leipzig 1899.
- ↑ String Sextet Op. 27 in the Petrucci Music Library.
- ↑ List of works by Nicolai von Wilm on imslp.org (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilm, Nicolai von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilm, Peter Nicolai from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1911 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |