Paul Elgers (violinist)

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Paul Elgers (actually Wilhelm Paul Bernhard Schmidt ; born November 20, 1876 in Berlin , † after 1927) was a German violinist and music teacher.

Life

Elgers was born the son of the factory owner Bernhard Schmidt and his wife Marie Zorn. He attended the Luisenstädtische Gymnasium in Berlin . From 1895 to 1897 he received violin lessons from Carl Halir . From 1898 to 1900 he studied violin with Gustav Hollaender and theory with Ludwig Bussler at the Stern Conservatory . In 1900 he moved to Carl Halir and Joseph Joachim at the Berlin University of Music . From 1901 to 1903 he was tutored by Anton Witek in Berlin and from 1903 by Albert Geloso in Paris.

In 1902 he made his debut as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Josef Řebíček . Until 1906 he went on concert tours. From 1906 to 1911 he was director of the Ochs Eichelberg Conservatory in Berlin. From 1911 to 1914 he worked as a violin teacher in Berlin. In 1919 Bruno Hinze-Reinhold brought him to the State Music School in Weimar as head of the 1st violin class . After falling out with Hinze-Reinhold, he and Hilde Elgers opened a competing violin school in Weimar in September 1924. His successor at the music school was Max Strub . From 1927 Elgers worked as a teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. In 1934 he took over a violin training class there.

Elgers, a Protestant, was married and had two children. His son Paul Elgers (1915–1995) was a writer.

literature

  • Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Muck : One Hundred Years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . Volume 3: The members of the orchestra, the programs, the concert tours, first and world premieres . Schneider, Tutzing 1982, ISBN 3-7952-0341-4 , p. 88.
  2. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , pp. 137 f.
  3. ↑ Daily chronicle . In: Die Musik 16 (1924) 2, p. 938.
  4. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , p. 167.
  5. ↑ Personal details . In: Die Musik 26 (1933/34) 1, p. 396.
personal data
SURNAME Elgers, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Wilhelm Paul Bernhard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century