Paul Walde

Paul Walde (born February 6, 1876 in Dresden , † after 1926) was a German organist , choir conductor and composer .

Life

Walde was born in Dresden in 1876 as the son of Jakob W. Zimmermann (1850–1896) and Agnes Schneider (1849–1927). After attending the community school in his hometown, he studied music at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden from 1897 to 1900 . His teachers there included u. a. Emil Robert Höpner in organ, Carl Heinrich Döring in piano and Wilhelm Rischbieter in theory.

From 1900 he worked as an organist and choir conductor at the Catholic Garrison Church in Dresden , where he dedicated himself in particular to Gregorian chant . He represented the expansion of the harmony system to include chromatics . In 1914 he was the founding director of his own music school , the "Dresdner Lehranstalt für Musik". In 1922 he became organist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden . Walde also conducted the Cäcilienchor Dresden . He also composed organ and piano pieces as well as songs (such as the song for a voice friendship ).

He was a member of the Dresden Tonkünstlerverein, the Association of Saxon Music School Directors, the Reich Association of German Tonkünstler and Music Teachers and the Association of Catholic Church Officials.

Walde, Catholic, was married to Barbara Ponath (born 1881) from 1926.

Fonts (selection)

• The harmony of modern times. New principles for the extension and technical designation of diatonic and chromatic scales . Printed as a manuscript. Dresden 1910.

literature

• Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Concise Tonkünstlerlexikon. For musicians and friends of music . 12th, very expanded edition, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1926.
• Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures . 2nd edition, published by Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1911.
• Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.