Robert Wiemann

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Robert Wiemann (born November 4, 1870 in Frankenhausen , † November 24, 1965 in Bremerhaven ) was a German conductor and composer .

Life

Oskar Richard Robert Wiemann was a son of the baker and confectioner Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Wiemann (1834–1888) and his wife Thekla Amalie Wilhelmine Riecke (* 1839 in Kindelbrück ). He attended the Leipzig Conservatory from 1886 to 1890 . Via Landau , Pforzheim and Bremerhaven he came to Osnabrück , where from 1899 to 1920 he renewed the city's entire concert system. Then he became the successor to Karl Adolf Lorenz Municipal Music Director of Stettin . He created a municipal orchestra from the Szczecin Theater Orchestra, which u. a. enriched the city's musical life with inexpensive folk symphony concerts . He performed the oratorio Ruth by Georg Schumann and conducted works by Marco Enrico Bossi , Friedrich Ernst Koch and Philipp Wolfrum . His performance of Hans Pfitzner's German Soul was one of the first in Germany. Around 1928 he conducted Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Petrushka in Stettin .

Wiemann created his own orchestral, chamber music and piano works, including the one-act opera The Prisoner in the Caucasus based on a novella by Pushkin . His Symphonia fantastica was premiered in April 1943 to mark the 700th anniversary of Szczecin .

After being bombed out in Stettin, Wiemann moved to Miedzyzdroje , where he was captured by the Russians at the end of the war and abducted. He was only released in 1949 through the mediation of the Red Cross and took his retirement home in Bremerhaven. He died almost ten months after the death of his wife, the piano teacher Betty Jühlfs from Bremerhaven.

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SURNAME Wiemann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiemann, Oskar Richard Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1965
Place of death Bremerhaven