Rudolf Weinwurm
Rudolf Weinwurm (born April 3, 1835 in Scheideldorf near Waidhofen an der Thaya , Lower Austria; † May 26, 1911 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer , musicologist , choir director and composer in Vienna.
Life
Born in Scheideldorf in the Waldviertel in 1835 as the son of a headmaster, he came to the Zwettl Monastery as a ten-year-old choir boy , where he attended the “German School” and the first Latin class under Prefect Father Ferdinand Schojer. From 1847 to 1850 he was court choirboy in Vienna and became a soprano soloist. He studied law at the University of Vienna . He soon turned to music and met Anton Bruckner , to whom he remained lifelong as a friend and supporter.
In his hometown Weinwurm worked as university music director, director of the Vienna Singing Academy and choir master of the Vienna men's choir . He was extremely successful. At the Singers Association Festival for Upper Austria and Salzburg in 1865, his choral work “Germania” won first prize ahead of Bruckner's “Germanenzug”. He wrote the hymn for the Makart festival in 1879 and made guest appearances with his choirs on important occasions, e.g. B. at the inauguration of the Votive Church , the funeral of Grillparzer and the opening of the refuge on the Grossglockner .
In 1879/80 he musically supervised the Commers book of the Viennese students edited by Max Breitenstein , which appeared in three editions up to 1890 and, in addition to Scheffel's Czernowitz song, also contains compositions by Weinwurm.
He was a member of the Juristen-Liedertafel 1855-1859.
Honors
Rudolf Weinwurm was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna in an honorary grave (group 25, number 3).
In 1952 the Weinwurmweg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.
A museum is dedicated to him in Scheideldorf in the community of Göpfritz in the Waldviertel.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Weinwurm, Rudolf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, pp. 65–67 ( digitized version ).
- Peter Altmann: Rudolf Weinwurm (1835-1911). Vienna, 1985.
- Gudrun Bramer: 150 years of academic music making at the University of Vienna. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2008, p. 25. PDF file
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Weinwurm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Rudolf Weinwurm in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Sheet music and audio files by Rudolf Weinwurm in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Reimann, “German Academic Choral Societies in the Monarchy” in “The Lectures of the Fourth Austrian Student History Conference”, 1980, p. 15 ff.
- ↑ Rudolf Weinwurm in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weinwurm, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer, musicologist, choir director and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scheideldorf , Lower Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1911 |
| Place of death | Vienna |