Werner Gößling (conductor)

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Werner Gustav Rudolf Gößling (born January 17, 1898 in Brackwede ; † September 8, 1992 in Bremen ) was a German conductor , choir director , composer and university teacher. He was chief conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra and the Robert Franz Singing Academy in Halle. In 1951 he was appointed general music director in Halle . From 1956 to 1958 he built the first Chinese symphony orchestra in the European style.

Life

Werner Gößling was born in 1898 as the son of Eduard Gößling and his wife Elisabeth Schrader in Brackwede, Westphalia (now a district of Bielefeld ). In Bielefeld he attended the humanistic grammar school. During the First World War he joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman (crew 1915) .

In 1919 he was enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to study philosophy . He later studied art history, philosophy and German studies in Heidelberg. In 1920 he went to Berlin , where he began studying music. At the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin he attended lectures by the musicologists Johannes Wolf and Max Friedlaender . At the same time he studied from 1921 at the Stern Conservatory , where he was trained as Kapellmeister by Carl Schröder , James Kwast and Wilhelm Klatte . Klatte introduced him to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach . In addition, Alexander von Fielitz , Friedrich Ernst Koch and Nikolaus Rothmühl were among his teachers. Siegfried Ochs also trained him as a choirmaster.

In 1922/23 Gößling became a solo coach at the State Theater in Schwerin . From 1923 to 1925 he worked as Kapellmeister and choir conductor at the Theater am Kohlenmarkt in the Free City of Danzig . In 1926 he moved to the Nationaltheater Mannheim , where he mainly worked as a choir conductor a. a. of the teachers choir Mannheim-Ludwigshafen worked. In Mannheim he learned a lot from the guest conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler , Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner .

In 1929 Hermann Abendroth brought him to Cologne. At the opera there he was the repertoire conductor and first choir director. He appeared with the Gürzenich Orchestra in the 1929/30 and 1930/31 seasons under General Music Director Eugen Szenkar as a theater conductor . In addition, he became head of the opera school at the Cologne University of Music , which he helped to design.

Already on February 1, 1932 and thus before the seizure of power in 1933, Gößling joined the NSDAP ( membership number 894.495). At the instigation of the party, he was appointed music director of the city of Bielefeld on July 1, 1933 . After Gößling had taken the position of the resigned Max Cahnbleys , Heinrich Kaminski resigned in September 1933 as a result of a dispute with Gößling as director of the symphony concerts and in June 1934 as director of the music association. Pieces by Jewish and socialist artists have been banned from the program. Instead, works by Richard Wagner were now favored at the Bielefeld Opera . In Detmold he conducted the orchestra at the Richard-Wagner-Festwochen , where Heinz Tietjen partly took over the direction. In addition to Wagner, he also increasingly conducted Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner during those years. In addition, he worked as a conductor at the Deutschlandsender and the Hamburg broadcaster. Gößling competed in Bielefeld in the 1930s with Hans Hoffmann , who as choir director of the Bielefelder Musikverein took over half of the symphony concerts of the municipal orchestra . From 1938 on, disputes over authority and orchestral rehearsals are documented. On June 3, 1940, Gößling was drafted into the Wehrmacht ( Navy ), whereupon Hoffmann initially took over his office temporarily and from April 1943 on completely.

After being a prisoner of war , from 1945 to 1948 he was musical director at the Flensburg Municipal Theaters . As part of a trial run in 1950, he succeeded Walter Schartner as chief conductor of the State Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt, which he directed until 1956 as the State Symphony Orchestra (1952) and State Symphony Orchestra (1954). At the end of 1953, the Robert Franz Singing Academy was incorporated . Accordingly, Gößling also appeared with oratorio performances, for example he conducted the final concert of the Handel Festival in Halle in 1952 . The interpretations of the Handel oratorios Samson (1953) and Joshua (1954) remained behind the operas by Horst-Tanu Margraf , despite the solid cast . In 1953/54 Gößling established Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Halle at the turn of the year . Because of his achievements, he was appointed General Music Director in 1951 by the State Art Affairs Commission. He was also head of the conductor training at the Hochschule für Musik in Halle, where he was appointed professor in 1952 . Among the graduates of his conducting class were u. a. Johannes Schröder , Günther Lossau and Joachim Widlak . Relatively early, he was active in the Halle-Magdeburg district association of the GDR composers' association . However, only a few contemporary works by GDR composers were incorporated into the critical program planning of his orchestra.

In 1956 he received a call to Beijing , where he was supposed to set up a first Chinese symphony orchestra based on the European model, today's China National Symphony Orchestra . To this end, he trained several Chinese conductors. On the one hand, his “fatherly friend” Hermann Abendroth brought him to China, and on the other hand, the city council simply gave him a promise.

Since Abendroth had died in 1956, the originally planned call to Weimar no longer came about. Instead, Gößling went to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he was chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra Northwest in Wilhelmshaven from 1958 until his retirement in 1962. From 1958 to 1969 he was also director of the Musikfreunde Bremen orchestra . With this amateur orchestra he premiered various works by Bremen composers. From 1970 to 1973 he was the successor of Gerd Reinfeldt, 1st chairman of the Bremen state association in the German Association of Musicians . He also directed the state competition of Jugend musiziert in Bremen until 1974 .

Family and estate

Gößling was married to Eva von Carlowitz for the first time . After her death in 1925 he married Thekla Hoffmann, b. Will. He was a cousin of the violinist Georg Kulenkampff .

His estate is in the university library of the LMU Munich . Further correspondence is u. a. in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library in Dresden, the University Library in Leipzig and the City Archives and the State History Library in Bielefeld.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 46ff.
  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
  2. ^ Heinz Freiberger: Werner Gößling-Bielefeld . In: Die Musik 28 (1936) 2, pp. 904f.
  3. ↑ Commemorative speech on the 70th anniversary of the maritime officers' crew joining the Imperial Navy in July 1915: held on May 31, 1985 in the assembly hall of the Naval School Flensburg-Mürwik / KKpt retired Werner Gößling in Kalliope
  4. ^ Headcount at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Summer half year 1919 . Munich 1919, p. 70.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 46f.
  6. ^ Herbert Meyer: Das Nationaltheater Mannheim (1929–1979) (= research on the history of Mannheim and the Palatinate . Vol. 7). Bibliographical Inst. Mannheim u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-411-01563-2 , p. 12.
  7. ^ Karlheinz Weber: From minstrel to urban chamber musician. On the history of the Gürzenich Orchestra (= contributions to Rhenish music history . Vol. 169). Volume 2, Merseburger, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-87537-318-9 , p. 127.
  8. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . 2nd ed., Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , p. 9949.
  9. ↑ a b c d Andreas Bootz: Culture in Bielefeld 1945–1960. [This book appears as a companion volume to the exhibition "Culture in Bielefeld 1945–1960, War Da Was?", An exhibition of the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Bielefeld in cooperation with the Historical Museum of the City of Bielefeld] (= Bielefeld contributions to the city and regional history . Vol. 12). AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1993, ISBN 3-86039-006-6 , p. 29.
  10. ↑ a b c Reinhard Vogelsang: Under the sign of the swastika. Bielefeld 1933–1945. An exhibition of the city archive in the study gallery of the art gallery, January 28 - March 20, 1983. Catalog (= Bielefeld contributions to city and regional history . Vol. 5). 3rd edition, Stadtarchiv and Landesgeschichtliche Bibliothek, Bielefeld 1986, p. 70.
  11. ^ History , theater-bielefeld.de, accessed: April 15, 2020.
  12. ^ History of the Musikverein , musikverein-bielefeld.de, accessed: April 15, 2020.
  13. ^ Jürgen Oberschelp : The public musical life of the city of Bielefeld in the 19th century (= Cologne contributions to music research . Vol. 66). Bosse, Regensburg 1972, ISBN 3-7649-2575-2 , p. 146.
  14. ↑ a b c d Gisela Heine: Tradition and Modernity. 50 years of the Halle State Orchestra . In: the orchestra 1/1997, p. 44.
  15. ↑ Karin Zauft: Handel and the Handel Festival in Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2001, ISBN 978-3-89812-085-2 , p. 39.
  16. ↑ Werner Rackwitz : History and Present of the Halle Handel Renaissance . Part 2: 1929–1976 (= writings from the Handel House in Halle . Vol. 2). Handelhaus, Halle an der Saale, p. 211.
  17. ^ Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Ed. By the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 64.
  18. ^ Gilbert Stöck: New music in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg at the time of the GDR. Compositions, politics, institutions . Schröder, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-926196-50-7 , p. 242.
  19. ^ Gilbert Stöck: New music in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg at the time of the GDR. Compositions, politics, institutions . Schröder, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-926196-50-7 , p. 252.
  20. ↑ [untitled] . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 13, 1956, vol. 12, issue 135, p. 2.
  21. ↑ Music from Europe . In: Neue Zeit , February 7, 1957, vol. 13, edition 32, p. 4.
  22. ↑ a b c d Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 80f.
  23. ^ History of our orchestra , musikfreunde-bremen.de, accessed: April 15, 2020.
  24. ↑ Hans-Joachim Vetter: Die Tonkünstlerverband (1844–1984) (= materials and documents from music education . Vol. 13). Edited by the Association of German Music Educators and Performing Artists, Bosse, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-7649-2298-2 , p. 99.
  25. ↑ Directory of bequests and autographs (as of August 1, 2013), ub.uni-muenchen.de, accessed: April 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Goessling, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gößling, Werner Gustav Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, choir director, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackwede
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1992
Place of death Bremen