Werner Ladwig
Werner Ladwig (born August 18, 1899 in Halle (Saale) , † March 23, 1934 in Dresden ) was a German conductor .
Life
Werner Ladwig was a son of the businessman Carl Ladwig. He attended the Latina in Halle and studied philosophy , art history and musicology at the Universities of Halle and Leipzig . Paul Graener was his teacher in the composition class, and Otto Lohse in conducting. His first engagement was from 1921 to 1924 as Kapellmeister and répétiteur at the Duisburg Opera . From 1924 he was regional music director in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) for four years , and from 1929 to 1931 opera director in Königsberg (Prussia) .
Ladwig was a Freemason and from 1929 a member of the Königsberg Lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix .
In 1931 he was appointed general music director of the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin . Here he devoted himself particularly to contemporary music, for example in 1931 with the world premiere of Paul Graener's opera Friedemann Bach . In 1932 he directed the world premiere of Mark Lothar's adaptation of Joseph Haydn's opera Die Welt auf dem Monde , which was broadcast by several radio stations. In 1932 he conducted performances of Friedrich von Flotow's opera Alessandro Stradella , Paul Hindemith's Cardillac and Hans Pfitzner's Christelflein . In the same year 1932 he got the world premiere of Robert Alfred Kirchner's Requiem sacrifice with the Schwerin Choral Society.
Because of his advocacy for modern music, he was denounced as a "non-Aryan" . That was one of the reasons why he left Schwerin at the end of 1932 and accepted an appointment as first conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic . He died after two serious operations.
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5609 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the St. John's Lodge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phönix". Berlin 2009, self-published by the Lodge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phoenix"
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ladwig, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1934 |
| Place of death | Dresden |