Wilhelm Evers (organist)

Wilhelm Evers (born January 9, 1902 in Bremen - Findorff ; † October 5, 1975 in Bremen) was a German organist and music teacher .

biography

Evers was the son of a shoemaker. He grew up in Bremen- Findorff . After attending elementary school on Herbststrasse, he completed training as a teacher at the Bremen teachers' seminar on Hamburger Strasse.

The music pedagogue Karl Seiffert promoted him and on the basis of his suggestion Evers became an auxiliary organist at the Bremen Cathedral . He also worked as a teacher at a girls' school. General Music Director Ernst Wendel has employed him as a harpsichordist in the Bremen Philharmonic since 1923 .

From 1924 Evers was organist and choirmaster at St. Stephen's Church . It was through him that the works of the composer Max Reger became known in Bremen. He was also often used as a répétiteur for the Bremen Cathedral Choir. During the Second World War he was a soldier and a prisoner of war. He returned in August and the cathedral cantor Richard Liesche immediately appointed him as cathedral organist.

In 1946 he became a music teacher at the Kippenberg high school in Bremen- Schwachhausen . Here he also directed the girls' choir. At the Bremen Cathedral he promoted the performance of motets and cantatas during the service. He also organized cantata evenings as cathedral vespers as well as nativity plays with musical accompaniment. From 1948 he was a lecturer for organ, harpsichord and music theory at the Bremen Music School and from 1951 to 1967 he was a full-time lecturer and then professor at the Bremen University of Education .

Even after his retirement, Evers remained cathedral organist until 1973. Above all, Evers cultivated the Bach tradition . In 1960 Radio Bremen recorded the Bach work played by Evers and others. He continued the work of cathedral organist Liesche during his illness and after his death until 1958 when Hans Heintze succeeded him as cathedral organist.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .