Wilhelm Ferch
Wilhelm Ferch (born May 3, 1881 in Bogáros , Kingdom of Hungary , † 1922 in Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary) was a Romanian-German composer and choir director .
Life
Ferch already led school choirs as a student in Szeged and at the Swabian Konvikt in Timisoara . For five years he taught at the school of the Counts Csekonics in Hatzfeld . From 1918 to 1920 he worked as a teacher and leader of the men's choir in Werschetz . In 1920 he went to Budapest to perfect his musical education. He died of a heart attack there during an organ concert that he gave at the Matthias Church.
In Ferch's time in Hatzfeld, virtuoso piano works such as the Etude impromptu and the Feulliet d´Album as well as the choral work Egy gondolat bánt narrowly based on verses by Sándor Petőfi were created . The first performance of the latter was prevented in 1914 by the outbreak of World War I; it took place in 1922 on the occasion of the Petőfi celebrations in Budapest. In the same year the work was performed in German by Josef Linster by the Hatzfelder Gewerbegesangverein at the choir festival in Werbass . In the year he died, Ferch set Peter Jung's poem Mein Heimatland, Banaterland to music for choir. The work was revised by Josef Linster and known as the "Banat Hymne".
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| SURNAME | Ferch, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-German composer and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bulgăruș |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1922 |
| Place of death | Budapest |