Wilhelm Garvens (singer)

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Wilhelm Garvens , full name Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Garvens (born July 10, 1815 in Hamburg ; † April 14, 1897 ibid) was a German stage and concert singer with a tenor voice as well as a singing teacher , conductor and freemason .

Life

family

Wilhelm Hermann August Garvens was born in Hamburg in 1815, the fourth of five children of from Aerzen originating Hamburger paper trader and merchant Wilhelm Hermann August Garvens (born July 1, 1768 in Aerzen, † in Hamburg) and from Lenzen originating Johanne Friederike Sophia, born Deter (* May 27, 1785 in Lenzen; January 20, 1870 in Hamburg).

Career

Garvens received musical training from Adolf Bernhard Marx in Berlin between 1837 and 1839 . The simultaneous medical school he graduated in 1841 in Halle (Saale) with the promotion of Dr. med. from. In 1842 he founded the Liedertafel in Würzburg , which emerged from several predecessor organizations. From 1843 to 1852 he worked in Bavaria and Austria as a stage singer with a tenor voice , in addition he was temporarily choir master of the men's choir in Graz . In 1852 Garvens returned to Hamburg, where he worked as a singing teacher. In 1855 he founded the "Akademie Dr. Garvens ”, where singing lessons for male voices were given. It was there in 1858 that the double-cast “Quartet Dr. Garvens ”under his direction. He belonged to the three nettles of the Hamburg Masonic Lodge Absalom .

Archival material

Archives by and about Wilhelm Garvens can be found, for example

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In contrast to this, the German National Library (DNB) names the year of death 1899; compare the information from the DNB

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinz Schuler : Music and Freemasonry. Studies, facts, biographies (= pocket books on musicology , vol. 141), Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7959-0788-4 and ISBN 3-7959-0788-8 , p. 166 and so on. : Preview on google books
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information from the State Archives
  3. ↑ oV : New Theater Almanac for the year 1897. Theater History year and Address Book , Vol 8, Ed .: Cooperative German Stage Workers, Berlin. FA Günther, 1897, p 210; Preview over google books
  4. ^ "Dirk Meyer from Wolfhagen": Wilhelm Hermann August Garvens together with cross-references on the website of the Association for Computer Genealogy in the process of June 2, 2013, last accessed on August 17, 2017
  5. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1228.
  6. ↑ Bartholf Senff (Ed.): Signals for the musical world , 28th year, Leipzig 1870, p. 322.


personal data
SURNAME Garvens, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garvens, Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and concert singer, tenor, singing teacher, conductor and Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1897
Place of death Hamburg