Wilhelm Lemke (composer)

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Wilhelm Lemke (born June 12, 1873 in Plau am See , † October 2, 1953 in Rostock ) was a German military musician , composer , music teacher and music critic .

Life

Wilhelm Lemke was the son of a shipbuilder. He attended the high school in Rostock and had his first music lessons at the age of eleven. From 1887 to 1891 this was deepened through lessons with the Grand Ducal Music Director and staff oboist Heinrich Lenschow in Rostock. From 1889 Wilhelm Lemke was the first violinist in the United Orchestra in Rostock. From 1891 to 1894 he attended the military bandmaster aspirant school in Berlin . In 1894 he was appointed music director. Afterwards he belonged to various military bands. Since 1902 he was active in the 2nd Badischer Dragoon Regiment No. 21 in Bruchsal , Baden . Here he also took over the leadership of the Bruchsal town band . In 1904 he took over the management of the Musique-Militaire of Le Locle in Switzerland as professor and music director . Here he led the cadet music, the men's choir Harmonie-Liederkranz, the German church choir and the city's symphony orchestra. In 1911 he won the first prize for brass music with the Musique-Militaire at the International Music Competition in Lausanne , and in 1912 with the parade festival march the composition competition of the 16th Swiss Federal Music Festival in Vevey .

Wilhelm Lemke left Switzerland in 1915 and worked as a music teacher and composer in Germany after his military service. In 1920 he returned to Switzerland and was director of the Stadtmusik in Frauenfeld until 1930 ; from 1926 to 1930 he also directed the Langdorf-Frauenfeld mixed choir. In 1924 Lemke was a course instructor at the Federal Music Association in Winterthur , in 1926 in Thusis and in 1926 in Lucerne . After 1930 he lived as a music teacher, music critic and composer in Rostock until his death.

Works

  • Treatises on valves in brass instruments in the Swiss newspaper for instrumental music (1914)

Marches

  • The Swiss Guard
  • To the parade
  • To the last course
  • Luck on miner
  • Greetings to home
  • My Mecklenburg

waltz

  • On a high dune
  • On the sea beach
  • Moon night in the south
  • Summer night
  • Funny sleigh ride

Songs for mixed choir

  • Travel well, you beautiful May dream

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. 5804 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book Rostock 1910
personal data
SURNAME Lemke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military musician, composer, music teacher and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Plau am See
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1953
Place of death Rostock