Wilhelm Rück

Wilhelm Rück (born May 9, 1849 in Schillingsfürst ; † November 27, 1912 in Nuremberg ) was a German music teacher , collector of musical instruments and piano dealer.

Life

Wilhelm Rück initially worked as a teacher at various elementary schools in Nuremberg. Around 1880 he composed a festival march to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Wittelsbach government. It was in those years that he began to collect musical instruments. In 1892 he and his wife Margarete founded a piano rental company in Nuremberg, which a few years later was expanded into the Pianohaus Wilhelm Rück sales business. On his death, he left the collection of around 450 musical instruments and the piano house to his sons Hans and Ulrich Rück and his wife Margarete. A large number of zithers from the collection had previously been given to the Wilhelm Heyer Collection in Cologne. Hans and Ulrich Rück expanded the collection into one of the most important private musical instrument collections in the world. In 1962 she came to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .

Works

• High Wittelsbach! : Festival march for two-handed pianoforte and four-part male choir to celebrate the seven hundredth anniversary of the reign of the most majestic Wittelsbacher house; Op. 3 / comp. by Wilhelm Rück; Zierfuss, Nuremberg around 1880.
• A bouquet of alpine flowers : new country ways for pianoforte for 2 hands / comp. by Wilhelm Rück; Nuremberg, self-published in 1889.

literature

Music in the past and present, personal section, vol. 14, Kassel a. a. 2005, Col. 601 f

Web links

• Collecting musical instruments - the example of Rück , Germanisches Nationalmuseum, research project, 2015–2018.