Wilhelm Rust

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Wilhelm Rust

Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (born August 15, 1822 in Dessau , † May 2, 1892 in Leipzig ) was a German composer , musicologist , Bach researcher and Thomaskantor from 1880 to 1892 .

Life

Rust, grandson of the composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust , studied at the Dessau Singakademie from 1840 to 1843 , was a pupil of the Hofkapellmeister Friedrich Schneider (composition) and his uncle Wilhelm Karl Rust (piano and organ). He then lived as a private tutor to a noble family in Hungary . In 1849 he returned to Berlin , where he worked as a piano , singing and composition teacher . In 1857 he became a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and of the Bach Society founded by Georg Vierling . In 1861 he took over the position of organist at the Lukaskirche and in 1862 director of the Bach Society's choir. In 1868 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg . From 1870 he also taught at the Stern Conservatory .

Rust joined the Leipzig Bach Society in 1850, the year it was founded. From 1853 he worked on the publication of the Bach Complete Edition , which he took over as director in 1858. New for his time, he applied the methods of classical antiquity to the edition of musical sources. His forewords to the individual volumes of the edition were also groundbreaking. As editor of the old Bach Society, he published a large number of Bach's works in exemplary fashion and was considered by his contemporaries to be the best Bach connoisseur alongside Philipp Spitta and Johannes Brahms .

In 1878 he became the Thomas organist of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig and in 1880, after the death of Ernst Friedrich Richter , his successor as Thomaskantor . At the same time he was a lecturer in theory, composition and organ at the Leipzig Conservatory . He mainly composed church music (chorale arrangements).

Rust was married.

estate

In 2008, the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale) bought part of Rust's estate . A hitherto unknown copy of Rust's chorale fantasy by Johann Sebastian Bach , of which only the first five bars had been recorded until then, came to light.

Works (selection)

Piano music:

Vocal music:

  • The hundred and thirty psalm. From the depths I call to you, Lord! Motet for solo voices and eight-part choir.
  • Deux Caprices pour Piano , op. 2. No. 1 in E major [and] No. 2 in B flat major, FEC Leuckart, Breslau [1856].

portrait

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Rust  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press release from the University of Halle .
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rust, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1892
Place of death Leipzig