Wilhelm Seven

Wilhelm Sieben (born April 29, 1881 in Landau in the Palatinate , † August 23, 1971 in Munich ) was a German conductor .

Life

In order to become a lawyer like his father, Sieben first studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Prepared as a violinist, he switched to the Munich Academy of Music in 1900, where he became a student of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger and Ludwig Thuille . In 1903 Sieben went to Prague as a violinist with Otakar Ševčík , returned to Munich in 1904 and finished studying music in 1905 at the academy with Felix Berber . After graduating, he immediately got a job as a violin teacher until 1918. During this activity he founded a string quartet with which he performed especially the more modern works of younger composers.

Influenced and encouraged by Felix Mottl , Bruno Walter pushed him into a conducting career by recommending him to Königsberg . East Prussia's provincial capital appointed him in 1918 as conductor of the symphony concerts and the Singakademie.

In 1920 he became the municipal music director in Dortmund . Almost at the same time he also took over the artistic direction of the Dortmund Music Association. The Anton Bruckner Festival was celebrated on April 2, 1933 with the performance of the Great Mass in F minor and the Te Deum . In September 1936, Sieben conducted the 9th Symphony (Beethoven) . In 1937 he became general music director of the Dortmund Philharmonic . In March 1946 he performed the Requiem (Mozart) .

Twenty years after his retirement, Sieben died at the age of 90 in Munich.

See also : Music in Königsberg  and Theater Dortmund

Individual evidence

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