Wilhelm Speidel (musician)

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Wilhelm Speidel (born  September 3, 1826 in Ulm , †  October 13, 1899 in Stuttgart ) was a German pianist , composer and co-founder of the Stuttgart music school .

Life

Wilhelm Speidel, whose talent as a pianist showed at an early age, received his first musical from his father, the singer and composer Konrad Speidel (born September 16, 1804 in Söflingen near Ulm ; † January 26, 1880 in Ulm; married to Anna Steiner) Classes. After attending grammar school in Ulm, he began studying composition in Munich in 1842 with Ignaz Lachner and training as a pianist with Christian Wanner. 1846/47 worked as a private music teacher in Alsace , he then returned to Munich to work as a music teacher and pianist there. After touring all of Germany, he became widely known as an interpreter of Ludwig van Beethoven .

In 1854 he took his first permanent job in Ulm as the conductor of the Liedertafel founded in 1824 , which took part in concerts in the Ulm Theater in particular . In addition, he founded the Society for Classical Church Music in Ulm , the forerunner of the later Ulm Oratorio Choir .

In 1857 Speidel moved to Stuttgart and founded the Stuttgart Music School, today's University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, together with Sigmund Lebert , Immanuel Faißt , Ludwig Stark and other musicians. His better-known students include a. Reginald de Koven (1859–1920) and August Bopp (1873–1926). From 1858 to 1885 Speidel was also the conductor of the Stuttgarter Liederkranz .

His brother Ludwig Speidel (1830–1906) was a leading music , theater and literary critic in Vienna .

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  1. Cf. Eberhard Stiefel: Ulm . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): MGG . tape 13 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 1955, Sp. 1042-1046 .
  2. See Karl H. Wörner: De Koven, Henry Louis Reginald . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): MGG . tape 3 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 1955, Sp. 114-115 .
  3. Cf. Eberhard Stiefel: Bopp, August . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): MGG . tape 15 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 1955, Sp. 945-946 .
  4. Stuttgarter Liederkranz 1824-1974 . Stuttgart 1974, p. 47.