Georg Wille

Georg Wille (20 September 1869 – 9 November 1958) was a German cellist.

Georg Wille (before 1899)

Life

Wille was born in 1869 as the son of the music director Gustav Wille in the royal residence of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz. After receiving his first music lessons from his father, he became a violoncello pupil from 1885 to 1890 with Julius Klengel, solo cellist of the Gewandhaus and professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. There, he also received the Schumann Prize. He was trained in theory and composition by the Bach researcher Wilhelm Rust.

From 1889 until 1899, Wille was a member of the Gewandhausorchester. He started as an aspirant of the city orchestra, became a member of the orchestra pension fund or deputy principal cellist in 1891 and was promoted to principal cellist in 1891, succeeding Carl Schroeder. From 1891 to 1899, he was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet.[1] In Leipzig, he also belonged to the Freemason Lodge "Minerva zu den drei Palmen".[2]

In 1899, Wille moved to the Staatskapelle Dresden, where he was principal cellist until 1925.[3] In 1902, he became court concertmaster and in 1908, royal professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. He was one of the initiators of the Dresden orchestral school, which he directed from 1925. He also directed the local school orchestra and in 1927 established a foundation for the promotion of the orchestra.[4] Until 1944 he was the only honorary member of the Dresdner Kapelle. From 1889 to 1914, he was a member of the Dresden Petri Quartet.[5] After the death of Henri Petri, the string quartet, while still active, was renamed Dresdner Streichquartett der Königlichen Kapelle and was taken over by Gustav Havemann (from 1923 Max Strub) as Primarius.[6] As a musician he performed among others with Johannes Brahms and Artur Rubinstein. In 1926, the director of the music school Bruno Hinze-Reinhold tried to get Wille to teach at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, but failed due to the low salary.[7]

He published Tonleiter-Studien for violoncello in the Hamburg publishing house of Daniel Rahter.

His brothers Alfred Wille (1868-1950)[8] and Paul Wille (1873-1929)[9] were also orchestral musicians.

Wille died in Dresden at the age of 89.

Awards

In 1901, he was awarded the Order of Merit for Science and Art.[10] He also received the Order of Albert the Bear. On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1949, he became Honorary citizen of the city of Greiz.[11][https://www.vogtlandspiegel.de/kulturspiegel-kreis-greiz-oktober-1964/1804022/ vogtlandspiegel.de, retrieved 12 September 2020.

Further reading
  • Friedrich Jansa (ed.): Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild.[12] 2nd edition, Verlag von Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1911, p. 316.
  • Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0, p. 166.
  • Hugo Riemann's Musik-Lexikon. 8th completely revised edition, Hesse, Berlin etc. 1916, p. 1237.

References
  1. Jürgen Stegmüller: 'Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte. vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8, p. 183.
  2. Logenbrüder aus dem Bereich Musik und Theater, mzddp.de, retrieved 12 September 2020.
  3. Ortrun Landmann: Namenverzeichnis der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden: eigene Benennenungen, Namen der Administratoren, der musikalischen Leiter und der ehemaligen Mitglieder von 1548 bis 2013, in systematisch-chronologische Folge. Presented in 2013, since then annually updated and corrected (as of August 2017), p. 21 (PDF).
  4. Die Orchesterschule der Sächsischen Staatskapelle (1923-1937), staatskapelle-dresden.de, retrieved on 27 January 2019.
  5. Jürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginnings to the present"' (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8, p. 180.
  6. Michael Waiblinger, Strub Quartet, Booklet, Meloclassic 4002, 2014.
  7. Wolfram Huschke: Zukunft Musik: Eine Geschichte der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar. Böhlau, Cologne etc. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2, p. 179.
  8. Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Its members and its history since 1743 Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0, p. 180.
  9. Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0, p. 176.
  10. Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe http://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A007797 (Version 3.4.0 of 20 January 2019). Last modified on 14 April 2017.
  11. Greizer Heimatbote October 1964
  12. Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild on WorldCat
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