Richard Wüerst (22 February 1824 – 9 October 1881)
was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue.
Wüerst was born and died in
Berlin
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. He was a pupil of
Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen at the
Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts () was a state arts academy first established in 1694 by prince-elector Frederick III of Electorate of Brandenburg, Brandenburg in Berlin, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Kingdom of ...
and a pupil of
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions inc ...
's. He later taught in the conservatory of
Theodor Kullak (what would soon become the
Stern Conservatory) and edited the ''
Neue Berliner Musikzeitung'' (from 1874 to 1875). One of his notable students was
Heinrich Hofmann.
Selected works
Operas
*''Der Rotmantel'' (1848 Berlin)
*''Vineta'' (21 December 1862, Bratislava)
*''Die Gastspielreise'', Dramatisch-musikalischer Scherz en un acte (after
Adolf von Winterfeld). Publié à Berlin: Bloch, ca. 1868.
*''Faublas'', comic opera in three acts, after a
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, libretto by
Ernst Wichert (1873 Berlin)
*''A-ing-fo-hi'', comic opera in three acts, after a story by
Anton Giulio Barrili, libretto by Ernst Wichert (28 January 1878, Berlin)
*''Die Offiziere der Kaiserin'' (1878 Berlin)
*''Der Stern von Turan''
Symphonies
*Three symphonies (including opus 21 in F, second symphony opus 54(2?) in D minor and opus 36 in C minor, no. 3)
*A concerto for violin, op. 37
Instrumental music
*Russian Suite for Strings, op. 81
*Three string quartets, op.33 (A minor, D major, G major)
[HMB, published Friedländer, 1860]
Sources
*Chrysander, Friedrich and Müller, Joseph. . Knuf. Volume 2, 9 Mar. 1864 issue.
Opera Glass*Wüerst, Richard Ferdinand; Butler, Maynard, trans. (1893) . 5th edition. Boston Music Company.
Notes
External links
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Digitalisierte Werke in der Bayer. Staatsbibliothek
1824 births
1881 deaths
German Romantic composers
German opera composers
German male opera composers
German music educators
Musicians from Berlin
19th-century German classical composers
19th-century German male musicians
Composers from the Kingdom of Prussia
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