Werner Hübschmann (23 July 1901 − 5 July 1969) was a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

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. Hübschmann was born in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

. If one looks at the catalogue of works of the composer,

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

takes up the widest space in it. There for example, one can find music for

mandolin orchestra A mandolin orchestra is an orchestra consisting primarily of instruments from the mandolin family of instruments, such as the mandolin, mandola, mandocello and mandobass or mandolone. Some mandolin orchestras use guitars and double-basses instea ...

and

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

, like the ''Sonatine for accordion or Toccata for accordion'', but also instruments like the guitar and the

zither Zither (; , from the Greek ''cithara'') is a class of stringed instruments. The modern instrument has many strings stretched across a thin, flat body. Zithers are typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers or a ...

which were considered by Hübschmann worth compositions. After musical studies in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

and at the

University of Music and Theatre Leipzig The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest univ ...

with Grabner and later with E. Wolff in Zurich he worked as a private music teacher in Leipzig and Chemnitz. On 1 October 1950, he was one of the co-founders of the Chemnitz Folk Music School. From 1952 he worked as a lecturer for

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at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding o ...

, the city where he died at the age of 68.

Compositions

* ''Kein schöner Land : Volksliederbuch für Klavier''. * ''Von den Stämmen zum deutschen Volk : das erste Jahrtausend der deutschen Geschichte''. * ''Alte deutsche Spruchweisheit : für Tenor und Gitarre''. * ''Sieben Studien für Mandoline allein''. * ''Acht Stücke für Kontrabaß und Klavier''. * ''Sonatine für Trompette in B und Klavier''.''Sonatine für Trompette in B und Klavier''
on WorldCat

References

External links

* * 20th-century German classical composers 1901 births 1969 deaths Musicians from Chemnitz {{Germany-composer-stub