Benjamin Bilse

Johann Ernst Benjamin Bilse ( born August 17, 1816 in Liegnitz, Silesia, † July 13, 1902 ) was a German conductor and composer.

Life

Bilse learned the trade of " Stadtmusicus " in this training he learned how to deal with almost all the instruments of the orchestra. In Vienna he took violin lessons with the famous violinist Josef Böhm and played in the chapel of Johann Strauss ( father). In 1842 he was appointed head of the city chapel Legnica. As of 1867 the ensemble played which now " Bilse'sche chapel " was called, in the Berlin Concert House on Leipziger Straße. Here found the legendary " Bilse concerts " instead, more than three thousand in number, who were immortalized among other things, by Adolph Menzel in an oil painting (1871 ). Toured extensively musicians across Europe, including St. Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw, Amsterdam and Vienna and 1867 World Exhibition in Paris, where Johann Strauss ( son ) conducted the Danube waltz with them.

In 1882 it came to a dispute with the musicians, 54 of Bilse highly trained musicians parted from him and founded the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ( this was the name of the orchestra until conversion into the " Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker " in 2002). Bilse did not sit idly and founded a new orchestra immediately.

His life and work explores the Benjamin Bilse society, Jochen Georg Güntzel projects.

Works

Bilse composed numerous waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and marches, of which 42 were printed.