Ernst Wilhelm Wolf

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf ( born February 25, 1735 in Great Behringen in Gotha, Thuringia, † December 1, 1792 in Weimar) was a German court conductor, pianist and composer.

Life

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf initially went to high school in Eisenach and Gotha. In 1755 he went to study at the University of Jena. Here he occupied himself mainly with music and it was him who had already worked in Gotha as a choir prefect, transferred the management of the "Collegium Musicum ", which he was given the opportunity to perform their own compositions. About Leipzig and Naumburg he came to Weimar, where he was engaged by Duchess Anna Amalia as a piano teacher. In 1761 he was appointed concertmaster and organist at the ducal chapel and in 1772 a court orchestra.

In 1770 he married a daughter of the violinist Franz Benda, Maria Carolina ( 1742-1820 ), a singer and harpsichordist with which he undertook successful concert tour at the Berliner Hof ( See also: Benda (Family) ). Significantly affected he is by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's piano works and sacred vocal works of Carl Heinrich Graun.

Works

Wolf wrote stage works ( including about 20 musical comedies, so-called " Operetta " ), secular and sacred cantatas, oratorios, passions, songs, writings on music ( notable is his curriculum Musical Education, Dresden 1788), 12 Quartets for Strings ( appeared in print: 3 Quartets op 1 [B- flat major, E flat major, D major, Berlin and Amsterdam, 1779 ], 3 Quartets op 2 [ C major, A major, G major, Berlin and Amsterdam, 1781; , the 3. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Bass], 3 Quartets op 3 [B- flat major, E flat major, g minor; Speyer 1785 ]; handwritten handed: Sonata in D major [ 1780 ]; Quatro d- minor [ 1781 {? }], Quatro C Major, Quartet in C major ), some of which are committed to the basso continuo practice, and other chamber works, symphonies, partitas and solo concerts (mostly for harpsichord).