Ewald Straesser
Ewald Straesser (Sträßer) (27 June 1867 – 4 April 1933) was a German composer. Straesser was born in Burscheid, near Cologne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and later counted Georg von Albrecht among his own students, also Erwin Schulhoff (teaching him instrumentation/orchestration) At the Hochschule he succeeded Joseph Haas as professor of composition in 1921.
Ewald Straesser
- Born
- 1867 · Burscheid.
- Died
- 1933 · Stuttgart.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- conductor · composer · music educator · choir director · music teacher
- Fields
- symphony
- Education
- Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
- Languages
- German
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Ewald Straesser, a composer, music teacher and choral conductor, was born on 27 June 1867 in Burscheid and died on 4 April 1933 in Stuttgart.
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Born at Burscheid in 1867, died in Stuttgart in 1933.
Ewald Straesser studied at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are symphony.
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- 1.MusicSack.
- 2., and elsewhere.
- 3.Warszawski, Jean-Marc. Schulhoff Erwin 1894-1942. August 2010.
- 4.Schwäbischer Organ Romantics: Ewald Sträßer.
- 5.e.g. see http://www.furtwangler.net/inmemoriam/data/conce_en.htm#a1923 where a performance of Straesser's 4th symphony opus 46 is mentioned - a PDF on the site refers to it as symphony 4 while the site itself refers to it just as symphony opus 46. Symphony 6 opus 50 was in another Furtwängler concert according to the same site in 1927, October 13.
- 6.according to e.g. mentions in issues of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1933. Also see Albrecht's book, above
- 7.see Karl Panzner
- 8.he is mentioned a few times in this connection in 1910s music magazine concert reviews, e.g. in The Musical Times
- 9.This premiere is noted specifically in Panzner's German Wikipedia article.
- 10.In G major, Op. 34 - see IMSLP. This work, along with Henri Marteau's clarinet quintet, is announced for release on the Sterling Records CD label in July 2013.
- 11.BBC Proms Archive.
- 12.Street Plan of Burscheid.
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