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Felix Woyrsch
12+ albums
Classicalgermancomposerromantic periodPost-Romantic
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Felix Woyrsch (8 October 1860, Opava – 20 March 1944, Altona) was a German composer and choir director. Woyrsch was born in Troppau, just over the Prussian border in Austrian Silesia (now Opava in the Czech Republic). He was raised in Dresden and later Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, in a lower middle class family of limited means. Largely self-taught in music, he did study for some time with Ernst August Heinrich Chevallier. He became director of the "Altonaer Liedertafel" in 1887 and director of the Altona Church Choir in 1893. In 1895, he took over the direction of the Altona "Singakademie", and became organist at the Friedenskirche and then at the Johanniskirche. From 1903, he created municipal symphonic and folk music concerts. Already a music professor since 1901, he was elected into the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1917. He worked as a conductor and as Altona's city music director until 1931.In 1936, he was given the Goethe Medal,followed by the Beethoven Prize in Berlin upon his retirement in 1937. He died in Altona. His main influences included his friend Brahms as well as Bach, Palestrina, Lassus, and Heinrich Schütz. Although Woyrsch quite valued the music of his contemporaries such as Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Hindemith, he felt less committed to musical innovation as a composer. Rather, he devoted himself to the development of a personal style in the classical-romantic tradition. After his death, he quickly fell into oblivion. Woyrsch's compositions in
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Auf dem Berge, da geht der Wind
1822Symphony No. 6 in C major, Op. 77 “Sinfonia sacra”: Sanktus. Mäßig schnell
693Maria auf dem berge
584Auf dem Berge da geht der Wind
315Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Op. 71: I. Mäßig bewegt, nicht übereilt
186Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Op. 71: II. Langsam, ausdrucksvoll
167Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 52: I. Sehr mäßig bewegt
148Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 52: II. Sehr langsam
149Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 60: I. Belebt
13103 Böcklin-Phantasien, Op. 53: No. 2. Der Eremit
13albums
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Felix Woyrsch: Sanktus (from: Symphony No. 6 in C major, Op. 77)
Woyrsch: Symphony No. 3 & 3 Böcklin-Phantasien
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Alle Jahre wieder... Wunderschöne Weihnachtslieder
Woyrsch: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
Woyrsch: Symphony No. 2 - Hamlet Overture
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Chormusik zu Advent und Weihnachten
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Woyrsch: Symphony No. 1, Op. 52 & Symphonic Prologue to Dante's "Divina commedia", Op. 40
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Felix Woyrsch - Klavierwerke
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Ihr Kinderlein kommet (Der Dresdner Kreuzchor singt die schönsten Weihnachtslieder)
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Alle Jahre Wieder... Beautiful Christmas Carols
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Weihnachten mit dem Dresdner Kreuzchor
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Wie strahlt dein Licht so sternklar