Julius Weismann - 5 Klavierstucke “Sommerland“

Walter Gieseking 00:00 I 02:17 II 04:18 III 06:41 IV 09:56 V (dedicated to his daughter) Julius Weismann (1879-1950) was a German Composer. Weismann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied with Josef Rheinberger and Ludwig Thuille. Weismann, who had long been valued as a pianist, achieved a broad breakthrough in the public cultural scene in the 1920s, but no later than 1925/26. Between 1919 and 1930 he wrote five operas alone. Particularly noteworthy are the works based on texts by August Strindberg. From 1934 Julius Weismann was one of the honorary chairmen of the “Working Group of National Socialist Composers“. In 1939 he became an honorary citizen of Freiburg and in the same year he was awarded the Leipzig Bach Prize. His homework Freiburg was destroyed in 1944. After his death, a Julius Weismann archive was set up in Duisburg. As a composer, he left over 150 opus numbers and numerous works without opus number. His works include six operas, three symp