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the role and contribution of immigrant musicians to the music societies ...
and Rudolf Wagner (1851–1915).164 The association was required to present
four concerts per season, one of which was chamber music. The first of the
association’s concerts was held at Grand Casino Hall on 6 February 1882.165
The choir consisted of 40 singers and the orchestra of 35 musicians. In sub-
sequent years, the orchestra was augmented by professional musicians from
the Theatre Orchestra and the Southern Railway Brass Band. The first con-
cert was modest, but it was an important start to the organized activity of
serious music in Maribor.166
In 1882, with the support of the municipal council, the association
hired a music director and head of the music school Henrich Korel (1848–
1909) from Bohemia.167 His task was to take care of the musical activities,
jects as an assistant teacher, and for a time directed the Reading Society choir. He
composed ecclesiastical and secular works, most of which have been lost. He wrote
an organ part as an appendix to Slomšek’s theological poems Drobtinice (1861). He
also worked as a copyist and is the author of about 85 manuscript copies preserved in
the Maribor Cathedral. He died on 25 April 1897 in Maribor due to bronchitis. See:
Nadškofijski arhiv Maribor, Maribor-Sv. Janez Krstnik, sig. 01511, Sterbebuch 1877–
1898, fol. 549; Hinko Druzovič, “Manich, Peregrin,” Slovenska biografija (Ljubljana:
Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU,
2013), https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi346912/.
164 Rudolf Wagner was born on 30 August 1851 in Vienna where he attended primary
school and enrolled at the Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. There
he studied flute, counterpoint, and composition (1863–1869). From 1870 to 1873 he
served in the army with a military band and excelled in playing the flute, perform-
ing as a solo flautist with the Burgtheater orchestra (1874). He toured a dozen cit-
ies of the empire and then served as a military bandmaster. In 1881 he moved to
Maribor, where he became the conductor of the theatre orchestra and was also per-
manently employed as an organist at the city’s cathedral and as an assistant music
teacher at the college for male teachers (1883−1885). From 1896 until his death Wag-
ner taught at the Maribor Classical Secondary School and was also the choirmaster
of the Men’s Chorus. His oeuvre is quite extensive, numbering around 300 works,
mainly created in Maribor. He died on 26 December 1915 in Maribor. See: Anja Ivec,
“Rudolf Wagner v Mariboru,” De musica disserenda 18, no. 1–2 (2022): 234, https://
doi.org/10.3986/dmd18.1-2.06.
165 Univerzitetna knjižnica Maribor (UKM), Enota za domoznanstvo in posebne zbirke,
Zbirka drobnih tiskov, “Erster Jahresbericht des philharmonischen Vereines in Mar-
burg a/D. Am Schlusse des Vereinsjahres 1881/82,” Marburg, 1882, 15.
166 Hartman, “Mariborsko filharmonično društvo,” 88.
167 Henrich Korel was born in Kosmonosy, Bohemia, on 12 July 1848. He studied vio-
loncello at the Prague Conservatory (1867–1870) and organ school. From about 1871
he was principal violoncellist at the Municipal Theatre and teacher at the Musikvere-
in (1876/77–1877/78) in Graz. In 1872, he performed twice on the stage of the Phil-
harmonic Society in Ljubljana. In 1882, he moved to Maribor and opened a private
music school in 1885. During his time in Maribor, he played at least four times be-
tween 1883 and 1884 in chamber ensembles of the Philharmonic Society of Ljublja-
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and Rudolf Wagner (1851–1915).164 The association was required to present
four concerts per season, one of which was chamber music. The first of the
association’s concerts was held at Grand Casino Hall on 6 February 1882.165
The choir consisted of 40 singers and the orchestra of 35 musicians. In sub-
sequent years, the orchestra was augmented by professional musicians from
the Theatre Orchestra and the Southern Railway Brass Band. The first con-
cert was modest, but it was an important start to the organized activity of
serious music in Maribor.166
In 1882, with the support of the municipal council, the association
hired a music director and head of the music school Henrich Korel (1848–
1909) from Bohemia.167 His task was to take care of the musical activities,
jects as an assistant teacher, and for a time directed the Reading Society choir. He
composed ecclesiastical and secular works, most of which have been lost. He wrote
an organ part as an appendix to Slomšek’s theological poems Drobtinice (1861). He
also worked as a copyist and is the author of about 85 manuscript copies preserved in
the Maribor Cathedral. He died on 25 April 1897 in Maribor due to bronchitis. See:
Nadškofijski arhiv Maribor, Maribor-Sv. Janez Krstnik, sig. 01511, Sterbebuch 1877–
1898, fol. 549; Hinko Druzovič, “Manich, Peregrin,” Slovenska biografija (Ljubljana:
Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU,
2013), https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi346912/.
164 Rudolf Wagner was born on 30 August 1851 in Vienna where he attended primary
school and enrolled at the Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. There
he studied flute, counterpoint, and composition (1863–1869). From 1870 to 1873 he
served in the army with a military band and excelled in playing the flute, perform-
ing as a solo flautist with the Burgtheater orchestra (1874). He toured a dozen cit-
ies of the empire and then served as a military bandmaster. In 1881 he moved to
Maribor, where he became the conductor of the theatre orchestra and was also per-
manently employed as an organist at the city’s cathedral and as an assistant music
teacher at the college for male teachers (1883−1885). From 1896 until his death Wag-
ner taught at the Maribor Classical Secondary School and was also the choirmaster
of the Men’s Chorus. His oeuvre is quite extensive, numbering around 300 works,
mainly created in Maribor. He died on 26 December 1915 in Maribor. See: Anja Ivec,
“Rudolf Wagner v Mariboru,” De musica disserenda 18, no. 1–2 (2022): 234, https://
doi.org/10.3986/dmd18.1-2.06.
165 Univerzitetna knjižnica Maribor (UKM), Enota za domoznanstvo in posebne zbirke,
Zbirka drobnih tiskov, “Erster Jahresbericht des philharmonischen Vereines in Mar-
burg a/D. Am Schlusse des Vereinsjahres 1881/82,” Marburg, 1882, 15.
166 Hartman, “Mariborsko filharmonično društvo,” 88.
167 Henrich Korel was born in Kosmonosy, Bohemia, on 12 July 1848. He studied vio-
loncello at the Prague Conservatory (1867–1870) and organ school. From about 1871
he was principal violoncellist at the Municipal Theatre and teacher at the Musikvere-
in (1876/77–1877/78) in Graz. In 1872, he performed twice on the stage of the Phil-
harmonic Society in Ljubljana. In 1882, he moved to Maribor and opened a private
music school in 1885. During his time in Maribor, he played at least four times be-
tween 1883 and 1884 in chamber ensembles of the Philharmonic Society of Ljublja-
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