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the role and contribution of immigrant musicians to the music societies ...
piano lessons and individual violin lessons. For 17 years he successfully led
the association and its school, wrote numerous compositions and partici-
pated in more than 50 major concerts of the association in Maribor.171 He
contributed significantly to the diversity of the concert programmes, estab-
lished chamber music, and invited successful singers and musicians from
elsewhere, especially from Graz.
Binder also made great efforts to perform concerts of large vocal-in-
strumental works. He was supported in this by the choirmaster Carl Ma-
ria Wallner (1861 – after 1916)172 from Bohemia. They participated in at least
14 major vocal-instrumental concerts between 1887 and 1891. During that
time, Wallner worked as a piano, singing and violin teacher at the associ-
ation’s school, as a choirmaster of the Maribor Philharmonic Association
and the Southern Railway Choral Society. His brother Hans Maria Wall-
ner (1860–1913) worked as a theatre conductor in Maribor between 1883 and
1885. When C. M. Wallner left Maribor in 1891, it was written that he had
proved himself in his position both as a conductor and as a thor
oughly trained and enthusiastic teacher [...] Under his direction the
choir had taken a brilliant upswing, so that he seemed able to solve
the most difficult tasks.173
The choir was taken over by Emil Füllekruss (1856–1942)174 who also
taught singing, violin, and piano at the association’s music school. Already
171 This information is based on the reconstruction of the major concerts of the Maribor
Philharmonic association.
172 Carl Maria Wallner was born on 14 October 1861 in Staré Město pod Landštajnem
(Ger. Altstadt), Bohemia. He studied bassoon with Wilhelm Kraukenhagen at the
Vienna Conservatory between 1879 and 1880. Then he presumably studied piano at
the private piano school (Clavier-Schule) of Eduard Horak (1838–1893) in Vienna
and afterwards composition in Graz with Wilhelm Mayer (1831–1898). In 1883 Wall-
ner became a teacher at the Pettauer Musikverein and then Kapellmeister in Bad
Radkersburg (1885–1887). In 1887 he moved to Maribor where he was a choirmas-
ter of the Marburger philharmonischer Verein and then of the Südbahnliedertafel.
On 7 June 1890 he married in Maribor Anna Ulrich (1865–1942). One year later he
moved to Leoben and afterwards worked in several cities. See: Státní oblastní archiv
v Třeboni, Jindřichuv Hradec, Staré Město pod Landštajnem, sig. 7, Taufbuch 1859–
1884, fol. 35; Nadškofijski arhiv Maribor, Maribor-Sv. Janez Krstnik, Trauungsbuch
1889–1898, sig. 01522, fol. 50; Christian Fastl, “Wallner, Familie,” Oesterreichisches
Musiklexicon online, February 9, 2016, https://dx.doi.org/10.1553/0x0032ca86.
173 X. Jahresbericht des philharmonischen Vereines in Marburg a/D. (Marburg: Verlag
des philharmonischen Vereines, 1891), 5.
174 Emil Füllekruss was born on 2 September 1856 in Szecnzin (Ger. Stettin), where he
studied music with the music director Gustav Flügel and then at the music conserv-
373
piano lessons and individual violin lessons. For 17 years he successfully led
the association and its school, wrote numerous compositions and partici-
pated in more than 50 major concerts of the association in Maribor.171 He
contributed significantly to the diversity of the concert programmes, estab-
lished chamber music, and invited successful singers and musicians from
elsewhere, especially from Graz.
Binder also made great efforts to perform concerts of large vocal-in-
strumental works. He was supported in this by the choirmaster Carl Ma-
ria Wallner (1861 – after 1916)172 from Bohemia. They participated in at least
14 major vocal-instrumental concerts between 1887 and 1891. During that
time, Wallner worked as a piano, singing and violin teacher at the associ-
ation’s school, as a choirmaster of the Maribor Philharmonic Association
and the Southern Railway Choral Society. His brother Hans Maria Wall-
ner (1860–1913) worked as a theatre conductor in Maribor between 1883 and
1885. When C. M. Wallner left Maribor in 1891, it was written that he had
proved himself in his position both as a conductor and as a thor
oughly trained and enthusiastic teacher [...] Under his direction the
choir had taken a brilliant upswing, so that he seemed able to solve
the most difficult tasks.173
The choir was taken over by Emil Füllekruss (1856–1942)174 who also
taught singing, violin, and piano at the association’s music school. Already
171 This information is based on the reconstruction of the major concerts of the Maribor
Philharmonic association.
172 Carl Maria Wallner was born on 14 October 1861 in Staré Město pod Landštajnem
(Ger. Altstadt), Bohemia. He studied bassoon with Wilhelm Kraukenhagen at the
Vienna Conservatory between 1879 and 1880. Then he presumably studied piano at
the private piano school (Clavier-Schule) of Eduard Horak (1838–1893) in Vienna
and afterwards composition in Graz with Wilhelm Mayer (1831–1898). In 1883 Wall-
ner became a teacher at the Pettauer Musikverein and then Kapellmeister in Bad
Radkersburg (1885–1887). In 1887 he moved to Maribor where he was a choirmas-
ter of the Marburger philharmonischer Verein and then of the Südbahnliedertafel.
On 7 June 1890 he married in Maribor Anna Ulrich (1865–1942). One year later he
moved to Leoben and afterwards worked in several cities. See: Státní oblastní archiv
v Třeboni, Jindřichuv Hradec, Staré Město pod Landštajnem, sig. 7, Taufbuch 1859–
1884, fol. 35; Nadškofijski arhiv Maribor, Maribor-Sv. Janez Krstnik, Trauungsbuch
1889–1898, sig. 01522, fol. 50; Christian Fastl, “Wallner, Familie,” Oesterreichisches
Musiklexicon online, February 9, 2016, https://dx.doi.org/10.1553/0x0032ca86.
173 X. Jahresbericht des philharmonischen Vereines in Marburg a/D. (Marburg: Verlag
des philharmonischen Vereines, 1891), 5.
174 Emil Füllekruss was born on 2 September 1856 in Szecnzin (Ger. Stettin), where he
studied music with the music director Gustav Flügel and then at the music conserv-
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