Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht
German conductor (1802–1872)
Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht (8 August 1802 – 4 August 1872) was a German musical conductor, composer and inventor.
Early life
Wieprecht was born at Aschersleben, where he was the oldest son to town musician, Friedrich Jacob Wieprecht. His father was a cavalryman and trumpet player in the Quitzow Carbine Regiment.
According to his autobiography, from a young age Wieprecht learned from his father to play on nearly all wind instruments. It was in violin-playing, however, that his father particularly wished him to excel; and in 1819 he went to Dresden, where he studied composition and the violin to such good purpose that a year later he was given a position in the city orchestra of Leipzig, playing also in those of the opera and the famous Gewandhaus. Asides playing the violin and clarinet in the orchestra, he also gave solo performances on the trombone.
In 1824 he went to Berlin, where he became a member of the royal orchestra, and was in the same year appointed chamber musician to the king. His residence at Berlin gave Wieprecht ample opportunity for the exercise of his genius for military music, on which his fame mainly rests. Several of his marches were early adopted by the regimental bands, and a more ambitious military composition attracted the attention of Gasparo Spontini, at whose house he became an intimate guest.
Later career
He later began to study acoustics in order to correct the deficiencies in military musical instruments.
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