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Hermann Hans Wetzler
Hermann Hans Wetzler (8 September 1870 – 29 May 1943) was a German-American composer. Life Wetzler was born in Frankfurt, Germany. His father was from Bohemia, his mother was German. He grew up in Chicago in affluent circumstances and studied first at the University of Cincinnati - College-Conservatory of Music, from 1885 at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt piano and violin with Clara Schumann, Hugo Heermann, Bernhard Scholz, Iwan Knorr and Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Engelbert Humperdinck.Biography on ''ZB Collections'' In 1903, he founded the Wetzler Symphony Orchestra with donations, at which Richard Strauss made his US conducting debut in 1904 and premiered his ''Sinfonia Domestica''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
