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Paul Walde

1876 – 1926

German organist, composer and choral director

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Lived 1876 – 1926 (aged 49–50). Paul Walde was a conductor, composer, music educator and organist.

Paul Walde (6 February 1876 – after 1926) was a German organist, choral director and composer.

Life Walde was born in Dresden in 1876 as the son of Jakob W. Zimmermann (1850–1896) and Agnes Schneider (1849–1927). After attending the citizen's school in his hometown, he studied music at the Königliches Konservatorium Dresden from 1897 to 1900. Among his teachers were Emil Robert Höpner in organ, Carl Heinrich Döring in piano and Wilhelm Rischbieter in music theory.

From 1900, he worked as organist and choral conductor at the , where he devoted himself in particular to Gregorian chant. He advocated the extension of the harmony system to include chromaticism. In 1914, he was the founding director of his own music school, the "Dresdner Lehranstalt für Musik". In 1922, he became organist at the Katholische Hofkirche. Walde also conducted the Dresden Cäcilienchor. 12th very extended edition, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1926. Friedrich Jansa (ed.): Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild. 2nd edition, Friedrich Jansa publishing house, Leipzig 1911. Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

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German organist, composer and choral director (1876-1926)

When was Paul Walde born?

Paul Walde was born on 6 February 1876 in Dresden.

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Paul Walde died in 1926 in Dresden.

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Paul Walde was a conductor, composer, music educator and organist.

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· Wikipedia: Paul Walde

· Wikidata: Q87820883

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