Werner Gößling

Werner Gustav Rudolf Gößling (17 January 1898 – 8 September 1992) was a German conductor, choir director, composer and university lecturer. He was the chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle and the Robert Franz Singakademie in Halle. In 1951, he was appointed General Music Director. From 1956 to 1958, he built up the first Chinese symphony orchestra in the European style.

Life Gößling was as the son of Eduard Gößling and his wife Elisabeth Schrader in Westphalia.

Gößling enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) to study philosophy in 1919. Later, he probably studied art history, philosophy and German literature in Heidelberg. In addition, Siegfried Ochs trained him as a choir director. among others the Lehrergesangsverein Mannheim-Ludwigshafen was active. In addition, he became director of the opera school at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, which he was instrumental in designing. At the instigation of the party he was appointed Music Director of the City of Bielefeld on 1 July 1933. So after Gößling had taken up the position of the terminated Max Cahnbley, Heinrich Kaminski took up his position in September 1933 as a result of a dispute with Gößling as director of the symphony concerts and resigned in June 1934 as director of the Musikverein. Plays by Jewish and socialist artists were banned from the repertoire. At the end of 1953, the "Robert-Franz-Singakademie" was incorporated. so he conducted the final concert of the Handel Festival, Halle in 1952. In 1953/54, Gößling performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Relatively early, Gößling was active in the Halle-Magdeburg district association of the . However, only a few contemporary works by GDR composers were included in the critically reviewed programme planning of his orchestra..

In 1956, Gößling received an invitation to Beijing, where he was to build up a first Chinese Symphony orchestra based on the European model, the present China National Symphony Orchestra. For this purpose, he trained several Chinese conductors. On the one hand, his "fatherly friend" Abendroth had arranged for him to go to China, but on the other hand, he was probably simply being praised by the city council.

Since Abendroth died in 1956, an originally intended call to Weimar was not possible. From 1970 to 1973, he was 1st chairman of the Bremen regional association of the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband as successor to Gerd Reinfeldt. He also directed the state competition of the Jugend musiziert in Bremen until 1974.

Gößling died in Bremen at the age of 94.

Family and estate Gößling was married to Eva von Carlowitz in his first marriage. After her death in 1925, he married Thekla Hoffmann, née Wille.

His estate is located in the university library of LMU Munich. Further correspondence has been preserved, among others in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden, Leipzig University Library and the public library Bielefeld.

Compositions Schauspielmusik für kleines Orchester zur Komödie Volpone by Ben Jonson (premiere Mannheim 1927) Musik für mittleres Orchester zur Komödie Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, (premiere Mannheim 1927) Musik für mittleres Orchester zum Ideendrama Don Juan und Faust by Christian Dietrich Grabbe (premiere Mannheim 1928) Operette Die Ministerin with a libretto by Otto Rudolf Frank (premiere Mannheim 1928)