Weissenborn, Julius
Born: 13.04.1837Died: 21.04.1888
deutscher Fagottist, Pädagoge und Komponist
Christian Julius Weißenborn was born in Thuringia in 1837 to a musical family. In 1857, aged just 20, Julius began in the prestigious position as principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra. In 1882 he was appointed as the first ever bassoon teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig. He retired from the orchestra in 1887, and passed away in 1888 at the age of 51.
In addition to his work as bassoonist and teacher, Weissenborn composed works for piano, wind band, orchestra, and vocal ensembles, and a good deal of music for bassoon, most of it pedagogical in nature.This pedagogical bassoon music includes his Practical Method for Bassoon; two sets of etudes, op. 8, nos.1 and 2; and some nineteen works for bassoon and piano. (William Waterhouse surmised that most if not all of this bassoon music was originally conceived as a large three-part instructional set for bassoonists.) Most of this bassoon music was published during Weissenborns lifetime, however, often the final publications strayed significantly from Weissenborns original intentions.
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