Johannes Weyrauch
German composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johannes Weyrauch was a German composer and cantor. Life Childhood Weyrauch was born on 20 February 1897 in Leipzig. His mother, Maria Große, who had received a thorough musical education and worked in several cantor houses, introduced her son to sacred music at an early age. His father, Friedrich Louis Weyrauch, was a merchant by profession and was able to finance his son's attendance of the . Through his stepbrother , Weyrauch got in touch with the music of Richard Wagner, which had a decisive influence on his musical life:My brother sent me into the Ring when I was 14 years old - with the success that I became Wagner mad. A pedagogical, irreparable mistake, because since that time I have had no proper relationship with most operas.Parallel to his schooling at the Gymnasium, Weyrauch became a pupil of Helene Caspar, a music teacher and writer known around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, who introduced him to the literature of the First Viennese School and that of Johann Sebastian Bach. In addition to these lessons, the Gewandhaus member Ernst Nissen gave him violin lessons. After ten years of working with Helene Caspar, she realized that she could no longer teach her talented student anything, so she arranged for him to be taught privately by Curt Beilschmidt, who taught theory and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory.
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