Werner Egk - Schott Music

CHRONOLOGY
Born in Auchsesheim (Bavaria) on 17 May 1901 as third child of the teacher
Joseph Mayer and his wife Maria, née Buck
1908 Family moved to Augsburg
1911 Admitted into the Augsburg Gymnasium of St. Stephan
1912 First piano lessons with the daughter of a choir director
1919 Attended the Städtisches Konservatorium für Musik
1920 Passed final exams at St. Stephan and left his parents’ home to
move to Erbach (Odenwald)
Took singing lessons with Kammersänger Nieratzki
Private piano studies with Prof. Helberger, Frankfurt
Systematic studies of music history
End of the year: Worked as private tutor of the sons of Kammersänger
Heinrich Knote in Pöcking at the Starnbergersee
Theory lessons with a student of the composer Friedrich
Klose
1921 Moved to Munich
Studied piano with Anna Hirzel-Langenhan
Studied theory, composition and conducting with Carl Orff
Worked at the theatre Schaubühne in the Steinicke-Saal in
Schwabing as stage manager, scene painter and director of
incidental music
1922 Death of his mother; returned to Augsburg
Matriculated as student of philosophy at the University of
Munich
Attended lectures on musicology with Adolf Sandberger
Met the violinist Elisabeth Karl
1923 29 March: Married Elisabeth Karl and took the name Egk as
stage name
1924 27 May: Birth of son Titus
1925 Spring: Severe illness (influenza)
Summer: Trip to Portofino (Italy) for convalescence
September: Moved to Rapallo (Italy)
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