Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (8 March 1844, Munich – 17 July 1906, Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal) was a German composer, conductor and violinist. Life Childhood and youth (1844–1860) Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; he was the first child of Jakob Rauchenecker (1815–1876), an official musician of the city, and Rosina Crescenz Rauchenecker, née Wening (1815–1876) and was baptised a Catholic two days later at St Peter’s in Munich. As a young boy he was sent by his father to his uncle, Georg Wening, who had been pastor of the parish of Thalheim (pop. 260) near Erding since 1855. It is possible that Rauchenecker was expected to follow the same career path as his uncle. After this he attended the King Maximilian Grammar School in Munich and here, at the age of eleven, he played first violin accompanying the church choir. a physician and musical patron from Winterthur. In the spring of 1873 he converted to Protestantism as his second wife was a Protestant. The marriage to Anna Karolina Ulrica Kempin (1845–1904) took place at the Diaconal Church in Neuminster (Zürich). On 29 October 1873 Rauchenecker, having been proposed by Ziegler-Sulzer, was elected to the post of he