W. E. Scholz

W. E. Scholz (1807 or 1808 – September 1866) was a German composer and Kapellmeister / conductor at the court of Prince August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen in Schlawentzitz in Upper Silesia. Life Wilhelm Eduard Scholz was born in Breslau. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried in Vienna. In 1838 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Prince zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen at the court in Schlawentzitz in Upper Silesia. Most of his compositions – autographs of his works, autographs of the arrangements and prints – are now in the . He composed overtures, symphonies, sonatas, instrumental concertos, masses, art songs and harmony music. He also arranged well-known works for the Hofkapelle in Schlawentzitz. For example Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon and Euryanthe, Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell and Otello, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio and Symphony No. 5, Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz in E-flat major. During his lifetime several of his compositions were published by and Weinhold. The composer’s main tenure dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century as evidenced by some aut