Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli

Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli (real name Wolfgang Alexander Thomas; 18 September 1874 – 17 June 1918) was a German musicologist, music critic, violist and music writer.

Life

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Thomas-San-Galli was born in Badenweiler the eldest son of doctor Hermann Julius Thomas and his wife Jacobine née Simons.[1] In 1898 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg and married the concert pianist and accompanist Helene née Bertoldy[2] (1861–1938) from Saint Petersburg.

He had already enjoyed violin lessons as a child and studied violin and viola with a pupil of Hans Sitt. From 1899 to 1903 he headed the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and founded the Süddeutsche Streichquartett there, to which he belonged as a violist until 1908. That same year, he moved to Cologne, where he became editor and writer of the Rheinische Musik- und Theaterzeitung.

Thomas-San-Galli took part in the First World War as a soldier. He died in 1918 in Baden-Baden at the age of 43 from the consequences of his war injuries.

Publications

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  • Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Idealkonkurrenz. Speyer & Kärner, Freiburg 1898. (Dissertation)
  • Johannes Brahms. Eine musikpsychologische Studie in fünf Variationen.[3] Heitz und Mündel, Strassburg 1905
  • Aufgaben des Musikschriftstellers. In Musikalisches Wochenblatt, year 40, Nr. 38 date 16 December 1909, p. 545 f. (Read inline)
  • Briefe. Mit einem Bilde Beethovens und einem Faksimile.[4] Hendel, Halle 1910
  • Beethoven und die Unsterbliche Geliebte: Amalie Sebald, Goethe, Teréz Brunszvik und anderes,[5] Munich 1910
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Piper, Munich 1913
  • Mona Lisa. Eine Novellen-Suite, Op. 12.[6] Costenoble, Jena 1913
  • Beethovens Briefe an geliebte Frauen.[7] Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1913
  • Musikalische Essays.[8] Mazurka Chopins. Hendel, Halle 1913
  • Musik und Kultur. Betrachtungen und Gespräche für Laien, Musikfreunde und Künstler.[9] with a foreword and the picture of the author. Hendel, Halle 1913
  • Goethe. Die Pyramide seines Daseins.[10] Hertz, Munich 1914
  • Diplomaten vor!.[11] Hertz, Munich 1915

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Further reading

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  1. ^ Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild on Digital Public Library in America