Adolf Friedrich Hesse
1809 — 1863
Adolf Friedrich Hesse was a German organist and composer.
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Adolf Friedrich Hesse was a distinguished organist and composer, known for his teaching and influence on other musicians. He taught Karl Bergmann, who would later become an eminent conductor in New York, introducing works by Wagner and Liszt to America (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900). Hesse also instructed August Freyer, a notable organist from Mulda, near Dresden, who visited Hesse in Breslau during a grand artistic tour of Germany in 1834 and received his encouragement (Biographie universelle des musiciens, Vol. 1, 1880). Furthermore, Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, organist at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Breslau, counted Hesse among his pupils (Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Vol. 1, 1888). Hesse’s compositions for organ were also recognized, with William Thomas Best, acknowledged as “the greatest master of the organ now living in Britain” in 1886, dedicating his “Introduction and Fugue” to him (Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1886). His works, alongside those of J.S. Bach and others, were included in August Rechenberg’s Allgemeines Choralbuch for organists in smaller towns (Biographie universelle des musiciens, Vol. 7, 1866).