George Hendrik Witte

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George Heinrich Witte, son of the organ-builder C. G. F. Witte, received a comprehensive musical education, first at the Royal Music-School at The Hague from 1859 to 1862, where he studied piano with van der Does, violin with Lübeck, and theory and organ with Nicolai. He then continued his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1862 to 1865, learning piano under Moscheles and Plaidy, counterpoint with Hauptmann, and composition with Reinecke, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). After teaching in Leipzig and Alsatia, Witte was appointed conductor of the Musical Society at Essen in 1871, a position he held until 1911, and was granted the title of “Royal Musical Director” in 1882, later becoming “royal professor” in 1905, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). His compositions include a piano quartet that garnered a prize at Florence, and a set of waltzes for piano four hands described as “particularly fine” by A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). He also edited 34 studies by Cramer, distinct from those chosen by von Bülow, adding phrase marks, as noted in Dictionary of Music (1896).