Krug, Wenzel Joseph

1858-

Conductor and composer; born at Waldsee, Upper Swabia. He was very precocious, but in his early years received little instruction, until 1872, when he went to Stuttgart Conservatory, where he studied composition, singing, violin and piano until 1880. He taught for a short time at Hofwyl, near Bern, and in 1882 went to Stuttgart to conduct the Neuer Singverein, a position which he held until 1889, when he became chorusmaster and music-director at the Municipal Theatre of Hamburg. From 1892 to 1893 he was conductor at the Theatre of Brünn; in 1894 he became conductor at Nuremberg; and in 1896 held the same position at Augsburg. In 1901 he went to Magdeburg as conductor for the theatre there. He is a composer of unusual individuality and has written many especially good grand concert cantatas. Among his works are a dramatic Christmas Tale, Heinzelmannchen; the secular oratorio, Konig Rother; the ballet, Das Marchen; the concert cantatas, Seebilder, Dornroschen, Geiger zu Gonumd and Hochzeitslied; a concert overture in E for full orchestra; a one-act comic opera, Der Procurador von San Juan; the opera, Astorre; the piano trio in D; songs and other music.