This page contains music that was arranged for mandolin ensembles.
Original compositions for mandoline ensembles can be found
here. The arrangers tended to be musicians who
were not professional composers. Professional composers often used a
pseudonym if they arranged music for mandolin because such works were
considered of low musical value. For some works the arrangers are not
named at all. Some publishing companies use a single pseudonym for
different musicians. Thus it can be difficult to establish the copyright
status of these works. The historical address books of major German cities
are available online and can provide some information about the approximate
death dates.
For mandolin quartet/orchestra
- B. Bernards (presumably a pseudonym of Bernhard Kutsch, 1882-1951)
- Theodor Biewend (Director of the Bremen Theatre. In the address book at least
since 1892 and not anymore in 1950)
- Paul Kempfendorff-Stein (employed at the Musikkonservatorium in Berlin,
disappeared from the address book by 1928)
- Adolph Meyer in Cassel (Kammermusiker in Kassel. According to the address
book died ca 1934)
- Charles Enos Pomeroy (1843-1922, office manager of the Western Union Telegraph,
later a bank teller, died in Salt Lake City. The Braunschweig Mandolin Orchestra has
a hand written copy of this music from 1949. I can only speculate that they copied
this from sheetmusic they got from an American soldier?)
- Ernst Vorpahl (brother of Reinhold Vorpahl, both were mandolin teachers
in Berlin. Changed his name to Nef-Vorpahl, maybe because of his wife Ursula
who was a lute teacher. Disappeared from the address book by 1940.)
- Wilhelm Wobersin (1868 - 1939)
- Wilhelm Zechlin (? - 1927, owned a music publishing company in Berlin
together with Richard Rühle)
- Published by Bosworth (according to a blog of his great grandson: Chappell’s
started a publishing company 1889 in Leipzig to collect royalties from Gilbert and
Sullivan music. Arthur Bosworth managed and eventually owned that branch and later
built a world wide music business. According to the blog he died in 1923. Some
of the Bosworth mandolin publications do not list an editor. Not clear whether
Bosworth himself edited it or, more likely, employed someone.)
- Published by Robert Rühle (1887 - ?.
According to
this record Rühle was in Düsseldorf in 1947, but not anymore in 1948. His
publishing company was located in Berlin from 1919 and destroyed in the war. He
published works arranged by Bernards, Calace, Henze, Kempfendorff-Stein, Kollmaneck,
Stoye, Renk, Rosenthal and others.)
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