
B. Bilse
Benjamin Bilse (17 August 1816 – 13 July 1902) was a German conductor and composer. Bilse was born in Liegnitz (present-day Legnica) in the Prussian Silesia Province. He obtained a rich musical education, as at the Vienna Conservatory under violinist Joseph Böhm, and played in the orchestra of Johann Strauss I. Returned to Liegnitz, he became municipal Kapellmeister in 1842. From 1867 he regularly performed with the "Bilse's Band" (Bilse'sche Kapelle) at the Concerthaus on Leipziger Straße in Berlin. The orchestra became increasingly popular, Bilse toured Europe and gave guest concerts in Saint Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Vienna, as well as at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where his band performed The Blue Danube together with Johann Strauss II. In 1873 Richard Wagner conducted the orchestra in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm I. After a fierce quarrel with Bilse about another fourth-class concert trip to Warsaw, 54 musicians in 1882 split to found the "Former Bilse's Band" under conductor Ludwig von Brenner, shortly afterwards renamed Berlin Philharmonic, today one of the world's leading orchestras. Bilse retired a few years later and returned to Liegnitz, where he also died. |
Birth and Death Data: Born August 17, 1816 (Legnica), Died July 13, 1902 (Legnica)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1906 - 1914
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-3879 | 10-in. | 10/14/1906 | Midst shot and shell march | United States Marine Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-14616 | 10-in. | 3/22/1914 | Mit Bomben und Granaten | United States Marine Band | Band | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Bilse, B.," accessed May 25, 2022, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/111175.
Bilse, B.. (2022). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 25, 2022, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/111175.
"Bilse, B.." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2022. Web. 25 May 2022.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Bilse, B. (Benjamin), 1816-1902 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98111015
Wikidata: Benjamin Bilse - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q457806
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/24868445
MusicBrainz: Benjamin Bilse - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3b3d7015-ff1a-46ef-9a52-3d84de3a7fa5
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