Background
Wüerst was born and died in Berlin.
Wüerst was born and died in Berlin.
He was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen at the Akademie der Künste and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn"son He later taught in the conservatory of Theodor Kullak (what would soon become the Stern Conservatory) and edited the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (from 1874-1875). One of his notable students was Heinrich Hofmann.