Background
Weismann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau on 26 December 1879, and died 22 December, 1950 in Singen am Hohentweil, Lake Constance.
Weismann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau on 26 December 1879, and died 22 December, 1950 in Singen am Hohentweil, Lake Constance.
Weismann studied with Josef Rheinberger and Ludwig Thuille.
As a composer he left over 150 opus numbers and numerous works without opus number. Weismann"s 6 operas were Schwanenweiß (1920, premiered 1923) and Ein Traumspiel (1924, premiered 1925) both to libretti after August Strindberg. Leonce und Lena (1924, premiered 1925) after a text by Georg Büchner.
Regina del Lago (1926, premiered 1928), Erica Stuber after a text by Walter Calé.
Die Gespenstersonate (The Ghost Sonata) - Strindberg again (1930). And Die pfiffige Magd after Ludvig Holberg (1938, premiered 1939).
Rataj, Gerd. "Bertold Hummel commentaries".
Retrieved 2014-2005-31. A biography of Weismann, part of a series of biographies about people around the composer Bertold Hummel made for the record label Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm.
"Kurzbiographie" (in German). Retrieved 2014-2005-31.
Falcke, Wilm. (1955).
Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke von Julius Weismann: Verzeichnis des Schrifttums und der Ansprachen über Julius Weismann und seine Werke.: Online Computer Library Center 16779223 (see also Online Computer Library Center 16510727).