[2] From 1974 until 1993, Worm was music director of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra in Chemnitz for almost two decades.
There, he attended the humanistic grammar school and studied piano, then conducting and musicology in Dresden, Weimar and Berlin.
After his state examination in conducting and musicology, Worm assumed overall responsibility for repertoire planning, artist support and the budget for the GDR record label "Eterna" from 1954 to 1972.
[3][4] In 1972, after a trip to Japan, Worm was "received at the airport with a strict order not to enter his workplace again.
In 1995 Worm received the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau.