Georg Wille

He started as an aspirant of the city orchestra, became a member of the orchestra pension fund or deputy principal cellist in 1891 and was promoted to principal cellist in 1891, succeeding Carl Schroeder.

[1] In Leipzig, he also belonged to the Freemason Lodge "Minerva zu den drei Palmen [de]".

[3] In 1902, he became court concertmaster and in 1908, royal professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

[5] After the death of Henri Petri, the string quartet, while still active, was renamed Dresdner Streichquartett der Königlichen Kapelle and was taken over by Gustav Havemann (from 1923 Max Strub) as Primarius.

In 1926, the director of the music school Bruno Hinze-Reinhold tried to get Wille to teach at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, but failed due to the low salary.