Werner Gustav Rudolf Gößling (17 January 1898 – 8 September 1992) was a German conductor, Choir director, composer and university lecturer.
[5] At the same time, he studied at the Stern Conservatory,[1] where he was trained as Kapellmeister by Karl Schröder II, James Kwast and Wilhelm Klatte.
[1] From 1923 to 1925, he worked as Kapellmeister and choral conductor at the Theater am Kohlenmarkt [de] in the Free City of Danzig.
[1] In Mannheim, he learned a lot from the guest conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner.
[5] At the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, he appeared in the seasons 1929/30 and 1930/31 under general music director Eugen Szenkar as theatre bandmaster.
[7] In addition, he became director of the opera school at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, which he was instrumental in designing.
[9] On 3 June 1940, Gößling joined the Wehrmacht (Kriegsmarine[5]), whereupon Hoffmann took over his office, at first provisionally and from April 1943 completely.
[5] In the course of a rehearsal conducting,[5] he was appointed in 1950 as successor to Walter Schartner Chief conductor of the Landes-Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt, which he led until 1956 as Landes-Sinfonieorchester (1952) and Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle (1954).
[13] The interpretations of the Handel oratorios Samson (1953) and Joshua (1954), however, lagged behind the opera performances of Horst-Tanu Margraf despite a solid cast.
[5] He also became head of the Kapellmeister training at the Staatliche Hochschule für Theater und Musik Halle [de], where he was appointed professor in 1952.
[21] Instead, Gößling went to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he was principal conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra Northwest in Wilhelmshaven from 1958 until his retirement in 1962.
[25] Further correspondence has been preserved, among others in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden, the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig and the Stadtbibliothek Bielefeld [de].