Paul Walde
Paul Walde was a German organist, choral director and composer.
Life
Walde was born in Dresden in 1876 as the son of Jakob W. Zimmermann and Agnes Schneider. After attending the citizen's school in his hometown, he studied music at the Königliches Konservatorium Dresden from 1897 to 1900. Among his teachers were Emil Robert Höpner in organ, Carl Heinrich Döring in piano and Wilhelm Rischbieter in music theory.From 1900, he worked as organist and choral conductor at the, where he devoted himself in particular to Gregorian chant. He advocated the extension of the harmony system to include chromaticism. In 1914, he was the founding director of his own music school, the "Dresdner Lehranstalt für Musik". In 1922, he became organist at the Katholische Hofkirche. Walde also conducted the Dresden Cäcilienchor. He also composed organ and piano pieces as well as Lieder.
He was a member of the Tonkünstlerverein Dresden, the Verband Sächsischer Musikschuldirektoren, the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband and the Verband katholischer Kirchenbeamten.
Walde, a Catholic, was married to Barbara Ponath from 1926.