Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli


Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli, real name Wolfgang Alexander Thomas, was a German musicologist, music critic, violist and music writer.

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Thomas-San-Galli was born in Badenweiler the eldest son of doctor Hermann Julius Thomas and his wife Jacobine née Simons. In 1898 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg and married the concert pianist and accompanist Helene née Bertoldy from Saint Petersburg.
He had already enjoyed violin lessons as a child and studied violin and viola with a pupil of Hans Sitt. From 1899 to 1903 he headed the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and founded the Süddeutsche Streichquartett there, to which he belonged as a violist until 1908. That same year, he moved to Cologne, where he became editor and writer of the Rheinische Musik- und Theaterzeitung.
Thomas-San-Galli took part in the First World War as a soldier. He died in 1918 in Baden-Baden at the age of 43 from the consequences of his war injuries.

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