Ferdinand Möhring: Remembrance

Möhring (1816-1887) was a German composer, poet, conductor and organist. Möhring was born in Alt Ruppin as the son of the master carpenter Johann Friedrich Möhring and spent his childhood and youth in Neuruppin, where he attended the Gymnasium. In 1857 he married Hedwig Schulz, the daughter of a painter. and from 1873 he lived as a freelance artist. In 1830, he entered the trade school in Berlin, where he completed a Baumeister apprenticeship at his father’s express wish. He broke off this apprenticeship and joined the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. His first motet was performed in 1835. His striving for all-round musical education led him to join the music department of the Academy of Arts, where he studied from 1837 to 1840. There, he mainly composed instrumental music, including his Symphony in B flat major, which was premiered by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the Gewandhaus in 1838. On 26 January 1840, he gave his final concert together with a fellow student in the hall of the