The Glier family in Kiev and Moscow
Ernst Moritz Glier
* October 1, 1834 in Untersachsenberg, Saxony
+ May 9, 1896 in Kiev, Ukraine
Ernst Moritz Glier, the third child of the first marriage of Carl Friedrich Glier with Christine Friederike Koerner grew up in Untersachsenberg (Klingenthal) and learned the craft of making french horns from his father. As journeyman he went to Warsaw in 1854. There he worked in the hornmaker-workshop of his uncle Friedrich Wilhelm. As master in hornmaking he immigrated to Kiev (Ukraine, Russian Empire) where he worked as a successful master (foreman) in the factory of his future father-in-law, Vincenz Kortschak. One of the alto-horns being build there is situated in the Museum for musical instruments in Berlin (courtesy of the picturearchive of the Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin). |
Alto-horn in E flat, M. Glier, Kiev,
abt.1900
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Presumable
in 1868, Ernst Moritz married the daughter of Vincenz Kortschak (an instrument
maker coming from Poland), Josephine Thekla (age 18), born 1849, died
1935 in Kiev. After the wedding the father-in-law, Vincenz Kortschak, signed
over the houses in the Basseinaja Uliza No. 6 and the Slatoustov Skaja Street
No. 80 as well as the windhorn factory. Ernst Moritz lived with his family in
Kiev in the Basseinaja Uliza No. 6. Ernst Moritz and Josephine Thekla had 4
children. Moritz *1870 in Kiev, +1932 in Dresden,
Germany
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The brothers and sisters Caecilie, Reinhold and Moritz (?) Glier | ![]() |
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After
Ernst Moritz Glier death in 1896, his factory for windhorns passed over to the
brothers Moritz and Karl. |
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Moritz Glier
b. 1870 in Kiev, Ukraine
Moritz
visited the music conservatory in Kiev after his diploma (graduation). He was
a completed cellist, who later gave concerts too. After
the death of his father Ernst Moritz he took over the windhorn factory in
1896. However he wasn’t the suitable person to lead such an enterprise
successfully. He had other interests. It would have come to an inevitable
business breakdown, if his mother, Josephine Thekla, wouldn’t have taken the
initiative. Moritz,
who later got the position as managing director in the Singer-enterprise,
married Warwara (Warja) Nikolajevna Parchomenks, a dramaturgical actress. The
marriage remained childless. In
1914 Moritz got arrested and interned in Sibiria. He managed to escape to
Germany in 1920. His wife Warja couldn’t live in Germany for political
reasons. She went back to Kiev and lived in a small room in the house of
Josephine Thekla in the Basseinaja No. 6. It was never determined where and
when she died. |
Caecilie Glier
b. 1872 in Kiev,
Against
the will of her mother Josephine Thekla, Caecilie married the fairly older
widower, lieutenant-colonel Stregunowsky, father of five children. Caecilie gave
birth to four sons.
Because
of his constant gambling debts, Caecilie separated herself from her husband in
1901 and moved with her children into the house of her mother Josephine
Thekla. In a surge of jealousy her husband shot and killed his wife Caecilie
with a bullet through her head. She was in expectancy of her fifth child. Josephine
Thekla took care of her grandchildren and gave them an exellent education. Boris
Stregunowsky studied law after the diploma and was drafted into the army.
Sergei and Wladimir took an officers career after the diploma. Vladimir
entered the army at the beginning of the war and was soon after promoted to
the rank of a lieutenant. As
lieutenant-colonel Sergei fell in the first world war. After the outbreak of
the revolution in 1917 Vladimir and Boris joined the white guards. In 1917/18
Vladimir and Boris were murdered by the Bolshevists. Dimitrij, who wanted to
be an artist, went to the academy of arts. Around 1917/18 he got the thypoid
fever and died. The
entire family Stregunowski was annihilated in 1918. |
Reinhold Ernst Glier
b. January 11, 1875 in Kiev, Ukraine
a separate page has been dedicated to the composer R. M. Glière |
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Karl Josef Glier b.
January 1, 1877 in Kiev, Ukraine
Karl
Glier went to highschool in Kiev. After his diploma, Karl went to Saxony
in 1895 to go through his military service. While in Germany his father, Ernst
Moritz Glier, died in 1896. His mother Josephine Thekla, transfered the
management of the company to her son Moritz. But he wasn’t qualified for
this task. In one and half year he ran down the company. Josephine Thekla got
active. She immediately applied for liberation of her son Karl Josef from the
military service in Germany. Karl Josef, who wanted to study after the
military service, had to take over the windhorn factory in 1898 at the age of
21. He
married Alexandra Bogdanowitsch on October 13th, 1902 (born March 3rd,
1884 in Belaja Zerkov nearby Kiev; died in April 24th, 1974 in
Cologne, Germany) and moved with her into a spacious three-room apartment in
the Basseinaja Uliza No. 6. |
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