Charles
Woehning was a
member of the New York Philharmonic from 1842-48 and served as
principal horn.
He also had very pleasing tenor voice.
[NY
Philharmonic
Archives, 1842-1928]
February 11,
1841 in a
“giant” concert for the benefit of the German Society: Sextet by
Ferdinand Ries
for two pianos and winds.(Woehning,
horn). The program also included
Egmont Overture, Beethoven Fifth and Mendelssohn’s Des
Jägers Abschied, op. 50, no. 2, for male chorus, four horns
(players?), and bass trombone, composed in 1840.
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 110]
May 19, 1841
joint
concert by Herwig and Rakemann at the Apollo Concert Rooms the second
part of
the program opened with all four movements of Beethoven’s Quintet in
E-Flat,
op. 16 (Woehning, horn) (Herald, May
19, 1841)
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 137]
Sacred music
concert at
St. Patrick’s Cathedral on April 17 [1842] Woehning
and Marshal (horns), Munson, vocal (Herald,
April 17, 1842)
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 168]
January 13, 1844, Hummel Septet in D. Minor, op. 74, Woehning,
horn
(Anglo-American,
January , 20, 1844, pp. 309-10). Second performance at Vocal Society’s
debut at
Washington Hall., all EXCEPT the horn player, who had defected without
prior
warning, and whose part was played on the trombone by [Henry C.] Timm
in a
desperate, last-minute substitution; because of this desertion, the
Reicha
Quintet, again presumably the one played at the last Philharmonic
concert, had
to be omitted. (Anglo-American,
January 27, 1844)
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 237 n6, 238]
February 11,
1844: The
testimonial concert to Adam Fecher indeed named in the advertisements
as the
“Factotum of the Concert Rooms,” was sponsored by an imposing committee
of
important citizens and by virtually the entire personnel of the
Philharmonic.
The program included Hummel’s Nocturne, op. 99, for piano four hands
played by
Scharfenberg, Timm, Woehning, and
Trosji.
[Lawrence,
Strong on Music, vol. I, 239]
February 8,
1847,
Timm’s concert, hornist Woehning (Mirror,
February
10, 1847)
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 430 n9]
March 5, 1848,
Philharmonic concert Lindpaintner Symphony Concertante, no. 1, Woehning, horn. (Albion, March 11, 1848,
p. 132).
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 504]
At the
Catholic Chapel
(716 Broadway) the Stabat Mater by
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1836) was performed on December 28,
1837,
probably for the first time in America, under the direction of Piero Maroncelli; the soloists … Woehning,
a
tenor.
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 43]
In December
[1843], at
a sacred concert for the benefit of the poor, given at old St.
Patrick’s
Cathedral, Woehning is one of the
vocalists. (Herald, December 17,
1843.)
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, 219]