Richard Wüerst was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue.

Wüerst was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen's at the Royal Academy and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

's in Berlin. He later taught in the conservatory of Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.-Background:Kullak was born in Krotoschin in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in Wielkopolska - western part of Poland taken during the second partition of Poland by Kingdom of Prussia. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in...

 (what would soon become the Stern Conservatory

Stern conservatory

The Stern Conservatory was a private music school in Berlin with many notable tutors and alumni.-History:It was originally founded in 1850 as the Berliner Musikschule by Julius Stern, Theodor Kullak and Adolf Bernhard Marx. Kullak withdrew from the conservatory in 1855 in order to create a new...

) and edited the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (from 1874–75). One of his notable students was Heinrich Hofmann

Heinrich Hofmann (composer)

Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann was a German composer and pianist. He was a pupil of Theodor Kullak, Eduard Grell, Siegfried Dehn and Richard Wüerst...

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Operas

• Der Rotmantel (1848 Berlin)
• Vineta (21 December 1862, Bratislava)
• Die Gastspielreise, Dramatisch-musikalischer Scherz en un acte (after Adolf von Winterfeld). Publié à Berlin: Bloch, ca. 1868.
• Faublas, comic opera in three acts, after a Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, libretto by Ernst Wichert
  Ernst Wichert
  Ernst Alexander August George Wichert was a German author and jurist.-Biography:Wichert was born in Insterburg, Prussia and visited school in Pillau and Königsberg....
  
   (1873 Berlin)
• A-ing-fo-hi, comic opera in three acts, after a story by Anton Giulio Barrili
  Anton Giulio Barrili
  Anton Giulio Barrili , Italian novelist, was born at Savona, and was educated for the legal profession, which he abandoned for journalism in Genoa. He was a volunteer in the campaign of 1859 and served with Garibaldi in 1866 and 1867...
  
  , libretto by Ernst Wichert (28 January 1878, Berlin)
• Die Offiziere der Kaiserin (1878 Berlin)
• Der Stern von Turan

Symphonies

• Three symphonies (including opus 21 in F, second symphony opus 54(2?) in D minor and opus 36 in C minor, no. 3)
• A concerto for violin, op. 37

Instrumental music

• Russian Suite for Strings, op. 81
• Three string quartets, op.33 (A minor, D major, G major)

Sources

• Chrysander, Friedrich and Müller, Joseph. . Knuf. Volume 2, 9 Mar. 1864 issue.
• Opera Glass
• Wüerst, Richard Ferdinand; Butler, Maynard, trans. (1893) . 5th edition. Boston Music Company.