Famous People with Name Gurli

Gurli Ewerlund            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Gurli Ewerlund: was a Swedish freestyle swimmer.

Cornelius Gurlitt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Cornelius Gurlitt: was a composer born in Altona, Schleswig-Holstein. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the famous Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with Reinecke's father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. There he studied organ, piano, and composition under Curlander and Weyse. While in Copenhagen he became acquainted with the Danish composer Niels Gade, and they remained friends until the latter's death.

Manfred Gurlitt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Manfred Gurlitt: was a German opera composer and conductor. He studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck, conducting with Karl Muck, and piano with Moritz Mayer-Mahr. He was the great-nephew of the composer Cornelius Gurlitt. From 1908 to 1910, he was a coach at the Berlin Court Opera, and then acted as musical assistant to Karl Muck at Bayreuth. In 1911-12, he was second conductor in Essen, then in Augsburg for two years. in 1914 he was given the post of first conductor at the Bremen Stadttheater, a job he held until 1924 when he was made their general music director. In 1920 he founded a Society for New Music in Bremen to encourage avant-garde and rarely heard pre-classical works.

Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt: was a German architect and art historian. He was co-founder and president of the Bund Deutscher Architekten ("Association of German Architects") and principal of the Technische Universität Dresden, where he was also professor of art history and the history of construction.