Famous People with Name Volkmann

Friedrich Robert Volkmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich Robert Volkmann: was a German composer.He was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father was music director for a church, so the father trained the son in music to prepare him as a successor. Thus Volkmann learned to play the organ and the piano with his father, as well as violin and cello, and by age 12, he was playing the cello part in String Quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In 1832, Robert Volkmann entered the Freiberg Gymnasium for the purpose of becoming a teacher. There he studied music with Anacker, who encouraged him to devote himself to music more fully.[1] From there he went on to Leipzig in 1836 to study with C.F. Becker. There, in Leipzig, Volkmann met Robert Schumann, who encouraged Volkmann. They met again several times after that.

Elise Volkmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Elise Volkmann: was a German actress and voice actor, best known as the voice of Marge Simpson in the German dub of The Simpsons. Volkmann was born in Essen and died in Munich.