Gustav Heuser

Gustav Heuser (15 October 1817 – 8 October 1846 ) was a German composer and music journalist. Life Born in (today part of Sprockhövel), Heuser was the son of a teacher and attended the . There, he belonged to the youth friends of Friedrich Engels. On 18 March 1837 he left the Gymnasium to study at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. At the same time, he took composition lessons with Adolf Bernhard Marx and was soon considered a great talent. In 1840 Engels wrote the opera libretto Cola di Rienzo, which Heuser did not set to music, however. Marx brought on August 3, 1841 in the Humboldt University of Berlin Chorwerke Heusers zur Aufführung. On 18 November 1841 Heuser was recommended by Marx to Robert Schumann. He addressed Schumann himself the same day and subsequently wrote several essays for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in which he discussed fundamental questions of contemporary music. His hope that Schumann could also help him to publish his compositions, however, was not fulfilled. On 22 August 1844, he paid Schumann a personal visit in Leipzig, during which his further collaboration for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik was probably discussed. Still in the issue of November 7,