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Abraham Baer

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Abraham Baer (born in Filehne, Prussia, December 26, 1834; died at Gothenburg, Sweden, March 7, 1894) was a German cantor, musician, and composer. His father destined him for the rabbinate; but his love for music and the song of the synagogue caused him to choose to become a Cantor (Hazzan). At an early age he emigrated to Germany, and there under the tutelage of eminent ḥazanim prepared himself for his sacred calling. He officiated for a time at Pakosh and Schwetz in West Prussia, and at the age of twenty-three (in 1857) was called to Gothenburg. Well equipped with Hebrew and Talmudic learning, he applied himself to the acquisition of secular knowledge and the science and art of music. His researches were especially directed to the field of Jewish traditional melodies, then but little explored. In 1871, after fifteen years of hard work, he published his work, Bā’al Tefillah, oder der Practische Vorbeter — an almost complete collection of Jewish traditional melodies, of which a second revised and enlarged edition (358 pp. folio) appeared in 1883. The work contains fifteen hundred and five melodies, in German, Polish, and Portuguese (Sephardic) versions, and is divided into four par

Adam Darr

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Adam Darr (29 September 1811 – 2 October 1866) was a German classical guitarist, singer, zither player and composer. Biography Adam Darr was born in Schweinfurt, Kingdom of Bavaria, and started playing the guitar as a youth. Sometime after the age of 23, he left his hometown of Schweinfurt, performing abroad. Although secondary sources state that he performed for royal courts, no primary sources have been discovered to verify this claim. The first known performance of Darr is in April 1837 as a guitarist/vocalist in an ensemble known as the Bavaria Nature-Singers. It is known that he traveled with this ensemble in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia. According to Bone (1914), he spent three years in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1836 to 1839, after which he returned to Germany, where, in Würzburg, he became the private tutor of an English family resident there named Whitbread. It is believed that he performed in Paris, and it has been verified that he performed in Berlin. In Würzburg he met fellow-guitarist Friedrich Brand. Together they formed a duo and for a year or two, they traveled through southern Germany, performing in Munich, Weimar, and elsewhere. At Munich, Darr

Adam Drese

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Adam Drese (December 1620 – 15 February 1701 in Arnstadt) was a German composer, kapellmeister, and bass viol player of the baroque period. Life Adam Drese was born in the German state of Thuringia. He became a musician at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar in Weimar before being sent by the duke to Warsaw to study with Marco Scacchi. He returned to Weimar and was appointed as the duke’s Kapellmeister in 1652. In 1662, after the death of Duke Wilhelm IV, the Hofkapelle was disbanded, the duke’s son, duke Bernhard took Drese to Jena, where he appointed him as his Kapellmeister, secretary and also the town mayor from 1672. Despite Duke Bernhards’s death in 1678, Drese remained in Jena until 1683, when he found another post as Kapellmeister, to the Count of Schwarzburg at Arnstadt. He remained in Arnstadt until his death in 1701. Works It is thought that most of Drese’s output has been lost. His surviving pieces include sacred and secular vocal works, as well as some instrumental Sonatas and Suites. Most notably, 3 sonatas by Drese were included in the 1662 manuscript collection Partiturbuch Ludwig. He became known in his time for the composition of several chorale melodies w

Adam of Fulda

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Adam of Fulda (c. 1445 – 1505) was a German composer and music theorist of the second half of the 15th century. He was born in Fulda and died in Wittenberg. In Heinrich Glarean’s Dodecachordon he is described as Francum Germanum, i.e., of German origin. Adam of Fulda calls himself at times musicus ducalis (musician of the Court). He also mentions Guillaume Dufay (1397 - 1474) as his contemporary. Biography Adam of Fulda was born approximately 1445. He was educated at the Benedictine Monastery at Vornbach Abbey, where he wrote his De musica. After leaving the monastery, he was a lecturer at the Wittenberg University in Torgau, where he was one of the scholars involved with Renaissance humanism. From 1490 he was choir director. Writings Three writings of his are known. De musica is a four-part manuscript written in Strasbourg, dated 4 November 1490. It deals in 7 chapters with an explication, invention and praise of music; in 21 chapters with the human hand, the chant, the voice, the clefs, the mutation and the keys; in 13 chapters with mensural music and in 8 chapters with proportions and consonances. He wrote “Ein ser andechtig Cristenlich Buchleī aus hailigē schrifften vnd Lerern

Adelheid Maria Eichner

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Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787) was a German composer, singer and pianist who was noted during her brief lifetime for her fine three-octave singing voice and vocal technique. She was the only child of bassoonist and composer Ernst Eichner and his wife, Maria Magdalena Ritter. Critics claim her compositions to be more effective instrumentally than vocally. As a composer, Adelheid Eichner had difficulty combining words and music effectively. Early years Adelheid Eichner grew up in Zweibrücken, in the homonymous state. Her father, Ernst Eichner, was employed in the Hofkapelle of Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from autumn 1762 to November 1772. She was taught singing in Mannheim by an elderly Italian castrato of a good school while it is thought her father taught her the piano. At the end of 1773 she and her mother joined her father in Potsdam, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He had travelled to Paris and London to give concerts and had begun his employment in the Hofkapelle of the Prince Frederick William in August 1773. Career From 1773, Adelheid was employed in the Hofkapelle, with her father, as the only German woman singer. She appeared in public concerts in Berlin as t

Adolf Bernhard Marx

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Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx, also known as A. B. Marx (15 May 1795 – 17 May 1866), was a German music theorist, critic, and musicologist. Life Marx was the son of a Jewish doctor in Halle who, though a member of the congregation, was according to his son a convinced atheist. Marx was given the names Samuel Moses at birth, but changed these at his baptism in 1819. He began his career studying law at Halle, but also learned musical composition there—a fellow student was the composer Carl Loewe. After rejecting an offer for legal appointment at Naumburg, in 1821 he went to Berlin, where in 1825 Adolf Martin Schlesinger appointed him editor of the music journal he had founded, the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. Marx’s intellectual critiques were appreciated by, amongst others, Beethoven, although they often offended the Berlin establishment, including Carl Friedrich Zelter. Marx became an intimate of the family of Felix Mendelssohn, who was greatly influenced by Marx’s ideas about the representational qualities of music—Marx’s influence in the revision of Mendelssohn’s overture to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1826) was noted by their mutual friend Eduard Devrient

Adolf Busch

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Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering. His composition teacher was Fritz Steinbach but he also learned much from his future father-in-law Hugo Grüters in Bonn. In 1912, Busch founded the Vienna Konzertverein Quartet, consisting of the principals from the Konzertverein orchestra, which made its debut at the 1913 Salzburg Festival. After World War I, he founded the Busch Quartet, which from the 1920–21 season included Gösta Andreasson, violin, Karl Doktor, viola, and Paul Grümmer, cello. The quartet was in existence with varying personnel until 1951. The additional member of the circle was Rudolf Serkin, who became Busch’s duo partner at 18 and eventually married Busch’s daughter, Irene, 1935 in Basel. The Busch Quartet and Serkin became the nucleus of the Busch Chamber Players, founded in Basel, a forerunner of modern chamber orchestras. In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch decided he could not in good conscience stay in Germany, so he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland. Busch w

Adolf Friedrich Hesse

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Adolf Friedrich Hesse (30 August 1809 – 5 August 1863) was a German organist and composer. Life Hesse was born and died in Breslau. He studied in his home town with the organists Friedrich Wilhelm Berner and Ernst Köhler (1799–1847). He was taught within the Bach tradition of Silesia. On his first concert tour in Germany he met the organist Christian Heinrich Rinck, with whom he returned to study for six months in 1828-1829: Rinck was a student of Johann Christian Kittel, who in turn was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1831, he became the principal organist at the Bernhardinerkirche in Breslau. Considered one of the most important organists in Germany, his virtuosic playing and agile pedalwork dazzled audiences in Paris, where he played an all-Bach programme—a novelty in France—for the inauguration of the organ at Saint-Eustache in 1844; and in London, where he played at Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition of 1851. Back in Breslau, he conducted the symphonic concerts of the city’s Opera Orchestra. One of Hesse’s pupils was the Belgian organist Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, who would later teach Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor. Works for organ Dates of publicatio

Adolf Jensen

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Adolf Jensen (12 January 1837 – 23 January 1879) was a German pianist, composer and music teacher. Biography Jensen was born in Königsberg to a family of musicians. Although largely self-taught, he also had instruction from Louis Ehlert, Louis Köhler and Friedrich Marpurg (1825–1884). Marpurg was the director of the Königsberg Theater and the great-grandson of the music theorist Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg. In 1856, Jensen went to Russia to teach in the hope of earning enough money to take lessons with Robert Schumann with whom he had been in correspondence. However, Schumann had died in the interim. In 1857, he became was the music director of the Posen municipal theatre. From 1858 until 1860, he lived in Copenhagen and befriended Niels Gade. He returned to Königsberg and composed much of his music during that time. He taught advanced piano at Carl Tausig’s Schule des höheren Clavierspiels in Berlin from 1866 until 1868 when serious illness forced him to retire. He went to Dresden, then to Graz in 1870, and finally to Baden-Baden where he died of tuberculosis at the age of 42. His brother was Gustav Jensen (1843–1895), a violinist and composer. Works Jensen wrote about 160 art songs

Adolf Reichel

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Adolf Reichel (30 August 1816 – 5 March 1896) was a German-Swiss orchestral conductor and composer. Life Adolf Reichel was a son of an East Elbian German landowning family in Tursnitz, West Prussia (now Turznice in Poland). He studied composition with Siegfried Dehn in Berlin, piano with Ludwig Berger and instrumentation with Carl Gottlieb Reissiger in Dresden. He found his first job as music teacher to the young hereditary prince Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen. He travelled to Vienna, Bern and Brussels and made a living as a piano teacher in Paris from 1844, where he associated with George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. In 1842, he met the professional revolutionary and anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in Dresden, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In his circle in Paris he met opposition figures such as Georg Herwegh, Gottfried Kinkel, Karl Marx, Georg Weber, Vasily Petrovich Botkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Richard Wagner, without himself taking an active part in the 1848 Revolution. In 1850, he and Mariya Kasparovna Ern (1823–1916), whom he had met as an associate of Alexander Herzen, married. They had four sons, one of whom was the later Swiss judge and politician Alexander Reichel. I

Adolf von Henselt

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Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 May 181410 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Life Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Josepha von Fladt (1778–1843), who had trained in composition with Franz Danzi, Abbé (George Joseph) Vogler, Joseph Graetz and studied piano with Franz Lauska (who later coached Meyerbeer, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn). His concert debut was at the Odeon in Munich, where he played the opening Allegro to one of Mozart’s C major concertos, a free fantasy with variations on a theme from Weber’s Der Freischütz, and a rondo by Kalkbrenner. It was through Fladt’s influence with King Ludwig I of Bavaria that Henselt was provided the financial means to undertake further study with Johann Nepomuk Hummel in Weimar in 1832 for some months. Later that year, he went to Vienna, where, besides studying composition under Simon Sechter (the later teacher of Anton Bruckner), he was successful as a concert pianist. In 1836, to improve his health, he made a prolonged tour through the chief German towns. In 1837, he settled at Breslau, where he had married Rosalie Vogel—but the

Adolphe Gutmann

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Adolphe Gutmann (originally Wilhelm Adolf Gutmann) (12 January 1819 – 27 October 1882) was a German pianist and composer who was a pupil and friend of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. Life Gutmann was born in Heidelberg. He came to Paris in 1834, at the age of 15, to study with Chopin, becoming one of the composer’s favourites. He performed in concert with Chopin, Liszt, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Pierre-Joseph Zimmerman, Alkan’s transcription of part of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony at a concert of 1838. Gutmann was also the dedicatee of Chopin’s Scherzo, Op. 39, published in 1839. Gutmann acted as copyist for a number of Chopin’s works, and acted as a courier to take Chopin’s letters to his family in Warsaw. Gutmann’s own set of Etudes (his Op. 12) is dedicated to Chopin. He was present at Chopin’s death bed and preserved the glass from which Chopin took his last drink of water. Both he and Alkan were bequeathed the notes that Chopin had compiled in preparation for a piano teaching method. Gutmann died in La Spezia. Works Inspired by the style of his master, Gutmann is the author of several nocturnes, and twelve studies, studies characteristics that seem to announce the coming of

Adriana Hölszky

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Adriana Hölszky (born 30 June 1953) is a Romanian-born German music educator, composer and pianist who has been living in Germany since 1976. During her studies she performed as a pianist of the Trio Lipatti, together with her twin sister, violinist Monika Hölszky-Wiedemann and cellist Hertha Rosa-Herseni. In 1977 and 1978, she participated in the International Mozarteum Summer Academy, and in 1978–1984 regularly in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1980 she received a teaching position at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, and in 1983 a grant from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg. In 1986 she took first place at the Composers’ Forum of the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1987 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony. In 1992 she took composition seminars in Tokyo and Kyoto, and at the IRCAM in Paris. Her increasing international popularity was shown by three concerts she performed in Athens, Thessaloniki and Boston in 1993. Between 1997 and 2000, Hölszky was professor of composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre, and since 2000 she has been professor of composition at the Moza

Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck

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Ella Overbeck, pseudonym Baroness Ella Overbeck or Overbach, also Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck, Elizabeth von Overbe(c)k, or Baroness Jo Overbeck (nicknamed Jimmy) (10 October 1870 – 12 November 1919) was an Anglo-Russian composer and pianist. Life and career Born in Russia, Overbeck was brought to England as a young child by her parents, both Russians. Following their deaths, she was adopted by an English woman, and educated at the Royal College of Music. She was piano accompanist to Clara Butt and students of Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García in London. In the 1890s she made friends with Edith Craig (1869-1947) and her brother Edward, son and daughter of leading British actress Ellen Terry, and wrote the stage music for Edward’s adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s On ne badine pas avec l’amour (as No Trifling with Love), which was performed in Uxbridge in 1894. Overbeck’s music was praised by the Musical Times; other early works, such as a violin sonata and various songs, were also positively reviewed by the musical press. A survey of women composers active in 1896 described Overbeck, though a ‘baby’ song-writer by comparison with the older Cecile Chaminade and Guy d’Hardelot, as possess

Agnes Zimmermann

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Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (5 July 1847 14 November 1925) was a German concert pianist and composer who lived and worked in England, where she enjoyed a fifty-year performance career, one of the longest unbroken spans before the public. From the 1870s through to the 1890s in particular she was a central figure in British musical life. Biography Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann was born in Cologne, Germany. Her family moved to England, and she was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of nine, where her teachers were Charles Steggall and Cipriani Potter. Later she studied under Ernst Pauer and Sir George Macfarren. Zimmermann received the Kings Scholarship from 1860 to 1862 and made her public debut in 1863, aged 16, at The Crystal Palace, playing two movements from Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. In 1868 she gave the first of a series of two-piano recitals with Clara Schumann: they often performed Robert Schumann’s Andante und Variationen, Op. 46 together. After ending her studies, Zimmermann went on a tour of Germany, followed by concert tours in 1879, 1880, 1882 and 1883. She remained an active performer for decades, establishing a long-running series of recitals an

Albert Dietrich

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Albert Hermann Dietrich (28 August 182920 November 1908), was a German composer and conductor. In addition to his work, he is remembered for his friendship with Johannes Brahms. Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen. From 1851 he studied composition with Robert Schumann in Düsseldorf, where in October 1853 he first met Brahms and collaborated with Schumann and Brahms on the F-A-E’ Sonata for Joseph Joachim (Dietrich composed the substantial first movement). From 1861 until 1890 he was the musical director at the court of Oldenburg, where Brahms often visited him and where he introduced many of Brahms’s works. It was in Dietrich’s library that Brahms discovered the volume of poetry by Hölderlin that furnished him with the text for his Schicksalslied, which he began composing while visiting Wilhelmshaven dockyard in Dietrich’s company. Dietrich was also instrumental in arranging for the premiere of Brahms’s German Requiem at Bremen in 1868. Dietrich’s own works include an opera Robin Hood, a Symphony in D minor (1869, dedicated to Brahms), a Violin Concerto in the same key (composed for Joseph Joachim but premiered in 1874 by Johann Lauterbach), a Cello Concerto, Horn Concerto, cho

Albert Lortzing

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Gustav Albert Lortzing (23 October 1801 – 21 January 1851) was a German composer, librettist, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel. Life and career Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb and Charlotte Sophie Lortzing. They had abandoned their leather shop and travelled through Germany as itinerant actors, founding the Berlin theatre company Urania, and turning their amateur passion into a profession. The young Lortzing’s first stage appearance was at the age of 12, entertaining the audience with comic poems during the interval in the Kornhaus at the Freiburg Münster. From 1817, the Lortzing family were part of Josef Derossi ensemble in the Rhineland, treading the boards at Bonn, Düsseldorf, Barmen and Aachen. Albert Lortzing became an audience favourite, playing the roles of a youthful lover, a country boy and bon vivant, sometimes also singing small tenor or baritone roles. On 30 January 1824 he married the actress Rosina Regine Ahles, with whom he subsequently had 11 children. The couple belonged to the Hoftheater (court theatre) in Detmold from

Albert Methfessel

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Albert Methfessel (6 October 1785 – 23 March 1869) was a German composer, singer, musicologist, and conductor. Originally destined by his parents for service in the church, like his older brother, he left theological studies because of his great interest in music. Given a scholarship by local nobility, he was able to formally study music, and then return to his hometown of Rudolstadt to perform and sing for twelve years. He spent three years in Hamburg before becoming an itinerant musician for seven years. His period of greatest income was as Kapellmeister in Braunschweig from 1832 to 1842. His career was then hampered by health difficulties, but he continued to compose, write musical treatises, and correspond with his fellow musicians until his death in 1869. He is most well known for his vocal compositions, in particular, his works for students and for male voices. Early life and family Born Albert Gottlieb Methfessel in Stadtilm, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, on 6 October 1785, he was the son of Johann Christian Methfessel (1733–1816) and Sophia Marie (née Gölitz) Methfessel (1745–1818). Johann Christian was the local school teacher and Cantor in Stadtilm, while Sophia was the daughte

Albrecht Blumenstengel

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Albrecht Blumenstengel (1835–1895) was a German composer, violinist, arranger and editor. Biography Albrecht Blumenstengel was born in Helmstedt on 7 January 1836. Son of the German architect Johann Carl Heinrich Blumenstengel (1792–1867), he was the concertmaster of the ducal court. He published several works and important violin books, today used in music conservatories, like Scale and Arpeggios Studies and the 24 Etudes op.33 (published for major publishing houses like Fischer, Schirmer, Litolff, Peters). The first edition of these Etudes was in 1855 and the style is romantic (some editor wrote improperly “Preparatory Studies to Kreutzer”). He also wrote important pieces like 8 Transcritptionen, Op.13 for violin and piano (1872), Volkslieder-Album (2 books of 120 pieces for violin and piano – 1891). He died in Hamburg on 8 June 1895. Compositions * Scale and Arpeggio-Studies * 24 Violin Etudes, Op.33 * 8 Transcriptionen, Op.13 * Volkslieder-Album * Gavotte from Iphigénie en Aulide by C.W.Gluck Albrecht Blumenstengel dealt mainly with pedagogical works and duets, including all of Spohr’s violin duets and his Duo op. 13 for violin and viola. Discography In 2023 the Italian violist

Alexander Keuk

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Alexander Keuk (born 13 October 1971) is a German composer and music journalist. Life Born in Wuppertal, Keuk completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman from 1990 to 1992 after his Abitur. From 1993 to 1999 he studied musical composition with Hans Jürgen Wenzel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. He graduated with a thesis on The 7 Sonatas for 2 Violins by Allan Pettersson, followed by a postgraduate education. (among others with Wilfried Krätzschmar) in composition, which he completed in 2001 with a Konzertexamen. Starting during his studies, Keuk has been working as a freelance author for the cultural editorial department of Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten since 1996. Since 2002 he has been working in Dresden as a freelance composer and music journalist. He regularly writes articles for the Neue Musikzeitung, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the specialist magazine . From 2001 to 2003 Keuk was the managing director of the Saxon Society for New Music. Since 1992 he has been on the board of the International Allan Pettersson Society and was chairman of the Dresdner Kammerchor until 2018. In 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Sächsische Kulturstiftung and the

Alexander Schubert

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Alexander Schubert (born 13 July 1979) is a German composer. Much of his music is experimental, involving multimedia, improvisatory, and interactive elements. He draws upon free jazz, techno, and pop styles. Biography Alexander Schubert was born in Bremen. He studied Bioinformatics in Leipzig, then spent a year at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe at the Institute of Music and Acoustics. He received a doctorate in multimedia composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, studying under Georg Hajdu and Manfred Stahnke. He teaches at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, directs the electronic studio at Musikhochschule Lübeck and has been a visiting lecturer at Darmstadt International Summer Courses. A founding member of ensembles Decoder, Trnn, Schubert-Kettlitz-Schwerdt, and Ember, he has also pursued an experimental pop music solo project under the name Sinebag. Schubert’s pieces have been performed at several international institutions, including Wien Modern, ICMC, SMC, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, DLF Forum neuer Musik, IRCAM, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Blurred Edges in Hamburg. Music

Alexej Gerassimez

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Alexej Gerassimez (born 1987 in Essen) is a German solo percussion player and composer. Gerassimez was born in Essen, Germany. His brothers are also musicians: Nicolai Gerassimez is a pianist and Wassily Gerassimez is a cellist. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory of Music, the Berlin Conservatory and the Munich Conservatory of Music. as well as the Audience Award and the Press Prize. In 2015 he took up a tutoring position at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in England. In 2022 he performed the New Zealand premiere performance of New Zealand composer John Psathas’s work Leviathan for orchestra and solo percussion. Gerassimez has made numerous recordings and CDs and is also a composer. External links * Alexej Gerassimez’s website References

Alfred Hans Zoller

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Alfred Hans Zoller (6 October 1928 – 14 October 2006) was a German composer, jazz pianist, church musician and organist. He is known for the 1964 song “Stern über Bethlehem”, which is often used by star singers, and appeared in 2004 as a cover version, She. Life Born in Neu-Ulm, Zoller was organist from 1956, then in 1960 also cantor in Reutti near Neu-Ulm. There he founded the “St. Margret Singers”, a gospel choir, which contributed to the fact that elements of jazz and “black music” found their way into German Protestant church services. He composed numerous songs in the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Legacy Zoller’s song “Stern über Bethlehem” found its way into some regional parts of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), for example in Bavaria EG 545, in Hesse EG 542, in Württemberg EG 540. In the Catholic prayer and hymn book Gotteslob (GL), the song is printed as GL 261. In the it can be found under the number 265. In some communities it is also sung by the star singers. This makes it one of the most important Christmas hymns of modern times. Compositions * “Lass uns spüren”, 3rd prize at the 2nd competition of the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing 1963 * “Schiff in

Alfred Reisenauer

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Alfred Reisenauer (1 November 18633 October 1907) was a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Biography Reisenauer was born in Königsberg. He was a pupil of Louis Köhler and Franz Liszt. As one of the most important piano teachers and players of his time, Reisenauer became principal professor of piano at the Sondershausen Conservatory in 1885. He was in Liszt’s household when Liszt died in 1886 and was a torchbearer at the side of the coffin during the funeral procession. After beginning to teach piano at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1900, he was eventually appointed director of the same institution where his students included Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Sergei Bortkiewicz, , and Anna Schytte. Reisenauer led a highly successful career as a pianist, especially in Germany and Russia, and was well known for his sensitive playing, especially of Schumann. He also made a speciality of Liszt’s virtuosic piano music. Starting in 1886 he toured Central Asia and Russia as far east as Siberia. On 10 April 1905, he recorded ten piano pieces for the Welte-Mignon player piano for M. Welte & Sohn at the Popper Studio in Leipzig. Reisenauer also set numerous lieder to music. He was known to suffer

Alfred Sittard

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Alfred Sittard (4 November 1878 –– 31 March 1942) was a German cantor, composer of church music and one of the most important organists of his time. Life and career Born in Stuttgart, Sittard was a pupil of his father, the music teacher and musicologist Josef Sittard (1846-1903), as well as the Hamburg Petri-Cantor Wilhelm Köhler-Wümbach (1858–1926) and the Petri-organist Carl Armbrust (1849-1896). In 1896 and 1897, after the early death of Armbrust, he took over his post as a primate of the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. From 1897 to 1901 Sittard studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Friedrich Wilhelm Franke, Franz Wüllner and Isidor Seiß. He worked as a volunteer conductor at the Hamburg State Opera from 1901 to 1902 and was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship for composition in 1902. In 1903 he became organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, then in 1912 organist at the newly rebuilt St. Michael’s Church, Hamburg with the then largest church organ of Eberhard Friedrich Walcker. He founded the choir at the Michaelis Church and conducted the Hamburger Lehrergesangverein from 1920 to 1925. In 1925 he was appointed professor for organ playing at the Royal Music Inst

Alfred Stier

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Alfred Stier (27 November 1880 – 21 July 1967) was a German composer and music director of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony. Life Stier was born in Greiz. After attending primary schools, he went to Leipzig in 1902 to study church music. In Limbach, he received his first position as a full-time church musician in 1904, and in 1911 he went to the Church of Reconciliation, Dresden. He was a Liedermeister and honorary Alter Herr of the "" Erato Dresden". From 1919 to 1945, he was editor of the Sächsische Zeitschrift für Kirchenmusiker, and from 1933 to 1944 he was co-editor of . In 1928 he was one of the Dresden co-founders of the . In 1933, he was appointed regional church music director. In 1947, he went to Ilsenburg, where from 1948 he was the regional singing director of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony. He led numerous singing weeks, courses for choir singing with lay people. He published old church music and composed chamber music, cantatas, choral works and Lieder himself. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1955. He died in Ilsenburg in 1967 aged 86. Work * Die Erneuerung der Kirchenmusik. Kassel 1926 * Leit

Alice Samter

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Alice Samter (11 June 1908 – 19 March 2004) was a German music educator and composer. Biography Alice Samter was born in Berlin to a middle-class family. She trained and worked as an accountant while studying piano, improvisation, choral work and school music at Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and the Academy of Music in Berlin. In 1945 she received a degree in music and became a teacher in the Spandau schools where she began to compose school opera. After she retired from teaching in 1970, she became a composer full-time. She was a member of several organizations of composers, including GEDOK Berlin, the International Working Group on Women and Music and the International League of Woman Composers (USA). Her work has been performed internationally, and in 1988 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In 1999 she established the Alice Samter Foundation at the Berlin University of the Arts to support music students at the university. She also donated funds to the Berlin State Library for the purchase of Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn manuscripts. Samter’s family home was destroyed by a bomb during the war and she moved with her mother and adopted sister to an apartment i

Alois Ickstadt

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Alois Ickstadt (born 22 September 1930) is a German pianist, choral conductor, university professor and composer. He was professor at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He promoted choral singing from children’s choir to adult groups for the state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, namely the Figuralchor Frankfurt which he founded in 1966 and conducted until 2011. Life Ickstadt studied music pedagogy at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He also studied piano with Erich Flinsch, composition with Kurt Hessenberg and conducting with Walther Davisson and Karl Maria Zwißler. * Kritzel-Kratzel und was nun?Spannendes Hörspiel., audio play, 25712 XAW. Ariola Eurodisc. Munich 1979 * Bach: St John Passion, Sonntag, Browner, Kraus, Schramm, Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann (live recording at St. Gallus, Flörsheim), Opus 27042. Cappella Wiesbaden 1989 * Andrei Volkonsky: Der 148. Psalm and others. Wergo WER 6601-2. Schott Wergo Music Media. Mainz 1996. * Gedenk-Konzert, works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert. Melisma 7139/40-2. Cappella Wiesbaden 1998 * Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem. Melisma 7177-2. Cappella Wiesbaden 2001 * Mendelssohn: Elias. Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft. Frankfurt am

Aloys Fleischmann (Senior)

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Aloys Georg Fleischmann (24 April 1880 – 3 January 1964) was a German composer, cathedral organist and choirmaster. Life Fleischmann was born in Dachau, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire. He was the only child of the Dachau shoemaker and founding member of the Dachau choir, the Liedertafel, Alois Fleischmann (1844–1914) and of Magdalena née Deger (1846–1928). From 1887 to 1894 he attended the Dachau primary school for boys. He was given private classes in music, music theory and Latin and in 1896 he was admitted to the preparatory two-year course at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. Having passed the entrance examination, he studied there from 1898 to 1901 taking the subjects organ, conducting and, with Josef Rheinberger, composition. He graduated with first class honours in all subjects. In January 1902 he was appointed organist and choirmaster to the parish church of St. Jakob in Dachau. There he founded a choir school and a school of music, in which children could learn music and purchase instruments at minimal cost. With the support of musician friends in Munich and members of the artists’ colony of Dachau (Hans von Hayek, Adolf Hölzel, August Pfaltz, Hermann Stockmann) he

Andre Asriel

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Andre Asriel (22 February 1922 – 28 May 2019) was an Austrian-German composer. Life Born in Vienna, Asriel first attended the Akademisches Gymnasium and then the Bundesgymnasium IX (Gymnasium Wasagasse) in Vienna, where the later Oscar winner and composer Ernest Gold was his classmate. Here he pursued musical studies at the same time, studying piano with Grete Hinterhofer and theory with Richard Stöhr at the State Academy of Music in Vienna from 1936 to 1938. He was extraordinarily gifted and an outstanding pianist even at a young age. After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany, his mother ensured that her 16-year-old son Andre was able to emigrate to England with a Kindertransport as a racially persecuted person at the end of 1938. She herself did not manage to escape. With the beginning of the war in September 1939, all ties to the old homeland and the family were severed. Music was Asriel’s interest even in a foreign country, but he did not know how to start and finance a suitable course of study. Through an encounter with the later poet Erich Fried - also a former pupil of Wasagymnasium - he found contact with the exile organisation Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), which also financed his

André Previn

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André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three facets: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated pianist, accompanist to singers, and interpreter of songs from the “Great American Songbook”. In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer. Before the age of twenty, Previn began arranging and composing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He would go on to be involved in the music of more than fifty films and would win four Academy Awards. He won ten Grammy Awards, for recordings in all three areas of his career, and then one more, for lifetime achievement. He served as music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra (1967–1969), principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1968–1979), music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1976–1984), of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1985–1989), chief c

Andreas Düben

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Andreas Düben (c. 1597 – 7 July 1662) was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. Early life Born in Leipzig, Saxony, into the Düben family, which would later be renowned for its contributions to classical music. He was the son of Andreas Düben, who was the organist at the St. Thomas Church, and Elisabeth Bessler, or Bletzchen, who was born in Wurzen. He was appointed conductor of that same group in 1640. He composed a cantata, Pugna triumphalis, on the occasion of the death of Gustavus Adolphus. References

Andreas Hammerschmidt

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Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675) was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Germany in the middle 17th century. He was nicknamed the “Orpheus of Zittau”. Life He was born in Brüx to a Saxon father and a Bohemian mother. In 1626 the family had to flee Bohemia, during the Thirty Years’ War, after it had become Catholic; they settled in Freiberg, Saxony, where Andreas must have received his musical education. He probably did not study with composer Christoph Demantius, who was Kantor at Freiberg and the most significant musician in the city while Hammerschmidt was there; however he may have known him. Many famous musicians of the early Baroque spent time in Freiberg but it is uncertain which of them taught Hammerschmidt; at any rate he received a superb musical training while there. Hammerschmidt left Freiberg in 1633, through his mentor Stephan Otto, taking a post as organist for Count Rudolf von Bünau in Weesenstein, but returned to Freiberg the next year as an organist. He was married shortly after his return there, and of his six children three die

Andreas Hofer (composer)

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Andreas Hofer (ca. 1629 – 25 February 1684) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Hofer was born at Reichenhall. He was a contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, whose predecessor he was in Salzburg in his office of Inspector and Hofkapellmeister, i.e., director of the court orchestra. Like Biber, Hofer was noted for his large-scale polychoral sacred works. It has been suggested that Hofer was the composer of the famous Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci, which earlier had been attributed to Orazio Benevoli, although it is now accepted that it was the work of Biber. Hofer died at Salzburg. His compositions contain significant roles for instruments like the cornetto, trombone or sackbut and trumpet. Little of his music has been performed or recorded in recent times; several scores, however, have been made available. Compositions *Missa Archi Episcopalis à 19: 8 Voci Concertati SSAA/TTBB, 2 Violini, 2 Viole, 2 Cornetti, 2 Trombettae (“Clarini”), 3 Tromboni, Organo con Violone (1668?) *Missa valete: SSATB, 2 Violini, 2 Viole, 2 Trombettae, 2 Cornetti, 3 Tromboni, Organo, Violone. *Dextera Domini à 17: SATB, SATB, 2 Cornetti, 3 Tromboni, 4 Viole da Braccia, Organo. *Fundata

Andreas Kneller

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Andreas Kneller (variants: Kniller, Knöller, Knüller) (23 April 1649 – 24 August 1724) was a German composer and organist of the North German school. Life Born in Lübeck, he was the younger brother of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. Nothing certain is known about his musical education, though he may have learnt from Franz Tunder (1614–1667), organist of St. Mary’s Church, Lübeck, or his own uncle Matthias Weckmann (ca. 1616–1674), organist of St. Jacob’s Church, Hamburg. In 1667, he became organist of the Marktkirche in Hanover, succeeding Melchior Schildt (1592–1667). In 1685, he moved to Hamburg, where he became organist of the Petrikirche. It was there that he made the acquaintance of Johann Adam Reincken; he went on to marry his daughter Margaretha Maria in 1686. Kneller’s son-in-law Johann Jacob Hencke became his assistant in 1717, and succeeded in him in 1723. Kneller was well respected as a musician, and often acted as an examiner of organs and organists. He was part of the group that examined the candidates for organist at the Jacobikirche, Hamburg, in 1720, which included J.S. Bach (though he did not appear for an audition, he was still chosen for the post but had to

Andreas Raselius

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Andreas Raselius, also known as Andreas Rasel (c. 1563 – 6 January 1602) was a German composer and kapellmeister during the Renaissance. He worked for much of his career as a teacher and cantor in Regensburg, before being appointed as the court conductor of the Elector Palatine in Heidelberg. He is today best noted as the author of a cycle of motets for use throughout the year, the first such cycle to be composed in the German language, which was published in 1594. Early life and education Raselius was born at Hahnbach in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria around 1563. He was the son of Thomas Raselius or Rasel, a Lutheran preacher. The elder Raselius had studied at Wittenberg University under the Lutheran theologian and reformer Philip Melanchthon – who had Latinised Raselius’s name – before moving to Hahnbach and marrying a woman from nearby Amberg. From 1575 Andreas Raselius was educated at the Amberg Gymnasium and in November 1581 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg. He gained a baccalaureate within only eight months and was awarded an M.A. in February 1584. Career A strict Lutheran, he declared himself “outraged at the Calvinist machinations” In 1590 Raselius was promoted

Andreas Weidinger

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Andreas Weidinger (born 1970) is a German composer, producer, conductor, and arranger for film, television, and records. Early life and education Weidinger began his musical training at age nine with lessons in piano and music theory. After his high school diploma, Weidinger moved to Berlin to study bassoon, music theory and political science at the University of Arts and started working on his first film-music projects. He then was accepted at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich as one of the first students studying in the newly opened Film Scoring program. Career Weidinger has composed music for over 100 films as well as classical contemporary orchestral and chamber music works. He has worked with oboist Stefan Schilli, Chinese cheng player Wu-Wei and members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and has a long term working relationship with German director Tim Trageser. He has scored films with composer Christoph Zirngibl. His recent credits include the 3-D Sci-Fi Drama Shockwave, Darkside with director Jay Weisman, “The Banshee Chapter” with director Blair Erickson, the film “The Teacher” with director Tim Trageser, and Playing Hooky. and the 2014 Ironclad: Ba

Andreas Werckmeister

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Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was responsible for a temperament that resulted in all tonalities sounding acceptable on the keyboard. This important step toward equal temperament was highly influential to the harmonic basis underlying much of subsequent Western music. Life Born in Benneckenstein, Werckmeister attended schools in Nordhausen and Quedlinburg. He received his musical training from his uncles Heinrich Christian Werckmeister and Heinrich Victor Werckmeister. In 1664 he became an organist in Hasselfelde; ten years later in Elbingerode; and in 1696 of the Martinskirche in Halberstadt. He died in Halberstadt. Musical compositions Of his compositions only a booklet remains: pieces for violin with basso continuo, with the title Musikalische Privatlust (1689). Also some organ works remain: Canzon in a-minor, Canzona in d-minor, Praeludium ex G, Canzonetta in D-major. Theoretical works Werckmeister is best known today as a theorist, in particular through his writings Musicae mathematicae hodegus curiosus… (1687) and Musikalische Temperatur (1691), in which he described a sy

Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg

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Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (9 November 1723 – 30 March 1787) was an early modern German composer and music curator who served as princess-abbess of Quedlinburg. She was a princess of Prussia as the daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and the sister of Frederick the Great. Early life (1723–1755) Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia was born on 9 November 1723 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia as the 12th child and 7th daughter of King Frederick William I (1688–1740) and his wife, born Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (1687–1757). She had 13 siblings, 10 of whom survived infancy, including the future Frederick the Great (1712–1786). The Prussian royal children were raised in Berlin, where they lived in the Royal Palace (Königliches Schloss; today Berlin Palace/Berliner Schloss), but they also regularly spent time in the king’s favourite residence, a jagdschloss (“hunting lodge”) in Königs Wusterhausen. Amalia was musically inclined, just like Crown Prince Frederick, but her formal instruction was only possible after the death of their abusive father who considered music to be decadent. Frederick William had an unpredictable temper, often dragging her across a room by her hair i

Anna Caroline Oury

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Anna Caroline Oury (née de Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville or Ninette de Belleville-Oury (24 January 1806 – 22 July 1880), was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry. Life and career Anna Caroline de Belleville, often referred to as “Ninette”, was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. She was the daughter of a French aristocrat who was the director of the national Court Opera in Mannheim. She studied with Carl Czerny in Vienna between 1816 and 1820, where she met Beethoven and heard him improvise. In 1829 she traveled to Warsaw where Chopin heard her play impressively enough for him to write about it in a letter, praising her “excellent” playing for its lightness and elegance. Twelve years later, in 1841, Chopin dedicated his Waltz in F minor, Op. Posth. 70, No. 2, to Oury, though it went unpublished until 1855. In July 1831 she made her London debut in Her Majesty’s Theatre with Niccolò Paganini and in October she married Antonio James Oury (1800–1883), a violinist at the King’s Theatre in London and the two toured as a duo. The remainder of Anna Caroline Oury’s career was spent focusing on composition until her retirement in 1866,

Anna Magdalena Bach

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Anna Magdalena Bach (née Wilcke; 22 September 1701 – 27 February 1760) was a German professional singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Anna Magdalena Wilcke was born at Zeitz, in the Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz. While little is known about her early musical education, the family was musical. Her father, Johann Caspar Wilcke (c. 1660–1733), was a trumpet player, who had a career at the courts of Zeitz and Weißenfels. Her mother, Margaretha Elisabeth Liebe, was the daughter of an organist. By 1721, Anna Magdalena was employed as a soprano singer at the princely court of Anhalt-Cöthen. Johann Sebastian Bach had been working there as Capellmeister (director of music) since December 1717. Johann Sebastian, 36, married the 20-year-old Anna Magdalena on 3 December of that year, seventeen months after the death of his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. Later that month, the couple’s employer, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, married Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg. Bach believed the princess’ lack of interest in music caused the musical life at the court to decline, although there is evidence that other factors were involved. There were budgetary constraints of which B

Annette Schlünz

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Annette Schlünz (born 23 September 1964) is a German musician and composer. Biography Schlünz was born in Dessau, East Germany. She studied music at the Dresden Music School from 1983 to 1987 with Udo Zimmermann and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1988 to 1991 with Paul-Heinz Dittrich. She also studied with Iannis Xenakis at Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Schlünz took a teaching position at the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music in 1987 and taught at the Dresden Music School from 1987 to 1992. She went on a concert and lecture tour in South America in 1996, and also appeared in Denmark, France, Spain, the USA, and Vietnam in 2001. She has also lectured at the electronic music studio of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Brandenburg Colloquium, the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome. She was composer-in-residence at GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon in 2005. Honors and awards *Hanns Eisler Prize (1990) *Heidelberg Artists Award (1998) *Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award (1999, for the EMI Classics recording of MOCCOLI) *Scholarships to Darmstadt (1990, 1992) Works Schlünz has comp

Annette Thoma

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Annette Schenk Thoma (23 January 1886 – 26 November 1974) was a German author, composer, and folklorist who is best remembered for her composition Deutsche Bauernmesse (English: German Farmers’ Mass), a mass in Bavarian adapting folk tunes. Life and career Thoma was born in Neu-Ulm. Her father was Lieutenant (later Major General) Albert Schenk. Thoma studied English and French abroad, then married the painter Emil Thoma and moved to Riedering. There she met and worked with the Bavarian folk musician Paul Kiem in 1930 to record local folk music. She wrote a book and many articles about folk music. Thoma composed the Deutsche Bauernmesse in 1933, and wrote the lyrics for the first Salzburg Advent Singing in 1946. Thoma received the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1964, and the Bayerischer Poetentaler award in 1974. Her composition Die Kleine Messe (The Little Mass) was recorded on: *TELEF 6 22 149 AG Books Thoma’s works were published by Rosenheimer Verlagshaus. Her publications included: *Chiemgauer Herbergspiel (Chiemgau Hostel Game) *Das Riederinger Weihnachtsspiel. (The Riedering Christmas Game) *Das Volkslied in Albayern und Seine Saenger (Folk Music in Bavaria and Its Singers) *Die

Anton Beer-Walbrunn

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Anton Beer-Walbrunn (29 June 1864 – 22 March 1929) was a German composer. Life Beer was the 4th of five children of the teacher, cantor, sacristan and community writer Anton Beer and his wife Margarethe, née Walbrunn, in the Upper Palatinate Kohlberg. His birthplace was demolished in 2019. In 1877 he attended the Regensburg Preparatory School, took the entrance examination for the Dominican Monastery Eichstättand subsequent use teachers’ seminar in Eichstätt in 1880, but then changed to the newly founded seminar in Amberg - today the - and was one of the first graduates in 1882. In 1886 he passed the final examination as the best of 57 candidates. His teacher Domkapellmeister Widmann in Eichstätt made a significant contribution to him and enabled him to study in Munich from 1888 to 1891 with Joseph Rheinberger, Hans Bußmeyer (1853–1930), and Ludwig Abel at the Akademie der Tonkunst. In 1901 he was appointed teacher for counterpoint, composition, harmony and piano at the same Royal Academy of Music in Munich (today: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München). In 1908 he was appointed Royal Professor. In 1904 he married the painter Ida Görtz, with whom he has since used the maiden nam

Anton Bernhard Fürstenau

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Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (born 20 October 1792 in Münster; died 18 November 1852 in Dresden, Germany) was a German flutist and composer. He was the most famous virtuoso in Germany on his instrument and the most important Romantic flutist of the first half of the nineteenth century. His son Moritz Fürstenau (1824–1889), whom he later sent to study with Theobald Boehm in Munich, Life Anton Bernhard Fürstenau received his first flute lessons from his father, the flautist Kaspar Fürstenau (1772–1819). As early as the age of seven he performed publicly for the first time and five years later he became a member of the Oldenburg State Court Orchestra. with whom he was friendly until his death. In 1817 Fürstenau became a member of the municipal orchestra in Frankfurt where he received further instructions on harmony and composition lessons with a musician named Volweiler. In 1820 he joined the court orchestra in Dresden as first flutist, led by von Weber at the time. In 1823 he went to Denmark, following to Bavaria in 1824 again on tour. In 1826 he continued with his concert tours in Paris and then to London with von Weber, who was already seriously ill at that time. From 1825 to 1844 Fürs

Anton Fils

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Anton Fils (also Antonín Fils, Johann Anton Fils, Johann Anton Filtz), 22 September 1733 (baptized) – 14 March 1760 (buried) was a German classical composer. Fils was born in Eichstätt, in the Bishopric of Eichstätt, Bavaria. Long thought to have been of Bohemian origin (e.g., ), despite having been described as “from Bavaria” by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in 1756, his true origins were discovered in the 1960s . Fils studied law and theology at the University of Ingolstadt, and in 1754 became part of the “Mannheimer Hofkapelle” as a cellist. The Mannheim orchestra at the time was led by Johann Stamitz . In 1757 Fils married Elizabeth Range, and in 1759 the couple bought a house. Although he died at age 26, he left an extensive body of work, including at least thirty-four symphonies. Although he composed about thirty concertos, mainly for cello and for flute, only about half have survived . Fils died in Mannheim and was buried on 14 March 1760 . In his book Ideas for an Aesthetic of Music (posthumously published in 1806), author-musician Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart called Fils “the greatest composer of symphonies who ever lived” . He also attributed Fils’ early death to “his

Antoni Radziwiłł

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Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (; 13 June 1775 – 7 April 1833) was a Polish–Lithuanian and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież and Ołyka, as a scion of the Radziwiłł family he also held the honorific title of a Reichsfürst of the Holy Roman Empire. Between 1815 and 1831 he acted as Duke-Governor (, ) of the Grand Duchy of Posen, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Prussia created out of Greater Polish lands annexed in the Partitions of Poland. Early life Antoni Radziwiłł was born on 13 June 1775 in Vilnius to Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and Helena née Przeździecka. He studied at the University of Göttingen, like his other brothers: the elder Ludwik Mikołaj and the younger Michał Gedeon and Andrzej Walenty. One of his sisters was Aniela Radziwiłł (who married Prince Konstanty Adam Czartoryski). His father was the second son of Prince Marcin Mikołaj Radziwiłł and, his second wife, Marta Trembicka. His maternal grandparents were Antoni Przeździecki and Katarzyna Ogińska. After his maternal grandmother’s death, his mother was raised by her aunt, Aleksandra Czartoryska, the wife of Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. The high standing o

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri

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Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (27 September 1772 – 2 September 1807) was a Polish-Austrian composer, violinist, conductor, and voice teacher. His reputation dissipated after his death, not to be resurrected until the late 20th century. One son was the spa physician Paul Cartellieri. Another, Josef Cartellieri, compiled some largely second-hand biographical notes about the father he scarcely knew. Life and career Cartellieri was born in Gdańsk, Poland. His father, Antonio Maria Gaetano Cartellieri, was Italian, and his mother, Elisabeth Böhm, was Latvian of Baltic German origin. Both of his parents were opera singers and he received his earliest musical education from them. When he was 13, his parents divorced, at which time Cartellieri moved with his mother to Berlin. In that city he began studying music composition. In 1791, at the age of 18, Cartellieri became court composer and music director for Michał Kazimierz Ogiński in Poland. In 1793, he returned to Berlin with his employer where his first opera premiered successfully. He then went with the Count to Vienna, where he continued with further musical studies in music theory and composition under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and

Antonio Sartorio

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Antonio Sartorio (1630 – 30 December 1680) was a composer active mainly in the Republic of Venice and in the Principality of Calenberg. He was a leading composer of operas in his native Venice in the 1660s and 1670s and was also known for composing in other genres of vocal music. Between 1665 and 1675 he spent most of his time in Hanover, where he held the post of Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg – returning frequently to Venice to compose operas for the Carnival. In 1676 he became vice maestro di capella at San Marco in Venice. Early work in Italy and work as Kapellmeister Sartorio was the brother of composer and organist Gasparo Sartorio and architect Girolamo Sartorio who also had connections with the theatre. Beyond birth records, the first known information about Sartorio relates to the mounting of his first opera, Gl’amori infruttuosi di Pirro, at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice on 4 January 1661. His second opera, Seleuco, did not come until five years later when it was produced at the Teatro San Luca on 16 January 1666. The year before, he had been appointed to the position of Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lü

Aribert Reimann

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Aribert Reimann (, 4 March 1936 – 13 March 2024) was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who performed the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer’s play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied (art song) in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life’s work. Life and career Reimann was born in Berlin on 4 March 1936. He was honoured repeatedly, including the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Order of Merit of Berlin. Reimann died on 13 March 2024, at the age of 88. Awards Reimann received many awards: *Melusine, opera after Yvan Goll’s play (1971) *Lear, opera after Shakespeare’s King Lear (1978) *Die Gespenstersonate, opera after August Strindberg’s play The Ghost Sonata (1984) *Troades, opera after Euripides’ The Trojan Women(1986) *Das Schloß, opera after Kafka’s Das Schloss (1992) *Bernarda Albas Haus, opera after Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba *Medea, opera (after part 3 of Grillparz

Arndt Bause

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Arndt Bause (30 November 1936 – 11 February 2003) was a German composer of popular songs. Arndt Bause produced more than 1350 dance music melodies, many of which became “hits”, which meant that he had a decisive influence on the music scene in East Germany for this genre. Life Arndt Bause was born in Leipzig, the fourth of the recorded children of Werner Bause, an accountant, and his wife Emma. For several years, starting in 1948, Arndt Bause was made to learn the piano: by 1955 he had been captivated by music in general and Boogie-woogie in particular. He made progress as a self taught musician and started to appear in several bands, both as a pianist and as an accordionist. Between 1960 and 1963 he was also taking trombone lessons. Meanwhile, out of deference to his father’s wishes, he had embarked on an apprenticeship in the relatively secure trade of glass blowing, which in 1954 he completed. and Kurt Demmler. By 1968 his compositions were bringing in enough money to enable him to abandon glass blowing again, this time for good. In 1975 Bause relocated with his family from Leipzig to Berlin. In April 1976 they acquired a plot of land in Berlin-Biesdorf, which is where Arndt wou

Arno Lücker

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Arno Lücker (born 14 April 1979) is a German composer, musicologist, music critic and music dramaturge. He worked as a journalist in Berlin for press and radio, and as dramaturge at the Konzerthaus Berlin where he installed the series 2 x hören, presenting the same music twice. He has been lecturer of musicology at the University of Marburg, and journalist for Opernwelt, the leading trade journal for opera. Life Born in Braunschweig, Lücker grew up in Langenhagen near Hanover. As a boy, he received piano lessons. He has published in various musicological journals, and has been active as a music critic, among others for the Berliner Zeitung The violinist Daniel Hope, dubbed in it with lewd remarks, had threatened legal action. Lücker then deleted the video from his YouTube channel, and reconciled with Hope. In 2021, Lücker developed a website to find women composers. He has been lecturer of musicology at the University of Marburg, and journalist for Opernwelt, the leading trade journal for opera. Awards *2000: Hans Stieber Prize Publications * Reinhard Keisers Orpheus-Opern – Anmerkungen zu den Libretti. In Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft. 7 (2004) 9, . * „Mahlers Gefa

Arnold Krug

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Arnold Krug (16 October 1849 – 14 August 1904) was a German composer and music teacher. Biography Born in Hamburg, Krug began his music studies with piano lessons from his father, Diederich Krug, who was himself a pianist and composer. Later he was sent to the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied with Carl Reinecke and then went on to Berlin, where he continued with Friedrich Kiel and Eduard Franck. After completing his studies, he taught in Berlin at the Stern Conservatory for several years before returning to Hamburg where he remained for the rest of his life, working primarily as a music teacher and choral director. Gustav Jenner was among his many students. Music While he wrote works in several different genres, including symphonies, orchestral overtures, operas, piano works, and chamber music, it is his choral works which received the most attention. However, today he is primarily remembered for his String Sextet in D Major, Op. 68. This work was known as the “Prize Sextet” because Krug won the Stelzner Prize for chamber music with this composition. The Prize Sextet was originally for two violins, viola, violotta, cello and cellone, but the publisher of the work (Fritz Kistne

Arnold Schmitz

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Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven. Life Born in , Metz, Schmitz habilitated in 1921 and was subsequently professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Breslau University. From 1946 he taught at the University of Mainz, whose rector he was in 1953/54 and 1960/61. He was a member of the . In 1973, the Beethoven House in Bonn appointed him an honorary member for his Beethoven research. Schmitz died in Mainz at age 87. Publications Books * Beethovens “zwei Prinzipe”, Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1923 * Unbekannte Skizzen und Entwürfe, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1924 * Das romantische Beethoven-Bild. Darstellung und Kritik, Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1927 * Beethoven, Bonn a. Rh.: Buchgemeinde, 1927 * “Zur Frage nach Beethovens Weltanschauung und ihrem muskalischen Ausdruck” in Beethoven und die Gegenwart : Festschrift d. Beethovenhauses Bonn, Ludwig Schiedermair zum 60. Geburtstag (also editor), Berlin : Ferdinand Dümmler, 1937 * Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Mainz : Schott, 1950 * Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur geistlichen Musik,

Arnold Schoenberg

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1874–1894: Upbringing#

Arnold Schönberg was born on 13 September 1874 at Obere Donaustraße 5 in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt (historically a Jewish ghetto), into a lower-middle-class Jewish family. His father, Samuel, a shoe shopkeeper from Szécsény, Hungary, had moved to Vienna via Pozsony (Pressburg; now Bratislava). His mother Pauline Nachod was from a Prague family belonging to the Old New Synagogue. He began violin at eight and soon started writing music autodidactically by arranging and imitating what he played or heard, like military band repertoire, for informal performance. Juvenilia survive from as early as 1882, sometimes only as fragments or parts. They include a birthday march and arrangements of Gustav Pick’s Fiakerlied and Vincenzo Bellini’s “Ite su colle”. He composed violin duets after Ignaz Pleyel and Giovanni Battista Viotti, and advanced to string trios (for two violins and viola) without clear models.

Arnolt Schlick

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Arnolt Schlick (July 18?, c. 1455–1460 – after 1521) was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. He was most probably born in Heidelberg and by 1482 established himself as court organist for the Electorate of the Palatinate. Highly regarded by his superiors and colleagues alike, Schlick played at important historical events, such as the election of Maximilian I as King of the Romans, and was widely sought after as organ consultant throughout his career. The last known references to him are from 1521; the circumstances of his death are unknown. Schlick was blind for much of his life, possibly from birth. However, that did not stop him from publishing his work. He is best known for Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten (1511), the first German treatise on building and playing organs. This work, highly influential during the 16th century, was republished in 1869 and is regarded today as one of the most important books of its kind. Schlick’s surviving compositions include Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang (1512), a collection of organ and lute music, and a few pieces in manuscript. The lute pieces—mostly setti

Arnulf Herrmann

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Arnulf Herrmann (born in Heidelberg, 12 December 1968) is a German composer. After studying piano with Gernot Sieber at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich he enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, where he studied composition with Wilfried Krätzschmar and piano with Arkadi Zenzipér. In 1995/96 he was a pupil of Gérard Grisey and Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), after which he completed his training with Hartmut Fladt and Jörg Mainka (theory) and with Friedrich Goldmann, Gösta Neuwirth, and Hanspeter Kyburz at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 1999/2000 he attended a post-graduate course in composition and new technologies at IRCAM in Paris. His awards include the Hanns Eisler Composition Prize (2001), the Stuttgart Composition Prize (2003), and the International Rostrum of Composers (for Terzenseele, 2006). In 2008 he was awarded the Förderpreis Musik (of the Kunstpreis Berlin) and a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2010 he received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. His first opera, Wasser, with words by Nico Bleutge, received its world premiere at the 2012 Munich Biennale in a co-production with Oper Frankfurt.

Arthur Friedheim

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Arthur Friedheim (, 26 October 1859 – 19 October 1932) was a Russian-born concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt’s foremost pupils. One of Friedheim’s students was Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn, the mother of 20th-century piano virtuoso Van Cliburn. Biography Friedheim was born in Saint Petersburg on 26 October 1859. He began serious study of music at age eight. He later studied for a year with noted pianist Anton Rubinstein but disapproved of Rubinstein’s disorganized teaching methods and went instead to Liszt. At first Liszt did not like Friedheim’s playing, though he admitted the individuality of Friedheim’s style. Harold C. Schonberg asserts in his book The Great Pianists that another reason Liszt may have been hesitant was that Friedheim had studied with Rubinstein, of whom Liszt may not have been terribly fond. Friedheim had to play before Liszt several times before becoming accepted as a pupil in 1880. The friendship between them eventually led Liszt to make Friedheim his secretary. Friedheim copied many of Liszt’s mannerisms, which were noted by pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni on hearing Friedheim play in Vienna in 1883. Busoni wrote: “There is a pianist

Artur Immisch

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Artur Immisch (born 24 November 1902 – 9 January 1949) was a German pianist, and composer. His musical legacy has only been gradually reconstructed since 1990. Life Immisch was born in 1902 in Hermsdorf, then Saxe-Altenburg, as the son of a well-to-do family. In 1912, the Immischs moved to Bautzen. After graduating from high school, he moved to the University of Jena in 1921 to study Jurisprudence and National economics at his father’s request. There, he began his musical education at the same time. He continued his double studies from 1922 to 1923 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at the Akademie der Tonkunst with Ernst Riemann. He finished it at Leipzig University during the years 1923 to 1928 where he was taught by Carl Adolf Martienssen in artistic piano playing and piano methodology and by Hermann Grabner in music theory and musical composition. In 1926, Immisch received his doctorate in law from Leipzig University. However, he never exercised legal activity; since 1928, he devoted himself exclusively to music. His work as a concert pianist took him to several large cities in Germany, especially to Dresden, where Immisch settled in the early 1930s. He acquired

August Alexander Klengel

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August Stephan Alexander Klengel (29 June 1783, Dresden22 November 1852, Dresden) was a German pianist, organist and composer. Biography Klengel was the son of landscape painter . He showed an early talent for music, and studied piano under (among others) Johann Peter Milchmeyer (1750–1813). In 1803, Muzio Clementi, a renowned teacher, visited Dresden. He accepted Klengel as pupil, and took him with him on his travels. In 1805, they went together with Ludwig Berger to Saint Petersburg. Clementi next travelled to London, but Klengel remained in St Petersburg until 1811, giving piano lessons. He next moved to Paris in 1812; in 1814, he returned to Dresden; in 1815, he visited London, where the Philharmonic Society commissioned him to write a piece, and he wrote for them his Piano Quintet (for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass). In 1816, he was appointed court composer to the King of Saxony (at the time, Frederick Augustus I), in Dresden. Except for brief visits to Paris and Brussels, he remained in that city for the rest of his life. His Canons and Fugues for Piano, in All the Major and Minor Keys were first published in 1854, after his death. In them, Klengel attempted to

August Bungert

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Friedrich August Bungert (14 March 1845 – 26 October 1915) was a German opera composer and poet. Biography Early life Bungert was born in Mülheim. His unusual musical talent was noticed and nurtured at high school by his teacher, Heinrich Kufferath, the brother of the composer Ferdinand Kufferath. Bungert’s father, a wealthy merchant and an eminent member of the community, was unenthusiastic about his son’s ambitions and considered his son’s musical ability to be an “ill-fated inclination”. He would have preferred his son to undertake a career as a merchant or a doctor. Only his mother supported him, but she died when August Bungert was ten. In the aftermath of her death, the conflict between father and son became more intense. Upon finishing high school at 16, Bungert fled to Cologne. He attended the Conservatorium there and was taught by Ferdinand Kufferath, his high school teacher’s brother. In Cologne, he was discovered by the composer Max Bruch’s sister, who had been charged by the Paris Conservatorium with finding a talented musician to be educated in Paris. Musical career Bungert was destitute in Paris, just managing to make ends meet by giving piano lessons, until his fathe

August Christian Niemann

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August Christian Heinrich Niemann (30 January 1761 – 21 May 1832) was a German forestry engineer and political economist. He is known as a composer and collector of student songs. Born in Altona, he studied law in Jena and Kiel. Serving as Hofmeister for a fellow student of noble background, he moved to the University of Göttingen in 1782. He returned to Kiel in 1783, where he received his PhD, and lectured on statistics and political science from 1785. His “academic songbook” (Akademisches Liederbuch), published in 1782, contained some of his own compositions. It was successful, a second volume being published in 1795. Niemann’s song Landesvater, Schutz und Rater became standard part of the Landesvater ceremony, a ritual pledge of friendship practiced by German academic fraternities. He was also the first to set German-language lyrics to the tune of “God Save the King”, in his “Heil, unserm Bunde Heil”, a patriotic song and early expression of Pan-German nationalism. This example would be imitated in various German patriotic songs and anthems during the 19th century, most notably in “Heil dir im Siegerkranz”, the royal anthem of Prussia and later the imperial anthem of the German

August Conradi

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August Conradi (27 June 1821 – 26 May 1873) was a German organist and composer. Life Born in Berlin, Conradi was originally intended by his father to study theology. Instead, he was enrolled at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. There he studied harmony and composition with Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. In 1843, he became a church organist of Invalidenhaus, Berlin, also writing his first symphony plus a Zigeunerpolka for orchestra the same year. The latter was arranged for piano by Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt. Conradi held various conducting appointments; these included Stettin (1849), Berlin (1850), Düsseldorf (1852), and Cologne (1853), then Berlin again at such theaters as Kroll’s, the Wallner-Theater and the Victoria-Theater. Conradi probably met Liszt in the early 1840s. He served as Liszt’s copyist in Weimar in January and February 1844, and he spent 18 months there in 1848 and 1849 at Liszt’s instigation. Conradi prepared copies of the initial versions of Liszt’s orchestral works, making suggestions on scoring. He also assisted Liszt in assembling a “Programme general” of all the repertory he had played during his vi

August Freyer

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Karol August Freyer (15 December 1801 – 28 May 1883) was a Polish musician and composer, specializing in both performance and composition on the organ. Biography Freyer was born in Saxony in 1801. He moved to Warsaw and began his musical career there as a double bass player. He became organist at the Warsaw Evangelical Church, had the organ rebuilt, and turned his church into a prominent musical location At an early age Stanisław Moniuszko became his pupil, his parents relocated to Warsaw to have Stanisław study with Freyer. He died in 1883. Style Freyer was largely responsible for the revival of organ music in Poland. He was a master at music balance, both homophonic and polyphonic. His playing was appreciated by Felix Mendelssohn and Louis Spohr. In addition to the aforementioned German concerts, he toured Paris to an enthusiastic reception. His most famous composition was a set of Concert Variations of which the final-movement fugue is the most recognized. References External links * Scores by August Freyer in digital library Polona

August Högn

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August Högn (2 August 187813 December 1961) was a German teacher, composer and historian. Biography August Högn was born on 2 August 1878, the middle of five children to married bookbinders Andreas and Helene Högn in Deggendorf. Like all children of the later municipality authorities, county commissioners and legislative representatives, Andreas taught August piano. He continued his studies and trained to teach at the prep school in Deggendorf (1891–1894) and at the teaching school in Straubing (1894–1896). As a young teacher he was placed in many locations (Deggendorf, Neukirchen (Niederbayern), Schaufling, Geratskirchen, Zeilarn, Wallersdorf, Eberhardsreuth). On 20 June 1904 Högn married Emme Gerstl in Wallersdorf. From this marriage came two children (Elfriede, 14 August 1906; August, 17 January 1912). Högn was sent to Ruhmannsfelden, where he remained until his death. In his first years there he made a name for himself as dean of the gymnastics club (21 May 1910 – 27 December 1913), secretary of the Ruhmannsfelden volunteer fire dept. (26 December 1910 – 26 December 1950), and parish clerk for the neighboring Zachenberg (1913–1920). Högn’s wife Emma died 26 June 1926. Following

August Reuß

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August Reuß (6 March 1871 – 18 June 1935) was a German composer. Life Reuß was born in Liliendorf, Moravia. His father ran a railway construction company, and his grandfather had worked as a teacher and organist in Würzburg, Lower Franconia. He joined his father’s company after his secondary school years in Ingolstadt. Due to his father’s early death, Reuß had to wait until 1899, before he could finally start studying music with Ludwig Thuille in Munich Source for the list of works: Stage music * Herzog Philipps Brautfahrt (after Hanns von Gumppenberg), Opernlustspiel 3 acts (1909 Graz). * Piano Concerto, op. 48 Music for piano * Piano Sonata, op. 27 * Fantasie in A minor for two pianos, op. 42 * Goldammer. Ein Stimmungsbild für Klavier., op. 43,1 * Kleine Sonate für Klavier, op. 55 Chamber music * Quintet in F minor, op. 12 * Strin Quartet in D minor, op. 25 * Piano Trio, op. 30 * String Quartet in E major (Frühlings-Quartett)’ op. 31 * Romantische Sonate für Violine und Klavier, op. 35 * Oktet for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons in B major, op. 37 Vocal music * Gotenzug (after Felix Dahn) op. 5 * Tag & Nachtgesänge from Gottfried Keller’s Buch der Natur (5 songs) op.

August Wiltberger

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August Wiltberger (17 April 1850 – 2 December 1928) was a German royal music director, composer and professor at a teachers’ seminary. Career Wiltberger was born in Sobernheim. He received his first lessons from his father, who was organist and teacher. From 1868 to 1871 he attended the seminary in Boppard, where the music pedagogue Peter Piel was his role model. From 1871 to 1873 he worked as a teacher in Bad Salzig. In 1873, he followed the calling as a music teacher at the Präparandenanstalt (preparatory school) in Colmar, from 1876 at the Gymnasium and at the Höhere Töchterschule, a school for girls, in Saargemünd. In 1880, he went to the newly established seminary in Münstermaifeld. From 1888, he worked until his retirement at the seminary in Brühl. Wiltberger was married to Theresa Wiltberger, née Grünewald. Since 1879, he was a presenter of the Allgemeiner Cäcilien-Verband für Deutschland, a Catholic organisation for choral singing. He actively supported the training of teachers, students and organist. His own compositions were almost exclusively written for amateur choirs, similar to those of Michael Haller, Peter Griesbach, Immanuel Faisst, Vinzenz Goller. His works were m

Augustin Pfleger

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Augustin Pfleger (1635 – after 23 July 1686) was a German Bohemian composer. Life Pfleger was born at Schlackenwerth (now Ostrov) and became a court musician at Schlackenwerth. In 1662 he moved to the court of the Duke of Mecklenburg in Güstrow and in 1665 to Gottorf as Kapellmeister at the Schleswig-Holstein court. In 1686 he was again at Schlackenwerth, where he died. Works *Psalmi, dialogi et motettae, op.1 (Hamburg, 1661) *Odae concertantes (Kiel, 1666) German Motets *Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hätte, 5vv, 2 va, ed. in Cw, lii (1938); *Ach, die Menschen sind umgeben mit viel Krankheit, 5vv, 3 va; *Ach Herr, du Sohn Davids, 4vv, 2 va, S ii; *Ach, wenn Christus sich liess finden, 5vv, 3 va, S i; *Christen haben gleiche Freud, 5vv, 2 vn, S i; *Der Herr ist ein Heiland, 4vv, 3 va da braccio; *Der Herr ist gross von Wundertat, 5vv, 2 vn, S ii *Der Mensch ist nicht geschaffen zum Müssiggang, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 va da braccio; *Die Ernte ist gross, 5vv, 2 vn, va da gamba, S ii; *Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott, 5vv, 2 vn, 2 va da braccio; *Es wird das Szepter von Juda nicht entwendet werden, 5vv, 2 vn, 2 va, S i; *Friede sei mit euch, 4vv, vn, 2 va da gamba; *Fürchtet den Herrn, 5vv, 2 vn; *

Augustin Reinhard Stricker

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Augustin Reinhard Stricker (c. 1675 – between 1718 and 1723) was a German baroque composer, conductor and tenor singer. He was Johann Sebastian Bach’s predecessor as Kapellmeister (music director) at the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen and the dedicatee of Johann Mattheson’s 1717 treatise Das beschützte Orchestre. Life and career Little is known of Stricker’s youth and personal life. The fact that he published a volume of Italian cantatas might indicate that he, like most aspiring composers of the era, probably spent considerable time studying in Italy. His first documented employment began in February 1702 when he was appointed to the post of Cammer-Musicus in the newly founded Hofkapelle (royal orchestra) of king Frederick I of Prussia in Berlin. There, in 1705, he married the singer Catharina Elisabeth Müller, who would also be his professional partner for the remainder of his life; e.g., she also would be employed at the Köthen court. His first documented pasticcio, Sieg der Schönheit über die Helden (Triumph of Beauty over the Heroes), premiered at the Royal Prussian court in December 1706, celebrating the marriage of the Prussian crown prince, future king Frederick

Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann

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Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (21 March 1756 – 19 April 1829) was a German-born composer and musical theorist who lived and worked in England from 1782 until his death. He has been called “The First Apostle of Bach in England”. Life Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann was born in Engelbostel, near Hanover on 21 March 1756. His father was an organist and schoolmaster. His brother George Christoph became a well-known organist at Hamburg. He studied for two years in the second class of the Hannover Lyceum between about 1770 and 1772. In 1772 he moved up to the first class of the Lyceum. He was taught by Johann Christian Böttner (1731–1800), from Thuringia, who inspired him with a love of Bach. In 1779 he was admitted to an academy for schoolmasters, where he learned a systematic method of teaching that he applied afterwards when acting as a musical tutor. In 1781 he was appointed organist and schoolmaster at the Protestant convent, or school for noble ladies, at Lüne. In 1782 Kollmann moved to England. On 17 September 1782 he began work at the Royal German Chapel in London. He was given the position of chapel-keeper of the German Chapel on 9 April 1784, and was to remain i

Ayla (musician)

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Ingo Kunzi (born 7 November 1966) is a German trance producer and DJ, best known for his work under his recording names Ayla and Tandu. The Ayla name was inspired by the name of a girl in the recording studio during his first Ayla recording. Kunzi is also related to other projects including Karuma, Elastique Culture, Tarot and Intrance. Career Ingo Kunzi was born in 1966 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Influenced by the likes of Supertramp and Pat Metheny, he started out in the rock scene, building his own studio in 1985 and engineering demos for rock bands before discovering electronic music via the likes of Cosmic Baby and Talla 2XLC’s Moskwa TV project. After “Ayla’s” success, Kunzi produced “Atlantis”, “Ayla Part II” and “Liebe”, which is a cover of the Cosmic Baby classic. Ayla’s fifth single, “Angelfalls”, was released in 1999, reaching the top 3 of the German dance chart. In the same year, Ayla released his first album, Nirwana, which peaked at number 4 in the Norwegian Charts. His remix of Lange’s “I Believe”, which was released under the name DJ Tandu, was included in the first installment of Tiësto’s popular series In Search of Sunrise as well as in Gatecrasher Wet, the th

Balthasar Resinarius

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Balthasar Resinarius (born Balthasar Harzer; c. 1483 – 12 April 1544) was a German composer, and a Lutheran bishop, one of the first Lutherans in Bohemia. Life and career It is regarded as proven the Resinarius, listed by the music publisher Georg Rhau, is identical with the composer Balthasar Harzer, also listed by Rhau. He died in Leipa. After Resinarius’ death, the Renaissance humanist Georg Hansch, who lived in Leipa, published several commemorative publications (“Epitaphs”) in memory of him; these present him as a kind and friendly, also helpful and with a beautiful voice talented person. In particular, Hansch repeatedly praises his striking, outstanding gift as a speaker and his theological scholarship and persuasiveness – with which he had won many followers for the Protestant teaching. Importance As a composer, Resinarius is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the first Protestant generation. His works are only known through the publications of Georg Rhau. He was directly inspired to write these works by the latter, who also introduced him, in the preface to his Responsories, as an aged and hitherto unknown master. In his publication Encomion Musicae (1

Barbara Heller

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Barbara Heller (born 6 November 1936) is a German composer and pianist. She lives in Darmstadt, in the Odenwald and at times on the Canary Island of La Gomera. Biography Barbara Heller was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Her father Eugene Heller was a restorer of church art. After the parental home was bombed in 1943, the family moved to Hammelbach/Odenwald. In 1948 they returned to Ludwigshafen, in 1949 moved to Mannheim, then to Cologne and Darmstadt. Barbara Heller studied music in Mannheim and Munich and graduated in 1957. Her first attempts at composition were in 1949, though self-taught. She studied composition with Hans Vogt and Harald Genzmer and film music for a short time in Siena. She received several scholarships to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where she studied under Hermann Heiss and David Tudor, among others. From 1958 to 1962 she was a lecturer and piano teacher at the School of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. In 1970 she established the “Hermann Heiss Archive, Darmstadt” from the estate of the composer, and continued to collect documents for the archive. In 1978 she participated in the construction of the Internationaler Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik (Internatio

Barbara Kluntz

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Barbara Kluntz (born 5 February 1661 in Ulm; buried 22 May 1730 in Ulm) was a German composer and music teacher. On all of her book titles, she calls herself “Barbara Kluntz, Lover of the Noble Art of Music”, in order to explicitly emphasize her position: She did not consider herself a professional musician. Biography Barbara Kluntz, called “Schneiderbärbele”, was the daughter and third child of the tailor Peter Kluntz and his wife Katharina Kluntz, née Messerschmid. She joined the charitable Third Order of the Ulm Collection Women who were evangelicals after the Reformation. The monastery-like association also owned several villages around Ulm and was located on Ulmer Frauenstrasse at the corner of Sammlungsgasse. The building was destroyed in World War II. Since the women who entered the order did not have to take any vows, Barbara Kluntz was not a nun. Entry into the Ulm Collection Foundation When she entered the collection, Barbara Kluntz was widely known as a “piano virtuoso, organ player and poet”, according to older research. Excerpts from her will, which no longer exists, show that she had her own organ, a clavichord, many books, and music. How Barbara Kluntz came to her sk

Benjamin Bilse

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Benjamin Bilse (17 August 1816 – 13 July 1902) was a German conductor, composer, and violinist. Biography Bilse was born in Liegnitz (present-day Legnica) in the Prussian Silesia Province. As a teenager, he had an apprenticeship with Scholz alongside 11 other boys. Through this apprenticeship, Bilse was able to accustom himself with all instruments commonly found in a choir as well as gain conducting experience conducting the town pipers. Later on, he obtained a rich musical education at the Vienna Conservatory under violinist Joseph Böhm, and played in the orchestra of Johann Strauss I. He returned to Liegnitz and became municipal Kapellmeister in 1842. From 1867 he regularly performed with the “Bilse’s Band” (Bilse’sche Kapelle) at the Concerthaus on Leipziger Straße in Berlin. Although initially facing trouble gaining traction, the orchestra became increasingly popular by targeting the middle class as its audience through offering food and drink during concerts. Bilse ignited the music scene in Berlin through this method, the effects of which are still felt today. This concept of a laid-back experience aimed at the middle class also spread across the Atlantic where it inspired P

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. His eclectic music, which employs a wide range of techniques including dodecaphony and musical quotation, encompasses the styles of the avant-garde, serial, and postmodern. Life Zimmermann was born in Bliesheim (now part of Erftstadt), near Cologne. He grew up in a rural Catholic community in western Germany. His father worked for the German Reichsbahn and was also a farmer. In 1929, Zimmermann began attending a private Catholic school, where he had his first real encounter with music. After the NSDAP closed all private schools, he switched to a public Catholic school in Cologne where, in 1937, he received his Abitur. That same year he fulfilled his duty for the Reichsarbeitsdienst and spent late 1937–early 1938 studying pedagogy at the Hochschule für Lehrerausbildung (lit. University for Teacher Training) in Bonn. He began studying music education, musicology, and composition in early 1938 at the University for Music in Cologne. In 1940, he was draft

Bernd Franke (composer)

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Bernd Franke (born 14 January 1959) is a German composer. Career Franke was born in Weißenfels/Saale. From 1975 to 1981, he studied musical composition in Leipzig at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Siegfried Thiele and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. As a founder, he presided over the “Junge Musik” group in Leipzig from 1980 to 1983. In 2003, Franke became adjunct professor at the Alma mater lipsiensis (University of Leipzig). He gave master classes and lectures (among others at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, the Pitea Festival Sweden or also the Music Academy Prague and the Music Academy Vilnius/Lithuania). 2008/09 Composer in Residence at ARS NOVA Copenhagen and Paul Hillier. ** “Konform – Kontraform”, scene for 8 instruments (1988) ** Music for wind quintet in five movements (1989) ** Music for violin, violoncello and piano (Hope as a breath…) (1992) ** Seasons of Light (for Richard Pousette-Dart), for bassoon and ensemble (1994) ** “ATTEMPT AT CLOSENESS” – Fragments for string quartet (in memory of Louis Krasner) (1999–2000) ** “Prambanan”, for bassoon and piano (2000) ** CANZONI (1), for brass ensemble (1999–

Bernd Redmann

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Bernd Redmann (born 10 May 1965 in Bamberg) is a German composer, music theorist, and musicologist. Career Born in Bamberg, Bernd Redmann studied at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, music pedagogy and composition with Dieter Acker, and music theory. He was also enrolled for musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, with Peter Michael Braun, among others. From 1992 he studied musicology at the Mozarteum. In 1997 he worked at the IRCAM on a scholarship of the . From 1993 Redmann taught at the Musikhochschule München, first accompaniment of Lied, from 1995 also music theory. In 1998/99 he taught at the Mozarteum. From 1999 to 2005 he was Professor for “Tonsatz und Improvisation” at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 2005 he was appointed Professor of music theory and ear training at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, where he served as president from 2014 to 2022. Since 2022 he is president of the Lübeck Academy of Music. Redmann has been a member of the board of the (Association of German-speaking Music Theory) from 2004 to 2006. He has been in the jury of the comp

Bernhard Cossmann

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Bernhard Cossmann (17 May 1822 – 7 May 1910) was a German cellist. Born in Dessau, he first studied under Theodore Muller. During his life, he worked for the Grand Opera in Paris and became acquainted with Franz Liszt, with whom he went to Weimar. In 1866, Cossmann was appointed professor of cello studies at the Moscow Conservatory. However, in 1878, Cossmann helped found the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he occupied the post of teacher of cello. Cossmann was not only a frequent soloist and quartet member, but was also a composer. His works include three fantasias, Tell, Euryanthe, and multiple solo works for various instruments. In addition, he composed many etudes and studies for the cello, many of which are still used today. In 1890 Cossmann adapted Schubert’s Erlkönig for solo cello for the exclusive use of his student Heinrich Kiefer. He wrote this in his score on Frankfurt 28. Nov. 1890 by B. Cossmann. Bernhard Cossmann, author of many original works and of diverse “Phantasien” on motifs from operas (such as Freischutz, Euryanthe, etc.) as well as on well-known pieces (also for solo cello such as “Paraphrase sur une chanson populaire allemande Ach, wie ist’s möglich d

Bernhard Eichhorn

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Bernhard Eichhorn (17 April 1904 – 6 February 1980 In 1927, he joined the Universität und Akademie für Tonkunst in Munich, under Arthur Kutscher. From 1945 to 1947, Eichhorn was Kapellmeister at the Städtische Bühnen München. Selected filmography * Anuschka (1942) * Doctor Crippen (1942) * Journey into the Past (1943) * Under the Bridges (1946) * In Those Days (1947) * The Time with You (1948) * The Orplid Mystery (1950) * Royal Children (1950) * The Violin Maker of Mittenwald (1950) * The Cloister of Martins (1951) * White Shadows (1951) * House of Life (1952) * The Monastery’s Hunter (1953) * Hubertus Castle (1954) * Rose-Girl Resli (1954) * The Silent Angel (1954) * The Dark Star (1955) * Sky Without Stars (1955) * Lost Child 312 (1955) * The Vulture Wally (1956) * The Girl from Flanders (1956) * The Captain from Köpenick (1956) * Love From Paris (1957) * Iron Gustav (1958) * Jons und Erdme (1959) * The Goose of Sedan (1959) * A Glass of Water (1960) * The Good Soldier Schweik (1960) * The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961) * Blind Justice (1961) Bibliography * References External links *

Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang

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Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang (23 July 1869 – 8 April 1916) was a German organist, composer and docent for organ practice. Life Irrgang was born in Zduny, former Province of Posen. His father was a Protestant cantor and teacher in Zduny. Bernhard was educated at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin from 1890 to 1896 and in the academic master class in composition. Active as an organist in various parishes from the beginning of his studies, Irrgang was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1897.Memorial Bernhard Irrgang. In Berlin.Friedparks.de. The pupil worked from 1894 to 1905 as organist at the newly built in Kreuzberg, The organ virtuoso was known in Berlin for his “groundbreaking” concerts. In 1909 Irrgang made a concert tour to Sweden. From 1905, he taught organ playing at the Stern conservatory and from 1912 at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. Among his pupils was John J. McClellan. Irrgang composed organ sonatas and sacred songs, motets and aria in his sonatas following the tradition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Josef Rheinberger. For Irrgang’s appreciation of Rheinberger, see his letter dated 5 October 1901: Bernhard Irrgang introduces himself to Rheinberger by let

Bernhard Molique

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Bernhard Molique (Wilhelm Bernhard Molique; 7 October 180210 May 1869) was a German violinist and composer. Biography He was born in Nuremberg. His father was a musician and the boy studied various instruments, but finally devoted himself to the violin. In 1815, he received some lessons from Louis Spohr, and then studied the violin for two years at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Pietro Rovelli. Career In 1820, Molique succeeded Rovelli as court violinist in Munich and, after several successful tours, in 1826 he became music director at Stuttgart. His pupils there included the violinist Henry Blagrove; the violinist, conductor and composer Alfred Mellon; and the composer Jane Roeckel. Molique was well received on a visit to London when he played his own Piano Concerto No 5 on 14 May 1840. He visited England several other times before settling in London from 1849 until 1866. He died in Cannstatt in 1869. Compositions As a composer, Molique was unapologetically self-taught. His music displays the influence of Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn and, especially, Louis Spohr. The then radical developments represented by Berlioz (who publicly praised his violin playing) and

Bernhard Scholz

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Bernhard E. Scholz, (30 March 1835 – 26 December 1916) was a German conductor, composer and teacher of music. Life Bernhard Scholz was born in Mainz in 1835. He was intended by his father to take over his father’s business (Lithographische Druckerei und Verlag Jos. Scholz) and studied to be a printer at Imp. Lemercier in Paris. But music became his career. He was a student of Ernst Pauer (piano) in Mainz, and 1855-56 of Siegfried Dehn (counterpoint) in Berlin. He also took voice lessons with Antonio Sangiovanni in Milan. He first taught at the Munich Conservatory and was court Kapellmeister in Zürich, Nuremberg and 1859-65 in Hanover. Between 1865 and 1866 he was director of the Cherubini Society in Florence and also taught at the Stern Conservatory and the Kullak Conservatory. From 1871-83 he directed the Orchestra Society in Breslau. In 1883 he was appointed director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, a post he held until 1908. He died in Munich in 1916. His Piano Concerto was championed by Clara Schumann, who included it in her repertory. He was one of four signatories to an anti-“Music of the Future” (anti-New-Weimar-School) Manifesto published in the Berliner Musik-Zeitung

Bernhard Sekles

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Bernhard Sekles (20 June 1872 – 8 December 1934) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue. Life and career Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (née Bischheim). The family name Seckeles was changed by Bernhard Sekles to Sekles. From 1894 to 1895 he was the third Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater in Mainz. In 1896 he became a teacher at the Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main; here he started the first jazz class anywhere in 1928. He was the director of the Hoch’sche Konservatorium from 1924 to 1933. For his composition students, He was one of the first German Jewish academics to lose his job when Hitler came to power in Germany. He died in his native Frankfurt am Main. Selected compositions Publishers: Schott, Eulenberg, Leukart, Brockhaus, Oehler, Rather. Stage works * Der Zwerg und die Infantin, (The Birthday of the Infanta), ballet, op. 22, 1913, based on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale * Scheherazade, opera, op. 26, 1917 * Die Hochzeit des Faun, comic opera, 1921 * Die zehn Küsse, comic opera, 1926 Orchestra * Aus den Gärten der Semiramis, symphonic poem, op. 19 * Kleine Suite, dem Andenken E. T. A. Hoffmanns,

Bertold Hummel

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Bertold Hummel (27 November 1925 – 9 August 2002) was a German composer of modern classical music. Life Bertold Hummel was born in Hüfingen, Baden. He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis. He toured as a cellist and composer between 1954 and 1956, worked as choirmaster in Freiburg, as well as for the Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden broadcasting station from 1956 to 1963. He became a teacher of composition at Würzburg in 1963 where he directed the Studio for New Music for the next 25 years. After becoming a professor in 1974, he was president of the Würzburg College of Music from 1979 to 1987 (and was an honorary president after 1988), and in 1982 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Hummel travelled as a guest lecturer, and received performances of his work in countries all over the world. He died on 9 August 2002 in Würzburg. Awards In 1956, Hummel received a scholarship from the Federal Association of German Industry. In 1960, the city of Stuttgart awarded him a prize in composition. He was given the Robert Schumann prize in Düsseldorf in 1961. In 1968, he received a s

Birke J. Bertelsmeier

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Birke Jasmin Bertelsmeier (born 23 April 1981) is a German composer. Life Born on 23 April 1981 in Hilden, Bertelsmeier received piano lessons from Barbara Szczepanska and composition lessons from as a schoolgirl. After graduating from high school, she studied piano with Pavel Gililov at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (diploma 2005) and composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (diploma 2008, concert exam 2011). She also completed a master’s degree in musicology in 2009. Her works are performed at international festivals and by various performers, such as the Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble ascolta, Ensemble recherche, Fukio Saxophone Quartet, , Marc Bouchkov, Erik Nielsen, Christoph Eschenbach, Tabea Zimmermann, Orchester Nationale de Lorraine, , Bamberg Symphony and by members of the Berliner Philharmonic. In 2017, her orchestral work for the 80th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica was premiered for the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa with choir and children’s choir. In 2014, two music theatre works, Querelle of Brest after Jean Genet and The Nightingale and the Rose after Oscar Wilde’s short story of that name, were p

Boris Blacher

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Boris Blacher (19 January 190330 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist. Life Blacher was born when his parents (of German-Estonian and Russian backgrounds) were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang () (hence the use of the Julian calendar on his birth record). He spent his first years in China and in the Asian parts of Russia, and in 1919, he eventually came to live in Harbin. In 1922 he went to Berlin where he began to study first architecture, mathematics, and then music at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik. He found work arranging popular and film music. Two years later, he turned to music and studied composition with Friedrich Koch. His career was interrupted by National Socialism. He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory. His career resumed after 1945, and he later became president of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential music figures of his time. His students include Aribert Reimann, Isang Yun, Maki Ishii, Fritz Geißler, Giselher Klebe, Heimo Erbse, Richard Aaker Trythall, Klaus Huber, Francis Burt, Gottfried von Einem, Ka

Boris Sobinov

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Boris Leonidovich Sobinov (; 1895 in Moscow – 1956 in Klin) was a Russian composer and a son of Leonid Sobinov, Russia’s leading lyric tenor during the first quarter of the 20th Century. Biography Boris was the first child born to Maria Karzhavina, a dramatic actress, and Leonid Sobinov, a famous opera singer, who had met as schoolmates at the Philharmonic Society. Though their union dissolved after only a few years, Leonid remained an active and loving presence in the lives of Boris and his younger brother Yuri (1897-1920). Boris received a military education while obtaining musical training. His younger brother Yuri (1897–1920) was a visual artist and painted the pictured oil portrait of Boris at the piano (1910). Both brothers served in the tsarist army, and then in the White Army during the Civil War. Yuri was killed near Melitopol. Boris, along with army baron Pyotr Wrangel, managed to escape to Germany. He later graduated from Berlin’s High Art School, where he later taught. Throughout his professorial years, he continued to compose his own works. Leonid and Boris reunited as Leonid toured Berlin. In 1931 Boris settled in Riga, where Leonid spent much of a one-year sabbatical

Boris Yoffe

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Boris Yoffe (, ; born 21 December 1968 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian-born Israeli composer, resident of Karlsruhe, Germany. Biography Boris Yoffe initially studied violin but turned to composing early, premiering his first works in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1983. He emigrated to Israel before the break-up of Soviet Union and completed his composition studies at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Later he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany to study with Wolfgang Rihm in 1997. Yoffe was a scholarship holder from various foundations; In 2000 he received the prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Around that time, the composer began composing a series of short one-page pieces for string quartet. These were given a performance at ZKM in Karlsruhe in May 2003 and recorded on the ECM label by the Rosamunde Quartett with the Hilliard Ensemble. Boris Yoffe himself considers his work not specifically national: Russian, Israeli or German, but in principle ″belonging to all three cultures″. Yoffe is also the author of numerous arrangements and arrangements as well as several musicological and philosophical essays. References *Website of Boris Yoffe *Profil Boris Yoff

Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg

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Sigwart Botho Philipp August zu Eulenburg, Count of Eulenburg (10 January 1884 – 2 June 1915) was the second son of Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) and his wife Augusta, born Countess of Sandels (1853–1941) and a German late romantic composer who fell in the First World War. Childhood and studies Prince zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld was born in Munich, but the family seat was the castle and estate of Liebenberg in the region of Brandenburg, north of Berlin. Art and music played a central role in family affairs. The prince himself played and composed music and wrote poetry and romances (the famous Rosenlieder and Scandinavian Cantos) and was a friend and confidant of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who regularly visited Liebenberg. He supported his gifted son and daughter Victoria, familiarly called Tora, who was a pianist, and they grew up in a musical environment at the castle of Liebenberg Sigwart showed his musical talent at a young age. Already at seven he composed songs by ear and at eight years old he began music lessons in Munich and Vienna, devoting himself to musical composition and improvising at the piano, often when the emperor visited them at Liebenberg. Emperor Wilhelm even comm

Brunhilde Sonntag

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Brunhilde Sonntag (27 September 1936 – 18 December 2002) was a German composer, musicologist and music teacher. Biography Brunhilde Sonntag was born in Kassel, Germany. She studied organ at the School of Church Music in Schlüchtern and education at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim. From 1959 to 1963 she worked as a teacher at the Friedrich Ebert School in Frankfurt and took private composition lessons from Kurt Hessenberg. From 1963 to 1969 she studied composition at the Hochschule for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with and Gottfried von Einem, and took a teaching position in the Department of Music of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen. From 1973 to 1977 Sonntag studied musicology at the Philipps-University in Marburg, and graduated with a PhD. She took a position as assistant professor at the College of Education Westfalen-Lippe, Münster Department. From 1981 to 1992 she worked as a professor at the University-GH-Duisburg, and in 1992 took a position as professor at the University of Wuppertal. Sonntag published a number of books and professional articles on music. She served as co-editor of the Journal of Music Education, co-editor of the cultural magazine Sound Trac

Caesar Hochstetter

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Caesar Hochstetter (also known by the pen name Caesar Ahrlsteller) was an organist and a composer, arranger and critic of music from a talented Jewish family. Born 12 January 1863 in Ladenburg, a suburb of Mannheim, Germany – his date and place of death are unknown but he is thought to have disappeared during The Holocaust. Caesar Hochstetter was a friend and admirer of the well known composer Max Reger who dedicated Aquarellen Op. 25 and Five pittoresque Pieces for 4-hand Piano, Op. 34 to him. Private life On 13 February 1888, Compositions and arrangements Caesar Hochstetter published his arrangement “Album fuer einhändige Klavierspiel: 8 Stuecke von Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Reger und Zichy”, for right or left hand (Breitkopf & Haertel, 1915). His known works also include “Zwei Clavierstücke” Op. 2 (R. Forberg, Leipzig), arrangements for Bach’s “Sarabande und Bourrée” for piano (A. Holzmann, Zurich) and “10 kleine Stücke Op. 24” (A. Holzmann, Zurich). One-hand compositions Hochstetter published an article in “Musikalisches Wochenblatt” in Leipzig on 24 January 1901 giving a positive critique of a concert given in Budapest by Count Géza Zichy of Hungary, who suffered a riding accide

Camillo Schumann

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Camillo Schumann (10 March 1872 – 29 December 1946) was a German late Romantic composer and organist. Life Schumann was born in Königstein as one of twelve children of the city music director Clemens Schumann sen. (18391918) and his wife Camilla Ottilie, née Müller. His elder brother was the composer Georg Schumann; other siblings were Alfred Schumann (18681891), latterly concertmaster with the Bremer Philharmoniker, and Clemens Schumann jun. (18761938), violinist in the Dresden Staatskapelle from 1900 to 1936. Schumann received his first lessons, as did his brothers, from his father and learned to play several instruments during his early childhood. From 1889 to 1893, he was trained first for a short time at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, then at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig with Carl Reinecke, Salomon Jadassohn, Bruno Zwintscher, Paul Homeyer and others. In 1894 and 1895, he studied with Woldemar Bargiel and Robert Radecke at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. During his time in Berlin, Schumann worked as a substitute organist in several larger churches. On 1 October 1896 he took up the post of full-time organist at the Hauptkirche St. Ge

Carl Almenräder

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Carl Almenräder (3 October 1786 – 14 September 1843) was a German bassoonist, inventor and composer. The design of the modern bassoon owes a great deal to Almenräder, who, assisted by the German acoustics researcher Gottfried Weber developed the 17-key bassoon whose range spanned three octaves and a half. Early years The son of a teacher, Carl Almenräder was born in Ronsdorf near (Wuppertal. He taught himself to play the bassoon after he was given one when aged just 13. He started out in 1810 playing in a theatre orchestra in Cologne, but he switched to an orchestral position in Frankfurt in 1812 where by 1814 he was also obtaining solo work. He studied composition with Aloys Schmitt, and in 1814 he gave a public performance in Frankfurt of a rondo which he had himself written. Career progress In 1817 Almenräder joined the Mainz theatre orchestra as a bassoonist. He was now working seriously on a year-long project to develop a technically improved bassoon featuring moving keys and an improved level of balance across the tonal range. By 1819 he had temporarily moved down river to Cologne where he joined his brothers in their workshop which focused on producing flutes and clarinets.

Carl August Thielo

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Carl August Thielo (February 7, 1707 – December 3, 1763) was a Danish composer. theatre entrepreneur, music teacher, organist from the Electorate of Saxony. He spent most of his life in Copenhagen from the 1720s onwards and founded the first opera house there in 1746. A student of Johann Gottfried Walther, he was the author of a Danish treatise, Tanker og Regler fra Grunden af om Musiken, published in 1746. Thielo was also the German court organist under Christian VI. He was the father of Caroline Thielo. Partial works * (1744) Der andere Zuschauer in Fabeln geschrieben und herausgegeben in Copenhagen * (1746) Tanker og Regler Fra Grunden af om Musiken, For dem som vil lære Musiken til Sindets Fornøyelse Saa og for dem Som vil gjøre Fait af Claveer, General-Bassen, og Synge-Kunsten * (1747) Spøgelset med klokken : een nach-comœdie i een act for den danske skue-plads * (1747) Fruentimmer huusholdning : forrestillet udi en comoedie af tre acter, for den danske skue-plads * (1751) Første Samling af de Oder, som paa den Danske Skueplads udi Kiøbenhavn ere blevne opførte * (1753) Grund-regeln wie man, beÿ weniger information, sich selbst die fundamenta der music und des claviers, lernen

Carl Baermann

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Carl Baermann (24 October 1810 – 23 May 1885) was a clarinetist and composer from Munich, Germany. He should not be confused with his son, the pianist and composer Carl Baermann (1839–1913). Life and career He was the son of noted clarinet virtuoso Heinrich Baermann and . As a child he was taught the clarinet and the basset horn by his father. He played occasionally in the Munich court orchestra when he was 14 years old, and was appointed its second clarinetist in 1832. When his father retired in 1834, Carl succeeded his father as principal clarinetist. He held that position until he retired in 1880. He toured Europe with his father in 1827, 1832 and 1838. In 1833 they premiered Felix Mendelssohn’s Konzert Stücke, Opp. 113 & 114, (Concert Pieces) to great acclaim. Carl Baermann’s compositions, 88 opus numbers, were popular with clarinet virtuosos. Baermann developed the Baermann-Ottensteiner key system for the clarinet, which was based on the Müller system. The system was very popular during the late 19th century, partly because of Baermann’s Vollständige Clarinett-Schule (Complete School for the Clarinet), one of the leading methods for teaching the clarinet, written between 1864

Carl Baermann (pianist)

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Carl Baermann (9 July 1839 – 17 January 1913) was a German-born American pianist and composer. He should not be confused with his father, the clarinetist and composer Carl Baermann. Life and career The son of clarinetist and composer Carl Baermann, Carl Baermann was born in Munich, Germany on 9 July 1839. His grandfather was clarinet virtuoso Heinrich Baermann and his grandmother was operatic soprano . He studied the piano at the Royal Bavarian Music School with Christian Wanner and Andreas Wohlmuth (1809–1884), and composition with Franz Lachner and Peter Cornelius in Munich. He later became a student and friend of Franz Liszt. He taught at the Royal Bavarian Music School (now the University of Music and Theatre Munich), being made professor there in 1876. Some of his notable pupils at that institution included Lothar Kempter and Bruno Klein. In 1881 Baermann immigrated to the United States to join the faculty of the New England Conservatory where he taught until his death more than 30 years later. He composed a number of works for piano solo and with orchestra; among his published works of the former include 12 Etüden, Op. 4 (in Offenbach by the firm Johann André, 1887) and Polon

Carl Blum

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Carl Wilhelm August Blum (1786 – 2 July 1844) was a German singer, librettist, stage actor, director, guitarist and opera and song composer. Philip J. Bone wrote that Blum was “a universal genius, uniting in one person the poet, the dramatist, composer, singer and performer.” He was composer to the Court of the King of Prussia. History and career Blum studied guitar from age 15. Books * Jucunde: Dramatisches Taschenbuch für 1836 (Berlin: Verlag von Theod. Chr. Fr. Enslin, 1835) * Die Musik: Anleitung, sich die nöthigen Kenntnisse zu verschaffen, um über alle Gegenstände der Musik richtige Urtheile fällen zu können; Handbuch für Freunde und Liebhaber dieser Kunst; nach dem französischen Werke des Herrn Fetis “La musique mise à la portée de tout le monde” (Berlin: Schlesinger, 1830) Stage works Original works (mostly to his own libretto) * Karl der Zweite – Die Flucht nach Frankreich (f.p. Königsberg, 19 January 1812) * arias and songs to Zoraide, oder Die Mauren in Granada. Lyric drama in 3 acts op. 65 (f.p. Berlin, 7 May 1817) * Der Schiffskapitän, oder Die Unbefangenen (f.p. Berlin, 8 June 1817) * Fortunata (f.p. Berlin, 5 June 1818) * arias and songs to the comic magic opera Das

Carl Bohm

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Carl Bohm (also known by Karl Bohm and his pseudonym Henry Cooper; 11 September 1844 – 4 April 1920) was a German pianist and composer. Biography Bohm was born in 1844 in Berlin. He received training under Carl Albert Löschhorn and later became a music teacher. Bohm remained in Berlin for the majority of his life. Legacy Bohm is regarded as one of the leading German songwriters of the 19th century, and wrote such works as Still as the Night, Twilight, May Bells, Enfant Cheri and The Fountain. According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Bohm was “a German composer of great fecundity and the highest salability… He occupied an important position in the musical commonwealth inasmuch as his publisher, N. Simrock, declared that the profits on his compositions provided the capital for the publication of those of Brahms.” Bohm’s specialty was music in a lighter vein, very different from the dark, brooding and introspective works of Brahms. Bohm, like Schubert, was more than just a songwriter, composing in most genres. His chamber music, mostly quartets and piano trios, were popular not only amongst amateurs, but also among touring professional groups who were in need of a sure-fire audie

Carl Cannabich

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Carl August Konrad Cannabich (christened on 11 October 1771 – 1 May 1806) was a German composer, violinist, concertmaster and music director. Family Born in Mannheim, Cannabich was the son of the court music director Christian Cannabich, one of the most renowned composers of the Mannheim school. His grandfather was the court musician Martin Friedrich Cannabich, his sister Rose was a pianist and his sister Augusta Elisabeth a singer. He was married to the soprano Josephine Woraleck (1781-1830), the daughter of the composer Nicklas Woraleck. Life In 1778 he moved with his parents to Munich. From the age of four he played piano and violin and at the age of nine received violin lessons from Johann Friedrich Eck. He later studied composition with Joseph Graetz and Peter von Winter. Already at the age of 12 he made a concert tour through Germany together with Ludwig August Lebrun. In 1785 he travelled to Italy for two years to further his musical education. In 1788 he joined the Munich Court Orchestra as a violinist. In 1796 he worked as a theatre Kapellmeister in Frankfurt, where he also met his wife and married. In 1798 he received the title of churpfalzbaierischer Conzertmeister, was

Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch

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Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800) was a German composer and harpsichordist. Born in Zerbst, he was the son of the composer Johann Friedrich Fasch. He was initially taught by his father. In 1756 he began service at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia, where he served as deputy to Court harpsichordist C.P.E. Bach, whose post he attained when Bach left the court for Hamburg in 1767. In 1791 he founded the Sing-Akademie in Berlin which quickly became an important centre of Berlin’s musical life. In its concerts Fasch promoted the music of J.S. Bach and other masters of the Baroque period, as well as contemporary music. The Akademie was visited by Beethoven in 1796. Fasch also composed numerous works for the Sing-Akademie. His Mass for sixteen voices, a virtuosic mass accompanied solely by organ continuo, is a choral masterpiece of the late 18th century. Fasch died in Berlin in 1800. His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof I der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. I of the congregations of Jerusalem’s Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor. He was succeeded as head of the Akademie by Carl Friedrich Zelter. Life Educ

Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen

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Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (first name also sometimes given as Karl; 27 September 1778 – 21 December 1851) was a German composer and academic teacher at the Prussian Academy of Arts. Life Rungenhagen abandoned early study of art under Daniel Chodowiecki and joined his father’s trading company. He worked there from 1796 to his father’s death, after which he devoted himself entirely to music. proved insufficient for him to win the post, despite the fact that Felix and the members of the Mendelssohn family had for many years sung in, and supported, the Akademie. Some have supposed that Rungenhagen’s success was due to anti-Jewish sentiment. The loss of the election may have motivated Mendelssohn to turn his back on Berlin. As Director of the Akademie, Rungenhagen continued the revival of the music of Bach; in 1833 he conducted the first performance of Bach’s St John Passion after Bach’s death. Rungenhagen also worked at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin as a music pedagogue, appointed professor in 1843. Amongst his students were Albert Lortzing, Louis Lewandowski, Stanisław Moniuszko, August Conradi and Alexander Fesca. Rungenhagen was also a member of a Masonic Lodge in Berlin.

Carl Friedrich Zelter

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Carl Friedrich Zelter (11 December 1758 15 May 1832) was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music. Working in his father’s bricklaying business, Zelter attained mastership in that profession, and was a musical autodidact. Zelter was born and died in Berlin. He became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe’s poems. During his career, he composed about two hundred lieder, as well as cantatas, a viola concerto (performed as early as 1779) and piano music. Amongst Zelter’s pupils (at different times) were Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Eduard Grell, Otto Nicolai, Johann Friedrich Naue, and Heinrich Dorn. Felix Mendelssohn was perhaps Zelter’s favorite pupil and Zelter wrote to Goethe boasting of the 12-year old’s abilities. Zelter communicated his strong love of the music of J. S. Bach to Mendelssohn, one consequence of which was Mendelssohn’s 1829 revival of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Sing-Akademie under Zelter’s auspices. This epochal event sparked a general re-evaluation and revival of Bach’s works, which were then largely forgotten and regarded as old-fashioned and beyond resuscitation. Mendelssohn

Carl Gottlieb Reissiger

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Carl Gottlieb Reißiger (also Karl Reissiger, Carl Reissiger, Karl Reißiger) (31 January 1798 – 7 November 1859) was a German Kapellmeister and composer. Biography Born in Belzig, Reissiger attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig and was the pupil of Johann Gottfried Schicht and Peter von Winter. In 1821, he followed the example of the young Beethoven and went to Vienna to study with Antonio Salieri and also studied theology at the University of Leipzig. Reissiger continued his musical studies in France and Italy in 1824, under the sponsorship of the Prussian Ministry of Cultural Affairs. After working for two years as the musical director of the Dresden Opera, he succeeded Carl Maria von Weber as the Kapellmeister of the Dresden Court in 1828, and would hold this office until his death in 1859. A famous piece known as Weber’s Last Waltz was actually written by Reissiger (one of his Danses brillantes, op. 26) and is mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) as one of Roderick Usher’s favorite pieces of music; it is also the title of a 1912 film. Reissiger left behind an extensive oeuvre that was distinguished above all by his vocal music, which included nine

Carl Guhr

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Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Guhr, also Karl Guhr (27 October 1787 – 23 July 1848) was a German violinist, composer and from 1821 until his early death, theatre Kapellmeister and music entrepreneur in the Free City of Frankfurt. Family Born in Milicz, Silesia, Guhr came from a family of musicians. His father was Carl Christoph Guhr, a cantor at the Protestant Gnadenkirche, Militsch (now Polish Milicz), approx. 55 kilometres north of Breslau with a population of approx. 3,300, mainly Protestant at the time. This church was one of the six Silesian churches of grace which the Austrian emperor had to grant to the Silesian Lutherans in 1709. In 1797/98, Count , who was for many years an envoy of Frederick the Great at the courts of Vienna, London and St. Petersburg, had a new castle built in the classicist style by Carl Gottfried Geissler in Militsch. Until 1810, the count maintained a small castle chapel with well-paid musicians, including his father Carl Christoph Guhr. In 1811, this chapel developed into the first concert society in Silesia, which was led by his younger brother Friedrich Heinrich Florian Guhr (17 April 1791 – 1841). Training Guhr received his basic musical training from hi

Carl Hanke

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Johann Carl Hanke (c.1749 - 10 June 1803) was a German composer and conductor. Life He was baptised at Markt Roßwald on 5 December 1749, son of Anton (a citizen of that village) and Maria Magdalena. The Hanke family was frequently mentioned in the Silesian-Moravian border region and several of its members worked as organists and cantors. No documents survive on Johann Carl’s childhood or youth, though count Albert Joseph von Hoditz gave him a place in the children’s orchestra at the Schloss Roßwald and so it can be assumed he first took violin lessons at an early age. Famous opera and theatre productions took place at the Schloss around that time, often conducted by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. From 1776 to 1778 Hanke led the court musicians and choir back in Roßwald, where he also completed several ballets, orchestral and chamber works, and cantatas for special occasions. In Roßwald in 1778 he married Anna Maria Stormke (1760-?), with whom he had one child, a daughter. Anna Maria’s father Franz Joseph Stormke was a steward and had married Anna Rosina (née Just), also in Roßwald. * Robert und Hannchen or Die hat der Teufel geholt (originally Der Wunsch mancher Mädchen) (libretto b

Carl Heinrich Graun

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Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time. Biography Graun was born in Wahrenbrück in the Electorate of Saxony. In 1714, he followed his brother, Johann Gottlieb Graun, to the school of the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, and sang in the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the chorus of the Opernhaus am Zwinger. He studied singing with Christian Petzold and composition with (1664–1728). In 1724, Graun moved to Braunschweig, singing at the opera house and writing six operas for the company. In 1735, Graun moved to Rheinsberg in Brandenburg, after he had written the opera Lo specchio della fedeltà for the marriage of the then crown prince Frederick (the Great) and Elisabeth Christine in Schloss Salzdahlum in 1733. He was Kapellmeister to Frederick the Great from his ascension to the throne in 1740 until Graun’s death nineteen years later in Berlin. Graun wrote a number of operas. His opera Cesare e Cleopatra inaugurated the opening of the Berlin State Opera (Königliche Hofoper) in 1742. Montezuma (1755) was written to a libretto by King Frederick. Hi

Carl Heins

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Carl Heins (8 June 1859 - 10 September 1923) was a German pianist, and a composer of light salon music in classical music style. He wrote both solo piano works and parlor songs. Heins’ pieces show a special pianoesque ability to fashion pretty melodies picturesquely in the salon style of the time. His competency on the keyboard led him to perform and compose. He composed the song ‘Zwei Dunkle Augen’, which was recorded by the tenor Fritz Wunderlich. Stylistically his music is similar to that of his older compatriot Carl Bohm. Robert Leonhardt, an operatic baritone who sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company between 1913 and 1922, made numerous recordings for many major record labels, both in Europe and in the United States. An early recording he made on Gramophone 42325 with matrix number 1113B 54 was “Zwei dunkle Augen” by Carl Heins. Leonhardt recorded it onto a 78 rpm in October 1901 when he was 24. Works Thoughts of Home Traute Heimat Op. 279 No. 2 *Im Hochland. Charakterstück (In Highland. Character Piece) *Village Idyll *Bärentanz (Dance of the Bear) *Senner Traum (Rêve du vache) *Slumber Song: The Widow to Her Child, for voice & violin *Die Spieluhr, (The Music Box

Carl Leibl

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Carl (Karl) Leibl (3 September 1784 – 4 October 1870) was a German musician, conductor, cathedral organist and cathedral conductor in Cologne. Life Born in Fußgönheim (Palatinate), Leibl comes from a family of Bavarian officials and innkeepers and first learned the cooper’s trade before he could dedicate himself to music. Leibl first worked as a music teacher at the Bayrischer Hof. In 1826 he became Cathedral Kapellmeister in Cologne and directed the “Verein der Dommusiken und Liebhaberkonzerte” (Association of Cathedral Music and Lover’s Concerts) there. In the same year he also took over the direction of the Städtischer Singverein, which in 1827 merged with the Musikalische Gesellschaft to form the new Cölner Concert-Gesellschaft, whose choir still exists today as the Gürzenich-Choir. This society, under the patronage of wealthy citizens, organized its concerts in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne from 1857 onwards - from which the Gürzenich Orchestra of the City of Cologne, which still exists today, ultimately emerged. Leibl was active at a difficult time of political and social upheaval. As a result of laws passed after the Napoleonic occupation in 1794, the guilds were dissolved

Carl Loewe

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Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (; 30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869), usually called Carl Loewe (sometimes seen as Karl Loewe), was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic periods. In his lifetime, his songs (“Balladen”) were well enough known for some to call him the “Schubert of North Germany”, and Hugo Wolf came to admire his work. He is less known today, but his ballads and songs, which number over 400, are occasionally performed. Life and career Loewe was born in Löbejün in the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg and received his first music lessons from his father. He was a choir-boy, first at Köthen, and later at Halle, where he went to grammar school. The beauty of Loewe’s voice brought him under the notice of Madame de Staël, who procured him a pension from Jérôme Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia, which enabled him to further his education in music, and to study theology at Halle University. In 1810, he began lessons in Halle with Daniel Gottlob Türk. This ended in 1813, on the flight of the king. In 1820, he moved to Stettin in Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), where he worked as organist and music director of the school. It was whil

Carl Ludwig Hübsch

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Carl Ludwig Hübsch (born 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German jazz and improvisation musician who plays tuba. Life and career Hübsch initially learned clarinet, then switched to drums, and in 1983 changed from clarinet to tuba. He studied largely as an autodidact, but also studied percussion, voice, and electronic music as well as harmony and music theory at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg. He was later a guest student in the composition class of Johannes Fritsch at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He has founded his own groups, including Primordial Soup with Frank Gratkowski, Michael Griener, and Axel Dörner. Together with Gratkowski, Matthias Schubert, and Norbert Stein, he was one of the four leaders and composers of the James Choice Orchestra. In 1994, he founded the group Post No Bills with Chris Weinheimer, Tom Lorenz, Robert Schleisiek, and Ole Schmidt, which focuses on improvised music and contemporary music, performing works such as John Cage’s “Variations” and “Number Pieces” and Christian Wolff’s “Exercises”. Since 1989, Hübsch has collaborated with musicians including Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Jasper van ’t Hof, Paul Lytton, Hannes Zerbe, Willem Breu

Carl Ludwig Matthes

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Carl Ludwig Matthes (born 1751) was a German oboist and composer of the classical era. While Matthes’ surviving works are relatively few in number, they do provide some insight into his compositional style. His Six Duets for two oboes, Op. 1, for example, are notable for Composer melodies and elegant harmonies, which are characteristic of the classical style. The Concerto for oboe and orchestra in C major is similarly well-crafted, and showcases Matthes’ skill as a soloist and composer. Life Matthes was born in Berlin, External links *

Carl Martin Reinthaler

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Carl Martin Reinthaler (13 October 1822 – 13 February 1896) was a German organist, conductor and composer. Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler. Biography Reinthaler was born in Erfurt. He received his first music education from August Gottfried Ritter, an organist at Magdeburg Cathedral. He studied theology, and then music with Adolf Bernhard Marx, studying from 1849 to 1852 in Paris and Rome with a royal scholarship. He was associated with the Bremen Cathedral, of which he was director, chorus master of the Singakademie Bremen, and cathedral organist since 1857. A friend of Johannes Brahms, with whom he corresponded, he was responsible for the Bremen performance of A German Requiem. Reinthaler also conducted the premiere of the revised version of Max Bruch’s first violin concerto in January 1868. In later years, Reinthaler required a wheel chair, which limited his appearances in public musical scenes. He died in Bremen. Works *Jephtha und seine Tochter. Oratorio in two parts *Das Käthchen von Heilbronn. Opera in four acts *Choral works: **Fünf Sprüche und ein Weihnachtslied op. 50. Bremen, Praeger & Meier **Eile, Gott, mich zu erretten

Carl Orff

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Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his Schulwerk (), which became influential for children’s music education. Born in Munich, Orff was raised in a military family that was fairly musical and later attended the Munich Academy of Music. After composing a number of Lieder and other orchestral works, he completed his Carmina Burana for voices and large orchestra in 1937, setting 24 poems from the medieval poetry collection of the same name. Its première was an immediate great success and Orff considered it the first time he had done exactly what he wanted. While the cantata’s popularity continued to rise throughout and after World War II, Orff never received nearly as much recognition or attention for his later works like the latter two parts of his triptych Trionfi, of which Carmina Burana is the first instalment. Orff was also an influential pedagogue who developed an approach (the “Orff Schulwerk”) to teaching children, which is a collection of fundamental principles to ensure every child learns music, much like a new language, in a c

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical eras. He was the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father’s Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. He was the principal representative of the or ‘sensitive style’. The qualities of his keyboard music are forerunners of the expressiveness of Romantic music, in deliberate contrast to the statuesque forms of Baroque music. His organ sonatas mainly come from the galant style. To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the “London Bach”, who at this time was music master to Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, Bach was known as the “Berlin Bach” during his residence in that city, and later as the “Hamburg Bach” when he succeeded Georg Philipp Telemann as Kapellmeister there. To his contemporaries, he was known simply as Emanuel. His second name was in honour of his godfather Telemann, a friend of his father J. S. Bach. Bach

Carl Reinecke

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Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (23 June 182410 March 1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era. Biography Reinecke was born in what is today the Hamburg district of Altona; technically he was born a Dane, as until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He received all his musical instruction from his father, (Johann Peter) Rudolf Reinecke (22 November 179514 August 1883), a music teacher and writer on musical subjects. Carl first devoted himself to violin-playing, but later on turned his attention to the piano. Overall, he wrote four concertos for his instrument (and many cadenzas for others’ works, including a large set published as his Opus 87), as well as concertos for violin, cello, harp and flute. In the winter of 1850/51, Carl Schurz reports attending weekly “musical evenings” in Paris where Reinecke was in attendance. In 1851, Reinecke became a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. In ensuing years he was appointed musical director in Barmen, and became the academic, musical director and conductor of the Singakademie at Breslau. In 1860, Reinecke was appointed director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and professor of composition and piano

Carl Ritschl

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Georg Carl Benjamin Ritschl (1 November 1783 – 18 June 1858) was a German evangelist theologian, bishop and composer in Pomerania. Biography Carl Ritschl was born to Georg Ritschl von Hartenbach and Regina Christina Emminghaus in Erfurt. His father was a priest and professor at the Erfurt Ratsgymnasium. He acquired instruction in voice, keyboard and organ with the organist Johann Christian Kittel, the last student of Johann Sebastian Bach. He graduated from the gymnasium at the age of fifteen Ritschl continued studies in theology in Jena and, at the age of nineteen, earned his degree in autumn 1802. In 1804, still too young for a spiritual appointment, he began tutoring at their home the children of Johann Joachim Bellermann, the director of the Gymnasium of the Grey Friary. Ritschl was also a member of the music community in Berlin. At Berlin’s Cöllnisches Gymnasium, associated with the Grey Friary, Ritschl instructed students in voice and religion. In 1804 he became a member of Carl Friedrich Zelter’s choral society, for which he wrote several lieder. After he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Erfurt in 1805, he was appointed a collaborator (1807) and a subrector (1809) at

Carl Siegemund Schönebeck

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Carl Siegemund Schönebeck (26 October 1758 in Lübben, Germany – early 1800s) was a German composer and cellist. Few of his works have survived. The compositions attributed to him show features of originality and have been compared to Ludwig van Beethoven’s. Biography Schönebeck, in line with his parents’ wishes, aspired to become a surgeon, but felt so drawn to music that at age 14 he decided to have lessons from a musician in his home town of Lübben. He had some years of study in Lübben, and later in the Silesian city of Grünberg, but was largely self-taught as a violinist and as a player of several wind instruments. However, when a cello virtuoso arrived in Grünberg, he was so fascinated by the instrument that he taught himself to play it. Two years later he was invited to join the Duke of Dohna’s orchestra in the Saxon province of Kotzenau. Then in 1780, Schönebeck became a town musician in Sorau, Lower Lusatia (now Żary, Poland). In order to continue perfecting his music, Schönebeck travelled to Potsdam, where he met the cello virtuoso Jean-Louis Duport. He also travelled to Dresden to play alongside the French cellist Jean Balthasar Tricklir. In 1787, Schönebeck joined the Duk

Carl Stamitz

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Carl Philipp Stamitz (; born in Mannheim and baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801), was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry of the Classical era. He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the Mannheim School. He was the eldest son of Johann Stamitz, a violinist and composer of the early classical period. He received lessons from his father and Christian Cannabich, his father’s successor as leader of the Mannheim orchestra. As a youth, Stamitz was employed as a violinist in the court orchestra at Mannheim. In 1770, he began travelling as a virtuoso, accepting short-term engagements, but never managing to gain a permanent position. He visited a number of European cities, living for a time in Strasbourg and London. In 1794, he gave up travelling and moved with his family to Jena in central Germany. His circumstances deteriorated and he descended into debt and poverty, dying in 1801. Many tracts on alchemy were found in his library after his death. Stamitz wrote symphonies, symphonies concertantes, and concertos for clarinet, cello, flute, oboe, bassoon, basset horn, violin, viola, viola d’amore, and different combinations of these instruments. Some of

Carl Thiel

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Carl Josef Thiel (9 July 1862 − 23 July 1939) was a German organist, church musician and professor of music. Life Born in Oleśnica Mała (formerly german Klein Öls), Thiel was born as the son of the trained miller and grain merchant August Thiel and his second wife Regina Thiel, née Gebel. His mother’s two brothers, Carl and Ignatz Gebel, worked as principal teachers and choir directors in Ziębice and Parchwitz. Thiel received his first musical instruction from the cantor Scholz of his home parish. He was baptized catholic and grew up in Lower Silesia in simple circumstances. Nevertheless, he was able - just like his brother Reinhold, who was five years younger - to complete training as a primary school teacher. In 1876 he came to the Präparandenschule and afterwards to the in Oppeln. As a junior teacher Thiel taught at a village school in Koszęcin, where he had his own grand piano, and a little later in Zabrze(Mikultschütz). At that time Thiel also played viola. After four and a half years as a teacher and a study leave granted to him in Berlin, he gave up the profession in 1888 and devoted himself to church music. Musical education From 1887 to 1892 Thiel studied with Woldemar Bar

Carl Venth

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Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a German-American composer, violinist, conductor, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century and was one of the early music directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Venth was born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Carl Venth and Friderika von Turkowitz. He began learning the violin at age 9 with his father. Carl studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm-Gymnasium; at the Cologne Conservatory, where he learned the violin with George Japha and composition with Ferdinand Hiller, Gustav Jensen, and Otto Klauwell; and at the Brussels Conservatory, where he studied violin with Henryk Wieniawski and from which he graduated in 1877. Career In 1878 Venth was appointed concertmaster of the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra and of the Flemish Opera in Brussels; in 1879 he assumed the same post with the Offenbach Comic Opera of Paris. He made his solo debut in 1878 with the Utrecht Symphony, followed by a concert tour of the Netherlands in 1879 (together with Alfred Patzig and Luise Wandersleb-Patzig, 16 concerts in 12 cities) and of the Unite

Carlos Sandoval

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Carlos Sandoval Mendoza (born 1956, Mexico City) is a Mexican/German multidiscipline artist mostly recognized for his work joining technology and a Gestalt approach to the art of music composition, multi channel video, time-lapsed performance, AI-assisted art and Ink-Pen Drawing. Michael Zwenzner describes him as a “Socio-critical magician of the extended-multimedia instrumental theater.” On more recent Sandoval’s work, Davood wrote: " … Each piece, whether sound or video art, music composition or intricate drawings, reflects an artist who is as much a global citizen as he is a silent observer of the internal human odyssey". Life and work Sandoval was born in an archetypal barrio in downtown Mexico City. Since his childhood, he was exposed to harrowing social and cultural conditions which were later reflected in his work. In 2009 he became a German citizen and now holds a dual Mexican-German passport/nationality. Having abandoned his music studies at Escuela Nacional de Música UNAM 1976-79, Sandoval went on to study composition, analysis and theory, privately, with Julio Estrada (1985–90). He also assisted and took part in private sessions with several other composers. In Europe

Carlos Veerhoff

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Carlos Enrique Veerhoff (3 June 1926 in Buenos Aires – 18 February 2011 in Murnau) was an Argentine-born German composer of classical music. Life and work Carlos Enrique Veerhoff was born with his twin brother, Wolfgang Otto, as premature infants. Their father could only find a hospital with an incubator two days later, so that the birth date in the birth certificate is 5 June 1926, not the correct date of 3 June. His father, Heinrich Veerhoff, was German and the head of an own company in Buenos Aires. His mother, Karla, was a violinist and the daughter of conductor Karl Panzner and singer Ida Panzner. The Veerhoff family moved back to Germany in 1930 due to a job change by the father. In 1933, the family moved on to South Africa. The countryside and the way of living in Africa had a great impact on the young Carlos Veerhoff, and these impressions found their way into several compositions of his later years. Another experience in South Africa was important for him as well: In 1935, the first South African airline was founded, and the young Carlos got the opportunity to take part at a pleasure flight. Afterwards, he developed an enormous interest in flight engineering, which was onl

Carola Bauckholt

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Carola Bauckholt (born 21 August 1959) is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, West Germany. She worked at the Marienplatz Theater in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne College of Music and Dance from 1978–84. Bauckholt in 1985 co-founded Thürmchen Verlag (literally, “Turret Publications”), a publisher of experimental music in Cologne, and in 1991 co-founded the affiliated Thürmchen ensemble, also in Cologne. In 1990-91, she attended the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on scholarship, in 1992 the Schreyahn Artists’ Colony in Lower Saxony and in 1997 the Villa Massimo in Rome. Honors and awards * Young Composers of North Rhine-Westphalia * Bernd Alois Zimmermann Today * Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship from the City of Cologne (1986) * Chosen for ISCM World Music Days (1987) * Cologne-New York Exchange (1989) * West German Radio Competition (1989) * Carl Maria von Weber Competition (Dresden 1992/3) * :de:GEDOK GEDOK (Federation of German & Austrian female Artists’ Associations) International Orchestral Competition (1994) * Stuttgart Composers’ Competition (second prize) * Boswil International Composers’ Competition (second prize) * Chosen for

Caspar Joseph Brambach

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Caspar Joseph Brambach (14 July 1833 – 20 June 1902) was a 19th-century German musician, pedagogue and composer whose reputation extended beyond Germany to America, and a renowned conductor of the leading choirs in Bonn. Life The son of organ builder, piano tuner and music teacher Franz Jacob Brambach, he was born in Oberdollendorf, a village across the river Rhine from Bonn. Brambach’s mother, born Lückerath, was the daughter of a free-roving puppet master builder. His brother was German musicologist Wilhelm Brambach. The young Caspar Joseph spent his first years in his native village, where he received his first music lessons from his father, which continued during elementary and high school in Bonn and at the Conservatory of Music, Cologne. Friedrich Nietzsche was once asked by Brambach for advice whether he should become a musician or a scholar. Choosing the former, Brambach followed his musical career as first violinist of the Bonn Opera House (1847–1850) and studied at the Cologne Conservatory (1851–1854), which promoted young composers and where he received awards for a string quartet and various songs for the Mozart scholarship at Frankfurt Liederkranz. Later he studied the

Charles Oberthür (composer)

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Charles Oberthür (born as Carl Oberthür) (4 March 1819 – 8 November 1895) was a German harpist and composer active in Germany, Switzerland and England. Biography The son of a violin maker, Oberthür was born in Munich, Germany. and studied the harp there with Elisa Brauchle and composition with Georg Valentin Röder (1776–1848), music director at the Bavarian court. He was successively employed at theatres in Zürich (1837), Wiesbaden (1839), and Mannheim (1842), before he settled in London, England, in 1844, initially as harpist at the Royal Italian Opera House. In 1861, he became the first Professor of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He died in London in 1895. Oberthür was the composer of more than 450 works, most for or including the harp. He also published a useful harp method, his opus 36. His large-scale works have not been performed for many years and included the opera Floris de Namur (performed at Wiesbaden) and the cantatas The Pilgrim Queen, The Red Cross Knight, and Lady Jane Grey. As a harpist, he became “unrivalled as a virtuoso and teacher”. A contemporary source described him as “the leading harpist in Britain, and on the Continent he is held in the highest

Charles Theodore Pachelbel

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Charles Theodore Pachelbel (baptized Carl Theodorus, also spelled Karl Theodor, on 24 November 1690; buried 15 September 1750) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era. He was the son of the more famous Johann Pachelbel, composer of the popular Canon in D. He was one of the first European composers to take up residence in the American colonies, and was the most famous musical figure in early Charleston, South Carolina. Life Early years (1690–1732) He was born in Stuttgart and baptized in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde (Protestant parish) there on 24 November 1690, son of Johann Pachelbel and his second wife Judith Drommer. (his name appears in a 1732 list of subscribers to a volume of harpsichord music published in London ). The colonies (1733–50) The circumstances of his emigration to the colonies are unknown. Pachelbel was living in Boston, Massachusetts, by spring 1733, when he was asked to assist in the installation of the new organ of Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island. The instrument was donated to Trinity by George Berkeley, the famous philosopher. Pachelbel was subsequently hired as organist of the church and held the post until appr

Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann

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Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann, née Stöwe (2 November 1757 – 19 August 1817) was a German soprano, harpsichordist and composer. She was born in Berlin, the daughter of musician Wilhelm Heinrich Stöwe, and studied singing and harpsichord as a child. At the age of nine, she made her debut in the (Amateur Concerts) which had been established by Friedrich Benda, son of Franz Benda. She married Berlin violist Karl Ludwig Bachmann on 20 September 1785. She was one of twenty founding members of the Berlin Singakademie in 1791, and was instrumental in establishing annual performances of C. H. Graun’s Der Tod Jesu between 1797 and 1806, a tradition that continued at the Berlin court until 1884. She was well regarded as a performer in Berlin. One of her songs was published in Rellstab’s Clavier-Magazin in 1787. She died in Berlin. Works Bachman composed songs. Selected works include: *"", 1787 References

Charlotte Schlesinger

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Charlotte Schlesinger (1909–1976) was a German pianist and composer. She was a student of Franz Schreker at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik from 1925 to 1930. In 1935 she left the Vienna Conservatory to teach at the Ukrainian S.S.S.R. Conservatory. Schlesinger migrated to America as a refugee in 1938. She taught piano at Black Mountain College from fall 1946 through spring 1949, when she resigned along with several other faculty, including Theodore Dreier, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, and Trude Guermonprez. She went on to teach for many years at the Wilson School of Music in Yakima, Washington. Recordings * EntArteOper Festival - Kammermusik & Lieder songs : Es ziehen die Reihe lang; Wie hell das Licht mir scheinet; Was hör ich - on recital Hermine Haselböck (soprano) References

Chaya Arbel

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Chaya Arbel (; June 8, 1921 – December 14, 2006) was an Israeli composer. She is one of Israel’s best known female classical composers and the recipient of the ACUM Prize. Biography Arbel studied piano and composition in Germany, until she immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine (1936), where she worked in agriculture at kibbutz HaMa’apil. Only 25 years later, Arbel resumed her composition studies, with professor Leon Schidlowsky. Arbel remained a kibbutz member for the rest of her life. She won the ACUM Prize for Dialogue for Clarinet and Orchestra. * 1992 Agada for woodwinds, brass and percussion (IMC) * 1995 Conzertino for double bass solo, winds and percussion (IMC) * 1996 Time Beats, Quartet for harp, flute, viola and percussion (IMC) Small ensemble * 19?? Roots, Ballad in 2 parts for violin, cello and piano (IMC) * 1986 Drama for clarinet, cello and piano (IMC) * 1987 Roundarounds for tuba and piano (IMC) * 1990 In Memory of Our Soldiers for trombone and piano (IMC) * 1991 The Turtles Voice for horn, violin, cello and piano (IMC) * 1995 Intermezzo for viola and piano (IMC) Solo instruments * 1984 Lament for piano (IMC) * 1985 Remembrance for piano (IMC) * 1983 Fantasia

Christian Biegai

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Christian Biegai (born 14 December 1974) is a film composer, sound designer and saxophonist. Education He studied music at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Royal College of Music in London and at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States. Career He has written film scores for feature films, documentaries, TV drama and animated films. Whistle (2002), directed by Duncan Jones, was shown at festivals around the world, including several broadcasts on Film Four. In 2004, he refined his audio-post production skills under the leadership of Frank Verderosa at Planet V, New York City. Working with digital artist and multimedia producer Helena Bulaja resulted in composing and recording the score for the fairytale Regoch (2006), which can be heard on the release of “Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Part Two” and collaborating in Helena Bulaja’s latest project about Nikola Tesla, which features Laurie Anderson and Terry Gilliam amongst other artists. Christian composed the score for director Marc Meyer’s film Sunday, in August, which was broadcast on France 3, and won the Minister of Art Promotion Prize at the Film Festival in Dresden in 2005. The same year he teamed up with New York-ba

Christian Cannabich

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Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (baptised 28 December 1731 – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of around 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz and helped turn the Mannheim orchestra into what Charles Burney described as “the most complete and best disciplined in Europe.” The orchestra was particularly noted for the carefully graduated crescendos and diminuendos characteristic of the Mannheim school. Together with Stamitz and the other composers of the Mannheim court, he helped develop the orchestral texture that paved the way for the orchestral treatment of the First Viennese School. Biography Background Christian Cannabich was born in Mannheim, the third child of Martin Friedrich Cannabich (1690–1773), a flautist, oboist and music teacher at the Mannheim court. Cannabich’s father was the personal flute teacher of the Prince elector Carl Theodor, which in itself created favourable conditions for Christian Cannabich’s later career. The family originally hailed from Alsace, which through history, tradition and custom has always had (and still has) close ties to the Palatinate. It is po

Christian Dierstein

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Christian Dierstein (born 1965) is a German percussionist and academic teacher. He has performed internationally as a soloist and as a regular chamber music player with ensemble recherche and Trio Accanto, performing several world premieres. who commissioned several new compositions. In 2012, the pianist was succeeded by Nicolas Hodges. He also performed at the Wiener Festwochen, the Munich Biennale, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, and the Biennale di Venezia. He played Stockhausen’s Refrain in the Studio Neue Musik of the broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Dierstein participated in several world premieres of compositions by Manos Tsangaris, including in 1998 of Drei Orte with the Trio Accanto at the MusikBiennale Berlin, and in 2000 Initium in Rümlingen. In 2007, he played the world premiere of Beat Boxer, a composition for solo percussion and narrator by Manfred Stahnke. At the 2007 Donaueschinger Musiktage, Dierstein and the ensemble recherche played several world premieres, recorded by the SWR. Dierstein wrote compositions for radio plays and theatre productions. As a soloist and chamber musician, Dierstein participated in radio and CD recordings. He has recorded works by Wolfga

Christian Flor

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Christian Flor (162628 September 1697) was a German composer and organist. Working at churches in Rendsburg and Lüneburg, he was widely known for vocal and organ compositions. He composed one of the earliest Passion oratorios, in 1667. Life Born in Neukirchen, Ostholstein, He included chorales in the Passion. and may have been influenced by them. According to other sources, Bach is said to have known Flor personally and to have appreciated his compositions. Work Flor’s works include: * with Rist: Neues Musikalisches Seelenparadis (New Testament), 1662 * Das gläubige Senffkorn – 23 Lieder für Singstimme und Basso continuo nach Gedichten von Georg Heinrich Werbern, 1665 (Vocal works, vol. VIII), Edition Baroque Bremen. * Organ works: 2 Prealudia und eine Fuge in d, Choralprelude: Ein feste Burg “für 2 Claviere”, Auf Meinen Lieben Gott (With double inverted counterpoint) The title page of the collection of settings of Biblical verses from the Old Testament bears the title: Recordings * Nicolaus Bruhns: Complete Organ Works, including Christian Flor: Chorale preludes, Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen at the Havgaard Rasmussen Organs in Eckernförde and Husum (Kontrapunkt 32198) * G. A. Pandolfi M

Christian Friedrich Penzel

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Christian Friedrich Penzel (25 November 173714 March 1801) was a German musician. Although he was a composer in his own right, he is remembered more for his association with Johann Sebastian Bach. He was one of Bach’s last pupils. He continued to be involved in performances of Bach’s music after the composer’s death, and he is known for making copies of some of Bach’s works. Life and career Born in Oelsnitz, Vogtland on 25 November 1737, Penzel was the son of a church sexton. He began his formal musical training in his native city where he studied under the cantor J. G. Nacke. He entered the St. Thomas School, Leipzig in 1749 and, given Penzel’s age at the time, this raises the question of the type of teaching Penzel received from Bach. Penzel described himself as a pupil of Bach, but perhaps he was simply referring to general teaching that Bach gave his choirboys and instrumentalists. It would seem unlikely that he attended private lessons, but this cannot be ruled out. After Bach’s death, Penzel became a prefect at the school under Bach’s successor Gottlob Harrer. The position involved him directing the boys’ choir (Thomanerchor) on occasion. Harrer needed the services of a deput

Christian Friedrich Witt

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Christian Friedrich Witt, or Witte (c. 1660 – 13 April 1716 ) was a German composer, music editor and teacher. Biography Christian Friedrich Witt was born in Altenburg, where his father, Johann Ernst Witt, was court organist; he had come from Denmark around 1650 when a Danish princess married into the house of Saxe-Altenburg. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg probably gave Witt a scholarship in 1676 to study in Vienna and Salzburg, and then from 1685–1686 to study composition and counterpoint in Nuremberg with Georg Caspar Wecker, returning for a further period of study in 1688. He moved to Gotha to take up a post as chamber organist to the court in June 1686; he remained there for the rest of his life. He became a substitute for W.M. Mylius, the kapellmeister, in 1694, and succeeded him after his death in 1713; Duke Frederick II was one of his pupils. He is mentioned as a good keyboard player and kapellmeister in J.P. Treiber’s Der accurate Organist im General-Bass (1704) and Telemann’s Beschreibung der Augen-Orgel (1739). He was also valued by the courts of Ansbach-Bayreuth, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and Saxe-Weissenfels. While on Witt’s deathbed, Johann Sebastian Bach was

Christian Geist

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Christian Geist (c. 1650 – 27 September 1711) was a German composer and organist, who lived and worked mainly in Scandinavia. Biography He was born in Güstrow, where his father, Joachim Geist, was cantor at the cathedral school. From 1665–1666 and 1668–1669 he was a boy member of the court orchestra conducted by Daniel Danielis (1635-1696) of Duke Gustav Adolph of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. He was a bass singer at the Danish court music ensemble in Copenhagen in 1669 and in June 1670 moved to the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben the elder (ca. 1628-1690), a position he held until June 1679, having applied unsuccessfully for the position of choirmaster of St. John’s in Hamburg in 1674. He became organist of the German church in Gothenburg, and in November 1684 moved to Copenhagen, where he succeeded J.M. Radeck as organist of the Helligaandskirke, a post he held to his death, and also the Trinitatis Church, after marrying his widow Magdalena Sibylla in May 1685 (a practice by no means rare). He succeeded Johann Lorentz as organist of the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen in 1689. He died, with his third wife and all their children, of the bubonic plague. Music Sixty of his vocal wo

Christian Gottfried Krause

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Christian Gottfried Krause (17 April 1717 – 4 May 1770) was a German lawyer, composer and music commentator. Life Krause was born in Winzig (today Wińsko, Poland) into a musical family. His father was a Stadtpfeifer from whom he learned to play the flute, violin, keyboard and timpani. Krause studied law at the University in Frankfurt an der Oder, where he attended lectures by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, among others. Baumgarten’s ideas on aesthetic had a profound influence on Krause. In 1746 he moved to Berlin, where he died. Krause’s treatise Von der musikalischen Poesie (1753) marked the beginning of the Ersten Berliner Liederschule (first Berlin Lieder School). Musical works * Gelobet sey der Herr (Cantata) 1758 * Der Tod Jesu (Cantata, text by Karl Wilhelm Ramler) 1758 * Oden mit Melodien 1761 * Der lustige Schulmeister (Singspiel, text by Friedrich Nicolai) 1766 * Lieder der deutschen mit Melodien in four volumes 1767-8 Krause’s instrumental output includes a small amount of chamber music, orchestral sinfonias and partitas and keyboard works. There are also numerous pieces listed in 18th century catalogues which have not survived. Literary works * Lettre à Mr. le Marquis de

Christian Gottlob Neefe

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Christian Gottlob Neefe (; 5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor. He was known as one of the first teachers of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life and career Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He received a musical education and started to compose at the age of 12. He studied law at Leipzig University, but subsequently returned to music to become a pupil of the composer Johann Adam Hiller under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas. In 1776, Neefe joined the Seyler theatrical company of Abel Seyler (then) in Dresden, and inherited the position of musical director from his mentor, Hiller. He later became court organist in Bonn and was the principal piano teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. He helped Beethoven produce some of his first works. His best known work was a Singspiel called Adelheit von Veltheim (1780). In Bonn, Neefe became prefect of the local chapter of the Illuminati, the . He died in 1798 in Dessau, 8 days before his 50th birthday. Works Operas Other works *Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776 *Variations on the Priestermarsch aus der Zauberflöte *Twelve piano sonatas *Rondo in C major References Externa

Christian Heinrich Hohmann

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Christian Heinrich Hohmann (March 7, 1811 in Niederwerrn – May 12, 1861 in Schwabach) was a German composer, music educator and the author of Violin School. Life Hohmann was a son of farmer and tailor Georg Hohmann and Anna Hörlein. He worked as a teacher at a teacher training college Altdorf and Schwabach, and wrote several educational books including violin school, which is now known as “Hohmann-Heim” (ISMN M-700014-11-7). He also reissued the original (formerly of Universal Edition Vienna, now in the FIRMAMENT music publishing and music sales mbH, Berlin). He composed commissioned work including chamber music, organ, piano, song for solo and choir, and gave the songs of Stuntz, Kreutzer, Salieri, Mozart, Breidenstein, Maurer, Hohmann, Freck, Call, Nägeli, Haydn, Schneider, Marschner, Graun, Tröger, Mendelssohn, Keller, Zöllner, Wölfel, Lindpaintner for men’s choir with special consideration to pedagogical aspects. Quote: “So all the songs are given in score so that the singer has all 4 voices before him. This facility gives unmistakable advantages.” Work * “Violin school I” 1835 (by Karl Nowotny) ISMN M-008-00848-1 * “Violin school II” 1836 (by Karl Nowotny) ISMN M-008-00849-8 *

Christian Heinrich Rinck

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Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (18 February 1770 – 7 August 1846) was a German composer and organist of the late classical and early romantic eras. Life and career Rinck was born in Elgersburg (in present-day Thuringia), and died in Darmstadt, aged 76. He studied with Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809), (a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach), and eventually became Kantor at the music school in Darmstadt, where he was also a court organist from 1813. He composed prolifically, and an organ primer of his enjoyed wide popularity. Among his works is a set of Variations on ‘Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman’, Opus 90, published by Simrock in 1828. It is based on a tune made familiar by Mozart (K. 265) (and generally associated with the words Twinkle Twinkle Little Star). Notable students include composer Georg Vierling and Benedict Jucker (1811–1876). Works Piano works * XXX zweistimmige Übungen durch alle Tonarten (30 Exercices à deux parties dans tous les tons) op. 67. Verlag Dohr * Neuausgabe der Klaviervariationen, krit. rev. Neuausgabe. Heft 1: Freut euch des Lebens op. 39; Das Vögelchen op. 61; Brüder lagert euch im Kreise op. 44; Heft 2: Zieht ihr Krieger, zieht von dannen op. 51; Zu Steffen

Christian Jost (composer)

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Christian Jost (born 17 October 1963) is a German composer and conductor. He has served as composer-in-residence for several German orchestras; in 2003, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. In 2009, Jost was described by Musical Opinion as “one of the most exciting young composers at work in Germany today.” Biography Born in Trier, Jost studied in Cologne from 1983 to 1988 and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1988 to 1989. Between 1996 and 1998, he frequently visited China, where he collaborated with a number of orchestras. He has been composer in residence of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Grafenegg Festival. His opera Hamlet, commissioned by the Komische Oper Berlin in 2008 and premiered there in 2009, was voted “World Premiere of the Year” by the German music magazine Opernwelt. In 2020, his opera Egmont was premiered at the Theater an der Wien as part of the theatre’s Beethoven Year. Family Jost was married to the German mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis, who died in 201

Christian Kalkbrenner

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Christian Kalkbrenner (Hann. Münden, September 22, 1755 – Paris, August 10, 1806 ) was a German Kapellmeister, violinist, organ and keyboard player, and composer. Almost an exact contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was a prolific composer in many fields and a force in the musical world. He rose to high honours at the courts of the Prussian Kings. For unknown reasons, Kalkbrenner left his position as Kapellmeister to Prince Henry of Prussia and went first to Naples and later on to Paris. He was the father of Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, one of the great piano virtuosos of the first half of the 19th century. Biography Christian Kalkbrenner was born in Münden, Germany. Münden, nowadays called Hann. Münden, an old town with a historic inner city, is situated 17 kilometres north-east of Kassel. Kalkbrenner had his first musical education from his father who was town musician (Stadtmusikus) in the Hessian town of Kassel. Kalkbrenner learned to play violin and organ. In violin he was taught by Carl Rodewald; his organ teacher was Johannes Becker (born 1726), the Hessian court organist. By the time he was seventeen Kalkbrenner sang in the choir of the French opera house of Kassel

Christian Mengis

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Christian Mengis (flourished c. 1745 – c. 1766) was a German composer and horn player of the late Baroque era. Life Mengis was born in Treffurt, Thuringia.

Christian Münch

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Christian Münch (born 11 April 1951) is a German composer, organist, pianist and conductor. Life Münch was born in Freiberg in 1951 in a cantor’s family. With his father he learned trumpet and organ. Since his childhood he received piano and clarinet lessons at the music school in Freiberg. From 1971 to 1976 he studied musical composition with Manfred Weiss and Wilfried Krätzschmar, conducting with Rudolf Neuhaus and piano with Günter Händel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. From 1983 to 1985 he was with Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. During this time he was engaged in electroacoustic music. Subsequently Münch worked as répétiteur at the Semperoper in Dresden. He conducted the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, the “musica-viva-ensemble dresden” and the “Ensemble für Neue Musik Berlin” as well as a guest conductor at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Münch has conducted more than 100 world premieres. His compositions, including a ballet, have been performed by the Dresden Philharmonic, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, among others. Münch has taught at the Dresden Academy of Music since 1976 and was honorary professor there f

Christian Petzold (composer)

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Christian Petzold (1677 – 1733) was a German composer and organist. He was active primarily in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, and achieved a high reputation during his lifetime, but his surviving works are few. It was established in the 1970s that the famous Minuet in G major, previously attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, was in fact the work of Petzold. The sprightly melody was used in the 1965 pop music hit “A Lover’s Concerto” by the American group The Toys. Life Petzold was born in Weißig near Königstein at some stage in 1677; his exact date of birth is unknown. From 1703, he worked as an organist at St. Sophia (Sophienkirche) in Dresden, and in 1709 he became court chamber composer and organist. He led an active musical life, giving concert tours that took him as far as Paris (1714) and Venice (1716). In 1720, he wrote a piece for the consecration of the new Silbermann organ at St. Sophia, and he performed a similar task at Rötha, near Leipzig, where another Silbermann organ was built. He was also active as a teacher. His pupils included Carl Heinrich Graun. Petzold died on 25 May 1733 and was buried three days later. His cause of death was recorded in the Dresden Kirchenwoc

Christian Ritter

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Christian Ritter (probably 1645 to 1650 – probably after 1725) was a composer and organist of the North German organ school. Biography Ritter, likely a pupil of Christoph Bernhard in Dresden. A notice on one of his works described him as Kammerorganist (chamber organist) in Halle in 1666, although this position does not appear in the records until 1672. In 1677 he was the Hoforganist (court organist). The composer David Pohle was Kapellmeister at Halle during these years. Ritter may have left Halle in 1677, as the role of Kammerorganist was filled by Johann Philipp Krieger that year. Some years later he went to Sweden. In 1681, he was mentioned on a record of the Stockholm court, a year later as deputy Kapellmeister. Ritter went back to Dresden in 1683, becoming Kammerorganist and deputy Kapellmeister under Christoph Bernhard. In 1688, he was evidently back in Stockholm as Kapellmeister, remaining there until 1699. According to a detail on a vocal work, Ritter was living in Hamburg in 1704. In 1717, he described himself in a letter to Johann Mattheson as “Emeritus, who did his part at the royal, electoral and princely courts for more than 30 years in re musica”. Works As well as mo

Christian Samuel Barth

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Christian Samuel Barth (13 January 1735 – 8 July 1809) was a German oboist and composer of the classical period. Life Christian Samuel Barth was born in Glauchau, as the son of the merchant George Samuel Barth. He studied at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig, where he was educated by Johann Sebastian Bach. As an oboist, Barth worked from 1753 in the court orchestra in Rudolstadt, from 1762 in Weimar, from 1768 in Hannover and from 1772 in Kassel. Finally, in 1786, he became a member of the Hofkapelle at the royal court in Copenhagen, which was then briefly under the direction of Johann Gottlieb Naumann. On account of his age and infirmity, he was relieved from his duties in 1798 and received an annual pension of 500 Reichsthaler until his death in 1809. Barth’s two sons, Frederik Philip Carl August (1774–1804) and Christian Frederik (1787–1861), having been taught by their father, both became virtuoso performers on the oboe as well as composers. The youngest son became renowned as a touring soloist. Works It seems that most of Barth’s compositions have been lost. He is known to have composed an Ouverture in E major, op. 18, 4 oboe sonatas, a Cantata Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ, and at l

Christian Theodor Weinlig

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Christian Theodor Weinlig (July 25, 1780 – March 7, 1842) was a German music teacher, composer, and choir conductor, active in Dresden and Leipzig. Biography Born in Dresden, Weinlig initially studied and then practised law until 1803. He then began musical training with his uncle Christian Ehregott Weinlig, with whom he studied for two years before travelling to Bologna to study with Stanislao Mattei in 1806. From 1814 to 1817, he worked as Cantor of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. In 1823, he became Cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, an office he kept until his death. Among his most well-known pupils were pianist Clara Schumann and composer Richard Wagner; he taught Wagner at Saint Thomas school in Leipzig. In 1877, Wagner recalled Weinlig’s teaching style to Edward Dannreuther: References Sources * *

Christina Kubisch

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Christina Kubisch (born 31 January 1948) is a German composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from her early works including concerts, performances and installations. Her work focuses on synthesising audio and visual arts to create multi-sensory experiences for participants. She focuses on finding sounds and music in unusual places that participants would normally not think of as somewhere to experience sound. She is mostly known for her sound installations and “electrical Walks”. Personal life and education Kubisch was born in Bremen, Germany in 1948. She studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 1967 to 1968. She studied flute, piano and composition at the Academy of Music in Hamburg, Germany and the Jazz Academy of Graz, Austria from 1969 to 1972. From 1972 to 1974, she continued studying music at the Conservatory of Zurich. In 1974 she moved to Milan, Italy where she began studying composition and electronic music at the Milan Conservatory, graduating with a diploma in 1976. Career Kubisch moved to Milan in 1973

Christoph Brüx

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Christoph Brüx (born 13 December 1965) is a German sculptor, painter, composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger and music producer. He composed for artists such as No Angels, Matthias Reim, The Underdog Project (Summer Jam), Brooklyn Bounce etc., and he also composed film scores. Biography Brüx was born in Sonsbeck (North Rhine-Westphalia). Until 1985 he went to school (Städtisches Stiftsgymnasium Xanten). Following his talent in music, he early began taking piano lessons and later he graduated at a music conservatoire. Brüx was composing for several interpreters such as: *Bro’Sis: whose first album Never Forget (Where You Come From), which Brüx took part in, has been released to the public in January 2002, scored in Germany platinum. *No Angels: the album Pure where he took part in, rose to No. 1 in the German album charts and No. 3 and No. 9 in Austria and Switzerland. He wrote music for several films (also industry and corporate videos): *TKKG – Der Club der Detektive was nominated in 2007 for the attendance at the German children media festival Goldener Spatz. Already in the youth his sensitivity showed up in relation to its environment. His large respect for nature particularly

Christoph Demantius

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Johann Christoph Demantius (15 December 1567 – 20 April 1643) was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque. Life He was born in Reichenberg (now Liberec, in the Czech Republic, north of Prague near the border with Germany), and probably received his early training there, though little information is available about his early life. By the early 1590s he was in Bautzen, where he wrote a school textbook, and in 1593 he received a degree from the University of Wittenberg. In 1594 he moved to Leipzig, and in 1597 he acquired the post of Kantor at Zittau, where he probably taught the young Melchior Franck. His next post, one he held for the rest of his life, was as Kantor to Freiberg Cathedral. While he was able to keep his position, the Thirty Years’ War was disruptive to his life, and most of his children, of four different marriages, died due to the hardships imposed by the war. In the realm of sacred music Demantius wrote motets, masses, Magnificat settings, psalm settings, hymns, and a splendid setting of the

Christoph Gottlieb Schröter

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Christoph Gottlieb Schröter (10 August 169920 May 1782 ), was a German composer and organist, who is best known for his contributions to the tangent piano, which in 1717 he invented a keyboard instrument whose strings were not plucked, but struck by hammers. Biography Born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Schröter showed his musical ability as a choirboy in the Staatskapelle Dresden, becoming a student of Johann Christoph Schmidt. In 1717, at the age of 18, he went to the Kreuzschule in Dresden and studied theology. While studying, his mother died, to which he went back to the Staatskapelle to study music and was recommended as a amanuensis to composer Antonio Lotti, which to him was a great honour. Schröter was later employed as a secretary and musical associate to an unknown man, who he would travel with throughout Germany, Netherlands and England. Schröter would later in 1724 settle in Jena where he would teach open lectures about music theory at the University of Jena. In 1726, he became an Organist at the St. Martini Church in Minden, he was called “one of the bravest organists of our time” by Ernst Ludwig Gerber. He would reside in Minden until 1732 when he traveled to Nordhausen, wh

Christoph Graupner

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Christoph Graupner (23 January 168310 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. Life Born in Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in Saxony, Graupner received his first musical instruction from his uncle, an organist named Nicolaus Kuester. Graupner went to the University of Leipzig where he studied law (as did many composers of the time) and then completed his musical studies with Johann Kuhnau, the cantor of the Thomasschule (St. Thomas School). In 1705, Graupner left Leipzig to play the harpsichord in the orchestra of the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg under the direction of Reinhard Keiser, alongside George Frideric Handel, then a young violinist. In addition to playing the harpsichord, Graupner composed six operas in Hamburg, some of them in collaboration with Keiser, a popular composer of operas in Germany. In 1709, Graupner accepted a post at the court of Hesse-Darmstadt and in 1711 became the court orchestra’s Hofkapellmeister (court chapel master). Graupner spent the rest of his career at the court in Hesse-Darmstadt, where his primary responsibilities

Christoph Lehmann (musician)

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Christoph Lehmann (7 May 1947 – 31 August 2024 ) was a German organist, harpsichordist, church musician and composer, especially in the field of Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). He had worked as a continuo harpsichordist and organist in performances and recordings of early music with several ensembles. Life and career Lehmann was born in Beijing. From 1972 to 1984, he was a church musician at the Protestant Thomaskirche in Düsseldorf, as well as a theatre musician in Düsseldorf, Bochum, Bonn and Aachen. Two songs with music by Lehmann were included in the second edition of the common German Catholic hymnal, Gotteslob, in 2013, “Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt” with text by ) in the common section as GL 383, and “Wo Menschen sich vergessen”, with text by Thomas Laubach in regional section, such as GL 832 in the Diocese of Cologne. Since 1985, Lehmann has been an organist and harpsichordist in the field of early music for various ensembles, including Il Dolcimelo, Das Kleine Konzert in Dormagen, Movimento, and La Stravaganza in Cologne. Work Popular songs with music by Lehmann include: * “Wir werden leben, überleben” (text: Alois Albrecht * “Komm, lass diese Nacht nich

Christoph Nichelmann

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Christoph Nichelmann (13 August 1717 – 20 July 1762) was a German composer and harpsichordist. He was second keyboard player in the Royal Ensemble of Frederick the Great. Biography Born in Treuenbrietzen, from 1730 on the advice of a relative Nichelmann attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he was accepted by Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied composition and was taught to play keyboard instruments by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Bibliography * Douglas A. Lee: “Nichelmann, Christoph”, in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (Oxford University Press, 2001), * Thomas-M. Langner: “Nichelmann, Christoph”, in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st ed. by Friedrich Blume (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1949–1986) * Krebs, Michael Harald: Thematisch-Systematisches Verzeichnis der Werke Christoph Nichelmann. Nichelmann-Werke-Verzeichnis (NWV) (PhD thesis, Potsdam, 2002) References External links * * * Christoph Nichelmann, ein Meister aus der preußischen Provinz. * Christoph Nichelmann bachschueler.de * Friedrich der Grosse - Music for the Berlin Court CD review, magazin.klassik.com

Christoph Schaffrath

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Christoph Schaffrath (1709 in Hohnstein, Electorate of Saxony 7 February 1763 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia) was a German musician and composer of the late Baroque to Classical transition era. Career Schaffrath was born in Hohnstein. He applied to be organist at the Sophienkirche in Dresden, but did not receive this position (Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was favoured for it). In June 1733, he sought the position of organist at St. Sophia’s Church in Dresden; however, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach won the audition (on June 22, 1733). For a time, he served as Kapellmeister to the Lithuanian Prince (1680–1750) in Zasław, then in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (today in Ukraine). He did serve in the court of the Crown Prince Frederick (Frederick the Great) as a harpsichordist in the orchestra. While still only Crown Prince, Frederick began assembling a private orchestra at his Neuruppin residence in 1732: Johann Gottlieb Graun was the first musician to enter his service that year , followed by Franz Benda in 1733, Johann Georg Benda in 1734, Carl Heinrich Graun in 1735, and then Christoph Schaffrath and Johann Gottlieb Janitsch in 1736. From 1741, however, Schaffrath was strictly the musician

Christoph Silber

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Christoph Silber (born 26 April 1975, in Berlin) often credited as Chris Silber, is a German-American author, filmmaker and performer. Silber works and lives in the United States. Early life Silber spent most of his childhood and youth in Germany. Raised bilingual, he studied in London and Berlin. His mother Christa Schuenke is a philosopher and literary translator; his foster father Maik Hamburger was a Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge. Career In 1995 the Vienna Burgtheater asked him to adapt Puccini’s Tosca for a stage production. Silber’s screenwriting career began in European television in the mid-1990s. Silber worked as a writer of sitcoms as well as crime series. Silber has collaborated on numerous films, including the award-winning Good Bye, Lenin!, North Face, Arranged and My Last Day Without You, for which he also co-wrote several songs performed by Nicole Beharie. He also wrote scripts for the Enid Blyton-based Hanni & Nanni franchise. Several of his contributions to German television like Tatort “Schwanensee” have broken ratings records. Based in Los Angeles since 2012, Silber has been honoured by the Vilcek Foundation as “an immigrant filmmaker…whose creative spirit

Christoph Staude

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Christoph Staude (born 30 September 1965) is a German composer. Life Born in Munich, Staude studied 1984–86 at the University of the Arts with Witold Szalonek and in 1986–91 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Kontarsky. Since 1995, he lives as a freelance composer at the near Neuss. There, he initiated the series Hombroich: New Music in 1997. He received commissions and radio productions from SWR Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, WDR Cologne for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, HR Frankfurt, SDR Stuttgart, BR Munich and the AUDI-AG-Kulturfond, Ingolstadt. Honours *1992 Stipendienaufenthalt im Deutschen Studienzentrum Venedig *1986/87 Preisträger beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für junge Komponisten *1987 1. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb des International Center of New Music Sources (ICONS), Turin *1988 Preisträger beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Trio Basso Köln; 2. Preis beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart *1999 2. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb der musik-theater-werkstatt am Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden *2003 Preisträger im internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb der Elisabe

Christoph von Blumröder

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Christoph von Blumröder (born 18 July 1951) is a German musicologist. Career Born in Northeim, Blumröder studied musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, philosophy and history of the . After his doctorate in 1979, Blumröder was a research assistant at the (1972–2006). From 1980 Blumröder also taught at the university there, where he received his habilitation in 1990. After assistant professorships at the University of Bonn in the winter semester of 1991/92 and at the Saarland University in the summer semester of 1995, he accepted an appointment as professor for contemporary music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne in the winter semester of 1996/97. There he founded the cycles of events Composition and Musicology in Dialogue (1997) and Space Music (1998) as well as the publication series Signale aus Köln. Beiträge zur Musik der Zeit and was elected chairman of the association Signale aus Köln in 1999. Furthermore, Blumröder is a member of the Centre for Modern Research at the University of Cologne and was involved in the Cultural Studies Research College Media and Cultural Communication from 2002 to 20

Clara Mathilda Faisst

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Clara Mathilda Faisst (22 June 1872 – 22 November 1948) was a German pianist, composer and writer. Early life Clara Faisst was born in Karlsruhe, Baden to August and Emma Faisst. Her father died when she was one year old. She was the youngest of six children. Those close to her considered her to be quiet and dreamy as a child. Faisst suffered poor health throughout most of her childhood. Education Her musical education began when she entered school. She received musical training from the Grand Ducal conservatory in Karlsruhe until 1894. At age 7, she was the youngest student ever taught by concertmaster Carl Will. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin until 1896. At the academy, she had many prestigious teachers. Clara Schumann’s student Ernst Rudorff taught her piano. Woldemar Bargiel (Schumann’s stepbrother) also taught her the theory of counterpoint and composition. Berlin composer Robert Kahn taught her piano and music theory. Her most well-known teacher was Max Bruch (1838 – 1920) who taught composition. She remained in correspondence with Bruch for most of his life. She composed the score for “Five Songs for a Voice with Pianoforte”, for which Max

Clara Schumann

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Clara Josephine Schumann (; ; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral pieces, and songs. She grew up in Leipzig, where both her father Friedrich Wieck and her mother Mariane were pianists and piano teachers. In addition, her mother was a singer. Clara was a child prodigy, and was trained by her father. She began touring at age eleven, and was successful in Paris and Vienna, among other cities. She married the composer Robert Schumann, on 12 September 1840, and the couple had eight children. Together, they encouraged Johannes Brahms and maintained a close relationship with him. She gave the public premieres of many works by her husband and by Brahms. After Robert Schumann’s early death, she continued her concert tours in Europe for decades, frequently with the violinist Joseph Joachim and other

Claus Bantzer

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Claus Bantzer (born 10 October 1942 in Marburg) is a German church musician, composer and director. Life and work Claus Bantzer was born in Marburg in 1942 into an artist’s family. His older brother Christoph Bantzer is an actor. Bantzer began studying piano, organ, and conducting at the music school of the university of Frankfurt am Main. He continued his studies in Hamburg (Hochschule für Musik und Theater), where he became a master student of the organ teacher Heinz Wunderlich. He was also Wunderlich’s assistant at the church St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Since 1975, Bantzer has been organist at the church of St. Johannis Harvestehude in Hamburg. Later, the honorary title of Kirchenmusikdirektor was conferred onto him. At this church, he leads two choirs, the main church choir of St. Johannis and the chamber choir Harvestehuder Kammerchor, which he founded. As a composer of music for more than 20 films, he has worked closely the film directors Peter Lilienthal, Doris Dörrie, Jan Schütte and Tevfik Başer. Apart from his compositions for film, he has also composed other works, usually combining religious lyrics with modern music, in particular jazz. Film music composed by Bantzer * (1980

Claus Kühnl

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Claus Kühnl (born in Arnstein, Lower Franconia, 17 November 1957) is a German composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher. Life Kühnl is the eldest child of Gudrun Kühnl (née Schmitt) from Lower Franconia and Wilhelm Kühnl who came from the Sudetenland. His musical training began in 1973, first as an external student during his last years of high school and later, as a student at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, studying with Bertold Hummel (composition), Julian von Károlyi (piano), Hanns Reinartz (conducting) and Zsolt Gárdonyi (theory). Important for him at this time were analysis courses in New Music with Klaus Hinrich Stahmer and, from 1978 to 1980, the Student Chamber Orchestra “Musici Allegri”, which he himself conducted. In 1980 he successfully finished his state exam in piano and then moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he continued his studies in composition with Hans Ulrich Engelmann at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. There he met the German composer Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, with whom he founded the Mutare Ensemble in 1981. This Frankfurt-based ensemble specialises in the performance of contemporary music and rarely performed classical music.

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

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Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 22 October 1962) is a German composer, editor and author. Career Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber and Emanuel Nunes and music theory at the music academy in Freiburg where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and sociology at university. Later he was influenced by Habermas’s antagonist Peter Sloterdijk and appropriated the idea of a philosophical explanation of the female orgasm (which lacks biological necessity in terms of procreative function) from an email novel Sloterdijk had published three years earlier. In 1993 Mahnkopf was awarded a doctorate in philosophy for his dissertation on Arnold Schoenberg. For his compositions Mahnkopf won numerous international prizes, among them the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1990, the composition prize of the city Stuttgart and the Composers Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 1998. Mahnkopf went to Rome (Villa Massimo), Italy, Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani), Italy, and Basel (Paul-Sacher-Stiftung), Switzerland, on scholarships. From 2001

Clemens von und zu Franckenstein

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Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (14 July 1875 – 19 August 1942) was a German opera composer. Early life Franckenstein was born in Wiesentheid, Germany to Karl, Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (1831–1898) and Elma, née Countess von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1841–1884). His brother was Austrian Ambassador to England, Georg von und zu Franckenstein. Georg’s son, actor Clement von Franckenstein, was his nephew. Franckenstein studied in Vienna, Austria, and later in Munich, Germany, with Ludwig Thuille and at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Iwan Knorr. Career After a visit to the USA he conducted the Moody-Manners Opera Company, acted from 1902–1907 as opera conductor in London, then worked at the court theatres of Wiesbaden and Berlin, until the court theaters were abolished after the First World War. He was the last royal general director of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (1912–1918 and 1924–1934) and the only one who exercised this office twice. He produced the Munich Opera Festival through 1934 when he was forced out by Nazi prohibitions. Personal life Franckenstein, who married Maria Nezádal, died in Hechendorf am Pilsensee, Ob

Clytus Gottwald

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Clytus Gottwald (20 November 1925 – 18 January 2023) was a German composer, conductor, and musicologist who focused on choral music. He was considered by music critics to be a key figure in contemporary choral music, Further reading * “Gottwald, Clytus” in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart vol. 7, Bärenreiter, Kassel/Metzler, Stuttgart, 2002, , pp. 1409–1410 * Constance DeFotis: From the Work and Writings of Clytus Gottwald, Founder and Director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1988 External links * (archive) * * *

Conrad Ansorge

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Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Ansorge was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886. He toured Europe and the United States. He was known for his interpretations of Beethoven. On 15 April 1890, his “Orpheus” symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas. He became professor of pianoforte at Weimar in 1893. From 1898 to 1903 he taught at Berlin, in the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. In 1920 he became head of the piano master class at the German Academy (Deutschen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Prague. Conrad Ansorge’s students included: Selim Palmgren, Eduard Erdmann, James Simon, Alice Herz-Sommer, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. He made some Welte-Mignon recordings in 1905, of music by Liszt, Schumann and others. He also wrote a Requiem, two symphonies, a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, two string quartets, and other works. None of these are in the current repertoire. He married the pianist Margarete Wegelin. Their son Joachim (1893–1947) was also a pi

Conradin Kreutzer

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Conradin Kreutzer or Kreuzer (22 November 1780 – 14 December 1849) was a German composer and conductor. His works include the operas Das Nachtlager in Granada and incidental music to , both produced in 1834 in Vienna. Biography Born in Meßkirch, Baden, Kreutzer abandoned his studies in the law (University of Freiburg) and went to Vienna about 1804, where he met Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and may have studied with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, while he tried his hand unsuccessfully at singspiele. He spent 1811–12 in Stuttgart, where at least three of his operas were staged and he was awarded the post of Hofkapellmeister, succeeding Franz Danzi. He was from 1812 to 1816 Kapellmeister to the king of Württemberg. Once he was successful, he became a prolific composer, and wrote a number of operas for the Theater am Kärntnertor, Theater in der Josefstadt and Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which have disappeared from the stage. In 1840, he became conductor of the opera at Cologne. His daughters, Cecilia and Marie Kreutzer, were sopranos of some renown. Kreutzer owes his fame almost exclusively to Das Nachtlager in Granada (1834), which kept the stage for half a century in spite of

Constantin Christian Dedekind

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Constantin Christian Dedekind (2 April 1628 – 1715) was a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. Biography Dedekind was born in Reinsdorf, Thuringia into a musical family, the son of musician Stefan Dedekind (1595–1636) and the grandson of composer Henning Dedekind (1562–1626). He was educated at Quedlinburg Abbey. From about 1647 he lived in Dresden. Early recognition of his poetic talent came in 1652 when Johann Rist, in his role of Imperial Count Palatine, awarded him the Dichterkrone (equivalent to making him Poet Laureate). A few years later Dedekind became a member of the (Order of Elbe Swans), Rist’s poetical society. He also pursued a musical career. From 1654 he was a bass singer in the Kapelle of Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony in Dresden. From 1666 to 1675 he held the position of Konzertmeister there; however, he directed only the German singers within the Kapelle, a grouping referred to as the kleine deutsche Musik, as distinct from the Italian ones. He himself had requested this split in a letter of 1666 to Johann Georg II. His resignation of the position in 1675 seems to have been an eventual outcome of this rivalry. Howeve

Cornelius Gurlitt (composer)

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Gustav Cornelius Gurlitt (10 February 1820 – 17 June 1901) was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the 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 Gade’s death. In 1842, Gurlitt moved to Hørsholm, where he resided as an organist and a music teacher for four years. He then moved to Leipzig, Germany, where Gade was the musical director for the Gewandhaus concerts. Gurlitt next traveled to Rome, where his brother, Louis Gurlitt, a well-known painter, was studying. Cornelius Gurlitt’s abilities as a musician were quickly recognized in Rome, and the papal Accademia di Santa Cecilia nominated him an honorary member, and later graduated him as a Professor of Music in 1855. While in Rome he also studied painting with excellent results. On his return to Altona, the Duke of Augustenburg engaged him as teach

Corona Schröter

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Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (14 January 1751 – 23 August 1802) was a German actress and musician best known as a singer. She also composed songs, setting texts by Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to music. Early life Schröter was born in Guben, Holy Roman Empire. In her early years she studied many instruments, which included the keyboard and guitar. Corona and Goethe worked closely on compositions which were performed in the Weimar theater as well as published for their personal libraries between 1776 and 1782. When the amateur court theatre was replaced by professional actors in 1783, she continued to sing and act in informal settings. She also began to teach singing and took up writing and art. She formally withdrew from all court performing in 1788. She became friends with Friedrich Schiller during those years, whose poems she later set to music. Unfortunately, these lieder are lost, as are her two dramas, hundreds of arias and duets, and an autobiography given to Goethe in 1778. However, two collections of lieder were published by her, the first in 1786, followed by another in 1794, thus surviving into the present time. The first collection, which con

Cyrill Kistler

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Cyrill Kistler (12 May 1848 in Großaitingen, Swabia, Germany – 1 January 1907 in Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Germany) was a German composer, music theoretician, Music educator and Music publisher. Life Born into a Swabian family of craftsmen, Kistler attended the Lehrerseminar (Teacher seminar) in Lauingen (Swabia) from 1864 to 1867. Subsequently, he first worked as a teacher at various places in Middle Swabia. However, when he was no longer content with this way of making a living, he, instead, concentrated merely on making and composing music. From 1876 to 1878, he was a student at the Königliche Musikschule (Royal Music School) in Munich in the subjects organ and composition; one of his teachers was Josef Rheinberger. Afterwards, in 1883, he took over the position of a teacher for Music theory at the Fürstliches Konservatorium (Baronial Academy of Music) at Sondershausen. In 1876, he got to know Richard Wagner at Bayreuth, whose work exerted a deep influence on Kistler. From 1884 on, he worked at Bad Kissingen in Lower Franconia, where he founded his own music school. From 1880 on, he published the music journal „Musikalische Tagesfragen. Organ für Musiker, Musikfreunde und

Daniel Friderici

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Daniel Friderici (1584 – 23 September 1638) was a German cantor, conductor, and composer. Life Friderici was born in Eichstaedt (today Querfurt) to a poor family and had been a choirboy in his younger years. He was trained by Valentin Haussmann and Frederick Weissensee. In 1612 he enrolled at the University of Rostock. Two years later he was appointed as a cantor for Oldenburg by Count Anton Günther and later moved in 1618 to the same position at the St. Mary’s Church in Rostock. After he had finished his training, he was appointed conductor of all churches in Rostock. There he worked until he died there in 1638 from the plague. Works He wrote many high quality secular and sacred polyphonic vocal works, which became widely known in his lifetime and afterwards. He wrote Musica figuralis which taught techniques of singing. Sacred works *Sertum Musicale primum oder Erstes Musicalisches Kräntzlein. 1614 *Sertum musicale alterum oder Anderes Musicalisches Kräntzlein. 1619 *Psalmus Regii Prophetae Davidis. 1622 *Bicinia sacra. 1623 *Viridarium Musicum Sacrum. 1625 *Selige Grab- und Himmels Leiter von sieben Spalten. 1628 *Deliciae iuveniles. 1630 Secular works *Servia musicalis prima. 16

Daniel Gottlob Türk

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Daniel Gottlob Türk (10 August 1750 – 26 August 1813) was a German composer, organist, and music professor of the Classical period. Biography Born in Claußnitz, Saxony, Türk studied organ under his father and later under Johann Adam Hiller. It was Hiller who recommended Türk for his first professional position at Halle University, in Halle, Germany. On 18 April 1779 Halle University granted Türk’s request to begin lecturing on music theory, making him the University’s “Director of Music.” This appointment made Türk the second university music director in Germany. While at Halle, Türk published his treatise On the Role of the Organist in Worship which is still occasionally reprinted. Several of Türk’s dances and minuets for the piano are still popular today. He wrote 18 sonatas. His most notable contribution to the classical music canon is the Klavierschule, a teaching method for the keyboard. He also wrote a cantata, Die Hirten bey der Krippe zu Bethlehem (The Shepherds at the Cradle in Bethlehem) (1782), and some organ pieces and other choral works still in manuscript. In 1783 he married Johanna Dorothea Rosine Schimmelpfennig, by whom he had two children. He was a member of the H

Daniel Hensel

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Daniel Hensel (born 17 April 1978 in Büdingen) is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be dedicated to “a thread of a tradition leading from Schubert via Mahler to Hensel’s teacher Schedl in presence. … " His style contains all kinds of material, such as traditional tonal or harmonic as well as noise and electronic material. His works are published by Musikverlag Doblinger in Vienna. Life and work Hensel is a descendant of a family of musicians of light and rock music. His maternal family lives in the city of Buedingen since 1594. Hensel began his studies of composition in 1995 as a student of the Austrian composer Gerhard Schedl at Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium. From 1999 on he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck in Würzburg, and later with Manfred Trojahn in Düsseldorf Hensel obtained his doctorate with “magna cum laude” on 13 July 2011. Hensel’s music was played by artists such as Carin Levine and Markus Bellheim, the Ensemble Modern, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and conductors such as Manfred Honeck. Several pieces were composed on behalf of festivals such as the A•DEvantga

Daniel Steibelt

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Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt (22 October 17652 October 1823) was a German pianist and composer. His main works were composed in Paris and in London, and he died in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He once challenged and lost to Ludwig van Beethoven in a piano duel. Biography Steibelt was born in Berlin, and studied music with Johann Kirnberger before being forced by his father to join the Prussian Army. After deserting, he began a nomadic career as a pianist before settling in 1790 in Paris, where he attained great popularity as a virtuoso as the result of a piano sonata called La Coquette, which he composed for Marie Antoinette. Also in Paris, his dramatic opera entitled Romeo et Juliette, which was later highly regarded by Hector Berlioz, was produced at the Théâtre Feydeau in 1793. This is held by many to be his most original and artistically successful composition. Steibelt began to share his time between Paris and London, where his piano playing attracted great attention. In 1797 he played in a concert of J. P. Salomon. In 1798 he produced his Concerto No. 3 in E containing a Storm Rondo characterized by extensive tremolos, which became very popular. In the following year Steibelt starte

Daniel Vetter

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Daniel Vetter (1657/58 – 7 February 1721) was an organist and composer of the German Baroque era. Life Born in Breslau, Vetter became a pupil of Werner Fabricius in Leipzig. When Fabricius died in 1679, Vetter succeeded him as organist of the St. Nicholas Church. Some time before 1695 he wrote a melody for , who at the time was cantor in Breslau, and to whom he was befriended. That hymn tune, Zahn No. 6634, was sung at the cantor’s funeral in Breslau, in 1695. Vetter published the first volume of his in 1709. From 1710 to 1716 he supervised the construction of the new organ built by in the church of the university of Leipzig, an organ that was tested in 1717 over a three-day period by Johann Sebastian Bach in Vetter’s presence. Meanwhile, the second volume of his Musicalische Kirch- und Hauß-Ergötzlichkeit was published in 1713. It contained a four-part setting of the Zahn 6634 melody, to the text of Caspar Neumann’s “Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben” hymn. Vetter remained organist of St. Nicholas in Leipzig until his death in 1721. * The second volume, containing 91 more settings of chorale melodies, was published in 1713. The collection contains settings of 117 hymn tunes: mo

David Bertok

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David Bertok (born 1981) is a German composer and pianist known for his work in film and television. In 2025, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special for his work on the Netflix series Chef’s Table (specifically the episode “José Andrés”). Early life and education Bertok was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He studied classical piano and composition, later attending the University of Southern California (USC) where he graduated from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (SMPTV) program. Career Bertok’s career includes work as a composer for independent films and documentary series. His work on the Netflix series Chef’s Table earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2025. In addition to his film work, Bertok has contributed to the progressive rock and metal scenes. He was a member of the German band Subsignal, appearing on the albums Touchstones (2011), Paraíso (2013) and A Poetry of Rain (2023) which reached the German Media Control Charts. Discography With Subsignal: * Beautiful & Monstrous (2009) * Touchstones (2011) * Out There Must Be Something (2012, Live DVD) * Paraíso (2013) With Dreamscape: *

David Gregor Corner

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David Gregor Corner (1585 – 9 January 1648) was a German Benedictine abbot, hymn writer and theologian best known for his influential 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch (“Great Catholic Hymnal”). Born in Hirschberg, Germany (now Jelenia Góra, Poland), he studied theology at Prague, Graz and Vienna, where he earned a doctorate. He died 9 January 1648 at Göttweig. His magnum opus, the Gross Catholische Gesängbuch was published in 1625, and a later publication from 1631 contained 546 hymns and 276 melodies (including 76 Latin hymns), one of the largest song books of the 16th and 17th century. The collection was derived from a large variety of sources - earlier Jesuit hymn collections, manuscripts, and even Protestant writers. A separate collection, Geistliche Nachtigal (“Holy Nightingale”) was published in 1649, perhaps posthumously. This contained 363 hymns and 181 melodies (including 42 Latin hymns), and was essentially a retitled and revised version of his original collection. After his death, editions of Geistliche Nachtigal were published in 1658, 1674 and 1676. References External links *Biography at the German Wikisource.

David Pohle

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David Pohle (1624 – 20 December 1695) was a German composer of the Baroque era. His surname is also spelled Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle. Biography Pohle was born in Marienberg into a family of civic musicians. He was a pupil of Heinrich Schütz in Dresden. He and his brother Samuel joined the Kapelle of Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg as instrumentalists. From 1650 to 1652 his presence at Kassel is documented. From 1653 he was at the Holstein-Gottorp court in Schleswig. In a baptismal record of 1660 he is named as “Concertmeister to the prince of Magdeburg”, namely Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Pohle became the Kapellmeister for the Duke’s court at Halle that same year, succeeding Philipp Stolle. The poet and dramatist David Elias Heidenreich worked in the Saxon courts as an official, and provided the libretti for a number of the Singspiel operas that Pohle composed. From 1674 to 1677 Pohle also worked at the secundogeniture courts at Saxe-Weissenfels and Saxe-Zeitz. When the court at Halle moved to Weissenfels in 1680, Krieger, who had already become deputy Kapellmeister at the court, replaced Pohle as Kapellmeister. Violinist Christian Heinrich Aschenbrenner was als

David Vostell

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David Vostell (born 10 October 1960) is a German-Spanish composer and film director. Biography David Vostell was born in Cologne, the first child of Wolf Vostell and his Spanish wife Mercedes Guardado. His father and his father’s art have formed his view of the world from his earliest childhood onwards. The artistics movements of the 1960s and the early 1970s as well as his father’s circle with people as Nam June Paik and Allan Kaprow, with whom he often sat together as a teenager, marked him deeply. From 1977 until 1980 he made apprenticeships at the TV and radio station Sender Freies Berlin, as well as at the publicity agency TBWA in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as an assistant film editor, as a film projectionist, in a photolab, in a photostudio and as photographer. In 1979, together with some of his former school mates, he made 36574 Bilder (36574 Images), an experimental film in Super 8. In 1980 he shot the documentary Endogen Depression about the making of an Installation by Wolf Vostell. In 1982 he shot the short film Ginger Hel starring Mark Eins, founder of the band Din A Testbild, and with the actress Panterra Hamm. The film tells a bizarre love story set in the Berlin un

Delphine von Schauroth

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Delphine von Schauroth (13 March 1813 – 1887) was a German pianist and composer. Biography Delphine von Schauroth was born in Magdeburg, the daughter of Eduard Friedrich Roger Georg von Schauroth (1774–1829) and his second wife (married 10 April 1810) Louise Teltz (1792–1847). She began piano studies at an early age with Friedrich Kalkbrenner in Paris, and in 1822 made her debut in Frankfurt am Main at a concert organized by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Guhr. This was followed by a European tour the next year, including appearances in Paris and London, and later by additional tours. When Felix Mendelssohn visited Munich in 1830, he considered marriage with Von Schauroth. It was at her behest that he revised his Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14, which he completed in June of that year. He later wrote to his sister Fanny that she had composed a passage of his Piano Concerto in G minor “that makes a startling effect.” However, he never revealed what passage she had written. The concerto premiered in 1831 and Mendelssohn dedicated the work to her. In 1833, Von Schauroth married English clergyman Edwin Hill-Handley and moved to London, but continued her concert appearances. In 1837, she separated fr

Der wilde Alexander

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Der wilde Alexander, also known as Meister Alexander, was a medieval Minnesänger who was active from the mid-1200s until after 1288. His works are considered to be part of the Sangspruchdichtung. Life Perhaps originally from Württemberg or more probably Switzerland, Alexander is mentioned in both the Codex Manesse, where he is portrayed as a wild rider with a red robe, as well as the Jenaer Liederhandschrift. His works date mostly from the latter half of the 13th century, being first mentioned in 1247. Whether Alexander was part of the gentry is not known, but he is generally considered to have been a wandering minstrel who was dependent upon his reception at court. Works Five of Alexander’s songs remain, one of which is fragmentary. He uses complex imagery, which suggests that he had a relatively high level of education, and sets a high value upon poetic art, insisting upon its descent from Kings. The majority of his poems deplore the decadence of the age, of which the fall of Acre is considered to be a symptom. His poetry is written in a simple yet expressive style, and always contains a degree of spiritual interpretation; for example, Hie vor dô wir kinder wâren contains one of

Detlev Glanert

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Detlev Glanert (born 6 September 1960) is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies. Biography Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960. He came to music late, learning his first instrument, the trumpet, at the age of eleven and not starting his formal composition studies until his twenties, when he studied under Diether de la Motte, Günther Friedrichs and Frank Michael Beyer, and then for four years under Hans Werner Henze in Cologne. Having seen his first operas in Hamburg in 1972, The Magic Flute, and then Die Soldaten, he has said that from the first moment he loved opera. It was at Henze’s invitation that Glanert produced his first sizeable piece of music-theatre, the opera Leyla und Medjun which opened the first Munich Biennale, established by Henze in 1988. Glanert then became involved in Henze’s other festival, the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano as assistant co-ordinator and head of the music school from 1989 to 1993 and as artistic director from 2009 to 2011. In 1992/93, he was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in Rome. He reached widespread attention with his 1995 opera Der S

Detlev Jöcker

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Detlev Jöcker (born 5 October 1951) is a German composer, singer and songwriter, focused on songs with movement for small children. He has sold more than 13 million albums. He founded the publishing house Menschenkinder Verlag. Life and work Born in Münster, Jöcker studied music in his home town from age 15, as a highly gifted young musician (hochbegabter Nachwuchsmusiker): classical guitar, flute and piano. He has toured internationally as “Botschafter des deutschen Kinderliedes” (ambassador of German children’s songs) by the Goethe Institute. * “Wo einer dem andern neu vertraut” (melody 1986, Evangelisches Gesangbuch Württemberg EG 551) * “Gott, dein guter Segen” (melody 2009) References External links * * * Menschenkinder Verlag (in German) * Musik für Kinder / Exklusiv-Interview mit Liedermacher Detlev Jöcker (interview, in German) pinolino.de 2017 * Das Glitzerlied (English translation) lyricstranslate.com

Detlev Müller-Siemens

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Detlev Müller-Siemens (born 30 July 1957) is a German composer and conductor. Life and career Born in Hamburg, Müller-Siemens began with piano lessons at age six and began composing. * Carillon for orchestra, 1991 * Double Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra, 1992 * Phoenix 1,2,3 for ensemble, 1993–1995 * Maiastra for orchestra, 1995–1996 * Cuts for alto saxophone and ensemble, 1996/97 * Light blue, almost white for ensemble, 1998 * Bing, musical theatre, 1998–2000 * String Trio, 2002 * Die Aussicht for choir and ensemble, 2003/04 * the space of a step for orchestra, 2003/04 * distant traces (in memoriam György Ligeti) for violin, viola and piano, 2007 * lost traces for piano quartet, 2007 * …called dusk (in memoriam György Ligeti) for violoncello and piano, 2008 * Kommos for large ensemble, 2008/09 * Privacy (in memoriam László Polgár) for clarinet, violin and piano, 2010 * …called dusk II for string quartet, 2011 * Three piano pieces, 2012 * … called dusk IV for orchestra, 2012/13 * … called dusk III for ensemble, 2014 * … called dusk V for violin solo, 2014 * Subsong 1 for ensemble, 2015 References External links *

Dieter Salbert

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Dieter Salbert (2 August 1932 – 6 July 2006) was a German composer. Life Born in Berlin, Salbert received piano lessons from 1938 and began early with improvisations on piano and accordion. After his Abitur in 1952 at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Tegel, he studied composition and piano at the Stern Conservatory and passed the final examination in composition in 1957. From 1959, he lived in Nuremberg, where he presented his own works in the Kabarett “Die Roten Funken”. Afterwards, he studied school music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In the following years he was at the , at the and at the Fachhochschule Braunschweig. In 1986, he received his doctorate in Hamburg. In 1981, he founded the “Neue Akademie Braunschweig” and established the Synthesizer Music Festival Braunschweig, which he directed until 2001. Salbert published over 200 compositions, including orchestral and choral works, chamber music and radiophonic productions. Salbert died in Meine aged 83. Honours * 1965: Förderpreis der Stadt Nürnberg * 1975: Richard-Wagner-Medaille der Stadt Bayreuth * 1985: Niedersächsisches Künstlerstipendium * 1986: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Bande *

Dieter Schnebel

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Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist. He composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. Career Schnebel was born in Lahr/Baden. He began general private music studies with Wilhelm Siebler from 1942 until 1945, when he started piano lessons with Wilhelm Resch, and continued study with him until 1949 at the age of 19. He continued with music history through 1952, under Eric Doflein. Simultaneously he began to study composition, from 1950, with Ernst Krenek, Theodor W. Adorno and Pierre Boulez, among others. He entered formal studies at the University of Tübingen where he took musicology with Walter Gerstenberg, as well as theology, philosophy and further piano studies. In 1955, he left with a degree in theology, but with a dissertation about Arnold Schoenberg. Soon after, he married Camilla Riegger in 1956, and the couple had a son and daughter. Schnebel became a minister, and taught theology and religion until 1963 when he began teaching philosophy and psychology. After his

Dieterich Buxtehude

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Dieterich Buxtehude (; born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude, ; – 9 May 1707) His parents were Johannes (Hans Jensen) Buxtehude and Helle Jespersdatter. His father originated from Oldesloe in the Duchy of Holstein, which at that time was a part of the Danish realms in Northern Germany. Scholars dispute both the year and country of Dieterich’s birth, although most now accept that he was born in 1637 in Helsingborg in the province of Scania/Skåne, which was part of Denmark at the time (but it is now part of Sweden). His obituary stated that “he recognized Denmark as his native country, whence he came to our region; he lived about 70 years”. Others, however, claim that he was born at Oldesloe. Later in his life he Germanized his name and began signing documents Dieterich Buxtehude. Lübeck: Marienkirche Buxtehude’s last post, from 1668, was at the Marienkirche, Lübeck which had two organs, a large one for big services and a small one for devotionals and funerals. There he succeeded Franz Tunder and followed in many of the footsteps of his predecessor. He married Tunder’s daughter Anna Margarethe in 1668 – it was not uncommon practice that a man marry the daughter of his predecessor in his occ

Diether de la Motte

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Diether de la Motte (30 March 1928 – 15 May 2010) was a German musician, composer, music theorist, music critic and academic teacher. Life Born in Bonn, Schott, Mainz 1960 * Harmonielehre. Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle, Kassel/Basel/Tours/London, and dtv, Munich 1976; additional editions: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Wiesbaden 1977, dtv, Munich 2004, . * Musikalische Analyse. Textteil u. Notenteil. 2 volumes. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1978, . * Musik bewegt sich im Raum. 16 Konzepte für Laien-Professionals aus Musik, Sprache, Sprachmusik und Bewegung. Moeck, Celle 1987, . * Kontrapunkt. Ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. Bärenreiter, Munich 1981 u. dtv, Munich 2002, . * Melodie. Ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. dtv, Munich 1993, . * Musik Formen. Phantasie, Einfall, Originalität. Wißner, Augsburg 1999, . * Wege zum Komponieren. Ermutigung und Hilfestellung. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2001, . * Gedichte sind Musik. Musikalische Analysen von Gedichten aus 800 Jahren. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, . References External links * * “Harmonielehre” (in German) kholopov.ru * * Motte, Diether de la operone.de

Dietmar Bonnen

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Dietmar Bonnen (born 27 July 1958 in Cologne, Germany) is a German composer and pianist. Life Dietmar Bonnen studied music and fine arts in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1981 he founded the avantgarde-rock ensemble Fleisch, with whom he recorded several CDs with his own compositions. After two years of production he published a CD called “Bonnen spielt …” with organ music of the 20th century. This production was the first, which combined different organs and acoustics from different churches made possible by recording techniques taken from pop music. Beside works of György Ligeti, Paul Hindemith, Charles Ives and Max Reger, he also played compositions written especially for this project and that cannot be performed on conventional organs. It contains premieres of two works of John Cage; “Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo” from 1933/34 and “Composition for Three Voices” from 1934. Later, Bonnen produced several CDs in several different musical genres, as for example the soundscape-composition “Bonnen in Beijing”, recorded 1993/94 for WDR in Beijing and Cologne. Other works present music of other composers in n

Dietrich Erdmann

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Dietrich Erdmann (20 July 1917 – 22 April 2009) was a German composer and university lecturer. Life Erdmann was born in Bonn. His father was the publicist and trade union official Lothar Erdmann, his mother Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, the painter August Macke’s widow. Erdmann had lived in Berlin since he was eight years old. His childhood was characterised by a family environment with a strong cultural interest. He received his first piano lessons at the age of nine. Already during his school days at the Humanistisches Gymnasium In Berlin, he paid visits to the composers Paul Hindemith, Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and Harald Genzmer. In 1931, he began his cello lessons with Pál Hermann. From 1934 to 1938, Erdmann studied choir conducting and musical composition with Kurt Thomas and conducting with Walter Gmeindl at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He completed his studies with the in choral conducting and the private music teacher examination in musical composition. Erdmann was co-founder of the Arbeitskreis für Neue Musik at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1947, Erdmann taught at the , where he became head of the music seminar two years later. He then was appointed associate pro

Dimitri Terzakis

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Dimitris Terzakis (; born March 12, 1938) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. Biography Terzakis was born on March 12, 1938 in Athens. From 1959 to 1964, Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and electronic music with Herbert Eimert. Works by Terzakis have been performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in Basel (1970), the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony summer courses (1970) and the Hamburg Das Neue Werk series (1972). He taught counterpoint and fugue (1974–94) and Byzantine music and composition (1989–94) at the Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf. In 1980, he began to organize summer courses in Western and south-eastern European music in Nafplion. In 1985–6 he was guest professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. From 1994 to his retirement, he held the chair for composition at the Leipzig Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre. He has been a German citizen since 1985 and is living and composing in Leipzig, Germany, and Na

Dirk Kaftan

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Dirk Kaftan (born 1971) is a German opera and concert conductor. Career Born in Marburg, West Germany, Kaftan grew up in Wittlich and Canada. At the age of 18 he began employment as a repetiteur at the Theater Trier. Kaftan then studied sound engineering (Tonmeister) at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Kaftan was Erster Kapellmeister at the Graz Opera from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2014 he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in Augsburg. His contract with the Theater Augsburg was to have run till 2016; however he vacated the Augsburg post early to return to Graz Opera as their GMD. His debut in June 2013 was a performance of Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder with soloists, the expanded opera chorus, the Wiener Singverein and the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester. In September 2025, the city of Bonn announced the approval of the most recent extension of Kaftan’s contract as GMD, through 31 July 2032. Recordings Kaftan’s recordings include the operas Der ferne Klang by Franz Schreker, recorded live in Augsburg in 2011, and Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček, recorded during staged performances in Graz in 2015. References External links * Dirk Kaftan homepage * Dirk Kaftan, Dirigent / Terminplan Operabase *

Don Jaffe

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Don Jaffe (or Jaffé) (; born 24 January 1933) is a German-Israeli-Latvian musician and composer. Biography Family Jaffe was born in 1933 in Riga, Latvia, to Ella Jaffe who had attended a German business school in Riga, and Jakov Jaffe, who had studied electrical engineering in Berlin. After his studies, Jakov Jaffe returned to Riga. In 1941, when the German Wehrmacht conquered Latvia, the Jaffe family – Jakov, Ella, Don, and his two siblings – had to flee to Siberia. After World War II, the Jaffes decided to return to Riga. All their relatives who couldn’t escape to the Soviet Union were murdered. In 1956, Don Jaffe married Elza Jaffe, born Peterson. They have two children: Ramon (born 1962, a cellist) and Diana (born 1969), a book author and expert in gender marketing). Since 1975, Don Jaffe has lived in Bremen. Career At the age of fourteen, Jaffe started to learn Cello at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School, the junior music conservatory in Riga. In 1951, he was the first string player to graduate from this music school. Jaffe finished his studies there in only four years instead of the regular ten. From 1951 to 1956 he studied Cello at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in R

Drafi Deutscher

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Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher (9 May 1946 – 9 June 2006) Between 1964 and 1966, Deutscher had a string of hits in Germany, for example “Shake Hands” (1964 No. 1), “Keep Smiling” (1964 No. 7), “Cinderella Baby” (1965 No. 3), “Heute male ich dein Bild, Cindy-Lou” (1965 No. 1). 1965–1967: Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht and career peak His best known song is the 1965 Schlager “Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht” (lit. “Marble, Stone and Iron Break”), Nineteen-year-old Deutscher had ad-libbed the tune during an October 1965 audition at Musikverlag Edition Intro Gebrüder Meisel GmbH by humming the melody and only singing the characteristic chorus line of “Dum-Dum, Dum-dum”; asked by present songwriter Christian Bruhn what he intended to do with it to turn it into a complete song, he replied, “Det machst du! (“That’s done by you!”), so songwriter Günter Loose subsequently wrote the German lyrics to the melody. In the US, the song was released in 1966 under the title “Marble Breaks and Iron Bends” with English lyrics sung by Deutscher. This English version entered the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1966, peaking at No. 80, and sparking a number of English cover versions by contemporary acts such as

Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg

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Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (20 August 1613 – 12 July 1676) was a German poet, composer and impresario. Life She began studying music at the court of her father, Duke John Albert II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, where was an orchestra known for its use of fine English musicians, such as William Brade. with whom she had two children: * Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg * Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Elisabeth Sophie was charged with organizing the court orchestra, and at times worked closely with Heinrich Schütz, who was appointed absentes Kapellmeister in 1655. She may have collaborated with him on arias in his Theatralische neue Vorstellung von der Maria Magdalena. She also played a major role in establishing large court entertainments, including masquerades, plays, and ballets, to which she at times wrote librettos and music. Her additional involvement in these entertainments is unclear. Two of her dramatic works survive: Friedens Sieg (1642, Brunswick) and Glückwünschende Freudensdarstellung (Lüneburg, 1652). Footnotes References * (similar text in Grove Opera article by same author) *

Eberhard Kloke

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Eberhard Kloke (born 24 November 1948) is a German conductor and composer. Early life and education Born in Hamburg, Eberhard Kloke studied as a conductor at the Berlin University of the Arts and also for his degree in musicology and German Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Early career He began his career as a répétiteur and conductor in Mainz, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf and Lübeck before being appointed General Music Director in Ulm in 1980. He took on the same position in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1983. As a guest conductor Since 1984 he has been taken on engagements as guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, also with the Essen Philharmoniker, the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn and many European radio orchestras (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg , North German Radiophilharmonie Hanover, SWR Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Deutsches Symphonieorchester, RAI Rome, Radio Orchestra Ljubljana, the Slovak Philharmonic Bratislava), and also at the Vienna Festwochen, the Brucknerfest in Linz and the Salzburg Festival. As a music director in Bochum From 1988 to 1994 he was the General Music Director of the Bochumer Symphonik

Eckehard Mayer

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Eckehard Mayer (born 1946) is a German composer. Career Born in Hainsberg, Mayer was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1957 to 1965. He then studied music in Leipzig. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at various theatres as repétiteur and conductor (among others at the Volkstheater Rostock, and the Semperoper). From 1982 to 2011 he worked at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden as a composer, conductor and pianist, with interruptions as director of acting music. He was awarded the Carl Maria von Weber Prize for composition in 1976 and 1984. His opera Sansibar was premiered at the Schwetzingen Festival in 1994. 2016 Die Nähe Roman, 2 Erzählungen (2017 Der Spaziergang / Nach Rosmersholm have been published by . References External links * *

Edmund Kretschmer

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Carl Franz Edmund Kretschmer (31 August 1830 – 13 September 1908) was a German organist and composer who worked for the Dresden Court and composed several operas and masses. Career Born in Ostritz, Lausitz, the son of the rector of the municipal school, Kretschmer received first musical instruction from his father. From 1846, he studied in Dresden, composition with Ernst Julius Otto and organ with Johann Gottlieb Schneider. He first worked as a teacher, and in 1854 became the organist of the Katholische Hofkirche. In 1863, he was appointed Hoforganist (Court Organist) and instructor of the Kapellknabeninstitut, and in 1880 also choral conductor of the Hofkirche. He composed around 80 stage works and several orchestral works, including four operas and four masses. The King awarded him the title of Hofkirchen-Componist. His composition Die Geisterschlacht won a prize at the first Deutsches Sängerfest in 1865. He received a prize for a mass at an international competition in Brussels in 1868. He then composed his first opera, Die Folkunger, from a libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal. Kretschmer died in 1908 and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden. He was an honorary c

Edmund Meisel

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Edmund Meisel (14 August 1894 – 14 November 1930) was an Austrian-born composer. He wrote the score to Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), The Battleship Potemkin (1925), and other films of Sergei Eisenstein. Meisel was one of the more important and pioneering figures in film music. He began composing incidental music for the stage in the 1920s. Early credits included the scoring of plays by Bertolt Brecht. His acquaintance with Erwin Piscator led to him writing music for films soon after. Meisel quickly came to be considered a talented composer, capable of working in a different styles, encompassing expressionism and jazz, as well as traditional orchestral modes. Meisel’s niece was the writer and member of the German Resistance, Hilde Meisel. Selected filmography * Battleship Potemkin (1925) * The Holy Mountain (1926) * Superfluous People (1926) * Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) * October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) * Deutscher Rundfunk (1928) * The Crimson Circle (1929) * The Blue Express (1929) External links * * References

Edmund Nick

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Edmund Nick (, Reichenberg – , Geretsried) was a German composer, conductor, and music writer. Biography The son of a merchant, Nick studied law from 1910 to 1915 in Vienna and Graz. At the same time, he studied music at the Vienna Music Academy and at the Conservatorium Dresden. He received his doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) from the University Graz in 1918. Nick moved to Breslau in 1919, working as concert accompanist, piano teacher and critic. He became Kapellmeister of the theatre in Breslau in 1921 and Head of the Music Department of Radio Silesia in 1924. It was here that he first met Erich Kästner; Nick wrote the music to a radio play by Kästner which became very successful. This was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. In 1933 he moved to Berlin, where he was Head of Music at the Theater des Volkes from 1936 to 1940. In 1945 he moved to Munich, starting as a critic at the Neue Zeitung. He then became Musical Director of the cabaret Die Schaubude where he continued his collaboration with Erich Kästner; eventually, he set more than 60 of Kästner’s works to music. In 1947 he became for two years chief conductor of the Bavarian State Operetta. He was made Professor in 1949 at t

Edmund von Borck

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Edmund Konstantin Wilhelm von Borck (22 February 1906 – 16 February 1944) was a German composer of (modern) classical music and a conductor. Life Edmund von Borck was born in Breslau, Germany to a landholding family that had joined the nobility in 1796. His father, Eduard von Borck (1864–1938) was a captain (Rittmeister) with the Silesian cuirassier regiment (:de:Leib-Kürassier-Regiment „Großer Kurfürst“ (Schlesisches) Nr. 1). His mother, Erika (née Lübbecke) (1880–1945), was related to Johann Friedrich Reichardt. Borck studied piano with Bronisław von Poźniak from 1920 to 1926 and had composition lessons from Ernst Kirsch. After graduating from school with his Abitur, he began studying musicology. He continued this study in Berlin in 1928, but soon afterwards switched his focus to conducting, and completed the conducting (Kapellmeister) class at the Berliner Musikhochschule under the direction of Julius Prüwer. His works were published by Universal Edition in Vienna starting in 1936. Borck was called up for military service in 1940 and died in Nettuno, Italy during Operation Shingle, the allied invasion of Italy. His grave is in the German military cemetery in Pomezia (Deutscher S

Eduard Erdmann

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Eduard Erdmann (5 March 1896 – 21 June 1958) was a Baltic German pianist and composer. Erdmann was born in Wenden (Cēsis) in the Governorate of Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher Johann Eduard Erdmann. His first musical studies were in Riga, where his teachers were Bror Möllersten and Jean du Chastain (piano) and Harald Creutzburg (harmony and counterpoint). From 1914 he studied piano in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge and composition with Heinz Tiessen. In the 1920s and early 1930s his name was frequently cited among Germany’s leading composers. Moreover, Erdmann had an international reputation as an outstanding concert pianist whose repertoire encompassed Beethoven and the advocacy of contemporary music. In 1925, he gave the premiere of Artur Schnabel’s Piano Sonata, at the Venice ISCM Festival. From 1925 he was professor of piano at the Cologne Academy of Music but was forced to resign from his post by the Nazis in 1935 and became an ‘inner exile’, composing almost nothing until after the end of World War II. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937; while not in sympathy with National Socialism, his decision was to avoid government harassment so that he could continue to wo

Eduard Franck

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Eduard Franck (5 October 1817 – 1 December 1893) was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue. Life Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy banker who exposed his children to Germany’s cultural figures. Frequenters of the Franck home included Heine, Humboldt, Heller, Mendelssohn, and Wagner. His family’s financial position allowed Franck to study with Felix Mendelssohn as a private student in Düsseldorf and later in Leipzig. As a talented pianist, he embarked upon a dual career as a concert artist and teacher for more than four decades during the course of which he held many positions. Although he was highly regarded as both a teacher and performer, he never achieved the public recognition of his better-known contemporaries such as Mendelssohn, Schumann or Liszt. Despite being compared favourably to them, the fact that he failed to publish very many of his compositions until toward the end of his life, in part, explains why he was not better known. Said to be a perfectionist, he continually delayed releasing his works until they were polished to his demanding standards. Schumann, among others, thought q

Eduard Künneke

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Eduard Künneke (also seen as Edward and spelled Künnecke) (27 January 1885 – 27 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German composer notable for his operettas, operas, theatre music and some orchestral works. Kuenneke was born in Emmerich, Lower Rhine. After obtaining his school diploma he moved in 1903 to Berlin where he studied musicology and the history of literature; he translated Beowulf into German. He was subsequently accepted into Max Bruch’s master-school for musical composition attached to the Royal Academy of Arts. By 1907 Kuenneke was already a repetiteur and chorus master at a Berlin operetta theatre, the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm, but relinquished his post as chorus master after his opera Robins Ende (1909) was premiered in Mannheim and Coeur-As (1913) in Dresden. Thereafter he received productions at 38 German opera houses. From 1908 to 1910 he also worked as a music director for Odeon Records and conducted (without label credit) two of the earliest complete symphony recordings, the Beethoven Fifth and Sixth Symphonies with the “Grosses Odeon Streich-Orchester”. In 1911 Künneke became a conductor of the German Theatre in Berlin, where he wrote incidental mus

Eduard Pütz

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Eduard Pütz (13 February 1911, in Illerich – 18 January 2000, in Bad Münstereifel) was a German composer and music teacher. Selected works :: Pütz’s scores are published by Schott Music, Edition Tonger, Tonos Musikverlag and Hans Gerig Verlag. ;Opera * Riders to the Sea, Opera in 1 act (1972); libretto by Heinrich Böll after John Millington Synge ;Orchestral * Invention für Barbara for string orchestra (1956) * Concerto grasso for string orchestra and jazz-combo (1981) * Blue Fantasy (1996) * Tagebuchblätter aus Frankreich ;Concertante * Concerto giocoso for piano and orchestra (1979) * Pyrenäen-Rhapsodie (Pyrenees Rhapsody), 3 Impressions for piano and orchestra (1984) * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1985) * Romanze for alto saxophone, cello, string orchestra and percussion (1989) ;Chamber music * Sonatina for cello and piano (1963) * Improvisation modale for flute and piano (1964) * Nugae, 7 Little Pieces for recorder, celesta and guitar (1969) * Ballade für T.S. for guitar (1973) * Tenso for shakuhachi and guitar (1975) * 5 Poèmes for violin and piano (1978) * Canto épico for string quartet (1981) * Die Marionetten der Ree Loo, Garden Music for violin and piano (1983) * Medi

Eduard Tauwitz

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Eduard Tauwitz (21 January 1812 – 26 July 1894) was a German composer and a native of Glatz, Prussian Silesia. While studying law at the University of Breslau, he devoted himself to music under the direction of organist Franz Wolf and music director Johann Theodor Mosewius and took charge of the students’ choral society (). Having decided not to follow a juridical career, he left Breslau in 1837 to direct the orchestra of a theater in Vilnius. In 1840 he went in the same capacity to Riga, but in 1843 returned to Breslau and two years later accepted a similar position in Prague, where he also taught music. After the death of Leopold Zvonař, he succeeded him as the director of the Žofín Academy, a music school for women. Tauwitz wrote over a thousand compositions, and the following songs are worthy of special mention: and . He also composed three operettas: , Bradamante and Trilby. Tauwitz died on 26 July 1894 in Prague, Austria-Hungary, Notes and references

Eduard Zuckmayer

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Eduard Zuckmayer (3 August 1890 – 2 July 1972) was a German music educator, composer, conductor and pianist. He was the older brother of the famous German writer Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977). Family and Youth He was the first son of wealthy factory owner Carl Zuckmayer (1864–1947) who produced tamper-evident lids for wine bottles in Nackenheim, a wine-growing village on the Rhine front. The parents of his mother, Amalie Zuckmayer (1869–1954, née Goldschmidt), were converted from Judaism to Protestantism whereas he was raised as a Catholic. From the age of six, he got piano lessons. His talent was recognised early. At the age of twelve, he started to compose. However, he started to study jurisprudence but soon quit. In 1909 he took private piano lessons from Robert Kahn (1865–1951) and James Kwast (1852–1927) in Berlin. He also attended the conductor’s school of Fritz Steinbach (1855–1916) and became a piano pupil of Lazzaro Uzielli (1861–1943) at Conservatory in Cologne. In 1914, he got concert level as pianist and conductor. Work Germany In 1915 he was a conductor at City theatre in Mainz. He and his younger brother volunteered as soldiers in World War I. He was severely wounded and

Ella Adayevskaya

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Ella von Schultz-Adaïewsky; (Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya) ; 26 July 1926) was a Russian-German composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. Note: “Adayevskaya” is an incorrect appellation. Adaïewsky purposely selected a Russian male pseudonym to hide her identity as a female Protestant composer of German descent in Imperial Russia. She explained that she derived the first letters of her artist name (A-D-A) from the opening motif of the overture to Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. Adaïewsky wrote vocal music (including choral works), chamber music, and two operas. She also edited a collection of Italian songs and published writings on folk music and the music of ancient Greece. Life Born in St. Petersburg on 22 February 1846 as Elizaveta/Elisabeth von Schultz, as the daughter of the prominent Estophile of Baltic German heritage Georg Julius von Schultz. Adaïewsky began learning the piano in childhood. Amongst her teachers were Adolf von Henselt, Anton Rubinstein, and Alexander Dreyschock. She studied composition with Alexander Famintsyn and Nikolai Zaremba. Adayevskaya was a pseudonym derived from the notes A, D, and A, played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka’s opera Rus

Elsa Laura Wolzogen

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Elsa Laura Seemann von Mangern von Wolzogen (5 August 1876 – 25 April 1945) was a German composer, lute player, and singer. She was born and grew up in Dresden, where her family owned a guesthouse which entertained well-known artists and scholars like Arthur Rubinstein. Elsa married Ernst von Wolzogen in 1902. Ernst had opened the 650-seat Buntes Theater in Berlin in 1901, one of the first cabarets in Germany. Elsa often sang and accompanied herself on lute at the theater, where Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg conducted the house orchestra. Elsa and Ernst toured the United States from 1910 to 1911. An unidentified critic noted in 1911 that “Elsa Laura sings songs in ten different languages and in many dialects. … she is equally at home in the folk songs of Provence and in the darky songs of America. The French Chanson and the Tyrolian Schnaderhiipfel have no terrors for her.” Elsa composed her own songs and arranged hundreds of French, German and Scandinavian folk songs for voice and lute, which were published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig. She also set poems by her husband Ernst to music. Her works include: *Death Rides *Father Weislein *Five Songs (words by

Else Schmitz-Gohr

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Else Schmitz-Gohr (12 August 1901 – 13 December 1987) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher who is best remembered for her Elegy for the Left Hand for piano, her successful students, and her recordings of Max Reger’s works for piano. Schmitz-Gohr was born in Cologne. She studied at the Cologne Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Her teachers included Franz Bolsche, Wilhelm Klatte, Dr. Otto Klauwell, James Kwast, and Fritz Hans Rehbold. She socialized with sculptor Lili Graf. In 1918, she debuted as a pianist under conductor Hermann Abendroth, and in 1922 won the Gustav Hollaender medal. Bernhard Klee, Georg Kroll, Irene Vogel Osiander, Erika Rademacher, Eckart Sellheim, and Joachim Volkmann. Nareh Arghamanyan recorded works by Schmitz-Gohr on her album Femmes de Légende Hänssler HC25026 (2025). Compositions Schmitz-Gohr’s compositions were published by Schott Music. They included: Chamber * Allegro in G minor (violin and piano) * Allegro Moderato in E minor (piano trio) * Andante in G minor (piano trio) * Kleine Flöten-Duette (two flutes) Orchestra * Overture in G minor Piano * Elegy for the Left Hand * Fantasie in F major * Suite References Recordings * *

Emil Bohnke

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Emil Bohnke (11 October 1888 – 11 May 1928) was a German violist, composer and conductor active in Berlin. Life Born in Zduńska Wola near Łódź, Poland, Emil Bohnke was the son of textile manufacturer Ferdinand Bohnke. From 1901 to 1908, he studied violin with Hans Sitt and composition with Stephan Krehl at the Leipzig Conservatory, continuing his studies in Berlin at the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1908 with Friedrich Gernsheim. Bohnke taught for two years at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. In 1919, he married violinist Lilli von Mendelssohn (born 1897) of the Mendelssohn family and fathered three children, the youngest of which was pianist Robert-Alexander Bohnke (1927–2004). He was the violist of the Bandler Quartet and the Busch Quartet (1919–1921) led by Adolf Busch. Bohnke played a 1699 viola by luthier Giovanni Grancino given to him by his father-in-law. As conductor, he headed the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra (1923–1926) and succeeded Oscar Fried as principal conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in 1926. Bohnke and his wife are buried at Friedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Music Bohnke composed a body of sixteen opuses, comprising mainly chamber music and piano pieces, but al

Emil Büchner

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Adolf Emil Büchner (7 December 1826 in Osterfeld – 9 June 1908 in Erfurt) was a German conductor and bandmaster. He wrote a number of compositions, including operas, chamber music, choral works, and symphonies. Life Büchner’s parents encouraged his musical interests from a young age. He attended the Leipzig Conservatory between April 1843 and Easter 1846, when he graduated. He was the ninth student to attend the newly formed conservatory, and was exempt from paying tuition. After his studies he worked as a piano teacher in Leipzig until 1856. After numerous engagements as a conductor, he was from 1865 the conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra in the city of Meiningen. Büchner and the court orchestra performed with Franz Liszt in 1867 in Meiningen, at the festival of the “General German Music Society”. In 1876, at the request of Richard Wagner, he introduced the main contingent of the festival orchestra at the first Bayreuth Festival, which many years later participated in the Festival. As Kapellmeister, Büchner brought the orchestra a significant increase in quality. In 1880 he gave his successor, Hans von Bülow, the chapel next to a known top European orchestra. In 1881, Büch

Emil Kreuz

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Emil Anton Joseph Friedrich Kreuz, also known as Emil Frederick Thornfield (25 May 1867 – 3 December 1932) was a German violinist, violist, teacher, conductor and composer. Biography Emil Kreuz was born in Elberfeld near Wuppertal, began playing violin at an early age and studied under Georg Joseph Japha (1835–1892) in Cologne from the age of ten. At sixteen he won a scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied violin with Henry Holmes and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford until 1888. For two years he concentrated his studies on the viola, making his debut as soloist with Hector Berlioz’s Harold en Italie in December 1888 at one of the London Symphony Concerts established by George Henschel. He became well known in England. He was violin soloist at the Leeds Festival in 1889, violist of the Gompertz Quartet along with violinists Richard Gompertz, Haydn Inwards and cellist Charles Ould from 1888 to 1903, and a member of the Covent Garden Opera Orchestra from 1900 to 1903. In 1903, he became assistant musical director of the Covent Garden Opera and joined The Hallé to study conducting with its principal conductor Hans Richter. He then turned his atte

Emil Mattiesen

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Emil Karl Gustav Alfred Mattiesen (23 January 1875 – 25 September 1939) was a Baltic-German musician, music pedagogue, composer and philosopher. He composed lieder, song cycles, ballads, chamber music and organ music, but is better known for standard works in German on parapsychology. He was a professor of church music at the University of Rostock from 1929. Life Mattiesen was born in Dorpat. * 1910 Ballade von der Liebe * 1926 Die Kunstkasse in Neukloster. Eine Geschichte und ein Aufruf in Mecklenburgische Monatshefte Parapsychology * 1925 Der jenseitige Mensch. Eine Einführung in die Metapsychologie der mystischen Erfahrung. reprinted unchanged in 1987 by Walter de Gruyter-Verlag Berlin and New York * 1936–39 Das persönliche Ueberleben des Todes. Eine Darstellung der Erfahrungsbeweise (3 vols.). Reprinted in 1961 with a preface by Gebhard Frei, reprinted in 1987 with a preface by Bauer, both Walter de Gruyter-Verlag BerlinNew York References Further reading * * Werner F. Bonin: Lexikon der Parapsychologie und ihrer Grenzgebiete. Bern, München 1976, p. 328. External links * * * * SUB Göttingen * Dr. Emil Mattiesen / 1875–1939 rodiehr.de * Emil Mattiesen classicalvocalreprints.com

Emil Platen

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Emil Platen (born 16 September 1925) is a German musicologist and conductor. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Platen received his first music lessons at the Jugendmusikschule Düsseldorf in the disciplines violin and music theory/composition (with Reger’s student Otto Leonhardt). After work and military service (1943–45) he enrolled in 1946 at the University of Cologne in the subject musicology, changed in 1947 to the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, where he studied composition with , viola with Hermann Hirschfelder and choral conducting with Kurt Thomas. After his examination as a choral conductor, he resumed his musicological studies at the University of Bonn in 1951, which he completed in 1957 with a dissertation on the “Chorische Choralbearungen von Joh. Bach” which won him his doctorate. During his studies he worked as a violist in various ensembles in Bonn and at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. Further stages in his professional career were: 1959 research assistant at the Beethoven-Archiv Bonn, 1963 academic music director and 1971 honorary professor for musicology at the University of Bonn. In 1969 he founded the North Rhine-Westphalia Youth Symphony Orchestra together with Hans-Josef Men

Emil von Reznicek

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Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek (4 May 1860, in Vienna – 2 August 1945, in Berlin) was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry. Life Reznicek’s grandfather, Josef Resnitschek (1787–1848), was a trumpet virtuoso and band leader in the Imperial regiments Nos. 32 (Esterhazy), based in Budapest, and 60 (Gustav Wasa), based in Vienna where he played music with Johann Strauss Sr. and Joseph Lanner. Reznicek’s father Josef Resnitschek/Reznicek (1812–1887) entered the army as a cadet and eventually became Feldmarschall-Lieutenant, the second-highest rank in the Austrian army, gaining an ordinary diploma of nobility in 1851 and the rank as a Baron (Freiherr) in 1859. His mother, Clarisse Fürstin Ghika Budești (1837–1864), belonged to the influential Ghika family of Romania. Emil Nikolaus was the half-brother of the artist Ferdinand von Řezníček (1868–1909). Reznicek passed his childhood in Vienna, until the family moved to Graz in 1874. He began piano lessons in 1871; his first compositions date from 1876–78, when he was a student in Graz and at the Staatsgymnasium in Marburg an der Drau (Maribor). He studied law and music in Graz from 1878–80. He never finished his law

Emil von Sauer

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Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a student of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called von Sauer “a truly great virtuoso.” Martin Krause, another Liszt pupil, called von Sauer “the legitimate heir of Liszt; he has more of his charm and geniality than any other Liszt pupil.” Life Sauer was born in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 8 October 1862 as Emil Georg Conrad Sauer. He studied with Nikolai Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory between 1879 and 1881. On an 1884 visit to Italy he met the Countess von Sayn-Wittgenstein, who recommended him to her former paramour, Franz Liszt. He went on to study with Liszt for two years, but did not for some time consider himself a Liszt pupil. In an 1895 interview, he even denied it: “It is not correct to regard me as a pupil of Liszt, though I stayed with him for a few months. He was then very old, and could not teach me much. My chief teacher has been, undoubtedly, Nicholas Rubinstein.” From 1882, Sauer made frequent and successful tours as a virtuoso pianist; his performing car

Emilie Zumsteeg

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Emilie Zumsteeg (9 December 1796 – 1 August 1857) was a German choral conductor, singer, composer, and pianist. Biography Zumsteeg was born in Stuttgart (then in the Holy Roman Empire) where she lived for her whole life. She was one of seven children of the composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg and his wife Luise Andreä (1760–1837). Her father died when Emilie was just six years old. Her mother then ran a music store, which furthered her daughter’s musical interest. As a child, Zumsteeg took piano lessons with Gottlob Schick (1776–1812) and studied music theory with . She showed a facility at sight-reading. Gifted with a fine alto voice, she soon began singing and performing on the piano at the Stuttgart Museumskonzerte. As an adult she cultivated a circle of talented musicians and leading poets. The literary ties reflected her interest in the lied, which formed the basis of her composition. In 1830, Zumsteeg founded the first women’s choir in Württemberg. As a teacher of voice and piano, she made a living through music lessons and also as a leading member of the Verein für Klassische Kirchenmusik. She died in Stuttgart at age 60. One song in particular was later used by the Russian Bapt

Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)

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Engelbert Humperdinck (; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893). Early life Humperdinck was born in Siegburg in the Rhine Province in 1854. After receiving piano lessons, he produced his first composition at the age of seven. His first attempts at works for the stage were two singspiele written when he was 13. His parents disapproved of his plans for a career in music and encouraged him to study architecture. But he began taking music classes under Ferdinand Hiller and Isidor Seiss at the Cologne Conservatory in 1872. In 1876, he won a scholarship that enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Franz Lachner and later with Josef Rheinberger. In 1879, he won the first Mendelssohn Award given by the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) in Berlin. After winning another prize, Humperdinck traveled through Italy, France, and Spain. For two years, he taught at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. In 1887, he returned to Cologne. He was appointed professor at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1890 and also teacher of harmony at Julius Stockhausen’s Vocal School. By this time he had com

Enno Poppe

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Enno Poppe (born 30 December 1969 in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia) Since 1998 he has conducted the ensemble mosaik for contemporary music in Berlin. and won an Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize in 2004. His opera Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung (Work, Nourishment, Lodging) on a libretto of Marcel Beyer was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008. Since 2008 Poppe has been a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, since 2009 of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste and, since 2010, of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. In 2023 Poppe was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize from Italian Music Critics Association. Works Source: Stage works * IQ (2011–2012). Text: Marcel Beyer * Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung (2006–2007). Text: Marcel Beyer * Interzone (2003–2004) Text: Marcel Beyer Works for orchestra * HUNDERT. Hommage à Pierre Boulez VI (2024) * Strom (2023–2024) * Schnur (2019) for cello and orchestra * Fett (2018–2019) * Welt (2011–2012) * Markt (2008–2009) * Altbau (2007–2008) * Keilschrift (2006) * Obst (2006) Works for ensemble * Blumen (2022) for ensemble * Körper (2021) for ensemble * Hirn (2021) for ensemble * O Du (2020) for ensemble * Prozession (2015

Enrique Gottel

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Enrique Gottel (1831–1875) was a German-Nicaraguan journalist, music composer, and historian. Arrival in Nicaragua Gottel was born in Danzig, Kingdom of Prussia, and emigrated to the United States at a young age. He spoke English, Spanish, and German. When the gold rush struck in California, he arranged for a trip via Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Accessory Transit Company which took a natural route through the San Juan river in Nicaragua. Gottel decided to stay in Rivas, a city located in Nicaragua’s Southwestern Pacific region. He later established a contract with the Accessory Transit Company. Gottels contract with the Accessory Transit Company consisted of diligences hauled by horses to transport people between Bahía de la Virgen (Bay of the Virgin) in Lake Nicaragua and the port in San Juan del Sur. In 1856, it left him in ruins due to the struggle between William Walker and Vanderbilt. Gottel resumed his diligence service in 1861 with his new partner, Colombian General Pedro Ruiz Tejada. After Gottels death, Ruiz kept the service going and added a new route from León to Chinandega. Gottel ran the newspaper for 9 years, up until 1874. El Provenir was transferred to Managua,

Erhard Mauersberger

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Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903 in Mauersberg, Saxony – 11 December 1982 in Leipzig) was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic teacher and composer. Biography Mauersberger, the son of a cantor in Mauersberg, Saxony, was the younger brother of Rudolf Mauersberger, who was cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. He was a Thomaner (a member of the Thomanerchor) from 1914 to 1920 under Gustav Schreck. He studied the organ with Karl Straube at the Leipziger Konservatorium. In 1925 he became director of the Aachener Bachverein, and in 1928 became a teacher at the Mainz Conservatory and a cantor at the Christuskirche in Mainz. From 1930 he was cantor at the Georgenkirche in Eisenach. In 1932 he started teaching at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt”, Weimar, and was appointed professor for choral conducting in 1946. In autumn 1933 he joined the German Christians. From 1939 on, he worked in their Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life and was the musical editor of their “de-Judaized” hymnal, Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich. Beginning in 1950, he direct

Erich Böhlke

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Erich Böhlke (9 September 1895 – 19 April 1979) was a German conductor and composer. Life Böhlke was born as the son of an art dealer in Szczecin. Already as a child and teenager he made his mark musically. So from 1909, he directed the Stettin male choral society Melodia. Böhlke first prepared himself for the profession of a teacher by attending the in Maszewo and then the teachers’ seminar in Pölitz. During the First World War he served on the Eastern Front. He passed the 2nd teacher’s exam, but then he devoted himself entirely to music. From 1919 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1924 he became bandmaster at the . Further stations were from 1926 musical director at the Theater Koblenz and from 1929 chief conductor at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 1934, he became general music director and artistic director of the Stadttheater Magdeburg. There he was replaced as artistic director by a party member in 1939, but remained general music director until the war-related closure in 1944. After the Second World War he was General Music Director of the Staatstheater Oldenburg from 1947 to 1950. From 1950 he worked as a freelance musician. During this time he was, among

Erich Hartmann (musician)

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Erich Hartmann (January 26, 1920, in Leipzig – July 6, 2020) was a German double bass player and composer. He was part of the contrabass section of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Life Erich Hartmann was born on January 26, 1920, in Leipzig and lived in Berlin. The son of a piano maker, he grew up between the Conservatory of Music and St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Hartmann studied double bass at the conservatory, now the Leipzig University of Music. There, he studied with Theodor Albin Findeisen, being his last student, and Max Schulz. At the same time he devoted himself to studying composition with Hermann Grabner. As a young music student he studied the compositions of Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. His studies were interrupted due to labor service and military service in the Second World War. His military service ended due to an injury on September 4, 1942. In October 1942 he resumed studying music. After a successful audition with the Berliner Philharmoniker, he became a member of this orchestra on November 1, 1943. The heavy bombing raids on Berlin also destroyed the Berlin Philharmonic on Bernburger Strasse on January 30, 1944. Hartmann witnessed the e

Erich Katz

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Erich Katz (July 31, 1900 – July 30, 1973) was a German-born musicologist, composer, music critic, musician and professor. He fled the Nazis in 1939, arriving first in England, emigrating to the United States in 1943, where he became a citizen. He was a driving force behind the early music and recorder movements in the United States. Bernard Krainis, a co-founder of New York Pro Musica studied with Katz. Biographical details Katz was born into a prosperous Jewish family in Posen, then part of Prussia, now Poznań, Poland. His father was Albert Katz, a jeweler and watchmaker, the son of a baker. Katz initially began studying engineering, but switched to music after one semester. Katz was married to Adelheid Soltau, who was not Jewish, in 1926. Katz also directed the New York Musician’s Workshop, a group of singers and instrumentalists which performed early and contemporary music. Most of those in the group were students of his from the college. He reorganized ARS in 1947 and remained its music director until 1959. His classes were influential for many students. His music history class was described as including not just discussion and listening, but students also performed the music,

Erika Radermacher

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Erika Radermacher (born 16 April 1936) is a Swiss pianist, soprano and composer. She won prizes in Germany and Austria for her piano performances, including the Mozart Prize, the Austrian State Prize and the Beethoven Competition prize, and played throughout Europe. She taught at the Conservatory of Music in Bern, and at the Bern University of Arts, and sang with the Ensemble Neue Horizonte. Some of her works have been recorded by Swiss radio. Radermacher has also taught in Bulgaria. Biography Erika Radermacher was born in Eschweiler, near Aachen, in Germany on 16 April 1936. She studied music with Else Schmitz-Gohr in Cologne, Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna and voice with Sylvia Gähwiller in Zurich. After completing her studies, she won major prizes in Germany and Austria for her piano performance, and went on to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe. After 1970 she became more interested in composition. Some of her works have been recorded by Swiss radio. In 1983 Radermacher and Schneider won the Bernese music prize. Honors and awards *Two prizes, BAT competition for new chamber music, 1982 *Music Prize of the Canton of Bern, 1983 (with Schneider) *Prize of the German C

Erke Duit

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Erke Duit (born 30 December 1957 in Bremen) is a German conductor, composer and director of several choirs and ensembles. Life After his Abitur, Duit studied church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, specialising in choral conducting (with Hans Gillesberger, Erwin Ortner), composition (with Erich Romanovsky), media composition (with Paul Kont), conducting (with Karl Österreicher) and at Biola College, Los Angeles (scholarship; organ with Charles Shaffer). He is the father of a son and a daughter. Since 2005, he has been teaching Musical Interpretation and Role Designat the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Works * 1992 Cantata Hödlmoser, text: For the steirischer herbst * 1994 Setting of texts by H. C. Artmann for the NÖ. Donaufestival * 1995 The Library of Babel, together with Fritz Rainer and Wolfgang Huber * 1997 Celentano Arrangements, for La Cappella Vienna, performed at the * 1998 The Bremen Town Musicians, chamber orchestra work * 1999 Orchestral work KINDER, for Karl Friedrich Flic * 2000 Cantata adam.eva.aus with the * 2001 Waldviertler Suite for 34 wind instruments (performed with the GRENZBLÄSERN) * 2002 Hohes Haus Musik, setting

Erna Woll

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Erna Woll (23 March 1917 – 7 April 2005) was a German composer, church musician and author. Life Erna Woll was born in St. Ingbert in the Saar. She studied music from 1936 to 1938 at the Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner and studied composition from 1940 to 1944 with Joseph Haas and Gustav Geierhaas at the Munich Academy of Music. During this time she converted to Catholicism, and from 1946 to 1948 she studied Catholic church music at the Cologne Music Academy with Heinrich Lemacher, Theodor Bernhard Rehmann and Hermann Schroeder. From 1950 to 1962, Woll worked as an organist in Cologne Bayenthal and a music teacher and choral director at the Church Music Institute in Speyer. From 1962 to 1969 she was a lecturer, and from 1969 to 1972 she was Honorary Professor at the College of Education at Augsburg. In 1972 she retired from working due to a serious illness, but after recovering she continued to compose. Woll died 7 April 2005 in Augsburg. Erna Woll was a member of professional organizations including the Werkgemeinschaft Musik, the Ecumenical Lyricists and Composers working group, and the AG Musik in der Evangelischen Jugend. Honors *196

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Ernest II (; 21 June 181822 August 1893) was Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 29 January 1844 to his death in 1893. He was born in Coburg to Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. His father became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as Ernest I) in 1826 through an exchange of territories. In 1842, Ernest married Princess Alexandrine of Baden in what was to be a childless marriage. Two years later, he became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha when his father died. Ernest supported the German Confederation in the Schleswig-Holstein Wars against Denmark, sending thousands of troops and becoming the commander of a German corps; he was instrumental in the 1849 victory at the battle of Eckernförde against Danish forces. After King Otto of Greece was deposed in 1862, the British government put Ernest’s name forward as a possible successor. Negotiations concerning this failed for various reasons—not least of which was that he would not give up his beloved duchies in favor of the Greek throne. A supporter of a unified Germany, Ernest watched the various political movements with great interest. While he initially was a great and outspoken proponent of G

Ernst Anschütz

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Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz (28 October 1780 in Goldlauter near Suhl, Electorate of Saxony – 18 December 1861 (other sources: 11 December 1861 ) in Leipzig) was a German teacher, organist, poet, and composer. He is also known for his account of the death of Johann Christian Woyzeck in 1824 (see: Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck). Anschütz worked as a teacher in Leipzig for 50 years. Works *""; 1837; Text: *"" (text, c. 1824); music: Carl Reinecke (1824–1910) as “”, Op. 91, in . Based on "" (c. 1770) *"" (text, 1824) *"" (text, 1824) References External links * * *

Ernst Christoph Dressler

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Ernst Christoph Dressler (23 September 1734 – 6 April 1779) was a German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist. He began his career as a self taught singer and violinist, but eventually received vocal training from the renowned Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti. He became a musician at several courts before he moved to the Court Opera in Vienna and finally to Kassel. He is known for a march on which Beethoven based his first published composition. Life Born in Greußen, near Sondershausen in Thuringia, to Christian Ludwig Dressler and Catherine Elizabeth Renner, Dressler studied theology, jurisprudence and German poetry at the universities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig. In Leipzig, he educated himself in playing the violin and in singing. He moved to Bayreuth, where he took lessons from the singer Maria Giustina Turcotti, training his tenor voice, and subsequently worked as a chamber musician, court singer and secretary for Margrave Friedrich Christian. He was a talented violinist, composer and writer, in addition to his ability as a tenor. He disapproved of the then in vogue at Gotha, and in November 1766 he resigned In 1771, the prince returned to Bohemia;

Ernst Eichner

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Ernst Dietrich Adolph Eichner Ernesto Eichner (15 February 1740 in Arolsen – early 1777 in Potsdam) was a German bassoonist and composer. Biography Eichner was born to Johann Andreas Eichner (1694–1768), a court musician to the court of Waldeck. His father provided him with his primary musical education. He became widely known as a virtuoso bassoonist throughout Europe as a result. In 1762 he entered into the service of Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken as a violinist. In 1768, he became the concertmaster of the Zweibrücken court orchestra, where he remained until 1772. He was highly respected by his contemporaries and achieved international recognition as an accomplished composer, bassoonist, and concertmaster during his lifetime. Eichner, however, died young and was quickly forgotten. To musicologists, he is known as a representative of the Mannheim School. His 31 symphonies and 20 concertos comprise the main body of his works, but he also composed chamber music including Six Flute Quartets op. 4. In 1772 his compositions were published almost simultaneously in Paris, London, and Amsterdam. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart praised Eichner’s works in 1784 for their gracious char

Ernst Gottlieb Baron

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Ernst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron (17 February 1696 – 12 April 1760), was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music. Baron was born in Breslau into the family of Michael Baron, a maker of gold lace who expected his son to follow in his footsteps. Baron showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made it his profession. He studied lute from about 1710 with a Bohemian named Kohott. He attended the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau, and from 1715 the University of Leipzig, where he studied philosophy and law. He spent the period from 1719 to 1728 in travels from one small court to another. He visited Halle, Köthen, Schleiz, Saalfeld and Rudolstadt, arriving in Jena in 1720 and remaining for two years. Later he travelled to Kassel, Fulda, Würzburg, Nuremberg and Regensburg, returning in 1727 to Nuremberg where he published his “Historisch-theoretische und practische Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten”, the work for which he is principally remembered. In 1728 he replaced the lutenist Meusel, who had recently died in a horseback riding accident, at the court of Gotha. He held that post for four years. After the death of the Duke of Gotha he moved on to E

Ernst Hermann Meyer

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Ernst Hermann Ludimar Meyer (8 December 1905 – 8 October 1988) was a German composer and musicologist, noted for his expertise on seventeenth-century English chamber music. Life Meyer was born in Berlin. He received his first piano lessons at the age of six and started composing at eleven. After finishing school, he worked as an apprentice at a bank, and in 1926 he started the advanced study of music at Heidelberg University, where in 1930 he completed his Ph.D. on the 17th-century chamber music of North German composers. He became a pupil of Hanns Eisler and under his influence, joined the Communist Party. Being a Jew and the composer of militant protest songs, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933 to avoid detention by the Nazi Party. There he eventually became a close friend of leftist composer Alan Bush, who was also in contact with exiled composers Eisler and Kurt Weill. In the UK, Meyer researched English chamber music of the 17th century, lectured for the Workers Educational Association and conducted the Labour Choral Union. In 1939 he began lecturing at Bedford College, London; in 1945 he was given a guest professorship at King’s College, Cambridge. But unlike some of

Ernst Klusen

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Ernst Klusen (20 February 1909 in Düsseldorf – 31 July 1988 in Bad Segeberg) was a German musicologist, educator and Volkslied composer. Work Books and songbooks * Das Volkslied im niederrheinischen Dorf. Studien zum Volksliedschatz der Gemeinde Hinsbeck mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Melodien. Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1941. * Der Stammescharakter in den Weisen neuerer deutscher Volkslieder. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1953. * Die Windmühle. Niederrheinische Volkslieder. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1955. * Sankt Martin. Lieder und Lampen. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1955. * Das Bonner Gesangbuch von 1550. Edited by Ernst Klusen. Staufen-Verlag, Kamp-Lintfort 1965. * Volkslied. Fund und Erfindung. Gerig, Cologne 1969. * Das Volkslied im niederrheinischen Dorf. Studien zum Lebensbereich des Volksliedes der Gemeinde Hinsbeck im Wandel einer Generation. Voggenreiter, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1970. * Bevorzugte Liedtypen Zehn- bis Vierzehnjähriger. Gerig, Cologne 1971. * Gefahr und Elend einer neuen Musikdidaktik. Gerig, Cologne 1973. * Zur Situation des Singens in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Part 1: Der Umgang mit dem Lied (Mitarbeit: V. Karbusický). Gerig, Cologne 1974. * Zur S

Ernst Laaff

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Ernst Laaff (4 November 1903 – 12 September 1987) was a German musician, professor and rector. Life Laaff was born on 4 November 1903 in Wiesbaden. After his school days he first studied in Wiesbaden. Then he went to Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin, where he continued his studies. In Berlin he was taught by Arnold Schering among others. After completing his studies he wrote a dissertation on Franz Schubert’s symphonies. With musical notes. . Shortly afterwards, the Collegium musicum of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz was founded, where he began to teach. In 1938 he became head of the department of the Schott Music publishing house in Mainz. Shortly afterwards he also became representative of the publishing house. In the post-war period, he founded the journal Das Musikleben at the Schott-Verlag. In 1949 he finally became a professor. * Music mit Fleiss gedrucket. Grundzüge der Entwicklung des Musiknotendrucks. Vortrag, etc..Music mit Fleiss gedrucket. Grundzüge der Entwicklung des Musiknotendrucks. Vortrag, etc. on WorldCat * Carl Schuricht, 1880-1967 : Ansprache während des Gedächtniskonzertes der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden am 28. Februar 1967 im Grossen Kurhaussaal. Literat

Ernst Naumann

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Carl Ernst Naumann (15 August 183215 December 1910) was a German organist, composer, conductor, editor, arranger and musicologist. He is best known now as an arranger and editor of the music of J.S. Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was a friend of Schumann and Brahms, and conducted the first performance of the latter’s Alto Rhapsody in 1870. Biography Carl (or Karl) Ernst Naumann was born in Freiberg in Saxony in 1832, the son of mineralogist Carl Friedrich Naumann. He was a cousin of Emil Naumann (1827–1888) and grandson of Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), both composers. Ernst Naumann studied the organ with (1789–1864) and composition with Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Richter. Naumann was friendly with Brahms and Schumann. The similarity of Brahms’s music to that of late Beethoven was first noted in a letter from Albert Dietrich to Ernst Naumann on 5 November 1853. Naumann was one of the people Dietrich wrote to in March 1854, following Schumann’s suicide attempt in late February. On 3 March 1870, with the Akademischer Gesangverein of Jena, Naumann conducted the first public performance of Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, with Pauline Viardot as soloist. He died in 1910 in Jena, aged 78

Ernst Pepping

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Ernst Pepping (12 September 1901 – 1 February 1981) was a German composer of classical music and academic teacher. He is regarded as an important composer of Protestant sacred music in the 20th century. Pepping taught at the and the . His music includes works for instruments (three symphonies), the church (the motet , the ), and collections including the (Spandau choir book) and the three volume (Great Organ Book), which provides pieces for the entire liturgical year. Career Born Ernst Heinrich Franz Pepping in Duisburg, Pepping first studied to be a teacher. From 1922 to 1926 he studied composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik with , a pupil of Franz Schreker. Pepping composed mostly instrumental music until 1928. In 1926 his works (Little serenade for military band) and (Suite for trumpet, saxophone and trombone) were premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. He received the composition award of the Mendelssohn Foundation. In 1929 his (Chorale suite) was first performed in Duisburg and well received. In 1934, Pepping accepted a position as teacher of harmony, sight-reading and counterpoint at the of the Protestant in Spandau, where he lived until his death. Among his man

Ernst Richter

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Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in 1843 he was appointed professor of harmony and counterpoint at the conservatorium of music, then newly founded by Felix Mendelssohn. On the death of Moritz Hauptmann on 3 January 1868, he was elected cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig, conducting the Thomanerchor, an office he retained until his death. He is best known by three theoretical works: Lehrbuch der Harmonie, Lehrbuch des einfachen und doppelten Contrapunkts and Lehrbuch der Fuge, valuable textbooks known to English students through the translation by J.C.D Parker and Franklin Taylor. “Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (1808-1879) …His compositions include psalms for chorus and orchestra, motets, two masses, a Stabat Mater (voices only), part songs, string quartets and sonatas, and also pieces for organ and for piano. But it is his treatise on the theory of music that will keep Professor Richter’s name from oblivion. As already mentioned, two English editions have appeared: one in Lond

Ernst Rudorff

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Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff (January 18, 1840 – December 31, 1916) was a German composer and music teacher, also a founder of the nature protection movement “Heimatschutz”. Biography Born in Berlin, Rudorff studied piano under Woldemar Bargiel from 1852 to 1857 before enrolling at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1859, where he studied under Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, and Julius Rietz. He was also a private pupil of Moritz Hauptmann and Carl Reinecke. In 1865 he became a piano teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and he founded the Bach-Verein Köln in 1867. He moved to Berlin in 1869, and for four decades, to his retirement in 1910, was the head piano teacher at the Berlin Hochschule. He also conducted the Stern Gesangverein from 1880 to 1890, succeeding Max Bruch. His collection of music manuscripts, scores, and correspondence is one of the largest and most important such collections still held in private hands. It includes autographs by Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, Clementi, Dussek, Gluck, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Salieri. His students included Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl, Wilhelm Berger, Leo Blech, Gerard von Brucken Fock, Leopold Godowsky, Elsie Hall, Siegfried Ochs, Alexandre

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf

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Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (baptised 25 February 1735 – 29 or 30 November 1792) was a German composer. Life Wolf was born in Grossen Behringen in Thuringia, today part of the Hörselberg-Hainich municipality. His elder brother Ernst Friedrich was a composer and organist who studied under Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Ernst Wilhelm’s musical talent manifested itself early, and already by age nine he was a skilled harpsichordist, particularly apt at figured bass realization. Wolf attended gymnasiums at Eisenach and at Gotha, where he became a choir prefect. It was in Gotha that Wolf first heard the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Carl Heinrich Graun; he was particularly fascinated with Bach’s work. The admiration was mutual: a performance of some of Wolf’s compositions in 1752 drew praise from Bach. Wolf and Bach’s friendship lasted throughout their lives; Wolf helped collect subscriptions for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s für Kenner und Liebhaber (for Connoisseurs and Amateurs) works (piano sonatas and rondos). Following his brother’s advice, in 1755 Wolf entered the University of Jena. There he became the director of the collegium musicum, for which he composed a number of works. After t

Ernst-Lothar von Knorr

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Ernst-Lothar von Knorr (2 January 1896 – 30 October 1973) was a German composer, music educator and civil servant. The years until 1933 Born in Eitorf, Knorr grew up in Bonn. His parents were the pharmacist Dr. chem. Karl Ferdinand von Knorr and Eugenie Sophie Merten. From 1902 he had his first violin lessons. In 1907 he was admitted to the Cologne Conservatory. After graduating from high school, conservatory examination and military service, he became a violin teacher at the Heidelberg Music Academy in 1919, and in 1920 he founded the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra Association with P. Gies. On 6 October 1923 he married in Gummersbach Elise Siebel, a granddaughter of , the co-founder of the paper mill . In the same year he became Concert master with the orchestra of the Diaghilev Ballet in Munich, in 1924 followed the establishment and direction of the Volks- und Jugendmusikschule-Süd in Berlin. In 1925 and 1928 his son Friedrich-Carl and his daughter Ellen were born. A third child (Angelika, *1944) died shortly after birth. Professional career during the Third Reich In 1937 von Knorr became a teacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he received a professorship

Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

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Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (29 March 1934 – 7 June 2024) was a German composer of mostly chamber, choral, piano, and organ works in minimalist or reductionist style. His work has “three principal concerns: sonority, rhythm, and duration” leading “to a large and varied body of work”. Biography Stiebler was born in Berlin on 29 March 1934. He studied composition with Ernst Klussmann and piano at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but had more important lessons at Darmstadt between 1958 and 1961, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1959 and where he first encountered the music of LaMonte Young. From Young he took on sustained sounds and gradually unfolding forms, developing a style based on minimalist structures and repetitions. His other primary influences are indicated by the music of other composers he promoted while a music producer at broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, where he stayed for 25 years: Morton Feldman, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Giacinto Scelsi, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff. Steibler’s form of minimalism comes more from visual art than from mainstream minimalist music. He famously said: “Music is too important to burden it with emotions.” His music ranges from solo in

Erwin Dressel

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Erwin Dressel (10 June 1909, in Berlin – 17 December 1972, in Berlin) was a German composer and pianist. Following the success of his incidental music for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Dressel wrote many operas for the Deutsche Staatsoper. He also arranged music for the radio, concertized as a pianist and wrote orchestral music, including four symphonies; as well as concertos for various instruments (including one for two saxophones). Selected works ;Opera * Armer Columbus, opera, Op.23 (1927); libretto by Arthur Zweiniger * Der Bär, burlesque opera in 1 act; libretto by Robert Wolfgang Schnell * Der Kuchentanz, tragic opera in 3 acts (1927–1928); libretto by Arthur Zweiniger * Die Laune des Verliebten, lyric opera in 1 act; libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * Der Rosenbusch der Maria, Legend in 4 scenes (1929); libretto by Arthur Zweiniger * Das Urteil von Zalamea, opera in 3 acts, 6 scenes, Op.50; after Lope de Vega and Arthur Zweiniger * Die Zwillingsesel, opera in 3 acts; libretto by Arthur Zweiniger ;Orchestral * Abendmusik for chamber orchestra, Op.33 * Balladesker Marsch * Capriccio ritmico * Caprice fantastique * Cassation * Deutsche Märchen-Suite for chamber o

Eugen d'Albert

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Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d’Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany and later to Switzerland. Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Annie Rowell, and a German-born father of French and Italian descent, Charles Louis Napoléon d’Albert (1809–1886), whose ancestors included the composers Giuseppe Matteo Alberti and Domenico Alberti. D’Albert’s father was a pianist, arranger and a prolific composer of salon music who had been ballet-master at the King’s Theatre and at Covent Garden. D’Albert was born when his father was 55 years old. The Musical Times wrote in 1904 that “This, and other circumstances, accounted for a certain loneliness in the boy’s home-life and the years of his childhood. He was misunderstood, and ‘cribbed, cabined, and confined’ to such an extent as to largely prejudice him against the country which gave him birth”. D’Albert was brought up in Glasgow and taught music by his father until he won a scholarship to the new National Training School for Music (forerunner of the Royal College of Music) in London, which he entered in 1876 at the age of 12. Also in 1880, d’Albert arranged the p

Eugen Papst

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Eugen Papst (24 December 1886 – 2 January 1956) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Papst was born in Oberammergau, the son of an educator and head teacher of the same name, Eugen Papst (1855-1923), after whom the Eugen-Papst-Förderschule in Germering was later named. He then attended the teacher training seminar in Freising and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1907. In 1910 he worked at the theater in Olsztyn and from 1911 in Bern as musical director of the city theater. In 1922 he was called to Hamburg, where he conducted the Hamburg Philharmonic together with Karl Muck until it was disbanded by the Nazis in 1934. Papst first went to Münster as General Music Director in the fall of 1934, but by 1935 he had already become director of the Cologne Men’s Choral Society and shortly afterwards, with the support of his friend Richard Strauss, also became municipal General Music Director of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne as successor to Hermann Abendroth. He also taught conducting at the Cologne Academy of Music. After the end of the war, there were disputes over his position as General Music Director because the City of Cologne appointed Günt

Eva Schorr

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Eva Schorr (28 September 1927 – 20 January 2016) was a German painter and composer. Biography Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim, Württemberg. Her father was a music and art teacher and gave her lessons in both. At the age of eight she began composing, and at the age of 15 won prizes for composition and organ. She studied music in Stuttgart with Johann Nepomuk David and Anton Nowakowski. She also studied with Olivier Messiaen in Darmstadt. She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and had two sons and a daughter. She died at the age of 88 in 2016. Honors and awards *1961 GEDOK Prize *Prize Composition Competition in Mannheim *Prizes for 4 International Competitions in Buenos Aires Works Schorr has composed chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and music for the stage and film. *Septuarchie violin concerto *Ritornell (Meditation) for violin and organ *Pas de Trois *In der Welt ihr Angst Habte, cantata with violin and organ *Fantasie, Choral und Fuge for organ and oboe *Wir sind ein Teil der Erde choral *Kyrie choral *Psalm 98 for organ Her work has been recorded and issued on CD including: *Initialen F-G-H-SKammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Ni

Eva-Maria Houben

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Eva-Maria Houben (born 15 January 1955) is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Rheinberg, Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine steiger and presbyter in the Protestant village church of . There, Houben provided the organ service during her secondary school time. After her Abitur she studied school music at the Folkwang University of the Arts (1974–78) Her teachers at the Folkwang Hochschule also included Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (music theory) and Ludger Maxsein (piano). From 1978 to 1982 Houben was organist at the Evangelische Stadtkirche Dinslaken and applied to German Studies and musicology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Quote Publications * Violeta Dinescu. * Musikalische Praxis als Lebensform : Sinnfindung und Wirklichkeitserfahrung beim Musizieren. * Die Aufhebung der Zeit : zur Utopie unbegrenzter Gegenwart in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. * Gelb : neues Hören; Vinko Globokar, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky. * Jürg Frey : Werkbetrachtungen, Reflexionen, Gespräche. References Further reading * Burkhard Sauerwald: Eva-Maria Houben. In Komponis

Fanny Hensel

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Fanny Cäcilie Hensel née Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for solo piano, and over 250 lieder. Most of these were unpublished in her lifetime. Although lauded for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle. She grew up in Berlin and received a thorough musical education from teachers including her mother, as well as the composers Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two developed a close relationship. Owing to her family’s reservations and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published under her brother’s name in his Opus 8 and 9 collections. In 1829, she married artist Wilhelm Hensel and, in 1830, they had their only child, Sebastian Hensel. In 1846, despite the continuing ambivalence of some of her family (but not her husband)

Felicitas Kukuck

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Felicitas Kukuck (2 November 19144 June 2001) was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works. Biography Felicitas Kukuck was born in Hamburg in 1914. Her parents encouraged their daughter’s artistic development from childhood and enabled her to attend good music schools. Her teachers included Eduard Zuckmayer (music), Edith Weiss-Mann (piano) and Robert Müller-Hartmann (harmony). Until 1933 she attended the Montessori oriented Lichtwark. The Nazi seizure of power marked a turning point in her life, as she learned that she had Jewish ancestors. She moved to Martin Luserke’s “Schule am Meer” on Juist Island, and completed her studies in 1935 at the Odenwald School. After graduating, Kukuck studied piano and flute at the Berlin Musikhochschule, and in 1937 she successfully passed the examination to become a private music teacher. She studied composition with Paul Hindemith until his emigration, and in 1939 Felicitas Kukuck closed her musical studies. Felicitas Kukuck was born a Cohnheim, but her father changed this Jewish name in 1916 to Kestner. Her parents emigrated to England, but Felicitas stayed in Germany. In 1939 she married Dietrich Kukuck and a sympathetic

Felix Draeseke

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Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the “New German School” admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music. Life Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of Coburg, Germany. He was attracted to music early in life and wrote his first composition at age 8. He encountered no opposition from his family when, in his mid-teens, he declared his intention of becoming a professional musician. A few years at the Leipzig Conservatory did not seem to benefit his development, but after one of the early performances of Wagner’s Lohengrin he was won to the camp of the New German School centered on Franz Liszt at Weimar, where he stayed from 1856 (arriving just after Joachim Raff’s departure) to 1861. In 1862 Draeseke left Germany and made his way to Switzerland, teaching in the Suisse Romande in the area around Lausanne. Upon his return to Germany in 1876, Draeseke chose Dresden as his place of residence. Though he continued having success in composition, it was only in 1884 that he received an official appointment to

Felix Dreyschock

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Felix Dreyschock (27 December 1860 – 1 August 1906) was a German pianist, son of Raimund Dreyschock, and nephew of Alexander Dreyschock. Biography Felix Dreyschock was born in Leipzig on 27 December 1860. At the age of sixteen, he studied music with the Leipzig organist Karl Junne. He entered the Royal College of Music in 1875, where he studied with Friederich Grabau and Franz Schulz. Dreyschock studied composition with Friedrich Kiel and Wilhelm Taubert. He further improved his piano technique with Heinrich Ehrlich. He first gave concerts in February 1883 in Berlin and made extensive tours throughout Europe (Austria, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, Scandinavia). In Stockholm he performed successfully in 1886 and 1889, both as a virtuoso and composer. Dreyschock taught at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst and later the Stern Conservatory. Dreyschock wrote salon pieces of moderate difficulty which were well-received and also a collection of twelve easy pieces based on fairy tales. References External links * *

Felix Mendelssohn

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Felix Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809, in Hamburg, at the time an independent city-state, in the same house where, a year later, the dedicatee and first performer of his Violin Concerto, Ferdinand David, would be born. Mendelssohn’s father, the banker Abraham Mendelssohn, was the son of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, whose family was prominent in the German Jewish community. Until his baptism at age seven, Mendelssohn was brought up largely without religion. His mother, Lea Salomon, was a member of the Itzig family and a sister of Jakob Salomon Bartholdy. Mendelssohn was the second of four children; his older sister Fanny also displayed exceptional and precocious musical talent. The family moved to Berlin in 1811, leaving Hamburg in disguise in fear of French reprisal for the Mendelssohn bank’s role in breaking Napoleon’s Continental System blockade. Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn sought to give their children – Fanny, Felix, Paul and Rebecka – the best education possible. Fanny became a pianist well known in Berlin musical circles as a composer; originally Abraham had thought that she, rather than Felix, would be the more musical. But it was not considered proper, by either Abraham or Felix, for a woman to pursue a career in music, so she remained an active but non-professional musician. Abraham was initially disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he was seriously dedicated. Mendelssohn grew up in an intellectual environment. Frequent visitors to the salon organised by his parents at their home in Berlin included artists, musicians and scientists, among them Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, and the mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (whom Mendelssohn’s sister Rebecka would later marry). The musician Sarah Rothenburg has written of the household that “Europe came to their living room”.

Felix Otto Dessoff

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Felix Otto Dessoff (14 January 1835 – 28 October 1892) was a German conductor and composer. Biography Dessoff was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig; his father was a cloth merchant. His musical talent was recognized by Franz Liszt, who then advised his family on his musical training. As a student at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1851–54, Dessoff studied composition, piano and conducting with some of the foremost teachers of the day, including Ignaz Moscheles for piano and Moritz Hauptmann and Julius Rietz for composition. On November 16, 1853, a symphony of his was performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; the following day he met Johannes Brahms, with whom he formed a lasting friendship and artistic relationship. Dr Clemens Hellsberg, the president of the Vienna Philharmonic, specifies that during Dessoff’s tenure with that orchestra its “repertoire was consistently enlarged, important organizational principles (music archives, rules of procedure) were introduced and the orchestra moved to its third new home in which it still performs . At the beginning of the 1870/71 season it began playing in the newly built Goldener Saal in the Musikverein building in Vienna, which has pr

Felix Weingartner

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Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Life and career Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now Zadar, Croatia), to Austrian parents. The family moved to Graz in 1868, and his father died later that year. He studied with Wilhelm Mayer (who published his own compositions under the pseudonym of W. A. Rémy and also taught Ferruccio Busoni). In 1881 he went to Leipzig to study philosophy, but soon devoted himself entirely to music, entering the Conservatory in 1883 and studying in Weimar as one of Franz Liszt’s last pupils. Liszt helped produce the world premiere of Weingartner’s opera Sakuntala in 1884 with the Weimar orchestra. According to Liszt biographer Alan Walker, however, the Weimar orchestra of the 1880s was far from its peak of a few decades earlier and the performance ended up poorly, with the orchestra going one way and the chorus another. Walker got this account from Weingartner’s autobiography, published in Zürich and Leipzig in 1928–1929. The same year, 1884, he assumed the directorship of the Königsberg Opera. From 1885 to 1887 he was Kapellmeister in Danzig, then in Ham

Felix Woyrsch

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Felix Woyrsch (8 October 1860 – 20 March 1944) was a German composer and choir director. Life Woyrsch was born in Troppau, just over the Prussian border in Austrian Silesia (now Opava in the Czech Republic). He was raised in Dresden and later Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, in a lower middle class family of limited means. Largely self-taught in music, he did study for some time with Ernst August Heinrich Chevallier. He became director of the “Altonaer Liedertafel” in 1887 and director of the Altona Church Choir in 1893. In 1895, he took over the direction of the Altona “Singakademie”, and became organist at the Friedenskirche and then at the Johanniskirche. From 1903, he created municipal symphonic and folk music concerts. Already a music professor since 1901, he was elected into the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1917. He worked as a conductor and as Altona’s city music director until 1931. In 1936, he was given the Goethe Medal, followed by the Beethoven Prize in Berlin upon his retirement in 1937. He died in Altona. Style and legacy His main influences included his friend Brahms as well as Bach, Palestrina, Lassus, and Heinrich Schütz. Although Woyrsch quite valued the music

Ferdinand David (musician)

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Ferdinand Ernst Victor Carl David (; 19 June 181018 July 1873) was a German virtuoso violinist, composer and conductor. Biography Born in the same house in Hamburg where Felix Mendelssohn had been born the previous year, David returned to Dorpat to marry Liphardt’s daughter Sophie. In 1843 David became the first professor of violin (Violinlehrer) at the newly founded Leipziger Konservatorium für Musik. David worked closely with Mendelssohn, providing technical advice during the preparation of the latter’s Violin Concerto in E minor. He was also the soloist in the premiere of the work in 1845, and, with Clara Schumann, played the official premiere of Schumann’s first violin sonata in Leipzig in March 1852. After Mendelssohn’s sudden death, David was assigned Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, a duty he fulfilled 1841–1842 and 1852–1854. He died suddenly in 1873, aged 63, while on a mountain excursion with his children, near Klosters in the Graubünden (Grisons) area of Switzerland. Compositions David’s own compositions number about 50 opuses. They include 12 “theme and variations” pieces for violin and orchestra, five violin concertos, a string sextet, concertinos for violin,

Ferdinand Fränzl

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Ferdinand Fränzl (24 May 1767 in Schwetzingen – 27 October 1833 in Mannheim) was a German violinist, composer, conductor, opera director, and a representative of the third generation of the so-called Mannheim school. The quality of his violin playing must have been comparable to his father’s who in turn was one of the best violinists of his generation. The violinist and composer Louis Spohr, however, who heard him at least twice already in 1810 judged Fränzl’s playing as old-fashioned, reminiscent of a bygone era; he also criticised Fränzel’s impure tone. Biography Fränzl was the grandson of trumpeter and viola player Ferdinand Rudolph Fränzl. His first teacher was his father Ignaz Fränzl, a competent composer himself and one of the foremost violinists of his day. Ferdinand entered the Mannheim court orchestra in 1782. Already in 1785 he went on his first concert tour. Although already an accomplished virtuoso, Fränzl (probably supervised by his father) rounded off his education in Strasbourg. Here he received lessons in composition and counterpoint form Franz Xaver Richter and Ignaz Pleyel. The two, as disparate as they were, made a good pair of teachers for the young Fränzl. Rich

Ferdinand Haberl

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Ferdinand Haberl (15 March 1906 – 3 July 1985) was a German Catholic theologian, composer, musicologist, organist and choir director. He was director of the , honorary professor of Catholic church music at the University of Regensburg and president of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. Life Born in Lintach, Haberl studied theology and musicology in Munich and Regensburg from 1926. In 1931, he received his holy orders. He then worked as pastor and music prefect in Schönwald before continuing his studies in Munich from 1933 to 1934. From 1934 to 1938, he was organist at the German national church Pontifical Institute Santa Maria dell’ Anima in Rome. In 1939, he received his doctorate in theology in Munich. Afterwards, he took over the direction of the church music school in Regensburg. From 1964, he was an honorary professor at the University of Regensburg. In 1970, he was appointed President of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music and in 1971, he was appointed Pontifical Honorary Prelate. Haberl devoted himself to composition and musicological work, composed numerous church music works and produced several theoretical writings and monographs on musicians of the Up

Ferdinand Hiller

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Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, writer and music director. Biography Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his father Justus (originally Isaac Hildesheim, a name that he changed late in the 18th century to conceal his Jewish origins) was a merchant in English textiles – a business eventually continued by Ferdinand’s brother Joseph. Hiller’s talent was discovered early and he was taught piano by the leading Frankfurt musician Alois Schmitt, violin by Jörg Hofmann, and harmony and counterpoint by Georg Jacob Vollweiler; at 10 he performed a Mozart concerto in public; and two years later, he produced his first composition. In 1822, the 13-year-old Felix Mendelssohn entered his life. The Mendelssohn family was at that time staying briefly in Frankfurt and the young Hiller visited them where he was immensely impressed by the playing of Felix (and even more so by that of his sister Fanny). When their acquaintance was renewed in 1825 the two boys found an immediate close friendship, which was to last until 1843. Hiller tactfully describes their falling out as arising from “social,

Ferdinand Hummel

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Ferdinand Hummel (September 6, 1855 in Berlin – April 24, 1928 in Berlin) was a German composer, harp player, pianist and conductor. Hummel started as a child prodigy, and his father, who was a flute player in the Royal Orchestra in Berlin, took care of his son’s first musical training instructing him in both the piano and the harp from the age of four (some say seven) gaining a King Wilhelm von Preussen Stipendium, so he could study with Antonio Zamara at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. In the years 1864 to 1867, the boy toured with his father to South and North Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Russia, where he was hailed as a great harp virtuoso. Through a Royal grant, he later went to study at New Academy of Music, Berlin (Theodor Kullak’s institute) from 1868 to 1875 and later at the Royal High School for Music and Composition with Woldemar Bargiel and Friedrich Kiel as his principal teachers. After his education, he was a harp player in B. Bilse’s Orchestra, which was later to become the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1892, Hummel was appointed leader of the stage music at the Royal Theatre in Berlin, becoming director from 1897 to 1917. As a composer, Humm

Ferdinand Leitner

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Ferdinand Leitner (4 March 1912 in Berlin – 3 June 1996 in Zürich) was a German conductor. Leitner studied under Franz Schreker, Julius Prüwer, Artur Schnabel and Karl Muck. He also was a composition student with Robert Kahn. Starting as a pianist, through the help of Fritz Busch, he became a conductor in the 1930s. He was conductor of the Nollendorfplatz Theater in Berlin from 1943 to 1945; in Hanover from 1945 to 1946; in Munich from 1946 to 1947; and the General Music Director of the Württemberg State Opera house (German “Staatstheater Stuttgart”) in Stuttgart from 1947 until 1969. To honour him, the city of Stuttgart has named a pedestrian bridge, that connects the Upper part (where the Staatstheater is located) and the Central part of the “Schlossgarten” (castle) park, after him (Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg). He is famous as a conductor of opera, his favourite composers being Wagner, Richard Strauss, Mozart, and twentieth-century composers Carl Orff and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. He succeeded Erich Kleiber in 1956 as conductor for the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. From 1976 to 1980, he worked in The Hague as principal conductor of Het Residentie Orkest. Among his more than 300 recordin

Ferdinand Möhring

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Ferdinand Möhring (18 January 1816 – 1 May 1887) was a German composer, poet, conductor and organist. Personal life Möhring was born in Alt Ruppin as the son of the master carpenter Johann Friedrich Möhring and spent his childhood and youth in Neuruppin, where he attended the Gymnasium. In 1857 he married Hedwig Schulz, the daughter of a painter. and from 1873 he lived as a freelance artist. Möhring died in 1887 in Wiesbaden at the age of 71, where he found his final resting place at the Nordfriedhof. Career in music In 1830, he entered the trade school in Berlin, where he completed a Baumeister apprenticeship at his father’s express wish. He broke off this apprenticeship and joined the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. His first motet was performed in 1835. His striving for an all-round musical education led him to join the music department of the Academy of Arts, where he studied from 1837 to 1840. There, he mainly composed instrumental music, including his Symphony in B flat major, which was premiered by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the Gewandhaus in 1838. On 26 January 1840, he gave his final concert together with a fellow student in the hall of the Berlin Singakademie. He the

Ferdinand Pfohl

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Ferdinand Pfohl (; 12 October 1862 in Elbogen, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, now Loket n.O., Czech Republic – 16 December 1949 in Hamburg-Bergedorf) was a German music critic, music writer and composer. Pfohl studied law at Prague, then in Leipzig he studied music as private pupil of Oscar Paul and attended courses in philosophy at the university, worked as music critic at Leipziger Tageblatt and Königlich-Leipziger Zeitung; from November 1892 to 1931 he was music editor of Hamburger Nachrichten, since 1913 to 1934 teacher and co-director of Vogt Conservatory in Hamburg (Thompson - Slonimsky - Sabin, ). Prof. h.c., Dr. phil. h.c., author of many books on music, e.g. a biography on famous Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch and on Richard Wagner. Pfohl was amongst the most highly regarded music critics in Germany; his opinions carried a great deal of weight. Amongst music circles he was particularly well known as a writer and composer (Willscher in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2005). His compositions include a lot of lieder, some piano pieces and works for orchestra. The Pfohl-Woyrsch-Society, Pfohl-Woyrsch-Gesellschaft e.V. Hamburg is going to revive his music and to inform about

Ferdinand Ries

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Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos (the first concerto is not published), three operas, and numerous other works, including 26 string quartets. In 1838 he published a collection of reminiscences of his teacher Beethoven, co-written with Beethoven’s friend, Franz Wegeler. Ries’ symphonies, some chamber works—most of them with piano—his violin concerto and his piano concertos have been recorded, exhibiting a style which, given his connection to Beethoven, lies between the Classical and early Romantic styles. Early life Ries was born into a musical family of Bonn. His grandfather, Johann Ries (1723–1784), was appointed court trumpeter to the Elector of Cologne at Bonn. Ries was the eldest son of the violinist and Archbishopric Music Director Franz Anton Ries (1755–1846) and the brother of violinist and composer (Pieter) Hubert Ries (1802–1886) and violinist Joseph Ries. He received piano lessons from his father and was instructed by Bernhard Romberg, who also belonged to the Bonn Hofkapelle as a cellist.

Ferdinand Thieriot

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Ferdinand Thieriot (April 7, 1838 – July 31, 1919) was a German composer of Romantic music and a cellist. Life and career Thieriot was born in Hamburg. He was a pupil of Eduard Marxsen in Altona and belonged to the circle of musicians around Johannes Brahms, who was also a pupil of Marxsen. Later, Thieriot was a pupil of Josef Rheinberger in Munich. A close, friendly relationship connected him with his teachers all his life. Thieriot was married to the Else Berens, the daughter of publisher Ernst Berens of Hamburg. The marriage remained childless. He worked as a music teacher and musical director in Hamburg, Ansbach, Leipzig (1867) and Glogau (1868–1870). Later Brahms recommended Thieriot for the position of Artistic Director of the Styrian Music Association in Graz (1870–1885). The composer always received high praise in concert reviews: " … and met with a warm and friendly reception by the audience and deservedly so. … Excellent work, clarity and good taste regarding the instrumentation; employment of dignified motives full of character … Enrichment of the concert repertoire". There were performances of his works in concerts at the Hamburg Philharmonic and Singing Academy as well

Fidelio F. Finke

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Fidelio Friedrich “Fritz” Finke (22 October 1891 – 12 June 1968) was a Bohemian-German composer. Life Finke was born the son of a teacher in 1891 in the north-Bohemian village of Josefstal (modern-day Josefův Důl, Czech Republic). From 1906 to 1908, he attended a teacher’s seminar in Reichenberg (now Liberec). He received organ, piano and violin lessons, and from 1908 to 1911, studied at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. From 1911 onward, he worked as a private music teacher and from 1915 as a teacher of musical theory at the Prague Conservatory. In 1920, he moved to the German Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Prague, where he worked as a teacher of musical theory and composition. He became a professor in 1926, and worked as the rector from 1927 to 1945. His students included Friederike Schwarz. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he composed works expressing sympathy for the Nazis, most notably the hymn O Herzland Böhmen (1942). His opportunistic application for membership within the Nazi party expired in 1942 because of his political unreliability. After imprisonment and expropriation as a result of the Beneš decrees as well as a

Fifty Vinc

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Fifty Vinc (born June 9, 1994 in Datteln, real name Vincent Jewell) is a German record producer and composer. Biography Vinc grew up bilingual in Lüdinghausen, as his father is a native American from New Jersey. His father was a DJ in various clubs across the United States, playing genres like Hip-Hop, Funk, and RnB music. Vinc initially attended primary school but was transferred to a special school for children with behavioral issues after the second grade. He later moved to a secondary school and subsequently attended a vocational college. In 2015, he successfully completed his specialized higher education entrance qualification. From 2017 to 2020, Vinc completed an apprenticeship as a management assistant for forwarding and logistics services before starting his career as an independent music composer and producer. Music career Vinc’s early hobby was Breaking, which led him to initially produce music for this scene. Later, he focused on producing in genres like Hip-Hop and Rap. Inspired by his idol Hans Zimmer and his passion for epic, cinematic, orchestral and trailer music, Vinc started blending modern Hip-Hop sounds with elements of film music. This unique style is a definin

Florian Fricke

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Florian Fricke (23 February 1944 – 29 December 2001) was a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music, using the Moog synthesizer, and was a founding member of the Krautrock band Popol Vuh. Early life Born on 23 February 1944, to an affluent Bavarian family, on the Lindau island of Lake Constance, Germany, situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet, Fricke started playing the piano as a child. He studied piano, composition, and conducting at Conservatories in Freiburg and Munich. While in Munich, at 18, he began exploring avant-garde music such as free jazz. Garry Scott related that the two young men “shared similar ideas and beliefs” and “dreamed of changing the world.” Fricke appeared in the small part of an unnamed pianist in the 1968 movie Signs of Life, Herzog’s first, which was shot in Greece. Fricke subsequently edited the soundtracks of several Herzog’s movies, among which were Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night, starring Klaus Kinski and Bruno Ganz; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; and, Heart of Glass. In Herzog’s 1974 film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Fricke made a cameo appearance as a blind pianist named “Florian.” Popol Vuh One day, in

Florian Johann Deller

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Florian Johann Deller (bapt. 2 May 1729 in Drosendorf, Lower Austria – 19 September 1773 in Munich) was an Austrian composer and violinist. Life In 1751 he was a violinist at the court orchestra in Stuttgart. There he studied with Niccolo Jommelli. Later he became assistant to the ballet master Jean Georges Noverre and composed operas and ballets. In 1769 he was appointed Concertmaster and Hofcompositeur. In 1771 he moved to Vienna. Deller died in 1773 in the monastery of the Brothers of Mercy in Munich. His compositional output consists mostly of operas, ballet music, sonatas and minuets. He enjoyed in his lifetime a high reputation as a composer. His works have been greatly appreciated, by, among others Mozart and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Many of his works are considered lost. Works * Operas ** Il tamburo notturno, 1765 ** Le Contese per amore, 1770 ** Il Maestro di Capella, 1771 ** La contadina nelle corte ** 5 other Comic Operas * Ballets **Admète et Alceste (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1761 **La mort d’Hercule (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1762 **Orfée et Euridice (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1763 **Der Sieg des Neptun (Noverre), Stuttgart, 1763 **Apollon et Daphne (Lauchery), Kassel, 1

Francesca Lebrun

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Francesca Lebrun (; 24 March 1756 – 14 May 1791) was a celebrated German soprano associated with the court at Mannheim, as well as an accomplished composer of sonatas. As a singer, she was renowned for her vocal dexterity and was highly sought after by such notable composers as Anton Schweitzer, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Antonio Salieri to sing the lead roles in their most challenging operas. As a composer, her twelve sonatas for piano or harpsichord with violin accompaniment, six each in opus 1 and opus 2, were first published in London, England, in 1779–1781, with further editions in London, Paris, and several German centers. The opus 1 sonatas are available in commercial recordings. Early life She was born Franziska Dorothea Danzi in Mannheim, Electoral Palatinate (present-day Germany), the eldest child of Italian-born cellist Innocenz Danzi and dancer Barbara Sidonia Margaretha Toeschi, the core of the elite elector Mannheim court performers in the late 1750s. Her two brothers, the cellist Franz Ignaz (1763–1826) and the violinist Johann Baptist, were successful composers. The violinist, composer and conductor Karl Joseph (Carlo Giuseppe) Toeschi was her maternal uncle. Career She m

Franco of Cologne

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Franco of Cologne (; also Franco of Paris) was a German music theorist, possibly a composer, one of the most influential theorists of the Late Middle Ages, and was the first to propose an idea which was to transform musical notation permanently: that the duration of any note should be determined by its appearance on the page, and not from context alone. The result was Franconian notation, described most famously in his Ars cantus mensurabilis. Life Some details are known about his life, and more can be inferred. In his own treatise he described himself as the papal chaplain and the preceptor of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John at Cologne, an extremely powerful position in northern Europe in the 13th century. Other documents of the time refer to him as “Franco of Paris” as well as “Franco teutonicus”; since his writing on music is intimately associated with the Notre Dame school of Paris, and his Teutonic origin is mentioned in several sources, he was probably German, probably traveled between Cologne and Paris, which had close relations during that time, and probably had a musical position at Notre Dame at some point, perhaps as a teacher, composer or singing master. Jacques of

Frank Petzold

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Frank Petzold (born 1951) is a German composer, conductor and jazz pianist. A composer of operas and other stage works, he has worked at theatres, from 1994 as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Cottbus. He has lectured music theory and jazz piano at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität in Cottbus from 2001. Life Petzold was born in Zwickau in 1951. Further reading * Frank Petzold. In Sigrid Neef (with Hermann Neef): Deutsche Oper im 20. Jahrhundert. DDR 1949–1989. Lang, Berlin 1992, , . * External links * *

Franz Abt

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Franz Wilhelm Abt (22 December 1819 – 31 March 1885) was a German composer and choral conductor. He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs were at one time universally sung, and have obtained a more or less permanent place in the popular repertory. Abt was a renowned choral conductor, and he spent much of the last three decades of his life working as a guest conductor with choirs throughout Europe and in the United States. Biography Abt was born at Eilenburg in Prussian Saxony, and showed musical talent at an early age. His father was a clergyman and a talented pianist, and it is he who gave Franz his earliest instruction in music. Like his father, Abt was interested in both music and theology, and he followed both pursuits at the Thomasschule Leipzig and Leipzig University with the ultimate intention of becoming a member of the clergy. While in school, Abt became friends with Albert Lortzing, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann. Upon the death of his father in 1837, Abt abandoned his theological studies and decided to concentrate entirely on music. It is at this time that he began to compose and publish music, mostly work

Franz Anton Hoffmeister

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Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was a German and Austrian composer and music publisher. Early years Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Further Austria, on 12 May 1754. At the age of fourteen, he went to Vienna to study law. Following his studies, however, he decided on a career in music and by the 1780s he had become one of the city’s most popular composers, with an extensive and varied catalogue of works to his credit. Hoffmeister’s reputation today rests mainly on his activities as a music publisher. By 1785 he had established one of Vienna’s first music publishing businesses, second only to Artaria & Co, which had ventured into the field five years earlier. Hoffmeister published his own works as well as those of many important composers of the time, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Johann Baptist Wanhal. These famous composers were also among Hoffmeister’s personal friends: Mozart dedicated his String Quartet in D to him and Beethoven addressed him in a letter as my “most beloved brother”. Compositions Hoffmeister’s publishing activities reached a peak in 17

Franz Anton Maichelbeck

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Franz Anton Maichelbeck (6 July 1702 – 14 June 1750) was a German organist and composer. Life Born in Reichenau Island, Maichelbeck grew up there with twelve siblings and attended the . He studied theology in Freiburg from 1721 and was sent to Rome on 27 September 1725 to study church music. In 1727/1728 he was appointed organist and cathedral kapellmeister at the Freiburg Cathedral. Later he was appointed by prince bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg as HofKapellmeister in Augsburg. Anton died in Freiburg im Breisgau at age 47. Publications and works *1734: Messe zu Ehren der Hl. Scholastika (Missa Sanctissimae Matris Scholasticae) *1738: Die auf dem Clavier lehrende Caecilia, welche guten Unterricht ertheilet *1740: Requiem für Kaiser Karl VI. Further reading * Christoph Schmider: Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702–1750) und die Kirchenmusik in Freiburg. I: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv. 124. year 2004, . * Manfred Schuler, Christoph Schmider: Der Freiburger Münsterorganist Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702–1750) und sein Requiem für Kaiser Karl VI. In Christoph Schmider (publisher): Musik am Freiburger Münster. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, , External links * References

Franz Benda

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Franz Benda (; c. 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Czech violinist and composer. He was active in the Kingdom of Prussia and worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Life Benda was baptised on 22 November 1709. He was born in Benátky nad Jizerou in Bohemia, the son of Jan Jiří Benda. His brother was the composer Georg Benda. Many of Benda’s offspring (Maria Carolina Wolf (1742–1820), Friedrich Benda (1745–1814), Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (1748–1836), Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783)) and his granddaughter (Louise Reichardt (1779–1826)) were also composers. Benda wrote his autobiography in 1763: it not only gives a detailed account of his own life, but also a valuable record of the lives of other musicians whom he encountered during his career. In his youth Benda was a chorister in Prague and afterward in the Chapel Royal at Dresden. At the same time he began to study the violin, and soon joined a company of strolling musicians who attended fetes, fairs, etc. At eighteen years of age Benda abandoned this wandering life and returned to Prague, going to Vienna, where he pursued his study of the violin under Johann Gottlieb Graun, a pupil of Tartini. After

Franz Biebl

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Franz Xaver Biebl (1 September 1906 – 2 October 2001) was a German composer of classical music and an academic teacher. Most of his compositions were for choral ensembles. He became known internationally when Chanticleer made his Ave Maria part of the repertoire. Life and career Biebl was born in Pursruck, now part of Freudenberg, Bavaria, in 1906. He studied composition at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Biebl served as choir director at the Catholic church of St Maria in München-Thalkirchen from 1932 until 1939, and as an assistant professor of choral music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, beginning in 1939, where he taught voice and music theory. Biebl was drafted into the military beginning in 1943 during World War II. He was a prisoner of war from 1944 to 1946, being detained at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. After the war, he moved from Austria to Fürstenfeldbruck, where he served as director of the municipal chorus. He died in Munich on 2 October 2001, at the age of 95. Ave Maria Biebl’s best-known work is his Ave Maria, which sets portions of the Angelus as well as the Ave Maria. The piece was composed sometime before 1 May 1959. The original composition was in the key

Franz Danzi

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Franz Ignaz Danzi (15 June 1763 – 13 April 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franziska Danzi. Danzi lived at a significant time in the history of European music. His career, spanning the transition from the late Classical to the early Romantic styles, coincided with the origin of much of the music that lives in our concert halls and is familiar to contemporary classical-music audiences. before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector Karl Theodor in 1778 as a teenager. In 1780, the first of his woodwind compositions was published at Mannheim. His father, principal cellist of the orchestra, was praised by Mozart for his playing at the premiere of Idomeneo. Danzi remained behind in a Mannheim that was rendered more provincial when Karl Theodor moved his court to Munich in 1778. After an apprenticeship with the small theatre orchestra left in Mannheim, he rejoined the main court in Munich as principal cellist — taking his father’s position — in 1784. In 1790, he married the singer and composer Maria Margarethe Marchand, with whom he travelled in an opera troupe to Leip

Franz Fleckenstein

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Franz Fleckenstein (8 June 1922 – 5 January 1996) was a German church musician, priest and composer. Life Born in Würzburg, Fleckenstein studied church music in Regensburg and after the war additionally theology. In 1950 he was ordained a catholic priest. Later he was chaplain in Miltenberg. From 1953 he was music prefect in Würzburg. From 1960 he was cathedral vicar at Würzburg Cathedral and from 1961 to 1971 at the Würzburg Cathedral. During this time he founded the and in 1967 he and his choirs organized the reopening of the Würzburg Cathedral. From 1970 he directed the renowned church music school in Regensburg, which since 2001 has been called . From 1974 to 1984 Fleckenstein was state president of the choir association Allgemeiner Cäcilien-Verband für Deutschland and member of various church commissions. In 1987 he retired, returned to Würzburg and took over a teaching position for church music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Fleckstein died in Würzburg at the age of 73. Awards * 1973: Monsignore-Titel des Vatikans * 1983: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der Bundesrepublik Deutschland * 1987: of the city of Regensburg * 1988: Order of Merit of the Federal

Franz Grothe

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Franz Grothe (17 September 1908 – 12 September 1982) was a German composer, arranger, songwriter, conductor, and pianist active from the mid 1920s until his death in 1982 at the age of 73. He was a prolific composer for German cinema, and was a writer of popular songs. He was particularly known for his output of successful musical films. While principally a composer for the screen, he also wrote some musicals and operettas for the stage. but flouted the party’s ban on jazz music by continuing to compose in a swing style. However, Grothe officially joined the Nazi party and was appointed Werner Egk’s deputy while Egk was the leader of the Composer division ("") in the State-Approved Society for the Exploitation of Musical Performing Rights (German: ; STAGMA) which was then under the control of the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer (Reich Music Chamber). With Georg Haentzschel, Grothe co-founded the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra in 1941. He had a major success with the satirical musical film The Spessart Inn (1958). He also composed music for German television in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the recipient of the (1966), the (1975), and the Max Reger Prize (1978). He served as chairman

Franz Hünten

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Franz Hünten, also known as François Hünten (26 December 1792 22 February 1878), was a German pianist and composer of salon music. He was born in Koblenz, the son of the organist Daniel Hünten, who taught Henri Herz. Like Herz, he moved to Paris and entered its Conservatorium in 1819. He wrote pleasant and technically undemanding piano music: rondos, fantasies, variations, dances, etc. Of Hünten’s 267 published works, the vast majority were written for piano solo or duet. His first success was Variations militaires à 4 mains, op. 12, a simple imitation of Ignaz Moscheles’s variations on the Alexandermarsch, and soon his popularity was such that for one work of ten pages he was paid 2000 francs. Two years after publishing the instruction book Nouvelle méthode pour le piano-forte, op. 60 (1833), he moved back to Koblenz, where he continued to compose; he moved back to Paris after a few years but retired for good in 1848. Hünten’s music was wildly popular throughout France, Germany, and England, but critical notices inevitably described it as trifling and later assessments have been much the same. His brothers, Wilhelm Hünten, a piano teacher in Koblenz, and Peter Ernst Hünten, a pian

Franz Ignaz Beck

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Franz Ignaz Beck (20 February 1734 – 31 December 1809) was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher. He spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. Possibly the most talented pupil of Johann Stamitz, Beck is an important representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim school. His fame rests on his 24 symphonies that are among the most original and striking of the Classical period. He was one of the first composers to introduce the regular use of wind instruments in slow movements and put an increasing emphasis on thematic development. His taut, dramatic style is also remarkable for its employment of bold harmonic progressions, flexible rhythms and highly independent part writing. Life Youth in Mannheim 1734–1754 Born in Mannheim, Beck began his violin studies with his father, Johann Aloys Beck (died 1742), an oboist and rector of the Choir School at the Palatinate Court in Mannheim. He also learned double bass and organ, among other instruments, and eventually came under the tutelage of Johann Stamitz, the director of instrumental music and leader of the brilliant Mannheim court orchestr

Franz Ignaz von Beecke

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Franz Ignaz von Beecke (28 October 1733 – 2 January 1803) was a classical music composer born in Wimpfen am Neckar, Holy Roman Empire. Life Von Beecke served in the Bavarian Dragoon Regiment of Zollern from 1756, during which time he fought in the Seven Years’ War. He served with distinction and was promoted to Captain. He was known at the time chiefly for his great skill in playing the harpsichord, although he composed a wide range of music as well, having studied with Christoph Willibald Gluck. He died in Wallerstein, Germany. In 1775, von Beecke met the 19-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Munich and the two engaged in a piano playing competition at the well-known inn Zum Schwarzen Adler. The poet and composer Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, who was in the audience, wrote in his Teutsche Chronik (27 April 1775) that in his opinion, von Beecke played far better than Mozart: “In Munich last winter I heard two of the greatest clavier players, Mr Mozart and Captain von Beecke. Mozart’s playing had great weight, and he read at sight everything that we put before him. But no more than that; Beecke surpasses him by a long way. Winged agility, grace and melting sweetness.” Von Be

Franz Lachner

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Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 180320 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor. Biography Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family (his brothers Ignaz, and Vinzenz also became musicians). He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim. As a result of composers’ aesthetic comparisons of Beethoven’s symphonic output with efforts afterwards, in 1835, there was a competition in Vienna for the best new symphony sponsored by Tobias Haslinger of the music publishing firm with no fewer than 57 entries. Lachner received first prize with his 5th Symphony Sinfonia passionata, or Preis-Symphonie and became royal Kapellmeister at Munich, becoming a major figure in its musical life, conducting at the opera and various concerts and festivals. His career there came to a sudden end in 1864 after Richard Wagner’s disciple Hans von Bülow took over Lachner’s duties. Lachner remained officially in his post on extended leave for a few years until his contract expired. Work Lachner was a well-known and prolific composer in his day, though he is not now considered a major compo

Franz Lambert

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Franz Lambert (born 11 March 1948) is a German composer and organist. He is an avid Hammond organ player; however, he is more noted in later years for playing the Wersi range of electronic organs. During his career he has released over 100 albums. Born in Heppenheim, Germany, his first notable public appearance was in 1969 in the German TV show , after which he received his first publishing contract. He has played for several celebrities, including King Charles III and Helmut Schmidt. One of his works is the “FIFA Anthem”, which was first played at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. It continues to be played at all FIFA-organized games and tournaments when the teams enter the pitch. Franz Lambert lives with his wife and two children in Heppenheim-, Hesse, Germany. Discography 1969-1980 1981–1990 1991–2000 since 2001 See also *FIFA Anthem External links *www.franzlambert.de (English) *

Franz Philipp

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Franz Joseph Philipp (August 24, 1890 – June 2, 1972) was a German church musician and composer. He studied and later taught various instruments including organ, worked as a composer, directed a conservatory, and founded a school for organ, a chamber orchestra, an institute for church music, and a choir. In the 1930s he was highly valued by the Nazi regime as a composer, gaining a reputation he tried to undo after the war. Philipp was born and died in Freiburg im Breisgau, and worked in Basel and Karlsruhe as well. Biography Philipp was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. His musical education began in 1908 at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, where he studied violin, composition, and musical theory. He took up a position as organist while he was still in school, at the in Freiburg, the same church where his first composition for mass was to be performed. From 1911 to 1912 he studied philosophy and literature at the University of Freiburg, and from 1912 to 1913 he studied organ, counterpoint, and improvisation with Adolf Hamm (a former student of Max Reger and Karl Straube) at the City of Basel Music Academy. In 1914 he recorded 23 piano rolls for the Welte Philharmonie Organ. During Wo

Franz Ries

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Franz Ries (7 April 1846 in Berlin – 20 June 1932 in Naumburg) was a Romantic German violinist and composer, son of Hubert Ries, the younger brother of Ferdinand Ries. He studied at the Paris Conservatory. He also worked in the publishing business. Career His talent formed under the direction of his father and in the Paris Conservatory under the violinist Joseph Massart, but after a short, brilliant career, he abandoned it suffering under a nerve problem, and settled in Dresden as a music retailer in 1875, where he still occasionally composed and performed on the violin. Then, from 1884 until his death, he lived as a co-owner of the company R. & Erler Berlin. Compositions *Lieder, Op.1 ** *Lieder, Op.3 ** *Lieder, Op.4 ** ** *String Quartet No.1 in D minor, Op.5 (publ. 1866) ** ** ** ** *(String Quartet No.2, Op.?) *6 Lieder, Op.6 *3 Characterstücke, for Violin and Piano, Op.7 *6 Lieder, Op.8 * Lieder, Op.10 ** *Lieder, Op.12 ** ** *Träumbilder (3 Klavierstücke), Op.13 *3 Zweistimmige Gesänge, Op.14 *3 Lieder, Op.16 (alto/baritone) *3 Lieder, Op.17 *4 Romances, for Violin and Piano, Op.20 (publ. 1860) ** ** ** ** *4 Lieder, Op.25 (publ. 1876) ** ** ** ** *Kriegslied, Lied, Op.? (te

Franz Schubert (violinist)

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(Xaver) Franz Schubert (22 July 1808, Dresden – 12 April 1878, Dresden) was a violinist and composer. After training with concertmaster Antonio Rolla in Dresden, Schubert studied violin with Charles Philippe Lafont in Paris and began working under the name François Schubert. He played in the Staatskapelle in Dresden from 1823 to 1873. The son of church composer Franz Anton Schubert (the Elder, 1768–1824), Schubert was married to the singer and actress Maschinka Schubert (1815–1882) who was the daughter of horn player and composer Georg Abraham Schneider. Their daughter was the opera singer and composer Georgina Schubert (1840–1878). Franz Schubert composed concert pieces, études, and chamber music, but is largely known for the bagatelle The Bee, a perpetuum mobile for violin and piano – a piece that is often misattributed to Franz Schubert due to the similarity of the two men’s names. Selected works * 9 Études for violin solo, Op. 3 * Divertissement sur des motifs de l’opéra Lestocq d’Auber in D major for violin and piano, Op. 4 (1836) * Souvenir de Norma, Variations in G major for violin and piano, Op. 5 (1837) * 2 Nocturnes for violin and piano, Op. 7 (1844) *# Amour secret in B

Franz Strauss

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Franz Josef Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician and composer. He was principal horn player of the Bavarian Court Opera for more than 40 years, a teacher at the Royal School of Music, Munich, a conductor, and accomplished performer on the guitar, clarinet and viola. Strauss was the father of the composer Richard Strauss, on whose early musical development he was a great influence, steering his son to the classical and away from modern styles. As a composer, Strauss senior is remembered for his works for the horn. They include a concerto and numerous smaller works. Life and career Strauss was born in Parkstein, Bavaria. His father, Johann Urban Strauss, was of unsteady character; his children were illegitimate and he left their upbringing to their mother, Maria Anna Kunigunde Walter. She was a member of a large and musical family, and her brother (Johann) Georg Walter undertook the boy’s musical education. Georg taught Strauss to play the clarinet, guitar and a range of brass instruments. At the age of nine, Strauss was taken on as a pupil and player by another uncle, Franz Michael Walter, a military bandmaster. In 1847, Strauss became a member of the orche

Franz Wilhelm Ferling

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Franz Wilhelm Ferling (20 September 1796 – 8 December 1874) was a German oboist, composer, and clarinettist. An accomplished musician, he is chiefly remembered today for his 48 études for oboe, op. 31, which are commonly studied by oboists and saxophonists. Life Ferling was born in Halberstadt on 20 September 1796. At the age of 18, Ferling began serving as a court musician for the Duke of Brunswick, a position which he would hold for most of his life. From 1814 to 1816, he was a military musician, playing the clarinet. The 48 studies consist of two études in each key—one slow and the other fast. The études are written in a variety of musical styles: there are five bel canto exercises, six romances, two offertories, four toccatas in the style of Niccolò Paganini, three slow movements, seven marches, twelve waltzes, four polkas, two polonaises, and three czardas. After the études were published, Cyrille Rose, a French clarinetist, adapted 32 of Ferling’s etudes for the clarinet, often transposing the music or changing the meter, articulation, or dynamics. In addition, Rose occasionally omitted some of Ferling’s phrases or composed new ones. After the first edition was published in 1

Franz Wüllner

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Franz Wüllner (28 January 1832 – 7 September 1902) was a German composer and conductor. He led the premieres of Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, but was much criticized by Wagner himself, who greatly preferred the more celebrated conductors Hans von Bülow and Hermann Levi. Biography Wüllner was born in Münster and studied in his native place, and at Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, and Munich. Among his teachers was Anton Schindler, who styled himself Beethoven’s amanuensis carrying on the true traditions of the master’s style, a claim disputed by Beethoven’s pupil Carl Czerny. In 1856, Wüllner became instructor in piano at the Munich Conservatory. He held the position of town musical director at Aix-la-Chapelle from 1858 to 1864. In 1867, he became director of the choral classes in the reorganized School of Music at Munich and wrote for them Chorübungen der Münchener Musikschule, text of score reading and singing (Solfege). He succeeded the temperamental Bülow in 1869 as conductor of the Court Opera and the Academy Courts. Here he conducted the first performances of Rheingold and Walküre (1869, 1870) before the production of the entire Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival

Franz Xaver Murschhauser

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Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser (1 July 1663 – 6 January 1738) was a German composer and theorist. He was born in Saverne (then under the Holy Roman Empire) but he is first mentioned as a singer and instrumentalist at St Peter’s School in Munich, in 1676. He studied music with the Kantor, Siegmund Auer and, from 1683 to his death in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll. Murchhauser was appointed music director of the Munich Frauenkirche in 1691, where he remained until his death. Works He published two collections of organ music in the tradition of the South German school, intended for use with the Catholic liturgy; these consist of short toccatas, fantasies and fugues written using the psalm tones and plainchant melodies. The first collection is entitled Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat (Augsburg, 1696), and contains 89 pieces. The second collection is in two parts of 34 pieces each, entitled Prototypon longo-breve organicum; (part I, Nuremberg, 1703; part II, Nuremberg, 1707). Both may be found in Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern XXX, Jg.xviii (1917). There are other keyboard works in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, and the Sing

Fred Lohse

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Fred Lohse (9 April 1908 – 19 January 1987 ) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Leipzig, Lohse studied from 1928 until 1931 musical composition and counterpoint bei Hermann Grabner in Leipzig. From 1928 to 1952, he worked mainly as a music educator. In 1952 he became a docent and in 1973 a professor for composition and musical theory in musicology at Leipzig University. Lohse died in Leipzig at the age of 79. Awards * 1978 Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic Works Orchestral music *Deutscher Reigen 6 pieces (1936) *Symphony No. 1 (1955) *Divertimento für Streichorchester (1957) *Symphony No. 2 1962 *Symphony No. 3 (chamber symphony) (1975) *Konzertmusik für 16 Bläser und Pauken (1976) *Rondo giocoso (Jugend-Sinfonie) (1979) Chamber music *Variationen über ein Thema von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for violin, violoncello and piano (1931) *Klavierbuch (1937) *2 Sonatas for Viola and Piano (1955) *Sonata for Violin and Piano (1958) *String Quartet No. 1 (1959) *Quintet for Winds (1961) *String Quartet No. 2 (1977) *String Quartet No. 3 (1978) Vocal music *Deutschland, 4 Lieder with piano (1951) *Steigendes Jahr, 6 Lieder for soprano and piano (1952) *Vier Liede

Frederick Stock

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Frederick Stock (born Friedrich August Stock; November 11, 1872 – October 20, 1942) was a German and American conductor and composer, most famous for his 37-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Born in Jülich, Rhine Province, Germany, Stock was given his early musical education by his army bandmaster father. At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Cologne Conservatory as a student of violin and composition, where he counted composer Engelbert Humperdinck as one of his teachers and conductor Willem Mengelberg among his classmates. After graduating from the conservatory in 1890, Stock joined the Municipal Orchestra of Cologne as a violinist. Career In 1895, Stock met with Theodore Thomas, founder and first music director of the then fledgling Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who was to have a decisive impact on his future. Thomas, who was then visiting Germany in search of recruits for his new Chicago orchestra, auditioned Stock and hired him as a violist. Thomas soon realized, however, that his new violist was also a very talented conductor and, in 1899, Stock was promoted to assistant conductor. After Thomas’ death on January 4, 1905

Frederick the Great

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Frederick II (; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include military successes in the Silesian wars, reorganisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great () and was nicknamed “Old Fritz” (). In his youth, Prince Frederick was more interested in music and philosophy than war, which led to clashes with his authoritarian father, Frederick William I of Prussia. However, upon ascending to the throne, he attacked and annexed the rich Austrian province of Silesia in 1742, winning military acclaim. He became an influential military theorist, whose analyses emerged from his extensive personal battlefield experience and covered issues of strategy, tactics, mobility and logistics. Frederick was a supporter of enlightened absoluti

Fredrik Pacius

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Fredrik Pacius (, ); in German and in Estonian Friedrich Pacius; 19 March 1809 – 8 January 1891) was a German composer, violinist and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He is regarded as the “Father of Finnish music”. Pacius was born in Hamburg. He was appointed music teacher at the University of Helsinki in 1834, where he founded a musical society, the student choir Akademiska Sångföreningen and an orchestra, building up orchestral and choral life in the city. In 1848, Pacius set to music the poem "" by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, which became Finland’s national anthem. The same melody was also used for the Estonian national anthem “Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm” and the Livonian ethnic anthem “Min izāmō, min sindimō”. In 1852, he composed Kung Carls jagt (English: King Charles’ Hunt; Finnish: Kaarle-kuninkaan metsästys), the first opera written in Finland, with a libretto by Zacharias Topelius. Biography Early life and training Pacius grew up in a musical family in Hamburg; his father, the wine merchant Johann Conrad Ludwig Pacius, played violin and hosted weekly string quartet evenings at home. On the recommendation of Hamburg’s music director Albert Gottlieb Methfessel, th

Fried Walter

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Fried Walter (9 December 1907 in Ottendorf-Okrilla as Walter Emil Schmidt, 8 April 1996 in Berlin) was a German composer. He composed over 500 pieces and arranged more than 250 songs, including many Volkslieder, and he is considered one of the most versatile and prolific composers of German light music. Life Fried Walter was born as the son of an elementary school teacher near Dresden. His mother died when Walter was only 5 years old. Although his father encouraged him to also become a teacher, Walter focused his studies on musical instruments, including piano, cello, organ, and French horn. At the age of 17, he was accepted as a student for music theory and conducting at the Semperoper opera house in Dresden. He earned his first paycheck as a horn player playing Richard Wagner operas as an ensemble musician. After completing his education, he volunteered for the state theater in Gotha, after which he moved to the Reußisch-Fürstliche Theater in Gera. The Great Depression forced him to give up his position. Walter moved to Berlin, where he studied the techniques of silent film accompaniment from Giuseppe Becce; however, with the advent of sound film, his career as silent film accomp

Friedbert Streller

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Friedbert Streller (21 December 1931 – 24 December 2017) was a German musicologist and composer. Life Born in Hohburg near Wurzen, Streller studied music education, musicology and composition with Fred Lohse at the University of Leipzig from 1950 to 1956. From 1959, he also worked as a composer, writing symphonies, the first of which is dedicated to Shostakovich, string quartets, concertos, suites and motets. Streller was a formative member in the German Shostakovich Society. at the age of 86. Streller’s estate is preserved in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden. Work Publications * Sergej Prokofjew. VEB Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1960. * Aram Chatschaturjan. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1968. * Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Für Sie porträtiert. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1982. * Revolte und Aufbruch. Musikhistorische Studien zum Expressionismus in Deutschland. Universität Halle, 1988. * Paul Hindemith. Für Sie porträtiert. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1985. * Erwin Schulhoffs Beziehungen zu Berlin. In Traude Ebert-Obermeier: Studien zur Berliner Musikgeschichte. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Henschel, Berlin 1989, . * Sergej Prokofjew und sein

Friedhelm Döhl

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Friedhelm Döhl (7 July 1936 – 25 September 2018) was a German composer and professor of music. Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen. In 1966 he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Anton Webern. From 1964 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf. There he founded the Studio for New Music. From 1969 to 1974 he was a professor at the Musicology Institute of the Free University of Berlin, where he was a member of New Music Berlin. In 1974 he was appointed director of the Music Academy of Basel, and worked there until 1982. This period saw the founding of the studios there for electronic music, non-European music, music and theater. In the years from 1980 to 1983 he was president of the German section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. During his tenure came the founding of the Ensemble Modern. Since 1982 he has been professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, and he became its director in 1991. At Lübeck he introduced a n

Friedrich Baumfelder

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Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder (28 May 1836 – 8 September 1916 in Dresden) was a German composer of classical music, conductor, and pianist. He started in the Leipzig Conservatory, and went on to become a well-known composer of his time. His many works were mostly solo salon music, but also included symphonies, piano concertos, operas, and choral works. Though many publishers published his work, they have since fallen into obscurity. Life and Family Friedrich Baumfelder was the third of seven children. His father was Carl Friedrich Gotthelf Baumfelder (1798–1865), a school reformer and pedagogue, and his mother was Friederike Ernestine (1806–1882). At an early age, Baumfelder was admitted to the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied with Ignaz Moscheles and Moritz Hauptmann and later obtained a scholarship. His other teachers included Johann Schneider and Julius Otto. After leaving the Leipzig Conservatory, Baumfelder returned to Dresden where he worked as a cantor and music and piano teacher at the Dreikönigskirche. He taught Georg Schumann, who became one of his most successful students. In 1875, he became director of the Robert Schumann Singakademie, a post he held for seve

Friedrich Burgmüller

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Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, generally known as Friedrich Burgmuller (4 December 1806 – 13 February 1874) was a German pianist and composer during the Romantic period. He is perhaps best known for his three collections of children’s etudes (or “teaching pieces”) for the piano, particularly his Op. 100 “25 Études faciles et progressives” (25 Easy and Progressive Studies) for early intermediate students. The other two collections, for more advanced students, were Op. 105 and 109. Life Friedrich Burgmüller was born in Ratisbon (at that time part of the Principality of Regensburg, Confederation of the Rhine). His father Friedrich August Burgmüller and his younger brother Norbert Burgmüller were also composers. His mother was pianist and singer Therese von Zandt. He moved to Kassel in 1829 to study with Ludwig Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann. There he appeared as a pianist for his first concert, January 14, 1830. Burgmüller moved to Paris in 1832 (at age 26), where he stayed until his death. Norbert Burgmüller, his brother, made plans to join him in Paris, in 1835. However, he drowned in a spa in Aachen during an epileptic seizure a year later. In Paris, Burgmüller adopted Parisian mus

Friedrich Curschmann

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Karl Friedrich Curschmann (June 21, 1805 – August 24, 1841) was a German song composer and singer. Life Curschmann was born in 1805, in Berlin. His talent for singing was discovered when he was at school. In 1824, having been a law student in Berlin and Göttingen, he started to devote his life to music. He went to Kassel where he studied under Spohr and Hauptmann, starting with church music. At Kassel in 1828 he wrote his first opera Abdul und Errinieh oder Toten. After four years in Kassel, Curschmann returned to Berlin. After 1837 he lived with Rose Behrend, daughter of a Danzig businessman and herself a singer, before they married and engaged heavily in the musical life of Berlin. He befriended Eduard Grell, director of the Berlin Song Academy. Curschmann wrote 83 songs, many to the poems of Goethe, Schiller, Heine and Rückert. Curschmann died in Langfuhr, near Danzig, in 1841. Compositions Books of songs * Wiegenlied * Die Stillen Wanderer * Der Abend Standchen * Der Fischer Altes Volkslied * Jagerlied * Au Rose der Schiffer * Der kleine Hans Opera * Abdul und Errinieh oder Toten References External links * Karl Friedrich Curschmann in Grande Musica

Friedrich Dotzauer

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Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (20 January 1783 – 6 March 1860) was a German cellist and composer. Life Early life and career Dotzauer was born in 1783 in , near Hildburghausen. His father, a pastor, encouraged his interest in music. In early years he played piano, violin and cello, also horn and clarinet, and studied theory and composition with the organist , a pupil of Johann Christian Kittel. In Meiningen he studied the cello with , Konzertmeister of the Meiningen Court Orchestra; from 1801 Dotzauer was a member of the orchestra. He moved in 1805 to Leipzig, where he played in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. During this period he visited the cellist Bernhard Romberg in Berlin, who influenced his playing. With Heinrich August Matthaei, Bartolomeo Campagnoli and Johann Georg Hermann Voigt, Dotzauer was a founder of the Gewandhaus Quartet. Dresden In 1811 Dotzauer was appointed cellist of the Dresden Court Orchestra; from 1821 he was principal cellist. During this time in the orchestra he played under Carl Maria von Weber, and later under Richard Wagner, playing in the premieres of Wagner’s operas Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman. He made concert tours of Germany, Austria and the Netherl

Friedrich Ernst Fesca

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Friedrich Ernst Fesca (15 February 1789 – 24 May 1826) was a German violinist and composer of instrumental music of the late Classical and early Romantic periods. Life and career He was born at Magdeburg. His father, Johann Peter August Fesca, was the market judge of Magdeburg and active in the musical part in the city; he devoted much of his time to the practice of the violoncello and piano. His mother was a singer educated under Johann Adam Hiller and Marianne Podleska; she had been a professional vocalist in early life. Friedrich received his early musical education in Magdeburg and completed his studies at Leipzig under August Eberhard Müller. When he was but four years of age, he could perform pieces of moderate difficulty upon the piano, and began the study of the violin. At the early age of fifteen he appeared before the public with several concertos for the violin, which were received with general applause, and resulted in his being appointed leading violinist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. This position he occupied till 1806, when he became concertmaster to the duke Peter I of Oldenburg. In 1808 he was appointed solo-violinist by King Jerome of Westphalia at state th

Friedrich Gernsheim

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Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 – 11 September 1916) was a German composer, conductor and pianist. Early life Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother’s care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms’ musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr. His father, a prominent Jewish physician, moved the family to Frankfurt am Main in the aftermath of the year of revolutions, 1848, where he studied with Edward Rosenhain, brother of Jakob Rosenhain. He made his first public appearance as a concert pianist in 1850 and toured for two seasons, then settled with his family in Leipzig, where he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles from 1852. He spent the years 1855–1860 in Paris, meeting Gioachino Rossini, Théodore Gouvy, Édouard Lalo and Camille Saint-Saëns. Career His travels afterwards took him to Saarbrücken, where in 1861 he took the conductor post vacated by Hermann Levi; to Cologne, where in 1865 Ferdinand Hiller appointed him to the staff of the Conservatory (his pupils there included Engelbert Humperdinck and Carl Lachmund); he then served as musical director of the Philharmonic Society of Rotterdam from 1874 u

Friedrich Goldmann

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Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor. Early life and education Born on 27 April 1941 in Siegmar-Schönau (today a part of Chemnitz), Goldmann’s music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dresdner Kreuzchor. At age 18, he received a scholarship by the city of Darmstadt to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1959, who further encouraged him over the following years. He moved on to study composition at the Dresden Conservatory from 1959, taking his exam two years early in 1962. From 1962 until 1964 he attended a master class at the Academy of Arts, Berlin with Rudolph Wagner-Régeny. Around this time, he worked as a freelance music assistant at the Berliner Ensemble where he befriended other composers and writers, including Heiner Müller, Luigi Nono and Luca Lombardi. He also met Paul Dessau, who became a close friend and mentor. From 1964 until 1968 he studied musicology at Humboldt University of Berlin, after which he worked as a freelance composer and conductor. Career Major commissions include works for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Semperoper Dresden, the Berlin

Friedrich Heinrich Himmel

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Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (November 20, 1765 – June 8, 1814) was a German composer. Biography Himmel was born at Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg, Prussia, and originally studied theology at Halle before turning to music. During a temporary stay at Potsdam he had an opportunity of showing his self-acquired skill as a pianist before King Frederick William II, who thereupon provided him with a yearly allowance to enable him to complete his musical studies. This he did under Johann Gottlieb Naumann, a German composer of the Italian school, and the style of that school Himmel himself adopted in his operas. The first of these, a pastoral opera, Il primo navigatore, was produced at Venice in 1794 with great success. In 1792, he went to Berlin, where his oratorio Isaaco was produced, in consequence of which he was made court Kapellmeister to the king of Prussia. In that capacity he wrote a great deal of official music, including cantatas and a coronation Te Deum. His Italian operas, successively composed for Stockholm, St Petersburg and Berlin, were all received with great favour in their day. Of greater importance than these is a Singspiel to words by Kotzebue, called Fanchon. Himmel’s gift

Friedrich Heinrich Kern

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Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19, 1980) is a German composer, pianist, and glass harmonica player. Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he graduated with a Diplom in Music Composition and Piano. His principal teachers included Ulrich Leyendecker and Rudolf Meister. Additionally, he spent one year studying traditional Korean music at Seoul National University. In 2007, he was a visiting composer at Wesleyan University. From 2008, Kern studied in New York with Matthias Pintscher and Louis Karchin. He received a MacCracken Research Fellowship and now teaches at New York University. Over the past 20 years, Kern has composed and produced hundreds of new compositions and dozens of new works. He has made lauded appearances as performer and composer in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In addition to his work with electronic instruments and media, Kern has composed works for acoustic instrumentations, ranging from soloist to full orchestra. Friedrich Heinrich Kern published his dissertation, entitled An Exploration of Compositional Technique in the Operas of Kaaija Saariaho and Christian Jost , in 2016. He teaches

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

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Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (14 November 1811 – 30 April 1886) was a German conductor, composer and writer on music who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga. He was the son of court marshall Nathanael Truhn and the grandfather of Selma Erdmann-Jesnitzer, born Bethge-Truhn, father of Clara and Anna Marie Elizabeth Truhn. He was a talented composer of numerous songs, several stage works, and also a key organizer in the field of men’s choirs. Life Friedrch was born in Elbing. As a boy he attracted attention by his singing abilities, so as soon he was developing himself as a flute player, and shortly thereafter as a violinist, he was sent to the orchestra of his native town, although his parents did not admitted that he had chosen the music as a career. Only in 1831 they allowed him to go to Berlin as a student of theorist Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, of Carl Friedrich Zelter and Bernhard Klein. He briefly studied orchestration with Mendelssohn to be properly trained as musician. He worked at the city theater in Gdansk as conductor and music teacher in the years 1835-37 and back in Berlin, he became one of the chief contributors to Schumann’s paper, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

Friedrich Hollaender

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Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. Life and career He was born in London to a Jewish family, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender’s family returned to Berlin. His father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck’s master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin’s Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky,

Friedrich Höricke

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Friedrich Höricke (born 1963) is a German pianist and composer. Life Born in Cologne, West Germany, Höricke played his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen he was already accepted as the youngest student in the master class of Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. At the same time he attended the Cologne . At the age of 18 he won first prize at the Tomassoni Competition of the Cologne Academy of Music, as well as a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Further training followed at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was taught by Jorge Bolet, Gary Graffman, Mieczysław Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin. First prize at the Philadelphia Young Artists Competition followed, as well as concert engagements in America, Asia, Western, Central and Eastern Europe. He subsequently released CDs, increasingly with his own compositions for piano, or for piano and orchestra. In 1985, Höricke married the sexologist Shere Hite in New York City, where they lived together in a flat on 5th Avenue. Later Höricke and Hite moved to Germany, where they took a flat in Cologne. In 1999 the couple divorced. Höricke is cu

Friedrich Kiel

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Friedrich Kiel (8 October 182113 September 1885) was a German composer and music educator. Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved. After mentioning Johannes Brahms and others, Altmann writes, “He produced a number of chamber works, which . . . need fear no comparison”. Biography Kiel was born on 8 October 1821, in Bad Laasphe. He was taught the rudiments of music and received his first piano lessons from his father, but was in large part self-taught. Something of a prodigy, he played the piano almost without instruction at the age of six, and by his thirteenth year he had composed much music. Kiel eventually came to the attention of Prince Albrecht Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, a great music lover. Through the Prince’s efforts, Kiel was allowed to study violin with the concertmaster of the Prince’s fine orchestra with which he later performed as a soloist. Kiel was also given theory lessons from the renowned flautist Kaspar Kummer. By 1840, Kiel was court conductor and the music teacher to the prince’s childr

Friedrich Klose

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Friedrich Klose (born 29 November 1862 in Karlsruhe, Margraviate of Baden-Durlach; died 24 December 1942 in Ruvigliana, Switzerland) was a German composer. He studied with Vinzenz Lachner in Karlsruhe, and then with Anton Bruckner in Vienna, and recorded his impressions of his time with Bruckner in a book. He taught at the Basel Conservatory and at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where his students included Max Butting, Wilhelm Petersen and Paul Ben-Haim. His Mass in d-minor was written in response to Franz Liszt’s death. His opera Ilsebill (1903) was inspired by the music of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, and the plot is based on the Brothers Grimm tale of a fisherman who catches a huge fish which grants ever increasingly more greedy wishes and this is reflected in the increasing complexity of orchestration during the opera. It was premiered in 1903 in Karlsruhe under the direction of Felix Mottl. He ended his career as a composer and a teacher in 1919 and retired to Switzerland. Writing Meine Lehrjahre bei Bruckner. 1927. Bayreuth. Eindrücke und Erlebnisse. 1929. References External links * *Klose’s Opera, Ilsebill

Friedrich Koch

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Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cellist and teacher. Biography Koch was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. He served as a cellist in the Royal Orchestra of Berlin between 1882 and 1891, after which he accepted a position of music director (Kapellmeister) for the resort town of Baden-Baden. A year later, he returned to Berlin, where he concentrated on composing and teaching, eventually becoming a professor and director of theory at the Musikhochschule where he had studied. Boris Blacher, , Paul Kletzki and Werner Wolff were among his many students. His compositions, which were often based on German folk melodies and written in a late Romantic style, gained him considerable recognition and acclaim. His metier was the character piece at which he excelled. Although he did not write much in the way of chamber music, these works were among his best compositions. His string trio, Op. 9, won the Mendelssohn Prize and his Wald-Idyll (Forest Idyll), Three Fantasy Pieces for piano trio, Op. 20, dating from 1902, enjoyed frequent concert performances right up

Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns

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Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns or Brauns (11 February 1637 in Lollfuß – 13 March 1718 in Hamburg) was a German composer and music director in Hamburg. Bruhns was born in Lollfuß, Schleswig. In 1682 he succeeded Nicolaus Adam Strungk in charge of the Hamburger Ratsmusik, later also taking on the charge of St. Mary’s Cathedral. He was in practice succeeded by Johann Mattheson in 1715, but still formally held the positions till his death in Hamburg in 1718. Handel joined the opera orchestra during Brauns’ time. Both the Johannes-Passion (1702) and Markus-Passion (1705) were for a long time attributed to Reinhard Keiser. The Markus-Passion is also attributed to Gottfried Keiser, Reinhard’s father. Bach performed the Markus-Passion in Weimar and in Leipzig. Several pasticcio versions of the Markus-Passion survive, The earliest attribution to Keiser can be found in Bach’s copy. Works *Johannes-Passion 1702, formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser. *Markus-Passion composed 1705, first performed at the Cathedral in 1707. Formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser, then to Bruhns, this passion is also attributed to Gottfried Keiser, Reinhard’s father. *11 solo cantatas References External links * The

Friedrich Schneider

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Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider (3 January 1786 in Alt-Waltersdorf – 23 November 1853 in Dessau) was a German pianist, composer, organist, and conductor. Schneider studied piano first with his father Johann Gottlob Schneider (senior), and then at the Zittau Gymnasium with Schönfelder and Unger. His first published works were a set of three piano sonatas in 1804. In 1805, he commenced studies at the University of Leipzig. He became an organist at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig in 1812, and was named conductor in Dessau in 1821. It is thought that Schneider premiered Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in Leipzig on 28 November 1811. In 1824, he was festival director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival and his oratorio Die Sündflut was premiered during this event. Schneider composed copiously. Among his works are seven operas, four masses, six oratorios, 25 cantatas, 23 symphonies, seven piano concertos, sonatas for violin, flute, and cello, and a great many shorter instrumental pieces, some of them for piano, some for organ. He also left numerous solo songs and part songs. A projected cycle of four oratorios, Christus das Kind (1829), Christus der Meister (1827), and Christ

Friedrich Seitz

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Friedrich Seitz (12 June 1848, Günthersleben-Wechmar, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 22 May 1918) was a German Romantic Era composer. He was a violinist who served as a concertmaster, who wrote chamber music and eight student concertos for the violin. Life Seitz was born in Frankfurt in 1848 and began studying music at a young age. He received his musical education at the Frankfurt Conservatory, where he studied with some of the leading musicians of the day. Seitz studied violin under Karl Wilhelm Uhlrich in Sondershausen, Germany; he later married Uhlrich’s daughter. He became a student of in 1874. He became music director at Sondershausen and thereafter became a concertmaster at Magdeburg. In 1884 he was the Hofkonzertmeister (conductor of the court orchestra) at Dessau. Seitz was also a highly respected violinist and taught at several music academies during his career. He was known for his technical proficiency and expressive playing style, and many of his students went on to become successful musicians in their own right. He wrote all his violin concertos for his students, to help them improve their technique. Seitz was a prolific composer and wrote a wide range of music, including op

Friedrich Silcher

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Philipp Friedrich Silcher (27 June 1789 in Schnait (today part of Weinstadt) – 26 August 1860 in Tübingen), was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied collector. Life Silcher was meant to be a school teacher, but dedicated himself entirely to music in the seminary in Ludwigsburg after he met Carl Maria von Weber. He was taught composition and piano by Conradin Kreutzer and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. In 1817 he was named musical director at the University of Tübingen. He is regarded as one of the most important protagonists of choir singing. He arranged many German Volkslieder and international folk songs that have remained standard repertoire of many choirs in Germany and became an integral part of German daily life. In 1829 Silcher founded the “Akademische Liedertafel” in Tübingen and directed it until his death. Silcher was married to Luise Rosine Ensslin (1804–1871). They had two daughters and one son. A wine varietal was named after him, the (not to be confused with Schilcher). The asteroid 10055 Silcher also bears the composer’s name. Works Amongst his best-known songs are: * “Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden” * “Alle Jahre wieder” * “Am Brunne

Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken

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Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (16 November 1810 – 3 April 1882) was a German composer and conductor. He was a very prolific composer, mainly known for light and melodious songs, although he has also written works for the stage and for orchestra. Career Kücken was born in Bleckede, near Lüneburg. The son of an executioner, he learned the piano as a child and played chamber music at home in a family ensemble. After moving to Schwerin he studied harmony with his brother-in-law Friedrich Lührss, and piano with Georg Rettberg, also learning flute and violin. From 1832 to 1841, Kücken lived in Berlin, studying counterpoint with Heinrich Birnbach and teaching music to the later king George V of Hanover; he was also a member of the Sing-Akademie. Leaving Berlin, he studied with Simon Sechter in Vienna (until 1843), when his popular song Ach, wie wärs möglich dann secured his being chosen court composer for Grand Duke Paul Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1844, he went for further studies to Paris, learning instrumentation with Fromental Halévy and vocal composition with Marco Bordogni. While in Paris, he completed his opera Der Prätendent, which was premiered in Stuttgart in 1847, becomin

Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt

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Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt (5 January 1710 – 5 January 1783) was a German flautist, composer and music theorist of the Baroque period. Life Riedt was born in Berlin to English-born parents. His birth date is sometimes given as 24 January 1712. External links *

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau (14 November 1663 – 7 August 1712) was a German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music. Life Zachow was born in Leipzig. He probably received his training from his father, the piper Heinrich Zachow, one of Leipzig’s town musicians in the Alta capella, and maybe from Johann Schelle, a leading German composer, when the family moved to Eilenburg. As Kantor and organist of Halle’s Market Church in 1684 he succeeded Samuel Ebart. During his time at Halle he became particularly renowned as a composer of dramatic cantatas. In 1695 he was criticized by the pietists because of his excessive long and elaborate music, that could be only appreciated by cantors and organists. Zachow was influenced by Johann Theile in Merseburg and the poetry of Erdmann Neumeister, pastor in the nearby Weissenfels, and his criticism on pietism. Zachow was the teacher of Gottfried Kirchhoff, Johann Philipp Krieger and Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, In 1713 J.S. Bach was invited as Zachow’s successor. Handel continued to use Zachow’s compositions in his own works, not simply quoting, but also in terms of instrumental colour; for example the cantata Herr, wenn ich nur dich ha

Friedrich Zehm

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Friedrich Zehm (22 January 1923 – 4 December 2007) was a German classical composer. Life Zehm was born in Neusalz in Lower Silesia. External links * * Friedrich Zehm website * Friedrich Zehm Schott Music * Friedrich Zehm (1923 - 2007) komponisten.at

Fritz Brase

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Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Brase, known as Fritz Brase (; 4 May 1875 – 1 December 1940), was a German military bandmaster, conductor, and composer who was mainly active in Dublin, Ireland, as leader of the first Army School of Music in the Irish Free State. Life Brase was the son of a miller born in Egestorf near Hanover, Germany. Brase studied at the Conservatory of Music at Leipzig where his teachers included Carl Reinecke, Hans Sitt, and Salomon Jadassohn. In 1923 he emigrated to Ireland, The family moved to accommodation in Beggars Bush Barracks and later bought their own house in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount. In 1940, Brase died the day after he retired and was interred in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, when the No. 1 Irish Army Band played. His daughter Mona, who died on 2 November 2014, is also buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. A street in Münster is named Braseweg in his memory. In 1911, he was appointed conductor of the 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers, “one of the most prestigious positions in the world of German military music”. He also directed the Military Music School in Dublin. Having failed to find a potential Frenchman and wanting to avoid a British appoint

Fritz Büchtger

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Fritz Büchtger (14 February 1903 – 26 December 1978) was a German composer. Life Born in Munich, Büchtger studied at the Music Academie of Munich with , Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen and Anton Beer-Walbrunn. In March 1927, together with the young pianists Udo Dammert and Franz Dorfmüller, who were later joined by Carl Orff, Werner Egk and other artists, he founded the (Association for Contemporary Music), which performed approximately one hundred and seventy works by contemporary composers in Munich. Under the direction of Büchtger and the conductor Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), who acted as the spiritual leader, this institution held four “Festwochen für Neue Musik” in particular until its end in 1932, in addition to the large number of individual concerts. * Die Himmelfahrt Christi : für gemischten Chor und Orchester. * Fritz Büchtger. * Le miroir brisé : 4 chansons d’amour. * Die Verklärung : für Bariton, Frauenstimmen und Streicher : Partitur zugleich Klavierauszug. External links * * * Gabriele E. Meyer: Neue Musik-Wochen in München, 1929-1931 Gründung der “Vereinigung für zeitgenössische Musik” Im: BLO (Historisches Lexikon Bayerns) References

Fritz Cohen

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Frederic Alexander “Fritz” Cohen (born 23 June 1904, Bonn, German Empire, died 9 March 1967, New York, United States) was a German composer best known for writing the music for Kurt Jooss’s ballets. Miscellaneous papers relating to the careers of Fritz and Elsa Cohen are held in the Dartington Hall Trust Archive in the United Kingdom. References and sources External links * Information page for Dartington Hall archive on the Cohens

Fritz Dietrich

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Fritz Dietrich (13 February 1905 – January 1945) was a German musicologist and composer. Biography Dietrich was born in Pforzheim. After his secondary education there, he attended the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for one semester, before moving to music. He studied from 1925 in Freiburg with Wilibald Gurlitt and Heinrich Besseler. Later study saw him move to Heidelberg University, where Besseler had moved. For a short time, Dietrich studied in Leipzig at the conservatory, under Karl Straube. From 1931 to 1934, Dietrich took a music assistantship in Heidelberg, whilst training to teach at university level. This he did in 1935, but with the Nazi regime strengthening its grip on the German society, working opportunities for music teachers dwindled. Between 1935 and 1944 Dietrich worked for the Bärenreiter publishing house in Kassel, and himself published a collection of small notebooks with music for laymen. He was conscripted into the army, and in January 1945 went missing on the Eastern front in the area around Heiligenbeil (now Mamonovo in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) at the start of the East Prussian offensive by the Red Army. Dietrich’s known works were written for organ and

Fritz Geißler

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Fritz Geißler (or Geissler, 16 September 1921 – 11 January 1984) was a composer in the German Democratic Republic who wrote around 140 works, including four operas and eleven symphonies. Life and career Geißler was born in Wurzen, Saxony, on 16 September 1921 Works The compositional legacy of Fritz Geißler involves about 140 pieces, including eleven symphonies, concertos for violin, flute, cello, piano, and organ, four operas – Der Zerbrochene Krug (The Smashed Jug), Der Schatten (The Shadow), Der verrückte Jourdain (The Crazy Jourdain), and Das Chagrinleder (Shagreen), ballets, cantatas, oratorios, and chamber music of widely varying types and settings. His works were performed by noted artists, and by important orchestras and opera houses of both East and West Germany and elsewhere. Further reading * Kneipel, Eberhard: Fritz Geißler. In: Dietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (eds.): Musiker in unserer Zeit. Mitglieder der Sektion Musik der Akademie der Künste der DDR. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1979, p. 253 ff. * Geißler, Fritz. In: * Geißler, Fritz. In: External links *Official web site, featuring a full works-list and discography *Interview with Arila

Fritz Ihlau

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Fritz Ihlau (28 August 1909 – 1995) was a German composer. He also composed under the pseudonym Fred Langen, especially rhythmically more modern works. Life Born in Hanover, Ilhau studied music, literature and theatre studies from 1930 to 1935 at Marburg University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he received a doctorate (PhD). He joined the Christian student fraternity In the field of music, he studied counterpoint and composition with Hans Stieber. As a student, he gave concerts under the direction of Otto Ebel von Sosen and made radio recordings under the direction of Karl List. Afterwards, he graduated from the Tonmeisterschule in Frankfurt. Ihlau specialized as a music consultant and editor and worked at the radio stations in Hanover and at the . After the Second World War, he worked as a freelance journalist in Traunstein / Upper Bavaria. In 1950, he moved to WDR in Cologne as Tonmeister and was additionally appointed as the main program designer in 1961. Ilhau retired in 1975 but remained in the music world through his compositions. Ihlau’s oeuvre includes an operetta, a ballet, church music, songs, choral works and orchestral pieces. Work Works for orch

Fritz Lubrich

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Fritz Lubrich (26 January 1888 – 15 April 1971) was a German organist and composer. Lubrich was born in Neustädtel. His father (1862-1952) was a cantor and hymnologist. Lubrich jr. attended the teacher’s seminar in Żagań from 1905 to 1908 and was appointed in 1907 at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, a student of Reger and Straube. At the end of his studies he received the Arthur Nikisch Prize for composition. From 1911 to 1919 Lubrich was a music teacher at the Protestant Teachers’ Seminar in Bielsko-Biała, and in 1917 he received the Austrian title of professor. In 1919 Lubrich became chief organist at the . In 1923 he also received the German and Polish professorial titles. In the 1920s, Lubrich became organist at the Church of the Resurrection, Katowice. After the Second World War he went to Hamburg and continued his work as an organist and pedagogue. Among Lubricht students were , Günter Bialas, Gerd Zacher and Kurt Schwaen. Lubricht died in Hamburg at age 83. Work * Kyrie eleison (Charakterstück in D), Op. 9 (1909) * Drei Stücke, Op. 13 (1911) * Drei Stimmungsbilder Op. 24 (1912) * Fünf Choral-Improvisationen, (1912) * Drei romantische Tonstücke (after three pictur

Fritz Reuter (composer)

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Fritz Reuter (9 September 1896 – 4 July 1963) was a German musicologist, music educator, composer and Kapellmeister. Reuter was one of the most important German music educators of the 20th century. After studying music and musicology in Dresden and Leipzig, with Teichmüller, Riemann, Schering and Abert, he received his doctorate in 1922 (Dr. phil.). In 1945, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Volksoper in Dresden. In 1955, he was one of the initiators of the first Hallische Musiktage. Life Origin and music studies Born in Löbtau, now part of Dresden, Reuter came from a Saxon artisan family from the Ore Mountains. He was born as the son of the master builder and carpenter Friedrich August Reuter (born 1868) in a working-class suburb. – which stood in a line of tradition with the approaches of the philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. At the same time, Reuter studied in Leipzig at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. His teachers included among others Otto Weinreich and Robert Teichmüller in piano, Stephan Krehl in composition and Bernhard Porst in bandmaster training, as well as Hugo Riemann, Hermann Abert and Arno

Fritz Steinbach

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Fritz Steinbach (17 June 1855 – 13 August 1916) was a German conductor and composer who was particularly associated with the works of Johannes Brahms. Born in Grünsfeld, he was the brother of conductor Emil Steinbach. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Vienna. Among his teachers were Martin Gustav Nottebohm and Anton Door. In 1886, he succeeded Richard Strauss as the conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra. He remained there until 1902, during which time he often collaborated with Brahms and gave frequent guest performances at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. From 1898 to 1901, he was President of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein. He was the music director of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne from 1902 to 1914. He served as the director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in 1904, 1907, 1910, and 1913. He taught conducting at the Cologne Conservatory where his pupils included Adolf Busch (in composition), Fritz Busch (in conducting), Allard de Ridder, Karl Elmendorff, Hans Knappertsbusch, Franz Mittler, Karl Aagard Østvig, Albert van Raalte and Erwin Schulhoff. His pupil Walter Blume continued his researches into Brahms. Steinbach met Johannes Brah

Gallus Dressler

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Gallus Dressler (16 October 1533 – 1580/9) was a German composer and music theorist who served as Kantor in the church school at Magdeburg. Though a few of his works have remained in the choral repertoire, he is best known for his theoretical writings, especially his Praecepta musicae poeticae (MS, 1563), which contains some of the earliest detailed description of the compositional process of the Renaissance motet. Life Dressler was born in Nebra in Thuringia, but probably received most of his musical education in the Netherlands. He seems particularly influenced by Clemens non papa, and a perusal of the musical examples he cites in his theoretical writings shows that he was strongly influenced by the Franco-Flemish generation immediately following Josquin des Prez. After a brief tenure at Jena in 1558, Dressler succeeded Martin Agricola as Kantor of the church school in Magdeburg, where most of his career was spent. His compositions were almost entirely in the genre of the Latin motet, largely ignoring the Lutheran chorale, though he is noted for some of the first German-language motets. Dressler studied at Wittenberg, receiving the master’s degree in 1570, and was closely associa

Gaspare Spontini

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Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 177424 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and he composed over twenty works. Biography Born in Maiolati, Papal State (now Maiolati Spontini, Province of Ancona), he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck’s classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words. As a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de’ Turchini, one of four active music conservatories of Naples. Working his way from Italian city to city, he got his first break in Rome, with his successful comedy Li Puntigli delle Donne (Carnival 1793). In 1803, he went to Paris, where, on 11 February 180

Gene Gutchë

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Gene Gutchë (born Romeo Maximilian Eugene Ludwig Gutschë; 3 July 1907, Berlin – 15 November 2000, White Bear Lake, Minnesota) was a German composer active primarily in the United States. Gutchë earned degrees in business and economics but also studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni. In 1925 he moved to the U.S., working in both fields. In the 1950s he attended graduate school in music at the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa, studying under Philip Greeley Clapp and settling in Minneapolis. He withdrew his early compositions at this time. While much of his work is neo-Romantic, he also experimented with polytonality, serialism, and microtones. Gutchë also published two books, Music of the People (1968) and Come Prima (1970). Selected works ;Orchestra * Symphony No.1 * Symphony No.2 for chorus and orchestra, Op.14 (1951) * Symphony No.3, Op.19 * Rondo Capriccioso, Op.21 * Dance Suite, Op.26 No.2 * Rhapsody, Op.26 No.3 * Holofernes Overture, Op.27 No.1 (1958) * Judith Prologue, Op.27 No.2 * Concertino, Op.28 (1956) * Symphony No.4 in one movement, Op.30 (1960) * Symphony No.5 for string orchestra, Op.34 (1962) * Bongo Divertimento, Op.35 (1965, revised 1993) * Genghis Kh

Georg Abraham Schneider

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Georg Abraham Schneider (19 April 1770 – 19 January 1839) was a German musician and composer. Biography Schneider was born in Darmstadt, where he originally learnt music as a member of the city’s alta cappella. From 1787 he played horn in the court orchestra of the nobel house Hessen-Darmstadt, then from 1795 for the Prussian royal court. Schneider’s compositions and performances focussed on the horn, and owe a stylistic debt to Haydn and Mozart. The invention of the valved horn by Heinrich Stölzel and Friedrich Blühmel was of great interest to Schneider, allowing the instrument to be played chromatically for the first time. In a report for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1817, Schneider wrote; “Because of its full and strong, yet soft and attractive tone, the Waldhorn is an extremely beautiful instrument; but, as is well known, it has until now been far behind almost all other wind instruments in its development, being very restricted to its natural notes …. Herr Stölzel of Breslau has now completely removed these shortcomings …. He has simply provided his horn with two airtight valves, which are depressed with little effort by two fingers of the right hand, like the ke

Georg Benda

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Georg Anton Benda (; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a Bohemian composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period. Biography Born into a family of notable musicians in Old Benatek (today Benátky nad Jizerou), Bohemia, he studied at the Piarist Gymnasium (grammar school) in Kosmanos and at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Gitschin from 1735 to 1742. Benda was 19 when Frederick the Great bestowed upon him in 1741 the position of second violinist in the chapel of Berlin. The following year Benda was summoned to Potsdam as a composer and arranger for his older brother Franz, himself an illustrious composer and violinist. Seven years later, in 1749, he entered the service of the Duke of Gotha as Kapellmeister, where he constantly cultivated his talents for composition, specializing in religious music. A stipend from the duke allowed Benda to take a study trip to Italy in 1764. He returned to Gotha in 1766, and devoted himself to composition. In all, he wrote about ten operas, several operettas, and the melodramas , Medea and . In 1778 he resigned his position and visited Hamburg, Vienna and other cities, and finally settled at the little hamlet of Köstritz. Benda’s most important co

Georg Christoph Biller

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Georg Christoph Biller (20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022) was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone, an academic teacher, and a composer. Active as Thomaskantor after the German reunification, Biller returned the Thomanerchor to its original focus on church music. He was instrumental in the new buildings for the choir’s boarding school, the Forum Thomanum, and in the celebration of its 800th anniversary in 2012. Life and career Born in Nebra, the son of a pastor, Biller grew up with three siblings. In 2009, he began performances of the six cantatas of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in St. Thomas and St. Nicholas in services for the feast days of the Christmas season as Bach had intended 275 years earlier. In 2012, Biller celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Thomanerchor. He had depression and a serious neurological disease that increasingly limited his motion, * J. S. Bach: Johannes-Passion, Marcus Ullmann, Gotthold Schwarz, Ruth Holton, Matthias Rexroth, Henryk Böhm, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conductor Georg Christoph Biller, Rondeau 2007 Videos

Georg Christoph Strattner

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Georg Christoph Strattner (c. 1645 – April 1704) was a German church musician, composer, and hymn writer. Strattner was born in Gols, then in the Hungarian Burgenland. He received his first musical training from his cousin Samuel Capricornus who was the music director at the in Preßburg. He composed melodies for hymns by Joachim Neander for a new 1691 publication. Selected works * (ed): Joachimi Neandri Vermehrte Glaub- und Liebes-Ubung : Auffgemuntert durch einfältige Bundes-Lieder/ Und Danck-Psalmen; Gegründet auff den zwischen Gott und dem Sünder im Blut Jesu befestigten Friedens-Schluß/ Zu lesen und zu singen auff Reisen/ Zu Hauß/ oder bey Christ-Ergetzungen im Grünen/ Durch ein geheiligtes Hertzens-Halleluja. Franckfurt: Andreä, 1691 References Literature * * Hermann Schemmel: Strattner, Georg Christoph. In: Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Komponisten und Liederdichter des evangelischen Gesangbuchs. (= Handbuch zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch; vol. 2). Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, , p. 316 External links *

Georg Friedrich Kauffmann

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Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (14 February 1679 – 24 March 1735) was a Baroque composer and organist from northern-central Germany who composed primarily sacred works for the organ and voice. Biography Early life and career Georg Friedrich Kauffmann was born in Ostramondra, Thuringia. Little is known of his early life; however, he did have early keyboard training with J.H. Buttstett in Erfurt. His latter years of education were under J.F. Alberti in Merseburg with whom he studied organ and composition. In 1698, Alberti suffered an injury to his right hand, inhibiting his ability to play the organ at the cathedral. Kauffmann replaced Alberti permanently as teacher in Merseburg as well as court and cathedral organist upon Alberti’s death in 1710. Kauffmann is also attributed to have secured during this period the position of Director of Church Music for the Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, and might have also served as Kapellmeister. However, these positions are only speculative at best due to an absence of archival investigations. (Note: Kauffmann signed many of his published works as Court Organist and Director of Church Music for the Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, so it is quite likely that he did se

Georg Goltermann

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:Georg Eduard Goltermann should not be confused with Julius Goltermann (1825–1876), the cello teacher of David Popper. Georg Eduard Goltermann (19 August 1824 – 29 December 1898) was a German cellist, composer and conductor. Life Goltermann was born in Hannover. His father was an organist, and therefore he got an early introduction to music. He received cello lessons from in Munich, the most important Bavarian cello virtuoso of his time. He took composition lessons from Ignaz Lachner. Instead his concertos are studied by students to learn technique and get a basic understanding of concerto style. Concerto No. 1 has maintained a presence in today’s standard repertoire. An early recording of this movement played by Pablo Casals exists. * Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 14 * Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30 * Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 51 * Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 65 * Concerto No. 5 in D minor, Op. 76 * Concerto No. 6 in D major, Op. 100 * Concerto No. 7 in C major, Op. 103 * Concerto No. 8 in A major, Op. 130 There are other works for orchestra including a symphony in A, Op. 20, published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1852 and released in 2023 on the Capriccio label. Many of G

Georg Gräner

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Georg Gräner (20 November 1876 – 30 April 1945) was a German composer and music critic. Life Born in Berlin, Gräner studied composition and horn. From 1899 until 1906, he was a performing musician and music correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung in London, then until 1914 he worked as a music consultant. In 1920, he joined the Deutsche Musiker-Zeitung, which closed in 1933. From 1930 until his death, he taught harmony and piano at the Stern Conservatory (1936 renamed to Conservatory of the Reich Capital Berlin). As a composer, Gräner stood in the tradition of Anton Bruckner. As a journalist he was one of the first to promote Max Reger’s works. He also became known with a biography about his cousin Paul Graener, published in 1922, which he had written without his knowledge. Paul Graener was dissatisfied with this; nevertheless the two worked together in the following period: Georg Gräner wrote the libretto to Paul Graener’s opera Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1927), after the eponymous play by Gerhart Hauptmann. Like his cousin, Gräner also turned to Nazism and wrote propagandistic articles such as Deutsche und undeutsche Musik. Gräner died in Potsdam aged 68. Work Compositions * 12 Christm

Georg Hajdu

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Georg Hajdu (born 21 June 1960) is a German composer of Hungarian descent. His work is dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. He is noted for his opera and the network music performance environment Quintet.net. Biography Hajdu was born in Göttingen to Hungarian parents who had fled their country in 1956. He grew up in Cologne where he obtained diplomas in molecular biology and musical composition from the University of Cologne and the Cologne Musikhochschule, resp. A stipend by the German Academic Exchange Service enabled him to enter the graduate program in composition at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, working closely with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and eventually obtaining a Ph.D. in 1994. His teachers include Georg Kröll, Johannes Fritsch, Krzysztof Meyer, Clarence Barlow, Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman and David Wessel. He also audited classes with György Ligeti in Hamburg. In 1996, following residencies at IRCAM and the ZKM, Karlsruhe, he co-founded the Ensemble WireWorks with his wife, pianist Jennifer Hymer—a group specializing in the performance of mixed-media composition. In 1999, he produced his

Georg Joseph Vogler

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Georg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler (15 June 1749 – 6 May 1814), was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist. In a long and colorful career extending over many more nations and decades than was usual at the time, Vogler established himself as a foremost experimenter in baroque and early classic music. His greatest successes came as performer and designer for the organ at various courts and cities around Europe, as well as a teacher, attracting highly successful and devoted pupils such as Carl Maria von Weber. His career as a music theorist and composer however was mixed, with contemporaries such as Mozart believing Vogler to have been a charlatan. Despite his mixed reception in his own life, his highly original contributions in many areas of music (particularly musicology and organ theory) and influence on his pupils endured, and combined with his eccentric and adventurous career, prompted one historian to summarize Vogler as “one of the most bizarre characters in the history of music”. Biography Vogler was born at Pleichach in Würzburg. His father Jared Vogler was a violin maker and instrument-maker for the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. The young Vogler studied l

Georg Katzer

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Georg Katzer (; 10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019) was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR. He held leading positions in music organisations, first in the East (Akademie der Künste der DDR), then in the united Germany (Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Deutscher Musikrat), and received many awards, including the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Music Authors’ Prize. Biography Katzer was born in Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia (now Bystrzyca Kłodzka, Poland), on 10 January 1935. From 1954 to 1960 he studied piano, music theory, and composition with (amongst others) Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Ruth Zechlin at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in East Berlin, then from 1957 to 1958 he studied in Prague with . From 1961 to 1963 he was a postgraduate student of Hanns Eisler and Leo Spies at the German Academy of the

Georg Klein (composer)

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Georg Klein (born 1 March 1964) is a German artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany. He has lived in Rome, Los Angeles, and Istanbul. He has worked in the fields of sound, video, and media production. Klein is a professor of sound art and director of the master’s program of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Early life Georg Klein was born in 1964 in Öhringen, Germany. Klein began his creative studies in sound engineering and communication at the Technical University of Munich before continuing his education at the Technische Universität Berlin. He continued his education by studying the philosophy of religion, psychoanalysis, and ethnomusicology at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1991 to 1994, Klein worked as a research assistant at the Technische Universität Berlin. He focused on visualizing sound for the deaf. In both 1999 and 2000, he lectured at the Freie Universität Berlin on the relationship of music and religion. Career Transition to Composition and Sound Art In 1996, he began working as a music composer (Berlin International Film Festival) and in the following years worked in the Electronic Studio of TU Berlin on electronic and comp

Georg Liebling

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Georg Liebling (22 January 1865 – 7 February 1946) was a German pianist and composer. Part of the Liebling family of musicians, he had an active international career as a concert pianist and accompanist from the 1880s into the 1920s. He also worked as a piano teacher for most of his life, beginning that occupation at the age of 16 and continuing up until his death more than 50 years later. He taught on the faculties of the Kullack Conservatory in Berlin (1881–1889), the Guildhall School of Music in London (1898–1906), and the Hollywood Conservatory of Music in the early 1930s in addition to teaching privately in Berlin, Munich, and New York City. As a composer, his salon compositions are noteworthy, especially the Air de Ballet and Romance; a gavotte, and the vocal Lieblingswalzer. Also notable is his 1908 opera Die heilige Katharina. He was from a prominent Jewish family of musicians. His three brothers, Sally, Emil, and Max Liebling, were also successful pianists, and all four of them studied the piano with Franz Liszt at some point during their training. The four brothers also had success as composers in addition to being notable performers. His older brother Max moved to New Yo

Georg Muffat

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Georg Muffat (1 June 1653 – 23 February 1704) was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces Florilegium Primum and Florilegium Secundum (First and Second Bouquets) in 1695 and 1698. Life Georg Muffat was born in Megève, Duchy of Savoy (now in France), of André Muffat (of Scottish descent) and Marguerite Orsyand. He studied in Paris between 1663 and 1669, where his teacher is often assumed to have been Jean Baptiste Lully. This assumption is largely based on the statement “For six years … I avidly pursued this style which was flowering in Paris at the time under the most famous Jean Baptiste Lully.” This is ambiguous (in all of the languages in which it was printed) as to whether the style was flourishing under Lully, or that Muffat studied under Lully. In any case, the style which the young Muffat learned was unequivocally Lullian and it remains likely, though unevidenced, that he had at least some contact with the man himself. After leaving Paris, he became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling i

Georg Österreich

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Georg Österreich (baptized on 17 March 1664 – 6 June 1735) was a German Baroque composer and collector. He is regarded as the founder of the so-called Bokemeyer collection (German: Sammlung Bokemeyer) which is now housed in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and is considered one of the most important music collections of the late 17th and early 18th century. Life Youth (1664–1686) Österreich was born in March 1664, the son of brewer Johann (or Hans) Österreich and Elisabeth Österreich and was baptized on March 17 in the Johanniskirche in Magdeburg. The Österreich family came originally from Augsburg and belonged to a very distinguished patrician family. In 1552, they fell out of favor with the Emperor when they tried to reinstate the guild government which had been in place prior to 1547. As a result, they lost many of the rights associated with their position and were forced to leave Augsburg. A majority of the family settled in Central Germany. Österreich received his first musical education from his godfather, the Magdeburg cantor Johann Scheffler, who also instructed Johann Theile and was one of the most respected musicians of his time. However, little is known of Scheffler’s life

Georg Riedel (Altstadt Kantor)

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Georg Riedel (6 June 1676 – 5 February 1738, in Königsberg) was a German composer and cantor. He has been referred to as the “East Prussian Bach”. Riedel was a native of Sensburg (Mrągowo), in the Duchy of Prussia. In 1694 Riedel entered the University of Königsberg to study theology. He wrote a serenade, since lost, for the celebrations of the coronation of Frederick I of Prussia in 1701 as well as other occasional works for inaugurations, weddings, birthdays and funerals. In 1709 he was appointed cantor at Altstadt Church, one of Königsberg’s three key musical positions, which he occupied until his death. Riedel’s unique monumental settings of the entire Gospel of Matthew, the entire Book of Psalms, and the entire Book of Revelation, were preserved in the Königsberg Public Library. His compositions are probably lost due to the destruction of Königsberg in 1944 and 1945 during World War II. There is, however, still hope that Riedel’s works may be recovered in the future, as parts of the various archives of Kaliningrad, post-war Königsberg, were distributed among Polish and Soviet institutions. It is not clear if he is related to another Georg Riedel, born 1715 in Neidenburg (Nidzi

Georg Schmitt

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Johann Georg Gerhard Schmitt (11 March 1821 – 7 December 1900), in French Jean-Georges Gérard Schmitt, was a Paris-based composer and organist, originally from the Prussian Lower Rhine province. He was only 14 when he took over as organist at Trier Cathedral: the position had fallen vacant three years earlier through the early death of the previous incumbent, his father. Life Johann Georg Gerhard Schmitt was born at , a riverside fishing hamlet on the northern edge of Trier (into which it has subsequently been subsumed). His birth took place in the little hotel run by his parents, Johann Georg Schmitt (1787–1832) and his wife, born Catharina Marx (1809–1868). Two hundred years later, there is still a hotel on the site: it is now named “Gasthaus Mosellied”, after a song which during the nineteenth century became one of Schmitt’s more widely appreciated compositions. The elder Johann Georg Schmitt combined his business as an hotelier with the post of Trier Cathedral organist between 1810 and his death in 1832. During his final illness his son frequently deputised for him, despite being aged only 11 at the time of the father’s death. Over the next two years the boy, whose early music

Georg Schumann (composer)

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Georg Alfred Schumann (; 25 October 1866 – 23 May 1952) was a German composer and director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Life Schumann was born at Königstein. He was the son of Clemens Schumann (1839–1918) and the older brother of Camillo Schumann. He first studied the violin and organ with his father and grandfather, and was taught by Friedrich Baumfelder, a well-known German composer, pianist, and conductor of his day. He later was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory for seven years, conducted an orchestra at Danzig from 1891–1896 and from 1896-1899 the orchestra at Bremen. In 1900 he became professor and director at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. In 1907 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, in 1918 vice-president and finally in 1934 President. Works (selection) * Symphonies: ** Symphony No. 1, “Preis-Symphonie” in B minor (1887) ** Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 42 (1905) * Other orchestral works: ** Amor und Psyche, Op. 3 (1888) for soloists, choir and orchestra ** Celebration overture in C minor, Op.48 (1939) ** Joy of Life overture, Op. 54 (1911) ** Im Ringen um ein Ideal, symphonic poem Op. 66 (1916) ** Orchestral Variations on Vetter Michel, Op. 74 (1930) *

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

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Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (8 March 1844, Munich – 17 July 1906, Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal) was a German composer, conductor and violinist. Life Childhood and youth (1844–1860) Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; he was the first child of Jakob Rauchenecker (1815–1876), an official musician of the city, and Rosina Crescenz Rauchenecker, née Wening (1815–1876) and was baptised a Catholic two days later at St Peter’s in Munich. As a young boy he was sent by his father to his uncle, Georg Wening, who had been pastor of the parish of Thalheim (pop. 260) near Erding since 1855. It is possible that Rauchenecker was expected to follow the same career path as his uncle. After this he attended the King Maximilian Grammar School in Munich and here, at the age of eleven, he played first violin accompanying the church choir. a physician and musical patron from Winterthur. In the spring of 1873 he converted to Protestantism as his second wife was a Protestant. The marriage to Anna Karolina Ulrica Kempin (1845–1904) took place at the Diaconal Church in Neuminster (Zürich). On 29 October 1873 Rauchenecker, having been proposed by Ziegler-Sulzer, was elected to the post of he

Georges Jacobi

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Georges Jacobi (3 February 1840 –13 September 1906) was a German violinist, composer and conductor who was musical director of the Alhambra Theatre in London from 1872 to 1898. His best-known work was probably The Black Crook (1872) written with Frederick Clay for the Parisian operetta-star Anna Judic and which ran for 310 performances. Although never achieving the standing of Hervé, or Offenbach or Sullivan, he composed over 100 pieces for ballet and the theatre which were popular at the time. his musical education began aged 6. Educated in Paris, he began his musical career as a violinist and in 1861 at the age of twenty-one he was awarded the first prize for violin playing at the Conservatoire de Paris where he also studied composition with Daniel Auber. He entered the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique where he worked until 1869 as the first violinist. He also gave concerts with his own orchestra in the picture gallery of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1869 he became musical director of the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, where he mainly conducted operettas by Offenbach. In 1897 Arthur Sullivan composed the ballet Victoria and Merrie England, which was performed at the Alh

Gerard Bunk

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Gerard Bunk (born 4 March 1888 in Rotterdam; died 13 September 1958 in Kamen) was a German-Dutch organist, pianist, harpsichordist, choirmaster and composer. Life and work Gerard Bunk was a student at the Rotterdam Conservatory of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst since 1901. The focus of his education was on piano studies with Anton Verheij. After a short stay in Hull and London (with the pianist Mark Hambourg ), he came to Bielefeld in 1906 to the piano teacher Hans Hermanns, whom he followed to the Hamburg Conservatory. In 1907 Bunk became a piano teacher at the conservatory in Bielefeld. He trained himself at the organ mainly autodidactically, whereby his pianistic skills paid off. On 20 June 1907, Bunk gave his first organ concert in the Bielefeld Synagogue. Here and in the Neustädter Marienkirche he played cyclical concert series in the following years. On 5 May 1910, Bunk stood in for Karl Straube at the first concert of the Dortmund Max-Reger-Festival and took turns with Reger at the “giant organ” of St. Reinold’s Church, which had been built the previous year. Reger then recommended him to the Dortmund Hüttner Conservatory, where Bunk taught piano and later or

Gerd Domhardt

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Gerd Domhardt (19 February 1945 in Wolmirstedt – 18 February 1997 in Halle) was a German composer. Domhardt grew up in Schleusingerneundorf. He studied music education, German studies and musicology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1963 to 1968. From 1973 to 1976 he was a master student for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin. Until 1969 he worked at the Staatskapelle Halle under Olaf Koch. From 1969 to 1973 he worked as an editor at the Deutscher Verlag für Musik in Leipzig. He was a teacher of the Halle composers class and from 1987 an honorary lecturer at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Until 1995 he directed the Society of Composers of Saxony-Anhalt and the contemporary music festival Hallische Musiktage. He was also founder and artistic director of the concert series approximation. In 1979 he composed the Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in One Movement as the opening concert at the Handel Festival, Halle. Last lived and worked as a freelance composer in Halle. Awards * 1978 Hans Stieber Prize * 1982 Hanns Eisler Prize Selected works ;Stage * Weiberkomödie, Opera after Heiner Müller ;Orchestra * Symphony No.1 * Symphony No.2 (19

Gerd Zacher

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Gerd Zacher (6 July 1929 – 9 June 2014) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He interpreted the scores of numerous contemporary composers, including John Cage, Juan Allende-Blin, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Hans Otte, Luis de Pablo, and Isang Yun. He is also known as an interpreter of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Zacher was born in Meppen and lived in Essen, Germany. Writings On music * Analyse der Orgel – ein Interpretationskurs. In: Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik. 26. 1972. – Mainz u.a. : Schott, 1973. (Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik; 13) * Bach gegen seine Interpreten verteidigt : Aufsätze 1987–1992. München : Edition Text u. Kritik, 1993. – 170 pages – (Musik-Konzepte; 79/80) * Beobachtungen an Erik Saties «Messe des pauvres». In: Erik Satie. – 2., erw. Aufl. – München : Edition Text u. Kritik, 1988. – pp. 48–63. – (Musik-Konzepte; 11) * Canonische Veränderungen, BWV 769 und 769 a. In: Bach Johann Sebastian – Das spekulative Spätwerk. – 2., unveränd. Aufl. – München : Edition Text u. Kritik, 1999. – pp.

Gereon Krahforst

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Gereon Krahforst (born 1973) is a German composer, concert organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and church musician. Training Born in Bonn, Krahforst received his first piano lessons at the age of 5; his first organ teachers were John L. Birley (Himmerod Abbey) and Markus Karas from 1987/1990 (Bonn Minster). He studied composition during his school years from 1990 to 1993 (junior studies with Hans Werner Henze and Günter Fork), then after his Abitur (from 1993) composition, piano (instrumental pedagogy) and church music with Clemens Ganz, Henning Frederichs, Günter Ludwig, Johannes Schild and Phillip Langshaw at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He passed his with a distinction for , after which he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main Organ (KA) with Daniel Roth. He complemented his training with master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Tomasz Adam Nowak, Jon Laukvik, Wolfgang Seifen, Peter Planyavsky, Guy Bovet and Franz Lehrndorfer. Life and work In 1985, at the age of 12, Krahforst became an organist at St Martin, Kirchsahr (Ahrweiler district); from 1989, he regularly played organ substitutes at Bonn Minster and St Josef, Bonn-Beuel. I

Gerhard Daum

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Gerhard Daum is a German composer specialising in film scores, musician and music producer. Biography Gerhard Daum, born on September 30, 1956, in the southern German city of Freiburg im Breisgau, developed an interest in music early in his childhood. He began playing the trumpet in his youth and performed with several brass bands. As a teenager, he also learned to play the guitar and piano before starting his studies in music. Daum attended the University of Music in Karlsruhe, where he graduated with a music diploma, with classical guitar as his main instrument. His studies included a semester at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria, where he focused on jazz and improvisation. Following his studies, Daum worked as a guitar teacher at the renowned Jazz & Rock School Freiburg from 1985. During this time, he also toured through Europe with his own jazz and rock ensemble, the Gerhard Daum Quartett, performing in Germany, France.., Switzerland and Austria. He later founded the music publishing company Gerhard Daum Music Edition in 1993 and his label ToneWork Records in 1995. His focus switched to film music after the Bayerischer Rundfunk offered him a job in Muni

Gerhard Rosenfeld

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Gerhard Rosenfeld (10 February 1931 – 5 March 2003) was a German composer. He became known for his film music and opera works, among other things. Life Born in Königsberg, Rosenfeld studied musicology from 1952 to 1954 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as music theory and musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin from 1954 to 57 with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. From 1958 to 1961 he was master student of Hanns Eisler and Leo Spies at the Akademie der Künste der DDR, from 1961 to 1964 lecturer at the Berlin and lecturer for music theory at the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik Berlin and for film music at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. After successes with classical music (Violin Concerto, 1963), Rosenfeld became one of the most prominent and busiest film composers of the DEFA in the 1960s. From 1964 he worked as a freelance composer and lived in Bergholz-Rehbrücke. He wrote the music for cinema, documentary, short films, children’s and animated films. Among them are classics like The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Alfons Zitterbacke (1966) and The Banner of Krivoi Rog (1968). One project that he supervised from 1966 until his death, even after the

Gerhart von Westerman

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Gerhart von Westerman (19 September 1894 – 14 February 1963) was a German composer, artistic director and music writer. Life Born in Riga, after graduating from high school Westerman studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where Paul Juon was his teacher. From 1918 he continued his studies with Walter Courvoisier and August Reuß in Munich and received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis on “Giovanni Porta als Opernkomponist”. In Munich he became head of department at the radio station in 1925, later at the radio stations in Berlin and Saarbrücken. In 1939 the Berlin Philharmonic appointed him as its artistic director (as successor to Hans von Benda). He held this office until 1945 and then again from 1952 onwards until 1959 from. In 1951 he founded the Berliner Festwochen, which he organized every year from then on until 1959. Westerman died in Berlin at the age of 68. He is buried at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem. His grave is marked as dedicated as Works Orchestral pieces *Serenade, op. 7, 1928 *Intermezzi, op. 9, 1929 *Divertimento, op. 16, 1940 Operas *Prometheische Phantasie, composition and libretto, premiere 1960 in Dortmund *Rosamunde Floris, libretto, music by

Gertrud Grunow

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Gertrud Grunow (8 July 1870 – 11 June 1944) was a German musician and educationalist who formulated theories on the relationships between sound, colour and movement and was a specialist in vocal pedagogy. She taught courses in the “theory of harmonisation” at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she was the school’s first woman teacher and the only woman teacher during the school’s Weimar years. Life and work Grunow was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia on 8 July 1870. She began exploring the relationships between sound, colour and movement as early as 1914 and gave her first lectures on her theories in Berlin in 1919. Later that year she was invited by the Swiss painter and designer Johannes Itten, to teach at the Bauhaus, where he was a master. She began teaching a course in the “theory of harmony”, later called the “theory of harmonisation”, at the Bauhaus from the end of 1919, and remained at the school until the summer of 1924. Unlike her male colleagues, she was paid on a freelance fee basis and was not taken on as a contracted employee until the summer of 1923. Both masters and students attended her courses. Grunow, along with Itten, Lothar Schreyer and others, was regarded as one

Giacomo Meyerbeer

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Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, “the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner”. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera “decisive character”. Meyerbeer’s grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition. These were employed in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris Opéra. They set a standard that helped to maintain Paris as the opera capital of the nineteenth century. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Meyerbeer began his musical career as a pianist but soon decided to devote himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing. His 1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto was the first to bring him a Europe-wide reputation, but it was Robert le diable (1831) which raised his status to great celebrity. His public career, lasting from then until his death, during which he remained a dominating figure in the world of opera, was summari

Giselher Klebe

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Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, all based on literary works, eight symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano works, and sacred music. Biography Giselher Klebe was born in Mannheim, Germany. He received musical tuition early in his life from his mother, the violinist Gertrud Klebe. The family relocated in 1932 to Munich, where his mother’s sister, Melanie Michaelis, continued the training. His father’s profession required a further relocation in 1936 to Rostock. His first opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play Die Räuber (The Robbers), was produced in 1957. Works References Notes Sources *Erik Levi, “Klebe, Giselher”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) * External links * Giselher-Klebe-Archiv, Archive of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin * “Giselher Klebe (1925–2009)”, Klassika * “Giselher Klebe_100, Festival zum 100. Geburtstag von Giselher Klebe in Detmold, vom 24.10. bis zum 14.12.2025”, program notes for the commemoration of Klebe’s 100th birthday, Christian Köhn, Detmold

Gordon Kampe

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Gordon Kampe (born 10 September 1976) In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Kampe is notably interested in the opera. Since 2009 he has written a number of commissioned works, among other for the Stuttgart State Opera (Zivilcourage. Musik für einen Platz, world premiere 2009), the Oldenburg State Theatre (ANOIA, world premiere 2012) and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna, world premiere 2013). The world premiere of PLÄTZE. DÄCHER. LEUTE. WEGE. Musiktheater für ein utopisches Bielefeld took place at Bielefeld Opera in 2015. Kampe’s opera Dogville, based on the film with the same name by Lars von Trier, premiered at the Aalto Theatre in Essen in 2023. Kampe has been a professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg since 2017. He lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. Compositions (selection) * High Noon: Moskitos for orchestra (2003/06) * heavy metal for flute solo (2008) * Zehn Symphonien for saxophone quartet (2011) * Spione for orchestra (2017) * Fat Finger Error for orchestra (2018) * Schummellümmelleichen, an operette for countertenor and

Gottfried Glöckner

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Gottfried Glöckner (born 24 June 1937) is a German composer, choral conductor and music educator. Life Born in Chemnitz, Glöckner attended the Zwickau Conservatory. Afterwards he worked as a music teacher in Bad Liebenwerda and Frankfurt (Oder). From 1970 to 1974 he studied composition with Manfred Weiss at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He worked as a freelance composer and choral conductor in Frankfurt (Oder). Glöckner’s compositions were published by bellmannmusik, Edition Choris Mundi and . His Concerto for Orchestra was first performed in Havana in 1984. He was married to the writer Helga Glöckner-Neubert until her death in 2017. Awards * 1986: Hanns Eisler Prize Compositions * Alle Kinder können sich verstehen for children’ choir and piano * Bratschenstücke (Viola pieces) for viola and piano (2011) * Concertino for accordion and wind quintet * Erste Liebe for medium voice and piano * Flötentrio for flutes * Fünf Intermezzi for clarinet and piano * Kleine Suite for accordion solo * Konzert für Orchester * Musik zur Weihnachtszeit for small ensemble * Philosophen und die Liebe for medium voice and piano * Präludium und Passacaglia * Sieben Stücke for

Gottfried Grünewald

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Gottfried Grünewald (also Grunewald; baptised 15 October 1673 – 19 December 1739) was a German operatic bass, harpsichordist, pantaleon virtuoso and composer. Life Grünewald was baptised in Seifhennersdorf near Zittau, on 15 October 1673. He studied music under his father, a school teacher, and attended the Zittau Gymnasium as a student. In 1696 he began studying at Leipzig University. During his studies, he performed as a bass singer at the Thomaskirche and in various operas. From 1703 he was a bass singer and composer at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. Two of his operas were performed there with him in the title roles: Der ungetreue Schäfer Cardillo in 1704 and Germanicus in 1705 which had received its world premiere in Leipzig the previous year. From 1709, he worked as vice kapellmeister at the court of Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, where he married Johanna Rosina Krieger, the daughter of Johann Philipp Krieger. Together, they had ten children. From 1711 until his death in 1739, Grunewald served in Dermstadt as vice kapellmeister under Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. His good friend Christoph Graupner served at the same court as kapellmeister and the two

Gottfried Huppertz

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Gottfried Huppertz (11 March 1887 – 7 February 1937) was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic Metropolis (1927). He collaborated with director Fritz Lang on multiple occasions. Life Huppertz studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and worked during World War I in Coburg, where he debuted in 1910 as a singer and actor. In 1920 he went to Berlin as an opera singer at the Nollendorfplatz theatre. His first composition, “Rankende Rosen”, was dedicated to the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who introduced him in the early 1920s to director Fritz Lang and to Thea von Harbou (who later married Lang, but was at the time still married to Klein-Rogge). In the film, Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), Huppertz worked as an extra in the role of a hotel manager. Huppertz composed his first film score for Lang’s film Die Nibelungen (1924). While working on his 1925 score for the film Chronicles of the Gray House, Huppertz began working on the score of another film for Lang, Metropolis (1927). This became his best-known film score. Besides scoring, Huppertz also wrote songs. Only some of his music has been r

Gottfried Michael Koenig

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Gottfried Michael Koenig (5 October 1926 – 30 December 2021) was a German-Dutch composer. Biography Born in Magdeburg, Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig at the , followed by musical composition, piano, analysis, and acoustics at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He continued his studies in music representation techniques at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and computer technique at the University of Bonn. Koenig attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt music summer schools) and later served there as a lecturer. From 1954 to 1964, Koenig worked in the electronic studio of West German Radio (WDR), where he produced his electronic compositions Klangfiguren, Essay and Terminus 1, and wrote chamber and orchestral music. During this period, he also assisted other composers, including Mauricio Kagel, Franco Evangelisti, György Ligeti (with Artikulation), Herbert Brün and Karlheinz Stockhausen (with the realization of Gesang der Jünglinge and Kontakte). From 1961 to 1965, Koenig taught at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Bilthoven, and from 1962 to 1964 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1964 he moved to the Netherlands, where he taught at Utrecht University and was, until 1986,

Gottfried Müller (composer)

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Joachim Gottfried Müller (born 8 June 1914 in Dresden; died 3 May 1993 in Nuremberg) was a German composer, cantor, and organist. Life He was the son of theologian Adolf Müller (de:Adolf Müller) . He studied with Dresden church music director , and also for a year at the University of Edinburgh with Donald Francis Tovey. In 1932 Karl Straube taught him to play the organ in Leipzig. In the same year, Fritz Busch performed Müller’s 90th Psalm for soloists, choir and orchestra. A little later, Müller’s variations and fugue on the folk song “Morgenrot” op. 2 were premiered at the International Music Festival in Venice. With effect from May 1, 1933, Müller joined the NSDAP (membership number 2,458,091). In 1934, his German Heroes’ Requiem (op. 4), was premiered by Karl Elmendorff at the 1934 Tonkunstlerfest in Wiesbaden. It was dedicated “into the hands of the Führer”, and based on a text by Klaus Niedner. Joseph Goebbels noted it impressed Adolf Hitler. In a biographical note in 1961, the composer instead dedicated it “to the fallen soldiers of the First World War.” The work underwent several revivals in the following years. On the occasion of a performance in 1934, his teacher Karl St

Gottfried Pestel

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Gottfried Ernst Pestel originally Bestel (Berka 1654-1732) was a German composer and organist at Weida, Thuringia and Altenburg south of Leipzig. He was princely organist in the castle church from 1686-1732, after which he was succeeded by Christian Lorenz. Works, editions and recordings *17 organ preludes in the Mylauer-Tabulaturbuch * Ciaconna (in Schneeberger Orgelbuch um 1705) *Cantata Komm du schoene Freudenkrone (recording on collection by Sächsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, directed Matthias Jung CPO 2009) References

Gottfried Weber

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Jacob Gottfried Weber (1 March 1779 – 21 September 1839) was a German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist. Biography Weber was born at Freinsheim. From 1824 to 1839, he was the editor of Cäcilia, a musical periodical published in Mainz, which influenced musical thought in Germany during the early Romantic era. His most important work is his Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst (“Theory of Musical Composition”) (Mainz: B. Schott, 1817–21), which introduced several concepts that have since become important in the study of music theory. In this work, Weber develops the idea of “Mehrdeutigkeit” (that is, “multiple meaning”), a term initially introduced by Georg Joseph Vogler. Weber’s “multiple meaning” refers to individual tones and harmonies, based on their context in a piece of music. For example, a C major triad may serve as I in C major, IV in G major, V in F major, etc. “To analyze a chord, a theorist must ask not only ‘What notes are in it?’ but also ‘How is it behaving in the harmonic progression?’” (Thompson); see diatonic function. In the same work, Weber also further develops Vogler’s idea of Roman numeral designations applied to ch

Gottfried Wilhelm Fink

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Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (8 March 1783 – 27 August 1846) was a German composer, music theorist, poet, and a Protestant clergyman. Life From 1804 until 1808 Fink studied theology at the University of Leipzig where he joined the Corps Lusatia. There he made his first attempts at composition and poetry. Most of his song compositions are attributed to this period. From 1811 he held the office of vicar in Leipzig for some years, where he also founded an educational institution which he led until 1829. Since the beginning of the 19th century he worked for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitschrift (“General musical magazine”). In 1827 he became the magazine’s editor-in-chief, a position he held for 15 years. From 1838 Fink worked as a lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 1841 he became a Privatdozent of musicology at the university. In the same year he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and a year later he was appointed the music director of the university. Fink was highly appreciated throughout his life as a music theorist and composer. Numerous honors and awards were bestowed on him at home as well as abroad. In 1838, the Faculty of Philosophy at Leipzig Universi

Gottfried Wolters

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Gottfried Wolters (8 April 1910 – 25 June 1989) was a German choral conductor and composer. Life Wolters was born in Emmerich am Rhein. He began studying music at the University of Cologne, but did not complete his dissertation on Johann Baptist Wanhal as a symphonist. After the seizure of control by the National Socialists he worked as an editor at P. J. Tonger Verlag in Cologne and also as a freelance composer and choir director. As Gaumusikreferent of the German Labour Front (1935) was listed on the in the Soviet occupation zone. In the post-war years he founded the Norddeutscher Singkreis, a mixed choir, in Hamburg. With this choir he led Bach’s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, Hugo Distler’s Choralpassion and Mörike’s Chorliederbuch, Günter Bialas’s Im Anfang and many more serious modern and Baroque works. His special love was the German and later the European folk song, which he sang together with his choir and the audience with his own instrumental movements at the monthly Open Singstunden in Hamburg. Worldly music from madrigal to vocal music by Paul Hindemith was another focus. In the early 1960s he founded the movement Europa Cantat with other European choral condu

Gottlob Benedict Bierey

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Gottlob Benedict Bierey (25 July 1772 – 5 May 1840) was a German composer, Kapellmeister and Theatre tenant. Life Born in Dresden, Bierey was a pupil of Christian Ehregott Weinlig. As soon as 1788, he became music director of the Döbbelinschen. From 1794 until 1806, he worked for Joseph Seconda in Dresden and Leipzig. In 1807 he made a guest appearance in Vienna, and from December 1807 until 1828 he worked as kapellmeister at the Wrocław Opera, where he succeeded Carl Maria von Weber and his successor Müller. From 1824 to 1828, Bierey also became a director of the municipal theatre there, but he came into constant conflict with Karl Schall, who opposed him in his Neue Breslauer Zeitung and vigorously opposed his allegedly unartistic and only money-making management. In Dresden, he was a member of the masonic lodge Zum goldenen Apfel. At the time of Biery’s, the baritone Johann Theodor Mosewius was also active in Wroclaw (1788-1858) and the comedians Heinrich Schmelka, Ludwig Wohlbrück and Fritz Beckmann. From 1829, Bierey privatized for health reasons in Wiesbaden, Mainz, Leipzig, Weimar. With few exceptions, his compositions belong to the field of music theatre and consist, beside

Gottlob Harrer

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Johann Gottlob Harrer, more commonly known as Gottlob Harrer, (8 May 1703 – 9 July 1755) was a German composer and choir leader. From 1731-1750 he worked as private musician to Count Heinrich von Brühl. In 1750 he succeeded Johann Sebastian Bach as Thomaskantor at the St. Thomas School, Leipzig; a post he maintained until his death in 1755. Life Johann Gottlob Harrer was born in Görlitz on May 8, 1703. He originally intended to become a lawyer, and studied the law at the University of Leipzig from 1722-1725. Through the patronage of Count Heinrich von Brühl, he trained as a musician in Italy. Upon completing his education he returned to Germany where he served the count as his private musician in Dresden from 1731-1750. but deputies had had to fulfill his duties on occasion, because of his declining health. He composed much instrumental music, including 27 symphonies, 24 orchestral suites, 51 flute duets and a number of harpsichord sonatas. He also wrote two masses for choir and orchestra, one mass for unaccompanied voices, 47 cantatas and a number of oratorios, passions, psalms, and motets. References Citations Bibliography * A. Schering: Der Thomaskantor Johann Gottlob Harrer. In

Günter Bialas

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Günter Bialas (19 July 1907 – 8 July 1995) was a German composer. Life Bialas was born in Bielschowitz (today Bielszowice, a subdivision of Ruda Śląska) in Prussian Silesia. His father was the business manager of a German theatre, and his musical aesthetic was influenced by the personal experiences and connections he made while spending time at that theatre in his youth. The adolescent Bialas received lessons in piano and music theory from Fritz Lubrich, a former student of Max Reger, in Kattowitz (Katowice) between 1922 and 1925. After graduating from the German Minority-Gymnasium in Kattowitz in 1926, he studied musicology, Germanistics, and history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau from 1927 to 1931. He then proceeded to study music at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and subsequently taught at the Ursulines Girls’ School in Breslau-Karlowitz from 1934 to 1937. He pursued further studies in composition with Max Trapp in Berlin. Through some of his Romanian friends, he made the acquaintance of Sergiu Celibidache and prepared for the entrance examination to the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1939, he became a lecturer in music theory and composition at the

Günter Bust

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Günter Bust (12 July 1930 – 27 May 2005) was a German music educator and composer. Life Born in , today Magdeburg, Bust first attended the 23rd Magdeburg Community School, then the from 1941 to 1945. After the Bombing of Leipzig, the school was evacuated to Nossen in 1943/44. At the end of the war, he stayed in Zschopau. After the Abitur at the , he studied school music with Fritz Reuter and Slavic studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1949 to 1953. On the occasion of the in East Berlin in 1950, he founded the “Central Choir” which is considered the forerunner of the “Johann Friedrich Reichardt” in Halle. Bust then worked as a teacher in Halberstadt and Dessau. From 1956 to 1963, he was head of the music department at the in Weißenfels. Afterwards, he taught at the Käthe Kollwitz secondary school in Schönebeck. From 1967 to 1995 he was head of the , where he taught music theory, practical school play and viola. He also presided over the youth symphony orchestra there. At the music school, he set up a secretariat for the “Georg Philipp Telemann” working group. This became the centre of Telemann care and research in 1985. Bust also installed a musical pre-s

Günter Kochan

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Günter Kochan (2 October 1930 – 22 February 2009) was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”. He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was also secretary of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts from 1972 to 1974 and vice-president of the from 1977 to 1982. Kochan is one of eleven laureates to have been awarded the National Prize of the GDR four times. In addition, he received composition prizes in the US and Eastern Europe. He became internationally known in particular for his Symphonies as well as the cantata Die Asche von Birkenau (1965) and his Music for Orchestra No. 2 (1987). His versatile oeuvre included orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, mass songs and film music and is situated between socialist realism and avant-garde. Life Origin and studies Kochan was born in 1930 into a family of white-collar workers in Luckau, Lower Lusatia. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven from the local pian

Günter Raphael

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Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of Fascism – he was declared a “half-Jew” – made this difficult for him. He received the Franz Liszt Award for composition in 1948. His compositions include five symphonies, concertos for violin and for organ, six string quartets, numerous solos and duos for strings and winds with and without piano of which several have been recorded. Raphael also composed organ, piano and choral works. He was also responsible for arranging a performance version of Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in A major (1865) when its piano and cello score was discovered in 1918. He was also an editor of classical and baroque scores for Breitkopf and Härtel, preparing editions of, for example, flute sonatas by Frederick the Great and works by Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach (some of these can be found in the Cornell University Library). References External links *– 10k Official site in English *Official

Gustav Brecher

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Gustav Brecher (5 February 1879 – May 1940) was a German conductor, composer, and music critic. As director of the Leipzig Opera, he conducted world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill, including Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933, lived at risk in Stalingrad, Berlin, Prague, and finally Ostend, where he took his life together with his wife’s. Life Brecher was born in Eichwald, Ore Mountains, then in Austria-Hungary. His Jewish The latter, who was not Jewish, left Ostend in August 1939 The fate of the Brecher family is not known but they disappeared without a trace around May 1940 when the Germans occupied Belgium. Their files in the National Archives of Belgium (Algemeen Rijksarchief) in Brussels retrospectively state they “left for England”. It is not certain if they committed suicide or perished at sea. A Stolperstein in front of the Hamburg State Opera reminds of his fate. References Further reading * : Gustav Brecher und die Leipziger Oper 1923–1933. With a contribution by Heinrich Creuzburg: Erinnerungen an Gustav Brecher. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1990 * Richard Wagner gepfändet: ein Leipziger Denkma

Gustav Bumcke

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Gustav Bumcke (18 July 1876 – 4 July 1963) was a German composer and founder of the first German saxophone orchestra. Biography Born on 18 July 1876, in Berlin, after attending the Oberrealschule and subsequent years as a commercial apprentice, Bumcke took lessons in composition with Gustav Kulenkampff (1848–1921), Max Bruch and Engelbert Humperdinck, piano with Hugo Rüdel and Otto Neitzel, and trumpet with Julius Koslek (1835–1905). From 1900 to 1902, he was a theatre director in Constance, Heilbronn and Bayreuth. In 1902, on a trip to Paris, he met the son of Adolphe Sax. Bumcke brought eight saxophones (instruments with the “beautiful, noble sound” ) of all sizes with him to Berlin and since then devoted all his creative energy to the classical saxophone in Germany. From 1903 to 1936, he taught music theory, harmony and composition at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. For lack of good saxophonists, Bumcke played many of his compositions himself and in 1927 founded his own saxophone class at Stern’s Conservatory, then later at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, from which especially Bumcke’s daughter Hilde became famous as a German saxophonist under her stage name Ingrid Lar

Gustav Graben-Hoffmann

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Gustav Graben-Hoffmann (March 7, 1820, Bnin, Kórnik – May 20, 1900, Potsdam) was a German composer, singer, and music educator. He is best known for authoring two influential works on vocal pedagogy: Das Studium des Gesangs nach seinen musikalischen Elementen (Leipzig, 1872) and Praktische Methode als Grundlage für den Kunstgesang und eine allgemeine musikalische Bildung (Dresden, 1874). His best known composition was the ballad 500,000 Teufel. Life Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann was born on March 7, 1820, in Bnin, Kórnik. Graben-Hoffmann relocated to Berlin where he trained as a vocalist and composer and had a career as a concert singer from 1844 to 1848. Illness ended his singing career, and in 1850 he established a music academy for women, Vocal pedagogy Graben-Hoffmann is best known for his contributions to vocal pedagogy; publishing three works on the topic: Die Pflege der Singstimme und die Gründe von der Zerstörung und dem frühzeitigen Verlust derselben (Dresden, 1865), Das Studium des Gesangs nach seinen musikalischen Elementen (Leipzig, 1872), and Praktische Methode als Grundlage für den Kunstgesang und eine allgemeine musikalische Bildung (Dresden, 1874). Of these the la

Gustav Gunsenheimer

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Gustav Gunsenheimer (; 10 March 1934 – 3 March 2026) was a German director of church music and a composer of mostly sacred music and chamber music, including the Evangelienmotette . First an elementary school teacher, he worked for decades as the church musician at St. Lukas in Schweinfurt, where he held annual festivals. He conducted notable choirs, was responsible in the Bavarian organization of chorale conductors, and was a lecturer at the Musikhochschule Würzburg. Life and career Born in Kunzendorf, External links * * Gustav Gunsenheimer / 1934 at Carus-Verlag

Gustav Jenner

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Gustav Jenner (3 December 1865 – 29 August 1920), born Cornelius Uwe Gustav Jenner was a German composer, conductor and musical scholar. He was the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms. Biography Jenner was born in Keitum on the island of Sylt, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, a doctor, came from a Scottish family: he claimed descent from Edward Jenner, the discoverer of smallpox vaccine, and was related to the family who built the eponymous Art-Nouveau style department store which is one of the landmarks of Edinburgh’s Princes Street. While at school in Kiel, Jenner started to teach himself to write music but, after his father committed suicide in 1884 (he had been accused of abusing female patients), he was befriended and assisted by the poet Klaus Groth, who arranged for him to study with Brahms’s old teacher Eduard Marxsen in Hamburg. Marxsen in his turn handed Jenner over to Brahms, with whom he studied in Vienna from February 1888 to 1895, also receiving instruction from Eusebius Mandyczewski. Though Brahms was a merciless critic of Jenner’s compositional attempts, he took great care over his welfare. He had him appointed Secretary of the Vienna To

Gustav Lange

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Gustav Lange (13 August 1830 – 20 July 1889) was a German composer known mainly for his melodious salon music for the piano. Life Lange was born in Schwerstedt, near Erfurt, Prussian Saxony, in 1830. He received initial musical training from his father on the piano and organ, followed by conservatory studies in piano, organ, thorough bass, and composition – probably at the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin. His teachers included August Wilhelm Bach, Eduard Grell, and Albert Löschhorn. He lived for many years in Berlin and died at Wernigerode in 1889. Music Encouraged by the success of some 1860s compositions, Lange produced a large number of works, most of which were light and popular piano pieces, of which he wrote around 500. Edelweiss op. 31 and Blumenlied op. 39 (alternatively known as Flower Song in English) are perhaps two of his best-known works today. A contemporary English source says: “Many of these pieces are very pleasing and pretty in character, but they are not marked by any very striking features”. Selected compositions (piano) * Lamentation d’une jeunne fille op. 10 * Farewell! op. 15 * Prière à la Madonne op. 17 * Fête militaire op. 18 * Le Retour de solda

Gustav Merkel

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Gustav Adolf Merkel (November 12, 1827, Oberoderwitz, Kingdom of Saxony – October 30, 1885, Dresden) was a German organist and composer. Having been given some lessons by Schumann in his youth, Merkel spent most of his career in Dresden, concentrating on organ-playing from 1858. A Lutheran himself, he nevertheless held an appointment at the Catholic Church of the Court of Saxony from 1864 until his death. During the same period he taught the organ at Dresden’s Conservatory. His compositions include nine organ sonatas (which have been recorded several times, as well as occurring quite often in organ recitals), of which the first sonata (Op.30) is written for two organists, and several dozen miniatures (some of them based on Protestant chorale melodies). In these works, his style is broadly conservative, very much influenced by Mendelssohn, and with similarities to the output of his younger contemporary Josef Rheinberger. He also produced choral and piano pieces; his salon piece “Schmetterling” (“Butterfly”), Op. 81, No. 4 is particularly well-known. Further reading * Paul Janssen, Gustav Merkel: Ein Bild seines Lebens und Wirkens (Leipzig, 1886). * Magdalene Saal, Gustav Adolf Merke

Gustav Nottebohm

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Martin Gustav Nottebohm (12 November 1817 – 29 October 1882) was a German musicologist, teacher and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna. He is particularly celebrated for his studies of Beethoven. Life and career Martin Gustav Nottebohm was born in Lüdenscheid, Westphalia on 12 November 1817. There, he studied composition and counterpoint under the renowned theorist Simon Sechter. In 1862 he met Brahms, who became a lifelong friend; Brahms cared for Nottebohm in his last illness and took care of the arrangements for his funeral. Nottebohm was a pioneer researcher in what are now described as ‘Beethoven studies’. He sought out Beethoven relics and produced an important ’thematic catalogue’ of Beethoven’s works. His greatest contribution, however, is probably his series of essays and commentaries on several of the musical ‘sketchbooks’ in which Beethoven notated and elaborated his initial ideas. The last of Nottebohm’s publications on this subject appeared posthumously in 1887, edited by his former pupil Mandyczewski. Nottebohm died on 29 October 1882 in Graz. Writing of Nottebohm’s investigations into Beethoven’s sketches, the later Beethoven scholar Joseph Kerman evalua

Gustav Reichardt

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Gustav Reichardt, also Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Gustav Reichardt (13 November 1797 – 18 October 1884), was a 19th-century German music teacher and composer. Life and work Gustav Reichardt was born in Schmarsow. He received his first music lessons at the age of five from his father, the versatile educated countryside preacher Rev. Georg Gustav Zacharias Reichardt (1766–1852). Already, at the age of nine, he appeared on violin and piano. From 1809 to 1811, he received music lessons in Neustrelitz and was a violinist in a local Chapel. In 1811, he attended grammar school and then he began studying theology at the University of Greifswald. In 1818, he moved to the Berlin Academy, but decided to study music in 1819. He became a pupil of Bernhard Klein in music theory and composition. As a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (1819–1832) he co-founded the Berliner Liedertafel and soon attracted attention due to his well-trained bass voice. He turned entirely to composition and developed a fruitful activity in this area. After a number of years he acted as a singing teacher with extraordinary success. Due to this he began to have access to aristocratic circles and the royal family of Fred

Gustav Wohlgemuth

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Gustav Wohlgemuth (2 December 1863 – 2 March 1937) was a German choral conductor and composer. Career Wohlgemuth was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. From 1878, he attended the teacher training seminar in Grimma. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the Leipzig Volksschule . During this time he conducted two men’s chorus: the Liederfels and the Liederhain. On 14 March 1891, Wohlgemuth united both choirs to form one men’s chorus, which he directed until his death and led to national fame. In 1900 he gave up his teaching profession and studied for three years at the Leipzig Conservatory. In the same year, he also took over the direction of the , a mixed choir which was founded in 1802 by the then director of the Gewandhaus concerts and later Thomaskantor, Johann Gottfried Schicht. From 1896 to 1932, Wohlgemuth took part in the festivals of the as festival conductor of the complete chorus. From 1898 until 1932, he was a member of the executive committee of the Deutscher Sängerbund as musical expert of the managing committee. In the autumn of 1906, Wohlgemuth took over as editor of the magazine Sängerhalle (later Deutsche Sängerbund-Zeitung) for 20 years. He was a member of the Leip

Haim Alexander

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Haim Alexander (Hebrew: חיים אלכסנדר; August 9, 1915 – March 18, 2012) an Israeli composer and music educator. Biography Alexander was born in Berlin, Germany on August 9, 1915. He was a student at the Stern Conservatory in his native city but persecution from the Nazi Party forced him to leave in 1936. That same year he emigrated to Palestine. He studied piano and composition with Irma and Stefan Wolpe at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Alexander also did work transcribing tradition Jewish music into musical notation for at the National Sound Archives at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. He was the recipient of several awards, including the Engel Prize in 1956 and the Artur Rubinstein Prize in 1973. In 1996 he received the ACUM Golden Feather Prize for lifetime achievement. Alexander died in Jerusalem on March 18, 2012. Selected works *6 Israeli Dances, fo piano, 1951 *Artza To our Country , for orchestra, 1951 *Ve’kibatzti etkhem I Will Even Gather You , for SATB chorus, 1952 *Bnot kol Sound Figures , for piano, 1965 *Nabut, ballet, 1971 *Tavniot Patterns , for piano, 1973; revised 1975 *Piano Concerto, for piano and orchestra, 1982 *Shirei Ahavah ve’Tzippia

Hanne Haller

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Hanne Haller (January 14, 1950 in Rendsburg, Germany - November 15, 2005 in Tegernsee, Germany; full name Hannelore Haller) was a German pop singer (genre known as “schlager” in German), composer, writer, producer, and sound engineer. Note: this entry is based on a translation of the entry in the German version of Wikipedia. Life Hanne Haller grew up in the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Her mother was an opera singer, her father a banker. While in school she played drums for “The Rooks” in the town of Ronnenberg near Hannover. After completing school in 1968, she went on to study athletics, but had to give that up due to a serious illness. In the same year she founded a gospel choir. Later in the 60s, she performed a single consisting of two songs by Siegfried Fietz (“Wir sind nur eine Minderheit”/“We are only one minority” and “Broadway”) for the Christian publishing house “Frohe Botschaft” (“Good News”) in Wetzlar. She went on to study to become a medical assistant and passed the “MTA” exam in 1970. She then worked in the X-ray and biochemistry lab of the Georg-August University/Göttingen University. In 1971 she began her musical career in earnest. She and producer Georg Moslen

Hanning Schröder

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Hanning Schröder (born Hans Schröder; 4 July 1896 – 16 October 1987) was a German composer and violist. From 1927, he worked in Berlin as a violist in orchestras for opera, radio and film, and in the Havemann String Quartet of his teacher Gustav Havemann. He formed the Harlan Trio with his wife and violinist Peter Harlan, performing Renaissance and Baroque music as pioneers of historical instruments. Due to his wife’s Jewish descent, he had to stop working under the Nazi regime from 1935. They hid a Jewish couple in the house in Berlin that they left for safety reasons, earning them a Righteous Among the Nations recognition. As a composer, Schröder is known for chamber music, especially a string quartet based on the song of the Moorsoldaten from the Börgermoor concentration camp. Biography Hans Schröder was born in Rostock, the son of a captain. He grew up in a music-loving family, learning to play the violin at a young age. He became leader of the family’s “Schröder House Orchestra” at the age of 15, leading public concerts. During the Weimar Republic era, Schröder first studied medicine in his hometown. He moved to study at the University of Freiburg in 1920, where he first began

Hanns Eisler

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Hanns Eisler (; 6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him. Family background Johannes Eisler was born in Leipzig, Saxony, on 6 July 1898 – the third child of Rudolf Eisler and Marie Ida Fischer. His father was a philosophy professor and an atheist of Jewish descent, and his mother was Lutheran of Swabian descent. In 1901, the family moved to Vienna. His older brother Gerhart was a communist journalist, At age 14, Eisler joined a socialist youth group. In 1917, one year after Eisler graduated high school, the 18-year-old Eisler was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army to fight during World War I, where he served as a front-line soldier. He found this time physically demanding, due to his poor health and small stature, and was injured several times in combat. Returning to Vienna after Austria’s defeat, he studied from 1919 to 1923 under Arnold Schoenberg. Eisler was the first of Schoenberg’s disciples to compose in the twelve-tone or

Hanns Wolf

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Hanns Wolf (sometimes incorrectly called Hans Wolf; June 7, 1894 – July 2, 1968) was a post-romantic and modern composer, pianist and music professor. Nearly all his works were destroyed after World War II, and Wolf was nearly forgotten until 1996 when he was rediscovered by Karl Urlberger. Biography Hanns Wolf was born in Bamberg, Germany. Little is known about his childhood, however from 1908 to 1912, he studied under Max Meyer-Olbersleben for composition and Henryk van Zeyl (who was a student of Liszt) for piano in the Würzburg Music Conservatory. to 1924. organized many concerts that can be date backed as early as 1917. Wolf taught piano to Ottmar Geißler (Geissler). After 1924, Wolf was a professor in the Augsburg Musikhochschule, now known as Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg. (who was an organ virtuoso), Piechler was the student of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid who was the director of the music school. Wolf also played piano around Europe, playing the works of Dobrowen and Wladigeroff. However, the outbreak of World War II forced him to stay in Germany. He continued to hold his position as a professor in the university until the war ended in 1945, when he resigned

Hans Blüher

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Hans Blüher (17 February 1888 – 4 February 1955) was a German writer and philosopher. He attained prominence as an early member and “first historian” of the Wandervogel movement. He was aided by his taboo breaking rebellion against schools and the Church. He was received with some genuine interest but sometimes perceived as scandalous. During the transition from the German Empire to the Weimar liberal democracy, Blüher, a radical conservative and monarchist, became a staunch opponent of the Weimar Republic. In 1928, he had the opportunity to meet the former Kaiser Wilhelm II, in exile in the Netherlands. Blüher believed that pederasty and male bonding provided a basis for a stronger nation and state, which became a popular concept within certain segments of the Hitler Youth. Blüher later supported the Nazis but turned on them in 1934, when SA leader Ernst Röhm was murdered on Hitler’s orders during the Night of the Long Knives. Since 1924, Blüher, who had married a doctor and had two children, had worked as a freelance writer and practicing psychologist in Berlin-Hermsdorf. He worked there, after his retirement from public life during the Nazi period, on his major philosophical wor

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

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Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (11 February 18303 November 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt. Biography Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (also called Hans von Bronsart) was born into a Prussian military family, to the lieutenant general . He was educated at Berlin University and studied piano with Adolph Jullack. He went to Weimar in 1853 where he met Franz Liszt and became familiar with all the musicians in Liszt’s circle at the time, including Hector Berlioz and Johannes Brahms. It is a measure of his close relationship with Liszt that it was he who played the solo part in the first Weimar performance of Liszt’s 2nd Piano Concerto, with the composer conducting. When the concerto was published, Liszt dedicated it to Bronsart. After having trained for several years with Liszt, he worked as a conductor in Leipzig and Berlin, and then took the post of general manager of the Royal Theatre in Hanover from 1867 to 1887. He held a similar post in Weimar from 1887 until his retirement in 1895. He met his second wife Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (née Ingeborg Lena Starck) (1840–1913), also a composer, in Weimar. They married in 1861. Bronsart von

Hans Carste

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Hans Friedrich August Carste (5 September 1909 in Frankenthal – 11 May 1971 in Bad Wiessee) was a German composer and conductor. He arrived in Berlin in 1931 after working in Vienna and Breslau. He composed film music and as well as songs for the stage. Electrola offered him and his orchestra an exclusive recording contract and he recorded many high quality sides for them. Hans Carste joined the NSDAP in 1933. In 1937, when Ludwig Rüth, the Jewish band leader, emigrated to South Africa, Hans Carste took up the baton. For some time the orchestra was still known as the Ludwig (Lewis) Rüth Orchester but acknowledged that Carste was the conductor. Within a short time it became known as the Hans Carste Orchester. In 1942, Carste was drafted and sent to the Eastern Front. He was badly injured and captured by the Red Army. Released in 1948, he returned to Germany, becoming one of the musical directors at Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor (RIAS) radio station in Berlin, and once again working for the stage and movies. In 1957, he became president of the Bureau International de l’Edition Mecanique (BIEM) in Paris. He withdrew from all activities in 1967 due to illness. One of his best-known

Hans Chemin-Petit

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Hans Helmuth Chemin-Petit (24 July 1902 – 12 April 1981) was a German composer, conductor and music educator. Life Born in Potsdam, the son of and a concert singer studied from 1920 to 1926 violoncello with Hugo Becker and composition with Paul Juon at the Musikhochschule Berlin. He began his musical career as a cellist. In 1929 he celebrated his first national compositional successes with the chamber opera Der gefangene Vogel at the Duisburg opera festival and in 1933 with the premiere of his 1st Symphony in Dresden under Fritz Busch. In addition to Busch, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Siegmund von Hausegger and Hans Joachim Moser were also among his patrons. From 1929, he taught at the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis, Chemin-Petit was in the Nazi , which from 1938 called itself the National Socialist Altherrenbund of German Students. He also became a member of the National Socialist People’s Welfare and of the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (NSBO), He was appointed a member of the Werkprüfungsausschuss der Deutschen Komponisten. In 1939, he took over the direction of the Reblingsche Gesangsverein and the cathedral choir i

Hans Erich Apostel

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Hans Erich Apostel (22 January 1901 – 30 November 1972) was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music. Life and career Hans Erich Apostel was born on 22 January 1901 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He studied at the Munz Conservatory in his native city from 1915 to 1919. There he was a pupil Alfred Lorenz who taught him piano, music theory, and conducting. In 1920 he was and at the Badisches Landestheater in Karlsruhe. He studied in Vienna with Arnold Schoenberg from 1921 to 1925, and from 1925 to 1935 with Alban Berg, two prominent members of the Second Viennese School. At the same time, he taught piano, composition and music theory privately. his works have rarely been performed. He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Group 32 C, No. 57. References Further reading *Burton, Anthony. 2002. “Apostel, Hans Erich”. The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. *Gruber, Gerold W. 1989. “Hans Erich Apostel: Fischerhausserenade op. 45 (1971)”. In Dodekaphonie in Österreich nach 1945, edited by Gottfried Scholz. Vienna: Verband der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs. *Gruber, Gerold W. 2001. “Apostel, Hans Erich”.

Hans Felix Husadel

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Hans Felix Husadel (18 May 1897 – 25 July 1964) was a German composer and conductor, particularly noted for modernizing the military band and for his march compositions. Early life Husadel, born in Prenzlau, Uckermark, took Piano lessons from an early age. He also showed an affinity for painting, but music won out as a career choice. He served as a military musician in World War I (possibly running away from home to voluntarily serve). After the war he attended the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He studied piano and composition with Franz Schreker und Leo Schrattenholz. On 1 January 1923 he entered the German Army as a military musician in the 5th Preussische Infantry Regiment in Prenzlau. He was transferred between 1925 and 1928 back to Berlin to complete his musical training. He took over the Military band of the training battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 14 in Donaueschingen. His Sunday concerts included radio broadcasts and Husadel became conductor of the local orchestra too. At this time he became interested in modernizing military bands and creating new compositions for these organizations. His zeal in reorganizing and reforming the military band brought him to

Hans Folz

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Hans Folz ( 1437 – January 1513) was a German author of the late medieval early Renaissance period. Folz was born in Worms. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486. Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been allowed by the twelve “Alten Meister” (old masters) up to that point. His Meisterlieder (a type of song), of which he wrote about a thousand, were mostly devoted to religious questions. He also wrote twelve Fastnachtsspiele (short plays that made light of people in medieval society, for instance farmers, priests, and the bourgeoisie) in the same style as Hans Rosenplüt, but with more subtle language. Folz has been labelled as an antisemite by Andrew Gow, who called him “a thorough-going Jew-hater” for his work Ein Spil von dem Herzogen von Burgund (A Story of the Dukes of Burgund). His brutal hostility towards Jews is particularly prominent in the carnival plays The Old and the New Marriage and The Dukes of Burgund, both of which culminate in the public humiliation and mistreatment of Jews, with vulgar references to the Jew’s sow. According to Albert Wimmer’s Anthology of Medi

Hans Friedrich Micheelsen

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Hans Friedrich Micheelsen (9 June 1902 – 23 November 1973) was a German composer and church musician. Micheelsen’s composition instructors included Paul Kickstat and Paul Hindemith. Micheelsen wrote vocal and instrumental music, especially for organ. He primarily composed sacred music, though he did write some secular chamber music. His sacred music is similar to the neo-Baroque music of other contemporary German organist-composers, such as Helmut Walcha and Hugo Distler. His style combined contrapuntal textures, melodies and harmonies drawn from the medieval church modes, and the angular rhythms and meters of the 20th century. Many of his works, including five of his seven Orgelkonzerte (organ concertos), are based on Lutheran chorales. When that school merged with the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik (the public music college in Hamburg), Micheelsen became head of its church music department. He taught there until his retirement in 1962. References

Hans G. Helms

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Hans G Helms (8 June 1932 – 11 March 2012) was a German experimental writer, composer, and social and economic analyst and critic. Life Helms was born in Teterow into a Jewish family, who were able to escape the Holocaust by using falsified papers. He spent his childhood and youth in Teterow and Berlin. He received his first musical education whilst young, learning the piano and theory from an immigrant from Byelorussia. During the Nazi era he became acquainted with Swing and jazz from secretly listening to “enemy transmitters”. In the years immediately after World War II, Helms studied tenor saxophone with a member of the US army and appeared from 1950 until 1952 in Sweden as a jazz musician. He played with, amongst others, Charlie Parker and Gene Krupa, and also in 1953 in Vienna with Hans Koller. As well as being preoccupied with new music (Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Alban Berg and the Second Viennese School) Helms, working at the Viennese radio station (RWR), created with, amongst others, Ingeborg Bachmann, the radio genre . In Göttingen, where he lived from 1953 onwards, Helms first made the acquaintance of the philosopher and sociologist Helmuth Plessner, then later with The

Hans Gahlenbeck

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Hans Gahlenbeck (27 September 1896 − 10 December 1975) was a German conductor and Generalmusikdirektor (GMD). Life Born in Rostock, from 1926 to 1928 Gahlenbeck was artistic director of the Orchestervereinigung Berliner Musikfreunde. In 1928, as conductor, he became the musical director of the Theater Kiel. After the departure of Fritz Stein as conductor of the Verein der Musikfreunde (Musikfreunde Kiel / VdM) and Kiel University Music Director, Gahlenbeck became his successor as director of the VdM concerts and municipal music director in 1933 and as general music director in 1934, which made it possible to abolish the separation of opera and concert activities. As expected, the concert programmes were “German” during the Nazi era: A lot of Beethoven and Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Pfitzner. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP. In 1938 he was appointed as GMD at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin. In 1939 he received the honorary title Staatskapellmeister. He was active for the Gau Mecklenburg of the party, since about 1941 also as Gaubeauftragter für Musikangelegenheiten. After 1945 he continued to work as conductor or GMD in Mecklenburg in Schwerin and in

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt

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Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1 November 1901 – 15 August 1988) was a German composer, musicologist, and historian and critic of music. Life Stuckenschmidt was born in Strasbourg. At as early an age as 19, he was the Berlin-based music critic/correspondent for the Prague-based periodical Bohemia, and lived as a freelance music writer in Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Berlin and Prague, becoming personally acquainted with numerous composers of avant-garde music. Amongst his most prominent musical productions were the “new music” concert cycle in Hamburg, and the 1927-8 concerts of the Berlin November Group with Max Butting. In 1929, Stuckenschmidt became the successor to Adolf Weissmans as the music critic at the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag. In December 1934, he was forbidden by the fascist government to continue as a musical critic because of his positive review of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu. Due to political pressure owing to the newly empowered Nazi regime, he left the paper, later moving to Prague before the Nazi work ban went into effect and continued writing for foreign newspapers. In March 1939, the German forces occupied Prague and seized Stuckenschmidt’s passport, cutting off his opportu

Hans Jürgen von der Wense

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Hans Jürgen von der Wense (10 November 1894 – 9 November 1966) was a German poet, composer, photographer, aphorist and hiker. Life Wense was born in Ortelsburg, then in East Prussia but today Szczytno in Poland, to a family of military and aristocratic background. In 1914 he began to study philosophy in Berlin. A keen musician, he played some of his own compositions to Arnold Schoenberg in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he served in the German army. He began publishing his poetry in 1917. He took part in the Spartacist uprising of 1919 in Berlin. In the following years he pursued his music studies with Clara Zetkin, Hermann Scherchen and Ernst Krenek. Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt ranked Wense in 1921 with Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók. Some of Wense’s early music showed traits of Dadaism, for example his 1919 opus “Music for piano, clarinet and suspended metal colander.” A wealthy older artist, Hedwig Woermann (1889–1960), began at this period to support him financially; this support continued until 1945 and allowed him to follow his various pursuits. Although Wense was gay, his friendship with Woermann was one of the deepest in his life. In 1932 Wense first visited the region

Hans Kotter

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Hans Kotter, sometimes given as Hans Cotter, Hans Kotterer, or Hans Kotther, (1480–1541) was a German composer and organist of the Renaissance. Although organ music was not popular or enthusiastically supported in Strasbourg in the early Reformation years, the first known organ chorales were composed by Kotter. Life and career Hans Kotter was born in Strasbourg in 1480. In 1514 Kotter was appointed organist at the Fribourg Cathedral. He remained there until 1530 when he lost his position due to his authorship of a poem he wrote before 1522 in which he displayed support for Protestantism. From 1534 he taught as a schoolmaster in Bern. He died there in 1541. Kotter’s three keyboard tablatures, contains the first German organ dances and pieces by Paul Hofhaimer, Josquin des Prez, Heinrich Isaac, and others. Also preserved are ten preludes, which are kept in a somewhat impersonal style, and are close to his teacher Hofhaimer. References * Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon, vol. 2, . 2004, digibib. External links *

Hans Leo Hassler

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Hans Leo Hassler (in German, Hans Leo Haßler) (baptised 26 October 1564 – 8 June 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of lesser known composer Jakob Hassler. He was born in Nuremberg and died in Frankfurt. Biography Hassler was born in Nuremberg and baptised on 26 October 1564, receiving his first instruction in music from his father, the organist Isaak Hassler. In 1584, Hassler became the first of many German composers of the time who went to Italy to continue their studies; he arrived in Venice during the peak of activity of the Venetian school, the composers who wrote in the resplendent polychoral style, which was soon to become popular outside its native city. Hassler was already familiar with some of this music, as numerous prints had circulated in Germany due to the interest of Leonhard Lechner, who was associated with Orlandus Lassus in Munich. While in Venice, Hassler became friends with Giovanni Gabrieli, with whom he composed a wedding motet for Georg Gruber, a Nuremberg merchant living in Venice, in 1600. Together they studied with Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni’s uncle. Under Andrea, Hassler received instructi

Hans Neusidler

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Hans Neusidler (also Neusiedler, Newsidler) (c.1508 – 2 February 1563), was a German composer and lutenist of the Renaissance. Life Neusidler was born in Pressburg (today Bratislava, Slovakia) and first enters the historical record in 1530, when he settled in Nuremberg, Germany. He was issued a residence permit by the city council in February and married there in September. In April 1531, he became a citizen and soon after bought a house on the Zotenberg. He taught lute there in the 1530s, publishing eight books of lute music between 1536 and 1549, and also went into business as a luthier by 1550. He fathered thirteen children with his first wife, which resulted in his having enormous financial troubles; he eventually sold his house to pay his debts. In January 1556, his wife died, and he remarried five months later; his second wife bore him four more children before her death in August 1562. Neusidler died in Nuremberg. Hans’s sons, Melchior Neusidler (1531–1590) and Konrad Neusidler (1541-after 1604) were also well-known lutenists and composers. Works Neusidler, along with Hans Judenkünig and Hans Gerle, was one of the most important early German lutenists. His eight publications

Hans Otte

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Hans Günther Franz Otte (3 December 1926 – 25 December 2007) was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings and video art. From 1959 to 1984 Otte served as music director for Radio Bremen. Beginning in the early 1960s, he frequently presented experimental American minimal music composers in his Bremen radio festival Pro Musica Nova, including John Cage, David Tudor, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young. Otte was born in Plauen. He studied in Germany, Italy, and at Yale University in the United States. His teachers included the composer Paul Hindemith and the pianist Walter Gieseking. From 1959 on, Otte lived and worked in Bremen, Germany. His catalogue of compositions contains more than 100 works. Some of Otte’s works, especially his extended suites for solo piano, are characterized by very minimal means but are nevertheless quite subtle and sophisticated in their architecture and expression. For his work, Otte drew significantly on European and Asian spirituality, integrating various prayers into the fabric of the music. Das Buch der Klänge (The Book of Sounds, 1979–82) and Stundenbuch (Book of Hours, 1

Hans Peter Ströer

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Hans Peter Ströer (born 1956) in Munich is a German jazz musician and composer. Life and career At the age of seven, Ströer was already composing his own rock ’n’ roll pieces on the guitar, and at eleven he founded his first band. Ströer studied music theory and piano at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in the 1960s and then at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. At 17, he worked as a theatre musician. In the early 1970s, he became bass player in the Bobby Jones Trio, but he achieved greater fame from 1975 onwards as bassist in the Mild Maniac Orchestra of Volker Kriegel, to which he belonged until the mid-1980s, also to be heard on . At the same time, he became a sought-after studio musician and participated in recordings by Eberhard Schoener, Falco, Donna Summer, Amanda Lear, La Bionda and Gilbert Bécaud. Since 1984, Ströer has composed music for over 150 films, including films by Heinrich Breloer such as , Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman, Speer und Er and Buddenbrooks. In addition, he was active as a music producer (including for Udo Lindenberg’s albums between 1986 and 1998, which received several Goldene Schallplatten). The percussionist is his younger brother, with whom he p

Hans Pfitzner

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Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a Russian-born German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), very loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli. Life Pfitzner was born in Moscow where his father played cello in a theater orchestra. The family returned to his father’s native town Frankfurt in 1872, when Pfitzner was two years old, he always considered Frankfurt his home town. He received early instruction in violin from his father, and his earliest compositions were composed at age 11. In 1884 he wrote his first songs. From 1886 to 1890 he studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. (He later married Kwast’s daughter Mimi Kwast, a granddaughter of Ferdinand Hiller, after she had rejected the advances of Percy Grainger.) He taught piano and theory at the Koblenz Conservatory from 1892 to 1893. In 1894 he was appointed conductor at the Staatstheater Mainz where he worked for a few months. These were all low-paying jobs, and Pfitzner

Hans Sommer (composer)

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Hans Sommer (born 20 July 1837 in Braunschweig (Brunswick) – 26 April 1922 in Braunschweig) was a German composer and mathematician. Sommer was born Hans Friedrich August Zincke in Braunschweig in 1837. Before going into music full-time, Sommer, who had studied mathematics and physics in Braunschweig and Göttingen, was also a noted mathematician. He served as the director of the Braunschweig University of Technology, where he taught mathematics, from 1875 to 1881. He was most successful as a composer for the theatre. Several of his operas used librettos based on fairy tales and were first produced at Brunswick: Der Nachtwächter (1865), Loreley (1891), Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neisse (1904), Riquet mit dem Schopf (1907) and Der Waldschratt (1912).Saint Foix, a one-act opera, was given at Munich in 1894 and Der Meermann at Weimar in 1896; Der Vetter aus Bremen (1865), Augustin (1898) and Münchhausen (1896–8) were not performed. His incidental music to Hans von Wolzogen’s Das Schloss der Herzen (1891) was first performed in 1897 in Berlin, in concert form. He placed great importance on the literary quality of his librettos, and corresponded with numerous librettists and compos

Hans Thomalla

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Hans Thomalla (, born 1975) is a German-American composer, who has resided in the United States since 2002. Career Hans Thomalla was born in Bonn, and studied composition at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Germany, from 1994 to 1999. From 1999 until 2002 he was assistant dramaturg at the Staatsoper Stuttgart (production dramaturg for Helmut Lachenmann Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern et al.). This was followed by graduate studies at Stanford University (California) with Brian Ferneyhough from 2002 until 2007. Since 2007 he is Associate Professor of Composition at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he also directs the Institute for New Music. Thomalla’s compositions are featured at international festivals and institutions including Donaueschingen Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Eclat-Festival Stuttgart, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Festival d’Automne at Paris, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. Ensembles performing his works include ensemble recherche, Trio Accanto, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble musikFabrik, Arditti Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Modern and the Munich Philharmonic. His opera Fremd was p

Hans Ulrich Engelmann

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Hans Ulrich Engelmann (8 September 1921 in Darmstadt - 8 January 2011) was a German composer. Biography Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner. He was a regular attendee of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, and he was particularly affected by the twelve-tone classes of René Leibowitz (1948) and Ernst Krenek (1951), which helped him move from free atonality to serialism. Eventually, he would publish a history of the courses. In 1947, he began studying musicology with Gennrich Friedrich and Helmut Osthoff, earning a Ph.D in 1952. He also studied philosophy with Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Hans-Georg Gadamer. A brief marriage took him to Iceland from 1953-4, before returning to Darmstadt to work as the music adviser and composer for the Hessisches Landestheater for the next seven years. His next post was in the same capacity at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where his tenure lasted from 1961-9. He also held the same position one more time at the Städtische Bühnen in Bonn from 1972-3. In 1969, he began teaching at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule, and he remained on the faculty there for seventeen years. In the early 60’s, Engelman

Hans Ulrich Staeps

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Hans Ulrich Staeps (1909–1988) was a German composer, music professor and professional recorder player. Staeps was born in Dortmund and was a professor at the Vienna Conservatory from 1940–1975. He was a prolific composer of recorder works, writing over 20 pieces for the instrument in a period of 30 years. Many of these compositions are works for recorder ensembles from 2 to 6 recorders, sometimes with piano, cembalo or guitar accompaniment. He also wrote songs, made transcriptions of classical works for recorder and wrote didactic books on player the recorder amongst others . Staeps was known to improvise his piano accompaniments, which often feature complex harmonies, with great ease. List of works * Aradische Stenz, recorders (5) * Aus unserm Hof daheim, recorders (3) * Berliner Sonate, recorders (3) * Chorische Quintett, recorders (5) * Divertimento, recorders (2) * Divertimento, recorders (2), piano, percussion * Dort nied’n in jenem Holze, recorders (4) * Einhorns Anmut, recorders (4) * Elemente des Zusammenspiels, recorders (4) * Fantasia con Echo, recorder, piano * Flötentänze, recorders (4) * Lied tönt fort, recorders (3) * Quintet, recorders (5) * Reihe kleiner Duette, re

Hans Uwe Hielscher

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Hans Uwe Hielscher (born 1945) is a German organist and composer. He was organist and carillonneur at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, from 1979 to 2009, and has played internationally as a concert organist. Career Hielscher studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (A), and carillon in Utrecht. From 1969 - 1973 he was church musician in Juist and from 1973 - 1979 in Bielefeld. He has been the organist and carillonneur at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden since 1979. He created a series of weekly free recitals called Orgelmusik zur Marktzeit (organ music at market time) on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m., in which he or sometimes a guest organist perform seasonal music. The 2000th event is on 7 December 2019. External links * Hans Uwe Hielscher website * * Entries for Hans Uwe Hielscher on WorldCat

Hans Vogt (composer)

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Hans Vogt (14 May 1911 – 19 May 1992) was a German composer and conductor. Career Born in Danzig, Vogt studied with Georg Schumann and Otto Frickhoeffer at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1929 to 1934. From 1934 he worked in Minden as a cellist, pianist and conductor. Among his students was Barbara Heller. Vogt composed two operas, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom after the novel of Hermann Kasack and Athenerkomödie (The Metropolitans) on a libretto by Christopher Middleton after a fragment of Menander. Vogt wrote a symphony, two concertos for orchestra, two piano concertos, a violin concerto, a cello concerto, Serenade und Tarantella for viola and chamber ensemble, chamber music and Lieder. His sacred music included a Requiem, two chamber oratorios, a cantata, a Magnificat, and other choral music. In particular he composed the Psalm 129, De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine, for a seven-part mixed choir a cappella (1951),a Passion music Ihr Töchter von Jerusalem, weinet nicht über mich in Latin and German for tenor, mixed choir and percussion (1973), and a Canticum Simeonis for mixed choir and flute (1976). Vogt’s first opera, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, was originally written for

Hans von Bülow

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Freiherr Hans Guido von Bülow (; 8 January 1830 – 12 February 1894) was a German conductor, pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, especially Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms. Alongside Carl Tausig, Bülow was perhaps the most prominent of the early students of the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor Franz Liszt; he gave the first public performance of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor in 1857. He became acquainted with, fell in love with and eventually married Liszt’s daughter Cosima, who later left him for Wagner. Noted for his interpretation of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, he was one of the earliest European musicians to tour the United States. Life and career Bülow was born in Dresden into the old and prominent House of Bülow. He was the son of novelist and his wife, Franziska Elisabeth Stoll von Berneck. From the age of nine, he was a student of Professor Friedrich Wieck (the father of Clara Schumann). However, his parents insisted that he study law instead of music, and they sent him to Leipzig. There he met

Hans von Koessler

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Hans von Koessler (1 January 1853 – 23 May 1926) was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler. Biography Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger, was born in Waldeck, Fichtelgebirge (now part of Kemnath, Upper Palatinate). He was taught the organ from 1874 to 1877 by Josef Rheinberger and attended the choir lessons of Franz Wüllner in Munich. Immediately after that, he moved to Dresden, where he was appointed director and teacher for music theory and choral music at the Dresden School of Music. From 1878, he was also conductor of the Dresdner Liedertafel orchestra. From 1882 to 1908, he initially taught organ and choir at the National Music Academy of Budapest in Hungary. Later, he also became professor for composition and was also given a peerage. His students became some of the best Hungarian composers of the time: Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók, Ernő Dohnányi; for more After his retirement in 1908, he returned to Germany, but became appointed to the agency of Kálmán and Dohnányi in order to ensure that he received a moderate income. He died in Ansbach in 1926, aged 73. Music Koessler composed over 130 works, inc

Hans Weisbach

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Hans Edgar Weisbach (19 July 1885 – 23 April 1961) was a German conductor and pianist. Life Born in Głogów, Silesia, Weisbach came from a family of soldiers. Already from the age of seven he received piano as well as violin lessons and appeared as a pupil in various chamber music concerts. After his Abitur he studied violin at the Academic Academy of Music in Berlin, first with Joseph Joachim and Andreas Moser, then piano with Ernst Rudorff and Georg von Petersenn and finally conducting with Robert Hausmann. In addition, he took courses in philosophy and musicology. In 1908 Weisbach moved to Munich, where he worked as a trainee Kapellmeister at the court theatre there, now the Bavarian State Opera under Felix Mottl, and at the same time attended further lectures at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Three years later, he moved to Frankfurt, where he worked as a pianist and chamber musician at his own concert events and for the Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft and was the second conductor of the “Rühlsche Oratorienverein”. After a short episode in Worms, where he took over the direction of the Konzertgesellschaft in 1913, and in Wiesbaden as well as a break due to the war, h

Hans Werner Henze

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Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. In particular, his stage works reflect “his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life”. Henze was also known for his political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality. Late in life he lived in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio, and in his final years still travelled extensively, in particular to Britain and Germany, as part of his work. An avowed Marxist and member of the Italian Communist Party, Henze produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. At the 1968 Hamburg premiere of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of Medusa), the placing of a red flag on the stage sparked a riot and the arrest of several people, including the librettist. Henze spent a year from 1969 to 1970 teaching in Cuba. Life and works Early years Henze was b

Hans Zender

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Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals. As a conductor, he worked at the Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. He taught at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. His opera Stephen Climax premiered in 1986 at the Oper Frankfurt, and his third opera, Chief Joseph, premiered in 2005 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Career Born in Wiesbaden, Zender attended the Maifestspiele at age 13, listening to concerts conducted by Carl Schuricht, Karl Böhm and Günter Wand, among others. He took piano lessons and learned to play the organ. From 1949, he went each year to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where he got to know trends in new music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen and John Cage. * Canto I–VI for various forces ** I: for choir, flute, piano, strings and percussion (1965) ** II: for soprano, choir and orchestra on a text by Ezra Pound (1967) ** III: for soprano, teno

Hans-Christian Bartel

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Hans-Christian Bartel (born 27 November 1932 − 27 December 2014) was a German violist and composer. Life Born in Altenburg, Bartel was the son of a teacher. He got his first violin lessons at the age of six. After graduating from high school he studied violin and viola with Gerhard Bosse and music composition with Ottmar Gerster at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1951 to 1956. In 1954 he changed from violin to viola. He received further impulses in piano with and music history with Ernst Hermann Meyer. From 1956 to 1958 he was a lecturer for composition, music theory, theory of forms and earning training at the . From 1958 to 1996 he was a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra and from 1959 its solo violist. In 1970 he was co-founder and until 1978 member of the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. Bartel has worked as composer among others with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Masur and Rolf Reuter. His Concerto for small orchestra and solo viola was premiered in 1963 by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Václav Neumann at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 1967 the premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra followed.

Hans-Christian von Dadelsen

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Hans-Christian von Dadelsen (born 4 December 1948) is a German composer and music writer. He is the son of the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen and journalist Dorothee von Dadelsen. Life Born in Berlin, von Dadelsen spent his childhood in Tübingen and Hamburg, where he studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule after graduating from high school. He studied composition and music theory with Diether de la Motte and György Ligeti as well as music education with Hermann Rauhe. At the Darmstadt Holiday Courses in 1972, in a lecture entitled ‘Tendenzen zu einer neuartigen Tonalität’ (Tendencies towards a New Tonality), he suggested a thorough turnaround of modernism, also pointing to “Pop Art” and new “Romanticism”, thus also initiating a number of misunderstood and by many other composers taken up changes in the stylistics of the 1970s (“Neuromanticism”). As a composer, he himself took up influences from Pop Art and American stylistics at an early stage and distinguished himself above all in the field of polyrhythmic. Inventions and iridescent harmonic concepts. From 1980 onwards Dadelsen gradually developed a consistently polyrhythmic style (“flexible beats”) together with the composer Babe

Hans-Joachim Hespos

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Hans-Joachim Hespos (13 March 1938 – 18 July 2022) was a German composer of avant-garde music. He was trained as a teacher and worked until 1984. Self-taught as a composer, he then worked freelance and created more than 200 works in many genres. His unconventional compositions were commissioned and performed internationally. They are archived at the Bavarian State Library. Life and career Hespos was born in Emden on 13 March 1938. External links * * * * Hans-Joachim Hespos Simon Verlag * Hans-Joachim Hespos – Analysen und Kontexte EVS Musikstiftung

Hans-Joachim Hessler

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Hans-Joachim Hessler (German: Heßler, born in Recklinghausen) is a German composer, musician and musicologist. Today, he lives in Duisburg and Diemelsee. As a contemporary composer, he attributes his work in writing and composition to the epoch of musical postmodernism. Life He studied music theory at the University of Münster and then, from 1990 to 1997, school music and German literature at today’s Technical University of Dortmund. He received his education in art from, among others, Werner Seiss and Bob Degen, in the organ from, among others, Karl Weyers and Thomas Gabriel, and in composition from, among others, Heribert Buchholz and Thomas Stanko. In 2008, he received the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. Work Poly-stylistics and boundary crossings of all kinds are a fundamental attribute of Hessler’s work. Much of Hessler’s work appears to be influenced by the philosophical writings of the postmodern thinker Jean-François Lyotard; for instance his chamber music pieces "" compulsion for actualisation and "" system for sound regulation 189 , which deal in particular with the event philosophy of Lyotard, as well as the

Hans-Joachim Koellreutter

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Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward, where he became one of the country’s most influential musicians. In Brazil Koellreuter taught many prominent composers, including Gilberto Mendes, Cláudio Santoro, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Denis Mandarino, Jayme Amatnecks, among others. He brought the theory of atonal music to Brazil, creating the group “Musica Viva” and inflating the debate between the “Nationalists” and “Serialists”. While the former group believed in the use of folklore material for the development of their compositions, the latter believed that the more rational approach of the European school was the path to truly contemporary works. This debate played a central role in the esthetic developments of Brazilian classical music throughout the 20th century. Death Koellreutter died in São Paulo, Brazil, 11 days after his 90th birthday. References

Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen

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Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen (born 10 February 1954) is a German recorder player and composer. Life Horseshoe was born in a hotel room in ). His mother, a travelling saleswoman from the Allgäu, had kept the pregnancy a secret. Two days after the birth, she abandoned her son; the hotelier found the infant under a bedspread. On 12 February 1954, the Youth Welfare Office took care of the foundling and brought him to a Catholic baby home in Lobberich. On Boxing Day, he was baptised Protestant with the name Hans-Jürgen; the mother had instructed a midwife to do this before she left. Hufeisen went to live with a foster mother and in 1957 to the Protestant children’s home Haus Sonneck of Neukirchen-Vluyn. There a governess discovered Hufeisen’s musical talent and taught him Christian evening songs and how to play the recorder. Hufeisen won prizes at regional competitions of “Jugend musiziert”; from 1972 to 1977 he studied recorder, music education and composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Meanwhile, from 1974 to 1978, he was employed as a lecturer at the International Children’s and Young People’s Book Fair in Duisburg, and from 1975 to 1977 as a lecturer at the Folkwang University

Hans-Jürgen von Bose

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Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953) is a German composer. Life After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory. Upon graduating from the conservatory, he studied composition (under Hans Ulrich Engelmann), piano (under Klaus Billing), and conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1974 and the premiere of his First String Quartet, he was awarded several scholarships, among others from the Mozart Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1976, Bose dropped his studies in Frankfurt and settled in Munich as a freelance artist. The following works like Morphogenesis (1976), Das Diplom (1976), Die Nacht aus Blei (1981), 63: Dream Palace (1990), among others. He received numerous grants and awards, including: * German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (1980/1985) * German Critics Prize (1981) * Schneider-Schott Music Prize, Mainz (1988) * Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1994) * Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation for the recognition of Bose’s educational merits (1998) He received commissi

Hans-Ludwig Schilling

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Hans-Ludwig Schilling (9 March 1927 – 18 August 2012) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Mayen, Schilling was musically instructed from early childhood on by his grandfather Johann Stoll. At the age of 13, he had studied music theory with the Cologne professors Heinrich Lemacher and violin in Bram Eldering’s class. He studied composition with Harald Genzmer, Paul Hindemith, Nadia Boulanger, Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez and Wolfgang Fortner. In addition to piano and bassoon, he also completed a degree in philosophy, literature and musicology. After earlier teaching positions (Freiburg im Breisgau and Karlsruhe), he has been head of the composition-theory-musicology department at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg since 1973. Work Focal points in the compositional œuvre for all musical genres except opera (360 titles) are wind music, organ music and choral music. There are also 16 solo concertos with orchestra as well as symphonic wind music among other orchestral works. * Concerto Tuba & Co Streichorchester ISMN M-2054-0523-6 * Weihnachts Partita Nr. 1 trumpet B/C, Streicher (2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass) ISMN M-2054-0634-9 * Weihnachts Partita Nr. 1 tr

Hans-Martin Majewski

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Hans-Martin Majewski (14 January 1911 – 1 January 1997) was a German composer of film scores. Selected filmography References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links *

Hans-Otto Borgmann

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Hans-Otto Borgmann (20 October 1901 – 26 July 1977) was a German film music composer during the Third Reich. He joined UFA as a silent film music conductor in 1928, and became head composer by 1931. A melody he had composed for a documentary on Svalbard island and had become well known was taken up by Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach who wrote new lyrics as “Our flag flutters before us”, becoming one of the Hitler Youth’s anthems. In 1938 he composed a Großdeutsche Hymne for Schirach which coincided with the Anschluss of Austria. From 1937 to 1951 he collaborated on a series of films with Veit Harlan. From 1959 to 1971 he withdrew from film popular music to lecture at the Max Reinhardt Theatre and privately compose difficult atonal music. Film music credits * When Love Sets the Fashion (1932) * Quick (1932) * Man Without a Name (1932) * Narcotics (1932) * The Beautiful Adventure (1932) * The White Demon (1932) * Spoiling the Game (1932) * You Will Be My Wife (1932) * The Cheeky Devil (1932) * A Door Opens (1933) * Goodbye, Beautiful Days (1933) * Happy Days in Aranjuez (1933) * The Star of Valencia (1933) *Hitler junge Quex. Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend, 1933

Harald Feller (organist)

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Harald Feller (born 1951 in Munich) Feller can boast international concert activity and CD and radio recordings. He recorded the organ parts for the film Brother of Sleep. Awards * Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes * Förderpreis für Musik des Bayerischen Staates * 1983: Improvisation prize in Haarlem (Netherlands) * 2007: Composition Prize for the 100th Anniversary of the Berlin Cathedral. Compositions ;Organ solo * Diptychon (Bärenreiter) * Danse sacrée (Verlag Böhm und Sohn) * Te Deum for Organ (Schott) * Poème funèbre for Organ (Schott) * Due pezzi per l’organo * „Gregorianische Miniaturen“ * „Suite Leonesa“ * Meditationsfantasie (Verlag Böhm und Sohn) * „Nada“ * 4 pieces about BACH * Fantasy for 2 organs * For Young Persons Guide to the Organ (Schott) ;Organ and other instruments * Fantasy about a theme by J. Brahms for trumpet and organ (Schott) * Sonate für Trompete und Orgel * “Ettaler Sonata” for flute and organ * “Panta rhei” for percussion and organ * “Danse macabre” for percussion and organ * Adagio for cello and organ ;Organ and Orchestra * Concertino festivo for organ, 8 brass instruments and percussion * Concerto for Organ and Orchestra * Symphony fo

Harald Genzmer

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Harald Genzmer (9 February 1909 – 16 December 2007) was a German composer of classical music and an academic. Biography The son of the legal historian , Genzmer was born in Blumenthal, near Kiel, Germany. He studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin beginning in 1928. From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln. During the early part of the Second World War he served as a military band clarinetist. When his pianistic abilities were noticed by the Musikmeister, he was put on detached duties as a pianist/accompanist for “Lazarettenkonzerte”, concerts for recuperating wounded officers. He was based for some time near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he made the acquaintance of Richard Strauss. When the war ended, he was offered a post at the Musikhochschule München. This was blocked by the American authorities and so, from 1946 to 1957 he taught at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1957 to 1974 he taught at the Musikhochschule München. He hung a framed review from the Süddeutsche Zeitung above his piano, which stated after the premiere of his 1955 Sinfonietta for Strings that it was a work destined only for oblivion. Sharin

Harry Thumann

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Harry Thumann (28 February 1952 – 2001) was a German electronic composer, record producer and sound engineer. He designed and built synthesizers and studio equipment. Early life and career Born Harald Thumann in Germany, he began as a drummer while training in audio engineering at German broadcasters. When he lost interest in touring, he opened his first recording studio in a bedroom at the family home. Country Lane Studios Thumann participated in the development of the SSL 4000 series of consoles and installed the first one in his studio. He found premises with live-in accommodation in Germering near Munich and opened Country Lane Studios. Thumann adopted MIDI early, using Commodore 64 computers with MIDI cards to control a system that grew to include a Fairlight II and Moog 3C modular system. With the Yamaha DMP-7 digital mixer, Thumann built a second control room housing several DMP-7s as an integrated digital console system, interfaced with a rebuilt Neve broadcast console. Country Lane moved into audio-visual production and began producing its own telefilms. Recordings Thumann produced a string of albums for Rondò Veneziano that combined acoustic instruments and synthesizers.

Hauke Harder

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Hauke Harder (born 1963 in Heide (Holstein), Germany) is a German composer and experimental physicist. Life Harder received a PhD in chemistry, and works at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. In 1989, he studied with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, a New Simplicity composer. He is the founder, (with Rainer Grodnick) of the “Gesellschaft für Akustische Lebenshilfe”, (Society for Musical Living Assistance), Kiel, Germany. Since 1995, he has worked as an assistant to composer Alvin Lucier and is associated with the Material group of composers, along with Daniel James Wolf, and Markus Trunk. His compositional work is in an extreme minimal style, and is connected to the work of the composers Morton Feldman, Walter Zimmermann, and Alvin Lucier. His music has also been influenced by Monochrome Painting and the films of Robert Bresson. His work in sound installation, exhibitions and concerts include: the International New Music Festival Rümlingen, Switzerland, Evenings of New Music Bratislava, Flanders Music Festival Antwerp, Nové Expozice hudby Brno. Awards In 2001 he received a “Kulturnetz-Preis”, and 3,000 Mark, by Schl

Heiner Goebbels

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Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, conductor and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012–14. His composition Stifters Dinge (2007) received five votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, and writers for The Guardian ranked his composition Hashirigaki (2000) the ninth greatest classical composition of the same period. Biography Goebbels was born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. He studied sociology and music in Frankfurt am Main, and has composed for ensemble and for large orchestra. He has created several prize-winning radio plays, staged concerts, and, since the early 1990s, music theatre works, which have been invited to the most important theatre and music festivals worldwide. Goebbels and Alfred Harth were musical partners in the Duo Goebbels/Harth (1975–1988) who co-founded the wind band Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester (1976–1981) and the avant-rock group Cassiber (1982–1992) with Alfred Harth, Chris Cutler and Christoph Anders. They toured extensively across Europe, Asia and North America, and made five albums. In O

Heinrich Albert (guitarist)

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Heinrich Albert (16 July 1870 – 12 March 1950) was a German guitarist, composer and teacher – the most prominent German classical guitarist of his time. Life Heinrich Albert was born in Würzburg and initially learned violin and horn, studying the latter at the Königliche Musikschule Royal Music School Würzburg (1881–8). Following his studies he played in various orchestras in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and Russia. Between 1895 and 1900 he was a member of the Kaim Orchestra, the predecessor of the Munich Philharmonic, playing under such renowned conductors as Felix Weingartner, Arthur Nikisch, Ferdinand Löwe, and Gustav Mahler. Around 1892 he began to teach himself the guitar, aided, from about 1905, by Luigi Mozzani. His performing career, both as guitarist and as conductor of a mandolin orchestra, lasted from 1900 to 1943. In 1900 he began to establish himself as a full-time teacher of guitar and mandolin in Munich. Among his most prominent pupils were Luise Walker and the comedian Karl Valentin. In 1909, he was appointed “Kammervirtuose” chamber virtuoso by Marie of Bavaria. Around 1910, he founded a unique guitar quartet following the principles of the string quartet, using i

Heinrich Baermann

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Heinrich Joseph Baermann (also spelled Bärmann; 14 February 1784 – 11 June 1847) was a German clarinet virtuoso of the Classical and Romantic eras who is generally considered as being not only an outstanding performer of his time, but highly influential in the creation of several important composers’ works for his instrument. He was the father of clarinetist and composer Carl Baermann, Sr. and the grandfather of pianist and composer Carl Baermann, Jr. Life Baermann was born in Potsdam. In his youth, Baermann took lessons from Joseph Beer (1744–1811) at the military school in Potsdam. After his prowess came to the attention of the Berlin court in 1804, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia had the 20-year-old musician pursue his training in Berlin under the guidance of Franz Tausch (1762–1817). He played in the court orchestra of Munich from 1807 until his retirement in 1834, when his son Carl Baermann succeeded him. Parallel to Baermann’s rise, the clarinet was undergoing a series of developments in key construction and embouchure that allowed greater agility and flexibility in playing. The growing custom was to play with the reed on the bottom lip, as is done today, as opposed to the

Heinrich Dorn

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Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn (14 November 1800 or 1804 – 10 January 1892) was a German conductor, composer, teacher, and journalist. He was born in Königsberg, where he studied piano, singing, and composition. Later, he studied in Berlin with Ludwig Berger, Bernhard Klein, and Carl Friedrich Zelter. His first opera, Rolands Knappen, was produced in 1826, and was a success. Around this time, he became co-editor of the Berliner allgemeine Musikzeitung. Dorn became well known as a conductor of opera, and held theatre posts at Königsberg (1828), Leipzig (1829–32), Hamburg (1832), Riga (1834–43), and Cologne (1844–8). In 1849, he became co-conductor, with Wilhelm Taubert, of the Berlin Hofoper - a post he held until 1869. Dorn taught counterpoint to Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann, and was a friend of Franz Liszt. He was a harsh critic of Richard Wagner but was persuaded to conduct the opera Tannhäuser, in 1855. He also wrote an opera Die Nibelungen, based on the Nibelungenlied, in 1853, many years before Wagner completed Der Ring des Nibelungen. Dorn died in Berlin in 1892. Writings *Spontini in Deutschland (Leipzig, 1830) *Aus meinem Leben (Berlin, 1870–77) *Das provisorische Statut

Heinrich Ehrlich

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Alfred Heinrich Ehrlich (5 October 1822, in Vienna – 30 December 1899, in Berlin) was a Jewish pianist, composer and writer on music. As a composer, he came forward with a Piano Concerto and Piano Variations on an Original Theme, being one of the first composers to collect Romanian folk melodies. Life Ehrlich finished his high school of music under the leadership of Adolf Henselt, Carl Maria von Bocklet, and Sigismund Thalberg and composition with Simon Sechter. From 1840 to 1844 he performed in Hungary, Romania and Vienna. In 1848, he became correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, pianist of King George V of Hanover in 1852, moving to Wiesbaden in 1855. Two years later he went to England and finally settled in Berlin in 1862. There he acquired an excellent reputation as a piano player of Beethoven’s compositions. From 1864 to 1872 he was a piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory. Among his pupils were , and Felix Dreyschock, Severin Eisenberger, the critic , and Wilibald Nagel. In addition to his teaching activities, he was in Berlin a political correspondent for the magazines Nordic bee (Russian newspaper, in 1862 and later), Vossische Zeitung (1867–69) and L’Indepen

Heinrich Enckhausen

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Heinrich Friedrich Enckhausen (also spelled Enkhausen, Enghausen and Enghusen, August 28, 1799 – January 15, 1885) was a German pianist, organist, horn player, composer and singing teacher. Life and career Born in Celle, Heinrich Friedrich Enckhausen began studying music with his father, also named Heinrich Friedrich Enckhausen, that town’s last town council musician. In 1816 he was accepted into the music band of the cuirassiers in Celle, where he played violin, flute, clarinet, cello and pianoforte. In 1826 he moved to Berlin and studied piano and composition with Aloys Schmitt. Enckhausen went to the court of Hanover with Schmitt when he (Schmitt) was appointed court organist there. Enckhausen played there from 1827 to 1832 as a horn player in the court orchestra. After Schmitt’s departure from Hanover, Enckhausen directed the singing academy. In 1833 he became a singing teacher at the teachers’ college. In 1839 he finally received the position of organist at the Castle Church in Hanover, which he held until his retirement. From 1845 he worked as a singing teacher at the Lyceum in Hanover. Enckhausen’s daughter Malwine Enckhausen, who later became a writer, was born in Hanover o

Heinrich Esser

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Heinrich Joseph Esser (15 July 1818 – 3 June 1872) was a German violinist, influential conductor and composer. Biography Heinrich Esser was born in Mannheim. He got musical instruction by Franz Lachner who was court conductor in Mannheim from 1834. Esser followed Lachner to Munich in 1836 and went to Vienna in 1839 in order to complete his studies under Simon Sechter. In 1840, he had a position as court conductor at the National Theatre Mannheim, but left for his new appointment as a conductor of the singing society in Mainz during the following year. During his time in Mainz, Esser was teacher in music composition of Peter Cornelius. In 1847, Esser became conductor at the Vienna Court Opera which he directed temporarily in 1860/1861. He also became an honorary member of the Vienna Men’s Choral Association in 1859 and conducted concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic. In the course of his activities as a consultant for the publisher Franz Schott, Esser got in contact with Richard Wagner in 1859, whose musical works he strongly supported. (He directed the Viennese first performance of Lohengrin in 1858). In late 1869, Esser retired and moved to Salzburg where he died of tuberculosis in

Heinrich Finck

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Heinrich Finck (1444 or 1445 – 9 June 1527) was a German composer. He served as Kapellmeister first for Prince Alexander of Lithuania, later King of Poland, before leaving Poland in 1510. He worked in Stuttgart before becoming a member (and months before his death, the Kapellmeister) of the Hofkapell. He was the great-uncle of the music theorist and composer Hermann Finck (1527–1558). Biography He was probably born at Bamberg, but nothing is certainly known either of the place or date of his birth. Between 1492 and 1506 he was a musician in, and later possibly conductor of the court orchestra of successive kings of Poland at Warsaw. He held the post of conductor at Stuttgart from 1510 until about 1514, then was a composer at the Hofkapelle of Emperor Maximilian I, from 1519(?) at the chapter in Salzburg, and in 1527 Hofkapellmeister of Emperor Ferdinand I in Vienna, where he died. Works His works, mostly part songs and other vocal compositions, show great musical knowledge, and amongst the early masters of the German school he holds a high position. They are found scattered amongst ancient and modern collections of songs and other musical pieces. The library of Zwickau possesses a

Heinrich Grimm

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Heinrich Grimm (1592/1593-1637) was a late-Renaissance/early-Baroque German composer, cantor, music theorist, and organist. Career Grimm was born in Holzminden in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Little is known of his life before 1607, when he went to Wolfenbüttel to study with Michael Praetorius, who was the Hofkapellmeister to Duke Heinrich Julius. While some scholars have suggested that Grimm was a choirboy at the ducal court, this cannot be verified with extant sources. Grimm studied under Praetorius until 1609, when he matriculated at the University of Helmstedt, where he studied philosophy and theology. In approximately 1617, Grimm became a cantor in Magdeburg, where his title was Musicus Magdeburgiensis Ordinarius. In this position, he taught at the Gymnasium, was music director at the churches of St. Johannes and St. Jacobi, and led a choir of his students once per month at the Magdeburg Cathedral. Grimm is credited with being one of the first to bring the new Italian style of music to northern Germany, and he was the first to introduce figured bass practice to Magdeburg. In May 1631, Grimm and his family were forced to flee Magdeburg, which was attacked by Count Tilly

Heinrich Konietzny

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Heinrich Josef Konietzny (born 7 May 1910 in Gliwice; died 23 April 1983 in Saarbrücken-Dudweiler) was a German musician, professor and composer. Life Heinrich Konietzny was born as the son of a Prussian Silesian military officer and socialist mayor. He gathered his first musical experiences on the mandolin, in singing and playing percussion instruments. At the age of eight he began his studies on the violin. Nine years old, he became student of the Konvikt of Bad Ziegenhals, where he chanted in a choir and received his first systematic education in music theory. He studied composition in Berlin in the class of Paul Hindemith. Since 1936 he played the bassoon in the symphonic orchestra of the Reichssender Saarbrücken (today: Saarländischer Rundfunk). 1947 he became an instructor at the Konservatorium Saarbrücken (University of Music Saarbrücken, today: Hochschule für Musik Saar). He was leader of the master class for composition, instrumentation and chamber music. He wrote six symphonies and a wealth of scores for radio plays and movies. Additionally he composed works for plucked string instruments in which he developed new sounds and ways to express musical ideas on these instrume

Heinrich Köselitz

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Johann Heinrich Köselitz (10 January 1854 – 15 August 1918) was a German author and composer. He is known for his longtime friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave him the pseudonym Peter Gast. Life Köselitz was born in Annaberg, Saxony to (1822–1910), the vice mayor (Vizebürgermeister), and his wife Caroline (1819–1900), a native of Vienna. His younger brother was the painter Rudolf Köselitz. From 1872, Köselitz studied music with Ernst Friedrich Richter at the University of Leipzig. He transferred in 1875 to the University of Basel, where he attended the lectures of Jacob Burckhardt, Franz Overbeck, and Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1877, Köselitz sharply criticized the Basel music instructor Selmar Bagge in a newspaper article, which led to a minor scandal. In Basel, a friendship developed between Köselitz and Nietzsche. Köselitz read for Nietzsche during the latter’s intermittent spells of near blindness, and also took dictation. Köselitz was instrumental in the preparation of all of Nietzsche’s works after 1876, reviewing the printer’s manuscript and sometimes intervening to finalize the text formatting. Nietzsche’s break with Wagner and his search for a ‘southern’ aesthetic wi

Heinrich Lemacher

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Heinrich Lemacher (26 June 1891 – 16 March 1966) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Solingen, Lemacher studied from 1911 to 1916 at the Cologne Conservatory and at Bonn University, where he received his doctorate in musicology in 1916. From 1925 to 1965 he taught composition, theory and music history at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, where he had been professor since 1928. Important students of Heinrich Lemacher were Heinrich Weber, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and his long-time colleague at the Cologne Academy of Music Hermann Schroeder, who was also co-author of his most important teaching works. Lemacher died at the age of 74 in a Cologne hospital. He was widowed by Maria Augusta Horst, whom he had married in Cologne in 1927. Writings * 125 Jahre Gürzenichchor, Köln Chronik d. Jahre 1927-1952 z. 125-jährigen Jubiläum d. Gürzenichchors u.d. Kölner Concertgesellschaft. * Lehrbuch des Kontrapunktes. * Musical form. * Harmonielehre. * Musikalisches Brauchtum : Festschrift für Heinrich Lemacher. * Spasso ostinato. Hans Gerig Verlag, Cologne 1964. Work Ensemble-/Chamber music * Suite für Streicher op. 38/1 * Cellosonate op. 105 * Bläsersextett op. 208, für 3 Trompeten i

Heinrich Lindlar

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Heinrich Lindlar (6 August 1912 – 23 March 2009) was a German musicologist and music educator. Life Lindlar was born in Bergisch Gladbach. After studying music and musicology in Cologne, Bonn and Berlin, Lindlar was awarded the title of Dr. phil. with a work published in 1940 on Hans Pfitzners Klavierlied. After the Second World War he worked as music critic first for the General-Anzeiger in Bonn, later also for various national daily newspapers and specialist publications. From 1952 he published the series of publications Musik der Zeit, from 1958 the Kontrapunkte. In 1965 he went to the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, where he was given the chair for modern music history. In 1969 he moved to Cologne as director of the . There he promoted the expansion of the school to a conservatory of a modern kind until his retirement in 1976. In addition, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Lindlar’s often quoted critical examination of Karlheinz Stockhausens work prompted him to resign as director of the Cologne Courses for Neue Musik at the Rheinische Musikschule when Lindlar became director of the institute. Among his numerous publications some are considered standard works,

Heinrich Reimann

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Heinrich Reimann (March 12, 1850 – May 24, 1906), was a German musicologist, organist, and composer. Reimann was born in Rengersdorf, Silesia, and was a son of Ignaz Reimann, also a musician. Reimann studied at the University of Breslau and was awarded a degree in classical philology in 1875, having simultaneously studied organ with the Silesian composer and organist Moritz Brosig (1815–1887). It was only in 1886 that Reimann changed his profession to music, becoming active in Berlin as an organist, choral conductor, and write on subjects from Byzantine music through Wagner and contemporary composition. Reimann was appointed official organist for the Berlin Philharmonic where he performed on the Schlag und Söhne organ (1888), and became instructor in music theory and organ at the Klindworth-Schwarwenka-Conservatory; he was later appointed organist at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche in 1895 (where Wilhelm Sauer’s largest organ to date—Opus 660—was installed). In fact, Reimann was responsible for the addition of a fourth manual to the organ in 1897 in the form of an enclosed echo division (German: Fernwerk), which spoke through a soundproof duct and stone wall to a screen directl

Heinrich Schütz

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Schütz was born in Köstritz, the eldest son of Christoph Schütz and Euphrosyne Bieger. In 1590 the family moved to Weißenfels, where his father managed the inn “Zum güldenen Ring”. His father eventually served as burgomaster in Weißenfels, and in 1615 purchased another inn known as both “Zur güldenen Sackpfeife” and “Zum güldenen Esel”, which he renamed “Zum Schützen”. While Schütz was living with his parents, his musical talents were discovered by Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1598 during an overnight stay in Christoph Schütz’s inn. Upon hearing young Heinrich sing, the landgrave requested that his parents allow the boy to be sent to his noble court for further education and instruction. His parents initially resisted the offer, but after much correspondence they took Heinrich to the landgrave’s seat at Kassel in August 1599. After being a choirboy, Schütz studied law at Marburg before going to Venice from 1609 to 1612 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. Gabrieli is the only person Schütz ever called his teacher. He inherited a ring from Gabrieli shortly before the latter’s death. He was subsequently organist at Kassel from 1613 to 1615.

Heinrich Weber (composer)

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Heinrich Weber (9 October 1901 – 6 January 1970) was a German composer and organist. Life Born in Cologne, Weber studied first in Aachen and later at the Musikhochschule Köln. There, among others, his teachers were Hans Bachem (organ) and Heinrich Lemacher (harmony and theory). After some years as cantor at the city church in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he worked as a teacher for organ and theory at different schools of church music, among others more than 25 years at the in Aachen and last at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Weber, meanwhile appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor of Mülheim, was regarded as an outstanding interpreter, especially of French organ music, and gained an excellent reputation as an improviser. His numerous organ compositions are oriented towards Paul Hindemith, whom he greatly admired, and towards the new French school, and represent a tonal language that clearly emancipates itself from . Weber was a member of the Reichsverband der katholischen Kirchenangestellten e. V. in Essen. Together with this association, Weber organized a study trip to Paris in 1956, where he gave the members the opportunity to meet Marcel Dupré and Rolande Falcinelli and to gain insig

Heinrich Zöllner

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Heinrich Zöllner (4 July 1854 – 8 May 1941) was a German composer and conductor. Biography The son of composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner, Heinrich Zöllner was born in Leipzig. From 1875 to 1877 he attended the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied music under Carl Reinecke, Salomon Jadassohn, and Ernst Friedrich Richter. In 1878, Zöllner became the director of music at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia where he stayed for almost seven years. In 1885, he joined the faculty at the Cologne Conservatory and while there he conducted the Cologne Male Voice Choir. Zöllner moved to the United States in 1890 to become the conductor and director of the Deutscher Liederkranz in New York City. He remained in that position for eight years and achieved considerable success. His cantata, Die neue Welt (The New World), won a prize at the 1892 Cleveland Sängerfest. overtures, works for solo and four-hand piano, choral music, lieder, and numerous smaller vocal pieces. Like his father, Zöllner composed a significant number of pieces for men’s chorus. However, unlike his father, he showed a preference for large-scale works with full orchestral accompaniment. He is probably best remembered f

Heinz Kiessling

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Heinz Kiessling (March 11, 1926 – December 27, 2003) was a German musician, conductor, composer, and music producer, known mainly from his work for popular films and television programs. Kiessling’s piece Temptation Sensation (originally titled Haute Couture) is the theme song for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the longest-running live-action sitcom in American television history. The series also uses background music during its episodes from Kiessling, including On your Bike and Blue Blood (originally titled Tandem-Holiday and Pizzicata Milanese respectively). Life and career Kiessling studied piano, composition, and conducting after World War II at the Nuremberg Conservatory in 1949, and started his career in 1949 as a pianist and played in different concerts around the world. Soon after, he started working on recording music for television. In 1950, he began composing music in the jazz, dance, and light music genres. At times, he also led his own orchestra, and also worked many years for the in Berlin. Together with the pianist Werner Tautz, he established in 1964 the label “Brilliant” through which he managed numerous national and international big bands. Kiessling worked w

Heinz Röttger

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Heinz Martin Albert Röttger (6 November 1909 – 26 August 1977) was a German composer. From 1928 to 1931, Röttger attended the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where he studied under Walter Courvoisier and Hugo Röhr. From 1930 to 1934, he studied under Alfred Lorenz and Adolf Sandberger at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; his doctoral thesis was on problems of form in the work of Richard Strauss. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, he was Kapellmeister in Augsburg, in Bavaria. After the War, he worked at the Stralsunder Theater, in Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; in 1951, he became music director of the Volkstheater Rostock and the municipal orchestra there. In 1954, he was made chief musical director of the , in Dessau in Sachsen-Anhalt, where he remained until his death in Dessau on 26 August 1977. His works include Bellmann, 1946; Phaeton, 1957; Der Heiratsantrag, a comic opera after Anton Chekhov, 1960; Die Frauen von Troja, 1962; Der Weg nach Palermo, 1965; Spanisches Capriccio, 1976. References Further reading * Hollfelder, Peter: Die Klaviermusik, Hamburg 1999 * Laux, Karl (editor): Das Musikleben in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Leipzig o.–J.

Heinz Schubert (composer)

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Heinz Richard Schubert (8 April 1908 – 1945) was a German composer and conductor. He is not related to the more well known composer Franz Schubert. Life Schubert was born in Dessau where he studied with Franz von Hoesslin and Arthur Seidl and in Munich with Hugo Röhr and Heinrich Kaminski. From 1926 to 1929, he was a master student of Siegmund von Hausegger and Joseph Haas at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. In 1929, Schubert became theatre ensemble Kapellmeister in Dortmund and Hildesheim. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis in 1933, he joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party under the number 3.119.361 and became Kapellmeister in Flensburg in the same year. In 1936, his oratorio Das ewige Reich based on a text by Wilhelm Raabe for baritone, male choir and organ, was premiered. It was commissioned on the occasion of the Reichstagung der Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. From 1938 until 1945, he was (with a break in 1942, when he worked in Münster) the municipal music director and musical director at the theatre in Rostock, conducting the municipal orchestra. Although he was able to make a successful career as a conductor during the National Socialist

Heinz Tiessen

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Richard Gustav Heinz Tiessen (10 April 1887 – 29 November 1971) was a German composer. Biography Tiessen was born at Königsberg, where he studied with composer Erwin Kroll before moving to Berlin. There, he enrolled at Humboldt University and at the Stern’sches Konservatorium, where he studied composition and music theory. He worked as a music critic for Allgemeine Musikzeitung from 1911 to 1917 before becoming a theater Kapellmeister and composer for Volksbühne in 1918. From 1920 to 1922, he conducted the Akademische Orchester and between 1925 and 1945, he taught music theory and composition at the Berliner Musikhochschule. He also co-founded the German division of the International Society for Contemporary Music and served as conductor of the Junger Chor. During the Third Reich, his music was classified as “undesirable” by the Nazi authorities, and after World War II, he almost completely stopped composing. From 1946 to 1949 he directed the city Konservatorium and beginning in 1955, he headed the department of composition and theory at the Berliner Musikhochschule. His best-known pupils were Eduard Erdmann and Sergiu Celibidache, another one was Eva Siewert. He died in Berlin. Ti

Heinz Werner Zimmermann

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Heinz Werner Zimmermann (11 August 1930 – 25 January 2022) was a German composer, focused on contemporary sacred music. He was professor of composition at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and held several honorary doctorates from the Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, U.S., and from Leipzig University. He is known for church music influenced by jazz, such as motets for choir with plucked bass. Life Zimmermann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau and had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann. He studied from 1950 to 1954 at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg (Institute for Church Music) in Heidelberg, with Wolfgang Fortner. After passing his examinations at the Freiburg Conservatory, supervised by Harald Genzmer, he became Fortner’s successor in Heidelberg immediately. Here he maintained close contacts with the musicologist Thrasybulos Georgiades, whose rhythm and language studies influenced him the most, along with his occupation with American spirituals and jazz. From 1963 to 1976, Zimmermann was director of the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (Spandau school of church music)

Heinz Winbeck

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Heinz Winbeck (11 February 1946 – 26 March 2019) was a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. He is known for five large-scale symphonies, which he programmatically subtitled, such as “Tu Solus” and “De Profundis”. As a composition teacher in Würzburg, he shaped a generation of students. Career Winbeck was born on 11 February 1946 was awarded the OPUS Klassik in the category “world premiere recording” in 2020; it also been nominated in the categories “symphonic recording of the 20th / 21st century” and “editorial performance of the year”. Symphonies Winbeck revived the genre of the symphony, motivated by the need for existential expression. He composed five large-scale symphonies between 1983 and 2011, comparable to the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. By giving them titles, he reflected topics such as history as a sequence of wars and cruelty, the guilt of the generation of his parents, endangered ecology, the loneliness of humanity in the cosmos, and facing near-death. Winbeck’s First Symphony was premiered in 1984 at the Donaueschinger Tage für Neue Musik and recorded by WERGO, combined with Winbeck’s second string quartet, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Rundfun

Heinz Wunderlich

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Heinz Wunderlich (25 April 1919 – 10 March 2012) was a German organist, academic, and composer. He was known for playing the organ works of Max Reger. He studied in Leipzig with Karl Straube, a friend of Reger. Wunderlich worked as both a church musician and academic in Halle until 1957 when he fled to West Germany and became a church musician and academic in Hamburg. He toured internationally and attracted students from many countries to study with him in Hamburg. After retiring from teaching, he went on to more compositions. Career Born in Leipzig, Wunderlich studied at the Musikhochschule there, with Karl Straube who was a friend of Reger and premiered many of his organ works. External links * * Wunderlich,Heinz Worlds of Music * Musikalische Chronik der Kantorei St. Jacobi St. Jacobi * Heinz Wunderlich (Conductor, Organ, Harpsichord) Bach cantatas Website * Heinz Wunderlich gestorben walcker.com * Organist und Pädagoge Heinz Wunderlich ist tot rp-online.de

Helge Burggrabe

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Helge Burggrabe (born 17 June 1973) in Magstadt is a German composer, recorder player, stage designer and seminar leader. Life As a child, Burggrabe lived for several years in Burma (Myanmar). Later he had lessons with Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen, among others, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Evi Pfefferle-Darmstadt and Peter Michael Hamel. His diploma thesis dealt with Die Proportionsverhältnisse und ihre Widerspiegelung in Musik und Architektur am Beispiel der Kathedrale von Chartres. (Proportional relationships and their reflection in music and architecture using the example of Chartres Cathedral). Since 1993, Burggrabe has performed throughout Europe with his own concert series, especially in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria. Burggrabe works in various ensembles, including “Duo3” with the pianist Christof Fankhauser and the duo “Resonatus” with the singer Victoria Walker. Since the mid-1990s, several projects have dealt with the symbol and cultural history of the labyrinth as well as with the Chartres Cathedral, where Burggrabe’s Marian oratorio Stella Maris was premiered in 2006. As a stage designer and landscape artist, Burggrabe built severa

Helmut Bornefeld

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Helmut Bornefeld (14 December 1906 – 11 February 1990) was a German Protestant church musician, composer, church organ expert and writer. Career Born in Untertürkheim, Bornefeld began his vocational training in 1922 with an apprenticeship as gardener, which he completed with the skilled worker examination. From 1924 to 1928 he studied music at the Adler Conservatory in Stuttgart. In 1928 he moved to the Musikhochschule (today Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart), where he studied composition with Ewald Straesser, piano and organ with Hermann Keller. From 1935 to 1937 he completed his education by studying church music, which he completed with the A-exam. From 1937 to 1971 he worked, with the exception of a six-year interruption of the war from 1939 to 1945, as cantor and organist at the . In 1951 he was appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor there. From 1950 to 1958 he taught as lecturer for composition and at the . Together with Siegfried Reda, Bornefeld organized the from 1946 to 1960. Under his influence, numerous organs worthy of protection were – partly irrevocably – changed in character according to his ideas. By sawing off pipes, among other things, he e

Helmut Braunlich

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Helmut Braunlich (born 19 May 1929 in Brünn, Moravia; d. 24 May 2013) was a German-American violinist, composer, and musicologist. Education He received his formal musical education at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he studied violin with Christa Richter-Steiner, composition with Egon Kornauth, and music history with Eberhard Preußner. After his immigration (1951) to the United States in 1951 he played with various professional symphony orchestras and became a member of the U.S. Air Force Symphony Orchestra. He studied composition at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where one of his teachers was the great organist, Prof. Conrad Bernier. After earning his master’s degree in composition with a concerto for two violins and orchestra, he pursued doctoral studies, earning his Ph.D. in Musicology. Career Here he taught numerous courses in composition, music theory, and performance practice. In 1988 he was promoted to Professor. In 1989 the state government of Bavaria, awarded him the “Sudetendeutscher Kulturpreis” in composition. He served as the chairperson of the Composition Department at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at the Catholic University of Americ

Helmut Degen

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Helmut Degen (born 14 January 1911 in Aglasterhausen – died 2 October 1995 in Trossingen) was a German composer. Degen studied composition with Wilhelm Maler and Philipp Jarnach; and score and instrumentation with Ernst Gernot Klussmann at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne and the University of Bonn, writing his dissertation on Baroque librettist Friedrich Christian Bressand. He later taught theory at the Duisburg Conservatory and later at the Hochschule für Musikerziehung in Trossingen, becoming a professor in 1954. His works include educational chamber music in modern style. His style resembles Hindemith and uses methods similar to 12-tone composition. Selected works * Concerto for organ and orchestra (1938) * Sonata for viola and piano (1940); Willy Müller, Süddeutscher Musikverlag * Kleine Weihnachtsmusik (Short Christmas Music) for strings and woodwinds (1942); P. J. Tonger * Der flanderische Narr, Ballet (1942) * Kleines Konzert (Short Concerto) for violin and chamber orchestra (1944–1945) * Kammersinfonie (Chamber Symphony) for small orchestra (1947); Schott * Konzert Etüden (Concert Etudes) (1948); Schott * Suter, Oratorio (1950) * Unisono-Stücke for violin, or viola, o

Helmut Huchzermeyer

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Helmut Huchzermeyer (28 December 1904 – 1 March 1984) was a German philologist, musicologist and composer. Youth and education Huchzermeyer was born in Klaswipper, today part of Wipperfürth in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne, as the son of the Lutheran pastor Carl Huchzermeyer (1858-1929). He was educated at the Städtisches Gymnasium in Wipperfürth until his Abitur in 1924. Throughout his school years, he received solid training in organ, piano and violin playing as well as in theoretical subjects (including musical composition) from the seminar music teachers Georg Beringer and Alfons Schmetz at the teacher training college in Wipperfürth. Until 1929, he studied Latin, Greek and possibly religious education at the universities of Cologne, Marburg and Münster. At the same time, he studied musicology with Ernst Bücken (Cologne), Hermann Stephani (Marburg) and Fritz Volbach (Münster). The latter, coming from Wipperfürth, became his special mentor. In 1930, Huchzermeyer received his doctorate in Münster with a thesis on “Ancient Greek music Aulos and Kithara in Greek music until the end of the classical period” (printed 1931). This work is regarded a

Helmut Lachenmann

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Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (; born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and academic teacher. He taught, among others, at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and the Musikhochschule Hannover. As a private student of Luigi Nono in Venice, Lachenmann was inspired to reflect social and political contexts, and to include unconventional playing techniques and noises in his compositions. He stopped using electroacoustic music after working at the studio of the University of Ghent in 1965, but turned to what he called musique concrète instrumentale: calling for unusual and extreme sound production from traditional instruments. He created compositions of many genres. In an opera, Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern based on Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” and texts by Leonardo da Vinci and Gudrun Ensslin, the performers speak, play instruments, sing and act. Instrumental works include piano pieces, string quartets such as Gran Torso and Reigen seliger Geister, ensemble works such as Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung), and music for large orchestra including Accanto which juxtaposes a solo clarinet to an “orchestra of noise

Helmut Oehring

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Helmut Oehring (born 1961 He is self-taught as guitarist and composer. From 1990 to 1992, Oehring studied with Friedrich Goldmann and Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Oering is honorary professor for Théatre musical at the University of the Arts Bern. * Schneider-Schott Music Prize (1998) * Arnold Schönberg Prize (2008) Autobiography * References Further reading * External links * * Helmut Oehring: Biography * Wayback Machine * Helmut Oehring in Profile on JSTOR * Kurt Weill Festival – Artist in Residence 2011

Helmut Schlegel

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Helmut Alfons Schlegel (born 15 May 1943) is a German Franciscan Catholic priest, meditation instructor, author, librettist and songwriter. He is known for writing new spiritual songs (Neues Geistliches Lied), set to music by various composers. Career Born Helmut Alfons Schlegel in Riedlingen, he grew up on his parents’ farm in Upper Swabia and attended boarding schools of the Franciscans in Riedlingen and in Rottweil. He felt a connection to Francis of Assisi and joined the Franciscan Order. Then he studied philosophy and theology in Monastery Gorheim in Sigmaringen, Monastery Frauenberg in Fulda and Munich and was ordained priest in 1969 in Fulda. An extra-occupational course for meditation and retreat accompanist as well as in meaning-oriented psychology (Logotherapy) complemented his education. Schlegel worked for ten years in Wiesbaden and in other places as chaplain and as minister for young people (Jugendpfarrer). From 1988 he directed the Franziskanisches Zentrums für Stille und Begegnung (Franciscan centre for silence and meeting) in Hofheim am Taunus. In 1998 he was elected the provincial superior of Thuringian Franciscan province. In this function, he was also for six ye

Helmuth Osthoff

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Helmuth Osthoff (13 August 1896 – 9 February 1983) was a German musicologist and composer. Much of his career was spent at Frankfurt University, prior to which he held posts at Halle University and Berlin University. He wrote the first major biography on the composer Josquin des Prez, published as a two volume monograph in 1962 and 1965 Life Born in Bielefeld, Osthoff, son of the bank director Heinrich Osthoff and his wife Berta, née Tepel, began his musical education while still at grammar school, taking lessons in piano playing, music theory, score playing and musical composition with Otto Wetzel in Bielefeld and Wilhelm Niessen in Münster. After Osthoff had taken part in the First World War from 1915 to 1918, he studied musicology, history of art and philosophy from 1919, first at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and from 1920 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 1922, as a student of Johannes Wolf, he was awarded the title of Dr. ph. with his dissertation Der Lautenist Santini Garsi da Parma. After further musical training in composition with Wilhelm Klatte, piano with James Kwast and conducting with Gustav Brecher, which he completed both privately and at the Berl

Henning Lohner

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Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German-American composer and filmmaker. He is best known for his film scores written as a long-standing member of Hans Zimmer’s music cooperative Remote Control Productions. Lohner has written scores to various international films, among them The Ring Two and Incident at Loch Ness. Additionally, he has authored documentaries and art films, and has gained international recognition as creator of the Active Images media art projects. Background and education Born to German emigrant parents, Henning Lohner was raised near Palo Alto, California, where his father Edgar Lohner taught Comparative Literature at Stanford University and his mother Marlene Lohner taught German Literature. Lohner has one brother, Peter, who is a lawyer turned writer-producer for film and television. Lohner returned to Germany to study musicology, art history, and Romanic languages at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as Master of Arts in 1987. In 1982, he took a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying Jazz Improvisation with Gary Burton and Film Scoring with Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin. In 1985, Lohner was awarded a grant for music compos

Henri Berger

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Henry Berger (sometimes spelled Henri Berger; August 4, 1844 – October 14, 1929) was a Prussian-born Kapellmeister, composer, and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1872 to 1915. Biography Berger was born Heinrich August Wilhelm Berger in Berlin, and became a first-rate musician as a member of the army band in the 2nd Foot Guards of the Prussian Army. He played in the orchestras of Johann Strauss, Jr. across Europe. Originally, Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany loaned Berger from his Potsdam station to King Kamehameha V to conduct the king’s band. He arrived in Honolulu in June 1872, fresh from service in the Franco-Prussian War. In 1877, King Kalākaua appointed Berger to full leadership of the Royal Hawaiian Band. In 1879, he became a naturalized citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Berger befriended the future Queen Liliʻuokalani, a composer in her own right. Berger arranged the songs she wrote, performed by the brass band. On August 4, 1881, while traveling the world, King Kalākaua reported in a letter from Berlin to Regent Liliʻuokalani, that he had met the mother and sister of Berger and announced the sending of a program whose pieces Berger was to play with the Royal Hawai

Henri Marteau

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Henri Marteau (31 March 1874 – 3 October 1934) was a French violinist and composer. Life and career Marteau’s debut was made when he was 10 at a concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic Society conducted by Hans Richter. A tour through Switzerland and Germany followed. A year later Charles Gounod selected him to play the obbligato of Vision de Jeanne d’Arc, composed for the Joan of Arc Centenary Celebration at Reims, where he also performed, before an audience of 2500 people, his teacher Léonard’s Violin Concerto No. 5. Marteau was an advocate of chamber music. On 13 April 1894, he, pianist Ami Lauchame, a violist named Koert, and a cellist named Hegner were reported to have given their second invitation chamber music concert in New York, performing works of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré; a third concert was scheduled for the following week. By 1906, Marteau was leading a string quartet that broke up in a dispute over a work by Max Reger. In Berlin, he formed another string quartet with his student Licco Amar as second violinist and Hugo Becker as cellist; later, Becker’s student George Georgescu would take over the cello position. Marteau died of pneumonia on his estate in

Henry Hugh Pierson

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Henry Hugh Pierson (12 April 1815 – 28 January 1873) was an English composer resident from 1845 in Germany. He was born Henry Hugh Pearson and his middle name is sometimes given as Hugo. His original name was Henry Hugh Pearson, in Germany he used Heinrich Hugo Pierson. He had success in his adopted country with his operas and songs but little in his own, and his music is now rarely performed. Life Pierson was the son of a clergyman, Rev. Dr. Hugh Nicholas Pearson. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied counterpoint with Thomas Attwood Walmisley. From 1839 to 1844 he studied music in Germany under C. H. Rink, Tomaschek and Reissiger. He also studied in Prague with Václav Tomášek. His amorous adventures included an apparent liaison with Mary Shelley, before he married in 1844. Although elected Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University in 1844 he was made to resign when he did not take up his duties and subsequently based himself in Germany. Hubert Parry took lessons with him in 1867. Compositions (selective list) Many of Pierson’s manuscript full and vocal scores, including those of his oratorios and operas, appear not to have survive

Herbert Baumann

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Herbert Baumann (31 July 1925 – 21 January 2020) was a German composer and conductor. His compositions were mainly for theatre and film, at theatres in Berlin and Munich, such as ballet music for Alice im Wunderland and Rumpelstilzchen. Life Baumann was born in Berlin and began to study architecture, as his father wished. He studied conducting at the same time with Sergiu Celibidache, who was serving his first season with the Berlin Philharmonic. Baumann turned completely to music. He composed a piece as a conducting exercise that impressed Celibidache, who showed it to Paul Höffer, a composition professor. A CD review of the Alice music, played by the NDR Radiophilharmonie conducted by the composer, described it as a neo-Romantic score with delicate instrumentation and clever story-telling ideas for his main characters Alice and Der Dichter. External links * * Profile at komponisten.net (German) * * Herbert Baumann (Composer) Bach Cantatas Website

Herbert Brün

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Herbert Brün (July 9, 1918 – November 6, 2000) was a composer and cybernetician. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired several years before his death. He was a pioneer of electronic and computer music, incorporating ideas from cybernetics into his work. Career Brün left Germany in 1936 to study piano and composition at the Jerusalem Conservatory in Mandatory Palestine with Stefan Wolpe, Eli Friedman and Frank Pelleg. While in Palestine, he also worked as a jazz pianist. In 1948, he received a scholarship to further his studies in the United States at Tanglewood and Columbia University through 1950. His work in electronic music began in Paris in the late 1950s, followed by work at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne and the Siemens studio in Munich. During the 1950s, he also worked as composer and conductor of music for the theater, gave lectures and seminars emphasizing the function of music in society, and did a series of broadcasts on contemporary music. After a lecture tour of the United States in 1962, he was invited by composer Lejaren Hiller to join the University of Illinois

Herbert Collum

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Herbert Collum (18 July 1914 − 29 April 1982) was a German organist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor. Life Herbert Collum was born in Leipzig, Germany on 18 July 1914. He received high school education between 1921 and 1929. He continued from 1930 to 1934 at the Church Music Institute in Leipzig, where he studied organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin, piano with Carl Adolf Martienssen, choral conducting with Kurt Thomas, and musical composition with Johann Nepomuk David and Fritz Reuter. Already by 1927 he had become deputy organist at the St. Matthäikirche Leipzig. From 1932 to 1935 he served as assistant to Ramin, Thomaskantor at the Thomaskirche. His appointment in 1935 as principal organist at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, signalled the beginning of his creative period; he remained in that post until his death in April 1982 at the age of 67. His successor as organist was Michael-Christfried Winkler. At the end of World War II, Collum founded his own choir in 1946, with a dedicated set of concerts. To mark the 200th anniversary of J S Bach’s death, he organised 24 concerts between September 1949 and August 1950, featuring the Collum Choir and members of the Staatskapelle

Herbert Eimert

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Herbert Eimert (8 April 1897 – 15 December 1972) was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer. Education Herbert Eimert was born in Bad Kreuznach. He studied music theory and composition from 1919 to 1924 at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Hermann Abendroth, , and August von Othegraven. In 1924, while still a student, he published an Atonale Musiklehre (Atonal Music Theory Text) which, together with a twelve-tone string quartet composed for the end-of-term examination concert, led to an altercation with Bölsche, who withdrew the quartet from the program and expelled Eimert from his composition class. In 1924, he began studies in musicology at the University of Cologne with Ernst Bücken, Willi Kahl, and Georg Kinsky, and read philosophy with Max Scheler (a pupil of Husserl) and Nicolai Hartmann. He attained his doctorate in 1931 with a dissertation titled Musikalische Formstrukturen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Versuch einer Formbeschreibung (Musical Form Structures in the 17th and 18th Century. Attempt at a Description of Form). Career From 1927 until 1933 he was employed at the Cologne Radio and wrote for music magazines

Herbert Rehbein

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Herbert “Herb” Rehbein (15 April 1922 – 28 July 1979) was a German songwriter, composer and arranger of light orchestral music. Together with his friend and collaborator Bert Kaempfert, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1993. Biography He was born in Hamburg, and studied classical violin and composition at the Hamburger Konservatorium. At the age of 19 he was conscripted into the German Army, but was assigned to the Music Corps and stationed in Crete. Later, he became a prisoner of war in Belgrade, where he stayed after the end of the war. There he became musical director of the Belgrade Radio Orchestra, until he left Yugoslavia in 1952. Returning to Germany, he worked as composer, arranger and violinist with radio orchestras, and met fellow musician and songwriter Bert Kaempfert. The pair became friends and songwriting partners, encouraged by Milt Gabler of Decca Records. Several of their songs together, including “Lady,” “The World We Knew (Over and Over),” and “Sweet Maria,” became international successes and were recorded by such singers as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Al Martino. He produced three albums of instrumentals with

Hermann Ambrosius

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Hermann Ambrosius (25 July 1897 – 25 October 1983) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Hamburg, Ambrosius came via Magdeburg, Berlin and Chemnitz to Leipzig, where he received his musical education. He was a master student of Hans Pfitzner at the Prussian Academy of Arts. From 1925 to 1942, Ambrosius was Tonmeister at the and since 1926 teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis, Ambrosius became a member of the NSDAP on 4 March 1933 under the party number 2,994,125. Since 1936 he was also active as Gauobmann Mitte of the Reichsmusikkammer. From 1945 Ambrosius worked as a private music teacher, choir leader and freelance artist. After his death, the city of Engen honoured the composer and named a street after him. Ambrosius left an extensive compositional legacy of over 500 works. Especially his compositions for are of importance. They had already been the focus of attention of soloists and chamber music ensembles since the 1930s and have enjoyed ever increasing popularity ever since. The "" expressly promoted his work for this field and made him an honorary member. Ambrosius died in Enden at the age of 86. Work

Hermann Bischoff

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Hermann Bischoff (7 January 1868 in Duisburg – 25 January 1936 in Berlin) was a German composer of classical music. After leaving Leipzig to continue his first studies of music, he met Richard Strauss and fell in with his circle. Bischoff’s two symphonies have been recorded on the record label Classic Produktion Osnabrück, along with a 1926 Introduction und Rondo. His first symphony, dedicated to Strauss was performed (premiered?) in Essen on 24 May 1906, as part of the 42nd Tonkünstler-Festival, the same festival that saw the premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Compositions *Two symphonies **No. 1 in E major (published in 1906) **No. 2 in D minor (1910, premiered 1911, published 1914 by F.E.C. Leuckart) *Other works with Orchestra **Introduction and Rondo for Orchestra (1926) *Various Songs with Piano (e.g. Op. 3, Op. 6, Op. 7, Op.15 ) and with Orchestral Accompaniment References * External links *

Hermann Erdlen

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Hermann Erdlen (16 July 1893 – 30 June 1972) was a German composer. Life Born in Hamburg, Erdlen received his musical education at the Bernuth Conservatory in his native town and through studies with Emil Krause (composition), Goby Eberhardt (violin), Karl Goltermann (piano and organ) and Wilhelm Vilmar (singing). Like Erwin Lendvai, he was active in the Lobeda Movement founded by Carl Hannemann, whose members were later particularly fond of his Deutsches Requiem and the Saar-Kantate. The first song compositions by him appeared as early as 1910. In addition to his work as a composer, he was active as a music writer and music critic from 1911 to 1936 and gave guest performances as a conductor in Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Kiel, Dresden and at the . From 1928, he taught music theory, historical musicology and instrumentation at the Hansische and at the Institut für Lehrerfortbildung in Hamburg. Since 1 May 1937, Erdlen was a member of the NSDAP (member number: 4.956.880). From 1945 onwards, he worked as a freelance artist and music writer in Hamburg. Erdlen wrote works for orchestral and chamber music ensembles, works for (amateur) choir, solo songs and also stage music. His musical legacy

Hermann Goetz

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Hermann Gustav Goetz (7 December 1840 – 3 December 1876) was a German composer who spent much of his career in Switzerland. He is best known for his 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Life Goetz was born in Königsberg in the Province of Prussia. The son of a salesman, he came into contact with music early in his life. However, he did not receive his first serious piano lesson until 1857 – although he already had begun to compose some years before. At the end of the 1850s, he began to study for a degree in mathematics, but broke this off after three terms to study at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where he studied piano and composition with Hans von Bülow. In 1862, he graduated from the conservatory. He then moved to Switzerland in 1863. The following year, Goetz was appointed as city organist of Winterthur in Switzerland (thanks to the assistance of Carl Reinecke), where he taught the piano and began to make his name as a composer. In 1868, he married, and two years later moved to the village of Hottingen, today a suburb of Zürich, but remained employed in Winterthur until 1872. Between 1870 and 1874, he wrote reviews for a mu

Hermann Heiss

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Hermann Heiss (29 December 1897 – 6 December 1966) was a German composer, pianist, and educator. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Heiss was born in Darmstadt and studied composition first in Frankfurt with Bernhard Sekles in 1921, and then in Vienna with Josef Matthias Hauer from 1924 to 1926. After leaving Hauer’s tutelage he returned to his native city to study the piano and compose. In 1928 he relocated to the island of Spiekeroog in the North Sea, where he taught music at the until 1933. He then moved to Berlin where he unsuccessfully sought performances of his works. During the war he composed music for the Luftwaffe and for other military groups . He was also self-taught. Hauer dedicated his book Twelve-Tone Technique (1925) to Heiss, who later claimed to have collaborated with Hauer on its contents . He introduced twelve-tone music at Darmstadt in 1946 and composed electronic music at the Studio for Electronic Music (WDR) in Cologne in 1956, where his Elektronische Komposition I was performed and broadcast in a concert of the Musik der Zeit series on 30 May 1956. He then founded a studio of his own in Darmstadt . R

Hermann Levi

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Hermann Levi (7 November 1839 – 13 May 1900) was a German Jewish orchestral conductor. Levi was born in Giessen, Germany, the son of a rabbi. He was educated at Giessen and Mannheim, and came to Vinzenz Lachner’s notice. From 1855 to 1858 Levi studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, and after a series of travels which took him to Paris, he obtained his first post as music director at Saarbrücken, which post he exchanged for that at Mannheim in 1861. From 1862 to 1864 he was chief conductor of the German Opera in Rotterdam, then until 1872 at Karlsruhe, when he went to Munich, a post he held until 1896, when ill health compelled him to resign. Levi also taught at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his pupils included the conductor Emil Steinbach. Levi’s name is indissolubly connected with the increased public appreciation of Richard Wagner’s music. He conducted the first performance of Parsifal at Bayreuth in 1882, even though Wagner initially objected to this and was quoted as saying that Levi should be baptized before conducting it. However, Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was Wagner’s patron, told him in a letter that “Nothing is more repugnant, nothing less edifying than such squabbles; peo

Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg

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Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (14 November 1876 in Thamsbrück – 15 May 1956 in Wesel) was a German composer of military marches. Blankenburg was the only son of three children of Johann Heinrich and Ernestine Friederike Koch Blankenburg. He was born with the middle name Louis but changed it to Ludwig later in life perhaps as a connection to Beethoven. Raised on a sheep farm in Thamsbrücke, he was expected to manage the farm someday. However, he showed a propensity for music starting with performing on the piccolo – a favorite instrument his entire life. His family agreed on his studying music as long as he promised to serve in the army for twelve years. Blankenburg taught himself to play various instruments including bassoon, tuba, and violin and he conducted his school orchestra at the age of ten. He served actively in the military for two years (1896–1898), playing tuba in the band of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment in Breslau. After that his only service was prior to and during the early years of World War I in reserve bands. He played tuba in the band of Field Artillery Regiment No. 43 in Wesel from 1913 until 1915, when he got a medical discharge. He remained in Wesel for the re

Hermann Necke

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Hermann Necke (8 November 1850 – 15 February 1912) was a German composer, conductor, music director, pianist, and violinist of the Romantic period. He is best known for the galop Csikós Post, first published in 1895 as part of Klänge aus Ungarn Sounds from Hungary , Opus 286. While seldom heard today, Necke’s prolific output of songs, choruses, and instrumental works (upwards of 400 opus numbers) was well-known during his lifetime. Life Early years Necke was brought up in Wiehe, and his initial education was “conducted under the guidance of several able teachers in Germany.” His desire to become a composer stemmed from a young age. Musical career Necke’s compositions were quick to attract multiple publishers. His first known published works, appearing in 1873, were a galop and rheinländer for brass band. Necke led several singing societies, most notably the Dürener Männergesangverein Düren Men’s Singing Society from 1877 to 1895. The Dürener Männergesangverein was founded on September 6, 1877 by members of a similar group when the disagreeable personality of a newly elected conductor caused many to resign. According to Hildegard von Radzibor (1969, p. 76), the association’s sole pu

Hermann Raupach

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Hermann Friedrich Raupach (December 21, 1728 – December 12, 1778) was an 18th-century German composer. Biography Hermann Raupach was born at Stralsund in Germany, the son and pupil of composer and organist (1686–1744) and the nephew of Lutheran church historian (1682–1745). Raupach was a harpsichordist, who became the assistant of Vincenzo Manfredini, at the Russian Imperial Court Orchestra in Saint Petersburg in 1755. In 1758 he was appointed a Kapellmeister and court composer. Some of his operas were performed in Russian. His Alceste (Альцеста, 1758) is regarded as “the second Russian opera” (after Araja’s Tsefal i Prokris, 1755). The role of Admet in this opera was sung by Dmitry Bortniansky, called the “Orpheus of the Neva River”. In 1762 Raupach left Saint Petersburg for Hamburg and then to Paris, where he met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and improvised with him on harpsichord in 4 hands. Mozart arranged some movements from his sonatas for piano and string orchestra. The Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, that was listed as K. 61, first appeared under Mozart’s name in the Breitkopf & Härtel OEuvres in 1804. It had been in Baron Taddäus von Dürnitz collection, and was mistakenl

Hermann Reutter

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Hermann Reutter (; 17 June 19001 January 1985) was a German composer and pianist who worked as an academic teacher, university administrator, recitalist, and accompanist. He composed several operas, orchestral works, and chamber music, and especially many lieder, setting poems by authors writing in German, Russian, Spanish, Icelandic, English, and ancient Egyptian and Greek, among others. He was director of Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium in Frankfurt from 1936 to 1945 and of the Musikhochschule Stuttgart from 1956 to 1966. He then taught master classes, regularly at the Musikhochschule München and at universities in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He founded the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart in 1968, serving as its president until his death. Career Reutter was born in Stuttgart, where he took singing lessons with Emma Rückbeil-Hiller. He moved to Munich in 1920 and studied voice with Karl Erler and then, at the Musikhochschule München, piano with Franz Dorfmüller, organ with Ludwig Mayer, and composition with Walter Courvoisier. In 1936, his opera Doktor Johannes Faust was premiered at the Oper Frankfurt. External links * * * Reutter, Hermann bmlo.uni-muenchen.de

Hermann Ritter

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Hermann Ritter (16 September 1849 in Wismar – 25 January 1926 in Würzburg) was a German viola player, composer and music historian. Biography Hermann Ritter studied violin at the Neue Akademie für Musik in Berlin from 1865 to 1870. His outstanding talent was soon recognized, and he was appointed music director of the municipal orchestra in Heidelberg, where he also continued his education at the University of Heidelberg. During this time, his interest in performance shifted from the violin to the viola, with the intention of improving the status of the violist by raising the standard of performance and developing an instrument with a tone equal to that of the violin and cello. Besides musical compositions and transcriptions, Ritter is credited with writing many books and essays including several volumes on the music history of Europe. Selected works Original compositions ;Stage * Ein kritischer Tag, Familienscene in 1 act (1894) * Durch Nacht zum Licht!, Schauspiel in 4 acts (1895) * Ein Stein des Anstoßes, Abenteuer in 1 act (1895) * Im Alpenglühen, Gebirgsstück mit Gesang und Tanz in 1 act (1903) ;Vocal * Altschottische Volksweisen mit Beibehaltung der Originalmelodien for voice

Hermann Schroeder

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Hermann Schroeder (26 March 1904 – 7 October 1984) was a German composer and a Catholic church musician. Life Schroeder was born in Bernkastel and spent the greatest part of his life’s work in the Rheinland. His mother’s family had common ancestry with Beethoven. He studied from 1926 to 1930 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, where his most important teachers were Heinrich Lemacher and Walter Braunfels (composition), Hermann Abendroth (conducting), and Hans Bachem (organ). His main sphere of activity as composer, conductor and organist were supplemental to his work as a professor of choral conducting, counterpoint, and composition. Upon graduation from the conservatory, he obtained a post teaching music theory at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. Eight years later he became organist at the cathedral in Trier. He remained in this post until the end of the war, adding the position of director of the Trier School of Music in 1940. After the war he taught music theory at the Cologne Musikhochschule beginning in 1946, becoming a professor there in 1948 and deputy director in 1958. He was also a reader at Bonn University from 1946 until 1973, and a lecturer at the University of Colog

Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen

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Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (Göttingen, 12 October 1882 – Munich, 14 June 1954) was a German composer, conductor, teacher and writer. Life and career He was the son of the economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852–1938) and his wife Charlotte Freiin von Kapherr, a descendant of the historian Georg Friedrich Sartorius. He studied composition with Ludwig Thuille in Munich from 1901 until 1907. He also studied piano with August Schmid-Lindner from 1905 to 1915. At the age of nine, Waltershausen was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. To prevent its spread, doctors amputated his right arm and leg. This did not prevent Waltershausen from pursuing music, however – he specialised in left-handed piano performance with Schmid-Lindner and conducted with his left hand. Waltershausen’s greatest professional success was the opera Oberst Chabert, which he adapted from the novel by Honoré de Balzac. The pacing, characterisation, and pathos of Waltershausen’s libretto was widely admired by his contemporaries, often more so than the music itself. Composer and critic Edgar Istel commented, “Though Waltershausen has not as yet shown himself to be a musician of great

Hermann Zilcher

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Hermann Zilcher (18 August 1881 – 1 January 1948) was a German composer, pianist and conductor, and also a music teacher. His compositional oeuvre includes orchestral and choral works, two operas, chamber music and songs, études, piano works, and numerous works for accordion. As a music teacher, Zilcher also enjoyed an outstanding reputation. His students included, among others, Norbert Glanzberg, Karl Höller, Winfried Zillig, Kurt Eichhorn, Maria Landes-Hindemith, and Carl Orff. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, Zilcher became a member of the party, a fact for which he would later be criticized. Early life and education Zilcher received early piano lessons from his father, Paul Zilcher, who was known as a composer of didactic piano and chamber music. He studied from 1897 at the Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, piano with James Kwast, counterpoint and morphology with Iwan Knorr, and composition with Bernhard Scholz. At graduation, he was awarded the Mozart Prize. Career In 1901, Zilcher moved to Berlin, where he quickly established himself mainly as a pianist for singers and instrumentalists, with concert tours, which made him internationally known in the United States an

Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl

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Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl (May 11, 1694 – March 27, 1739) was a German composer and organist. Life and career Quehl was born in Zella, Holy Roman Empire, the son of a parish clerk. He was a gifted musician who by the age of ten was performing in Northern European cities, including Hamburg, Amsterdam, Leyden and The Hague. His primary organ teacher at the time was Kapellmeister Christian Friedrich Witt of Gotha. In 1714 Quehl assumed the position of organist at St. Marien Cathedral in Suhl. Four years later, he married into the family of St. Marien’s head pastor. His marriage produced eight children, six of whom did not survive infancy. Johann Sebastian Bach, then the Kapellmeister at the Court in Köthen, was godfather to Quehl’s third son. In 1730, Quehl was appointed organist and cantor at St. Nicolai in Marktbreit am Main. From 1732 to 1733, he taught organ and composition to Johann Peter Kellner, who later wrote: " Quehl’s skill and other musical abilities inspired me to give it a try. The man promised to teach me and it was here my foundations of composition were made." Quehl was an organist in Nurnberg in 1734. In 1735, he joined the church school service as a cantor, organ

Hieronymus Praetorius

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Hieronymus Praetorius the Elder (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ music survives in the Visby Orgel-Tabulatur, which dates from 1611. (He was not related to the prolific Michael Praetorius, known as a theorist and for Terpsichore, but the large Praetorius family tree produced many distinguished musicians during the 16th and 17th centuries.) Life He was born in Hamburg and spent most of his life there. He studied organ with his father (Jacob Praetorius the Elder (1520-1586), also a composer), before moving to Cologne for further study. In 1580 he became organist in Erfurt but remained there only two years. After returning to Hamburg in 1582 he worked with his father as assistant organist at Sankt Jacobi, becoming principal organist in 1586 when his father died, a post he retained until his own death 43 years later. His son, Jacob, was born that same year, and was also destined to become a composer. His younger son Johann was also a composer and organist. His other son Hieronymus became a theologian. I

Hildegard Westerkamp

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Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist. She is known for her contributions to and development of acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and soundwalks, particularly through her work on the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s and 1980s. She has written extensively on these topics for journals and conferences, including Organised Sound. Westerkamp studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg, West Germany from 1966 to 1968, then moved to Canada to study for a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, which she earned in 1972. During this time as a student she encountered both Barry Truax and R. Murray Schafer, and began working for Schafer as part of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1973. She later enrolled as a student in the communications department and completed her thesis, entitled “Listening and Soundmaking: A Study of Music-As-Environment,” for a Master of Arts degree in 1988; she taught acoustic communication at Simon Fraser until 1990. Westerkamp became a naturalized citizen of Canada in 1975. In 1972, s

Horst Christill

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Horst Christill (born 1959) is a German church musician and composer of sacred music, especially hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). Life and career Born in Annweiler am Trifels, Christill first studied from 1976 music pedagogy, focused on piano, at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken, completing with the concert exam in 1983. He then studied Catholic church music at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, completing with the A exam in 1988. External links *

Horst Irrgang

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Horst Irrgang (1929 – 1997) was a German composer, conductor and musicologist. Life and career Born in Magdeburg, Irrgang studied school music in Weimar from 1948 to 1954, German studies at Jena University and music education (with Fritz Reuter) and musicology (with Max Schneider) at Halle University. As a composer and conductor, he devoted himself to amateur music throughout his life. From 1954 to 1958, he was artistic director of the folk art ensemble of the VEB Leuna-Werke Walter Ulbricht. In 1958, the took over the choral direction of the Louis Fürnberg ensemble of the University of Leipzig, which he held until 1965. Towards the end of the 1950s, he simultaneously took over the direction of the choir at VEB Hochbauprojektierung Halle. Irrgang was a board member of the and for many years the head of the folk music section of the Halle/Magdeburg district association. As a musicologist, Irrgang had been an editor at VEB Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig since 1959 (Deutscher Verlag für Musik). He published numerous choral and song books with his own settings, which were part of the standard repertoire of numerous choirs, especially in the GDR. He also wrote instrumental sets of German

Hugo Becker

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Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker; 13 February 1863 – 30 July 1941) was a German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. Biography He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg (then part of France, but transferred to the German Empire in 1871); his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist. His father tried teaching him violin at the age of six, but the young Becker loved cello, and switched over at the age of nine. By age fifteen he was touring with a string quartet made up of him, his father, sister, and brother. He had also become a leading cellist in the court orchestra in Mannheim. among his students was George Georgescu, who would replace him as cellist in the Marteau Quartet before forsaking the cello for the conductor’s podium on account of a hand injury. Later, Georgescu would remark, “All I know, I learned from Hugo Becker.” Becker also gave finishing lessons to Beatrice Harrison. Selected works *Andante religioso *Three Pieces for Cello with Piano Accompaniment *Scènes d’amour, duo *Deux Morceaux: Romance, Duo *Deux Morceaux: Valse gracieuse, Duo *Cello Concerto, Op.10 in A major (pu

Hugo Distler

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August Hugo Distler (24 June 1908 – 1 November 1942) was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer. Life and career Born in Nuremberg, Distler attended the Leipzig Conservatory from 1927 to 1931, first as a conducting student with piano as his secondary subject, but changing later, on the advice of his teacher, to composition and organ. He studied there with Martienssen (piano), Günther Ramin (organ) and Grabner (harmony). In 1937 Distler was appointed as a lecturer at the Württemberg Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, where he also directed its two choirs. In 1940 he moved to Berlin to teach and conduct at the Hochschule für Musik there, and in 1942 he was named the conductor of the State and Cathedral Choir. However, his suicide was probably not a direct result of antagonistic government pressure; “rather, it appears that he saw the futility of attempting to serve both God and Nazis, and came to terms with his own conscience unequivocally.” He is buried in the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery. Music Distler enjoyed his first success in 1935 at the official Kassel Music Days (Kasseler Musiktage). He achieved his greatest public success in 1939 at the German Choral

Hugo Kaun

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Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (21 March 1863 – 2 April 1932) was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher. Biography Kaun was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 (or 1887), he left Germany for the United States and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was home to a well-established German immigrant community. As the conductor of local choral societies, such as the Milwaukee Liederkranz and the Milwaukee Men’s Choir, Kaun quickly acquired an important influence in the city’s musical life. He also taught at the conservatory, where his colleagues included Wilhelm Middelschulte. Kaun’s eldest son, Bernhard Kaun, later became a composer of film scores in Hollywood. At the turn of the century, Kaun returned to Germany and continued his teaching in Berlin. Although he received numerous lucrative offers of employment from abroad, these inducements could not persuade him to leave Berlin a second time. In 1912, he was appointed to the Prussian Academy of Arts. He chronicled his eventful life in his autobiography Aus meinem Leben (From My Life). He died in Berlin. Music Kaun composed in a Romantic style for a wide range of genr

Hugo Leichtentritt

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Hugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874, Pleschen, , nearby Posen, Province of Posen13 November 1951, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg. Early life Leichtentritt was born to a family of Jewish merchants in Pleschen, German Empire. His German father, Gerson Leichtentritt, was a successful distillery owner. Leichtentritt was a thesis reader for Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein had cited Leichtentritt in his reasons to attend Harvard, writing, “I would probably attempt a Harvard training because of the superb musical department there. Several German professors, such as Leichtentritt, who have left their native land for obvious reasons, are now giving instruction there.” However, Leichtentritt was displeased with Bernstein’s senior thesis, writing of its “arrogant attitude and air of superiority.” With his retirement looming, Leichtentritt branched out into other musical-related endeavors. He edited Oscar Thompson’s The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (New York, 1939), wrote for The Musical Quarterly, and had four books published by

Hugo Rüter

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Hugo Rüter (7 September 1859 – 25 December 1949) was a German composer. Born in Hamburg, he studied at the Conservatory of his hometown and later settled down in Wandsbek as director of choral societies, being appointed in 1897 as a teacher of Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium. He died in Mieste. His father Christian was a foreman in a sailmaker’s shop at the port. He had come into contact with music from early childhood through the nearby Michaeliskirche. The family later moved to Wandsbek, where Hugo attended school. Then Rüter went to the middle school at the Lärmberg. After confirmation in 1873, he left school and, on the advice of his teacher Scheibler, began training for the teaching profession. At the age of 15, he got a job as a preparatory at the Protestant church school in the neighbouring town of Hamm. At the age of 15 he learned to play the piano, but his talent was singing. At the age of 17 he passed the entrance exam at the Bernuthsche Konservatorium in Hamburg-Hamm. There he studied from 1876 to 1882 with Carl Georg Peter Graedener, Hugo Riemann, Karl F. Armbrust, Carl Louis Bargheer and Heinrich Degenhardt. In 1880 he wrote his 1st symphony in C sharp minor. Hugo Rüter’s

Hugo Strasser

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Hugo Strasser (April 7, 1922, Munich-Schwabing - March 17, 2016, Munich-Trudering) was a German swing and jazz musician, composer, clarinetist and big band leader of the Orchester Hugo Strasser (Hugo Strasser Orchestra) since 1955. The orchestra was famous for its dance music, in particular music for suited ballroom dancing with its strict beat and tempo, played at numerous ballroom dance / Dancesport championships in Germany and abroad. Of note is Strasser’s series of recordings “Tanzplatte des Jahres” ( “Dance Record of the Year” ). * 2002: Schwabing Art Prize * 1994: Bayerischer Poetentaler See also *Max Greger *James Last *Paul Kuhn References External links * *Hugo Strasser in the catalog of the German National Library

Hugo Ulrich

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Hugo Ulrich (26 November 1827 – 23 March 1872) was a German Romantic composer, music educator and arranger. Life Childhood and youth Hugo Ulrich was born on 26 November 1827 in Oppeln in Silesia (today the Polish city of Opole), where his father was a high school teacher. He was baptized Catholic. Both parents were enthusiastic about music; the father as a music teacher and piano player, and the mother above all as an excellent interpreter of Mozart’s arias. After he lost his father at the age of nine, the rector of the Oppelner Gymnasium Kotzoldt gave him piano and organ lessons. He recognized Hugo Ulrich as an extraordinary student and encouraged his career as a professional musician even in his early years. Barely twelve, Ulrich also lost his mother, which left him practically destitute. Nevertheless, he first attended the Catholic High School St. Matthias in Breslau, where he received scholarship support and free instruction but had to perform church music. He worked as an alto there and had to play the organ at the Gymnasiumgottesdienst. Here he also received the first lessons in continuo by then organist Moritz Brosig. To the great grief of his guardian Kotzoldt and his kin,

Ignaz Fränzl

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Ignaz Fränzl (3 June 1736 – 6 September 1811 (buried)) was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School. Mozart, who heard him at a concert in November 1777, wrote of him in a letter to his father: He may not be a sorcerer, but he is a very solid violinist indeed. Fränzl carried the Mannheim violin technique, established by Johann Stamitz, one step further to real virtuosity. Mozart, quite a good violinist himself and thoroughly acquainted with the instrument, praised Fränzl’s double trill and said he had never heard a better one. Biography The son of trumpeter and viola player Ferdinand Rudolph Fränzl, Ignaz Fränzl was born and died in Mannheim. He entered the Mannheim court orchestra in 1747 as a violinist, probably as a scholar (i.e. apprentice) similar to Christian Cannabich, another composer-violinist of the Mannheim school. In the personnel list of 1756 he is documented as a first violinist together with Cannabich and Carlo Giuseppe Toeschi. As was the case with many of his colleagues of the Mannheim court orchestra, Fränzl also travelled to Paris on a few occasions where he performed at the Concert Spirituel. In 17

Ignaz Lachner

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Ignaz Lachner (11 September 1807 – 24 February 1895) was a German composer and conductor. Life and career Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. He was the second of the three famous Lachner brothers. Lachner’s brothers Franz and Vinzenz were also composers. His older brother Franz was the best known, having heavily traded on his youthful friendship with Franz Schubert, certainly more than Ignaz who also knew Schubert. Ignaz was taught (as were the others) organ, piano and violin. Upon the latter instrument, he was somewhat of a prodigy, but despite this, his father insisted he become a teacher. After his father’s death, he studied violin with Bernhard Molique, a violin virtuoso and then joined his brother Franz in Vienna, where he too befriended and was influenced by Schubert. Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were also influences. In 1826, he became organist at the Reformed Church in Vienna and then a member of the orchestra at the Hofoperntheater. He was appointed a Music Director in Stuttgart in 1831 and soon thereafter in Munich. From 1853, Lachner served as a Kapellmeister in Hamburg and moved into the same position again in 1861 at the Stadttheater in Frankfurt, f

Ilse Fromm-Michaels

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Ilse Fromm-Michaels (Hamburg, 30 December 1888 – 22 January 1986) was a German pianist and composer. Life Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Musik with Heinrich van Eyken for composition and with Marie Bender for piano. In 1905 she began study at the Sternsche Conservatory of Hans Pfitzner and James Kwast and completed her studies in 1913 with conductor and composer Fritz Steinbach and pianist Carl Friedberg in Cologne. In 1908 Fromm-Michaels began a career as a concert pianist, often playing her own works. She married Hamburg judge Dr. Walter Michaels, and after the Nuremberg Race Laws were instituted by the Nazis was banned from performing or publishing her compositions. She continued teaching music, and after World War II established the Hamburg First School of Music and Drama. In 1964 she was awarded the City of Hamburg’s Johannes Brahms Medal. In 1973 she moved to Detmold to be near her son, and died there in 1986. Works Selected works include: *Variationen über ein eigenes Thema, op. 8 (1918/19) *Vier Puppen, op. 4 (1908) *Der Hampelmann *Das Puppenmädchen *Der Harlekin *A

Immanuel Faisst

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Immanuel Gottlob Friedrich Faisst (13 October 1823 in Esslingen am Neckar – 5 June 1894 in Stuttgart) was a German composer and co-founder of the Stuttgart Music School, whose director he was, until his death. His compositions include works for organ, and some exercises on double fugue for piano, lieders, choruses, motets, cantatas, etc. Finally, along with Sigmund Lebert and Hans von Bülow, he published in 1881 the famous Cotta edition of the Beethoven Sonatas. Life He was sent to the seminary at Schönthal in 1836, and in 1840 to Tübingen, in order to study theology; but bis musical talents, which had previously shown themselves in the direction of great proficiency on the organ, were too strong, and, although he received no direct musical instruction worth mentioning, he had made such progress in composition by 1844 that when he went to Berlin and showed his productions to Mendelssohn, that master advised him to work by himself rather than attach himself to any teacher. In 1846 he appeared in public as an organ player in many German towns, and finally took up his abode in Stuttgart. Here in 1847 he founded an organ school and a society for the study of church music. He undertook

Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf

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Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (born Ingeborg Maria Wilhelmina Starck, was involved in commerce. Her native language was Swedish. Having shown musical gifts from a young age, she studied piano with and Adolf Henselt, as well as composition with . She completed her studies in Weimar with Franz Liszt. During a stay in Paris in 1861 her friends included composers such as Auber, Berlioz, Rossini and Wagner. In September of the same year, she married fellow pianist-composer Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, a member of Liszt’s circle whom she had met in Weimar. Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf toured Europe as a concert pianist until 1867, when her husband accepted a court appointment at the Royal Theatre in Hanover; state policy prohibited the wives of Prussian officials from appearing publicly as artists. She remained musically active as a composer of vocal music, notably four operas and approximately eighty art songs , chamber and instrumental music. Her songs set texts by poets of the golden age of German Romanticism, including Goethe, Rückert, and Heine, as well as by several of her contemporaries, among them Friedrich von Bodenstedt, Peter Cornelius, and Ernst von Wildenbruch

Ingfried Hoffmann

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Ingfried Hoffmann (born January 30, 1935) is a German jazz organist, pianist, trumpeter, arranger and composer. He has recorded for Columbia, Philips, Polydor, and Verve. In the 1960s, Hoffmann worked extensively with tenor saxophonist Klaus Doldinger, earning the reputation as being one of Europe’s best jazz organists. He has also composed music for German television, including music for the German version of Sesame Street and Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt. Early life and jazz career Hoffmann was born on January 30, 1935 in Szczecin, Poland. His interest in music began when he was a baby, and as early as two years old, he was already completing a daily musical routine of over eight hours. This routine mainly consisted of him listening to his brother Ludwig Hoffmann play the piano, who was a German classical pianist. He was ten years older than Ingfried, and died in 1999. Hoffmann played at his first concert when he was twelve years old, performing The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach. Some of his favorite jazz musicians included Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and John Coltrane. In the same year, he won the title of “best pianist” at the Deutsches Amateur-Jazz-Festiva

Ingolf Dahl

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Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Biography Dahl was born Walter Ingolf Marcus in Hamburg, Germany, to a German Jewish father, attorney Paul Marcus, and his Swedish wife Hilda Maria Dahl. He had two brothers, Gert Marcus (1914–2008; a noted Swedish artist and sculptor, and a recipient of the Prince Eugen Medal), and Holger, and one sister, Anna-Britta. In Hamburg, Dahl studied piano under Edith Weiss-Mann, a harpsichordist, pianist, and a proponent of early music. Dahl studied with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (1930–32). Dahl left Germany as the Nazi Party was coming to power and continued his studies at the University of Zurich, along with Volkmar Andreae and . Living with relatives and working at the Zürich Opera for more than six years, he rose from an internship to the rank of assistant conductor. He served as a vocal coach and chorus master for the world premieres of Alban Berg’s Lulu and Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler. He settled in Los Angeles and joined the community of expatriate musicians that included Ernst Krenek, Darius Milhaud, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, an

Iris ter Schiphorst

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Iris ter Schiphorst (born 22 May 1956) is a German composer and musician. Early life Iris ter Schiphorst was born in Hamburg into a middle-class family, her father a Dutch technician and her mother a German pianist. She describes music as her “second mother tongue” (“zweite Muttersprache”). She began taking piano lessons, initially from her mother, after her early hopes of becoming a dancer were thwarted by injury. She continued her piano studies at the Bremen Musikhochschule from 1973 to 1978, and embarked on a busy schedule of concert performances. She then spent two years (1978–1980) travelling in Europe and Africa, an experience that transformed her social and musical outlook. On returning to Germany she began playing in rock bands, including Bremen’s all-female Seven Kick the Can. She remained active in rock music from 1980 to 1986, as keyboardist, bassist, drummer, and sound engineer. ter Schiphorst moved to Berlin in 1984 and from 1986 studied humanities (theatre studies, cultural studies, and philosophy) at the Freie Universität Berlin, later transferring to Humboldt-Universität. She also attended seminars with composers Dieter Schnebel and Luigi Nono and musicologist Helga

Irmin Schmidt

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Irmin Schmidt (born 29 May 1937) is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the Krautrock band Can and composer of numerous film scores. Following the death of Can’s second lead vocalist Damo Suzuki in February 2024, Schmidt is one of three surviving former members of the band, alongside original vocalist Malcolm Mooney and bassist Rosko Gee. Before joining Can, Schmidt studied composition with composers as György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Henri Pousseur, Earle Brown, and István Kertész. He started work mainly as a conductor performing concerts with the Bochum Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, and the Dortmund Ensemble for New Music. During this time, Schmidt conducted the West German premiere of John Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis” with Bochum Symphony Orchestra and performed Cage’s piano piece “Winter Music”. By 1966 Schmidt got a position as Kapellmeister at the Theater Aachen, hired as docent for musical theatre and chanson, and worked at the Schauspielschule Bochum (drama school) teaching vocal technique. Since early 1980s, Schmidt produced soundtrack compositions for such TV and films as Knife in the Head (1978) and Palermo Shooting

Isabel Mundry

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Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer. Life and work Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and later researched at the IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Mundry was the first resident composer of the Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater. Mundry’s compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: “She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently.” Isabel Mundry’s work is currently published by Breitkopf & Härtel. She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014. Awards * Boris Blache

Isang Yun

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Isang Yun, or Yun I-sang (; 17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany. Early life and education Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei), Korea in 1917, the son of poet Yun Ki-hyon. His family moved to Tongyeong (Tōei) when he was three years old. He began to study violin at the age of 13 whereupon he composed his first melody. Despite his father’s opposition to pursuing a career in music, Yun began formal music training two years later with a violinist in a military band in Keijō (present day Seoul). Eventually his father relented once Yun agreed to enroll in a business school while continuing his musical studies. In 1935 Yun moved to Osaka where he studied cello, music theory, and composition briefly at the Osaka College of Music. He soon returned to Tongyeong where he composed a “Shepherd’s Song” for voice and piano. In 1939 Yun traveled again to Japan, this time to Tokyo in order to study under Tomojiro Ikenouchi. When the Pacific War began in December 1941, he moved back to Korea where he participated in the Korean independence movement. He was arrested for these activities in 1943 and was imprisoned for two months. Yu

Isidor Seiss

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Isidor Wilhelm Seiss (23 December 184025 September 1905) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, piano pedagogue and philanthropist. His surname also appears as Seiß, and his first name also appears as Isidore. His notable students included Engelbert Humperdinck, Elly Ney (for nine years before she moved on to Leschetizky and Sauer), Willem Mengelberg, Carl Lachmund, Frederick Corder, Volkmar Andreae, Henri Weil, Karl Krill and others. Dedications to Isidor Seiss included: * Edvard Grieg: Book III (Op. 43) of the Lyric Pieces * Josef Rheinberger: Toccata in C minor, Op. 115 * August Winding: Preludes in All the Keys, Op. 26. He wrote some educational pieces for piano and other minor works. He also arranged some of Beethoven’s Contredanses and German Dances for piano. He also revised Weber’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, and published editions of Mendelssohn’s Capriccio brillante in B minor, and other works. Isidor Seiss died by his own hand in Cologne in 1905, having suffered increasing blindness that had forced him to retire from his teaching position. Although aged only 64, he had outlived his entire family, and in his will he endowed the Conservatory with a pension and cash

Israel Meyer Japhet

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Israel Meyer Japhet (7 March 1818—10 November 1892) was a teacher, choir director, and grammarian. He was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt am Main under Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, and composed music for synagogue use, many pieces of which are still in use today. Biography and career Israel Meyer Japhet was born in Kassel, Germany. His parents were Meyer Japhet (1782–1866) and Deborah Weinberg (1783–1843). At age 17, he attained his first position as a choral director and religious teacher in Wolfhagen. Subsequently, he held a similar position in Gudenberg, where he came into contact with Rabbi Mordechai Wetzlar. Wetzlar had a strong influence on Japhet’s development and outlook. From 1852 to 1892, he was choir director and religious instructor for the Orthodox congregation in Frankfurt am Main. For his works on grammar he used new methods of teaching in his textbooks. In keeping within halakha, his choirs consisted solely of men and boys. Aside from halakhic issues, Japhet felt that instruments and elaborate compositions could not compare with the feelings inspired by simple melodies and music. He felt that tunes used by previous generations can be

Iwan Knorr

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Iwan Otto Armand Knorr (3 January 1853 – 22 January 1916) was a German composer and music teacher. Life A native of Gniew, Knorr was taken to southern Russia at the age of four, where he was surrounded by Russian folk music. His mother taught him piano. The family settled in Leipzig in 1868, where Knorr attended the Leipzig Conservatory, studying with Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke. In 1874, he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Kharkiv Conservatory, in what is now Ukraine. In 1883, he settled in Frankfurt, where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory. In 1908, he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence. Among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles, Ernest Bloch, Vladimir Sokalskyi, Ernst Toch and Hans Pfitzner, as well as the English-speaking composers such as William Beatton Moonie and friends that become known as the Frankfurt Group: Balfour Gardiner, Percy Grainger, Norman O’Neill, Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott. His compositions include three operas, a symphony, a piano quartet and several sets of variations and suites, as well as pedagogical works of counterpoint and fugu

Jaan Patterson

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Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he founded in 2007. He is known for his various Dada- and Surrealist-inspired experimental-music and spoken-word projects, including Undress Béton, André Pissoir, Crawl Max, Dusk Euphoria, and Reve Steich. Additionally, together with Goran Ivkovic, he works as Surrism on improvised music projects. Patterson’s music has been played on numerous community radio stations and Internet radio stations, including Resonance FM, WFMU, Zoviet France, NTNS Radio by Mark Stolk and L’étranger, Radio Panik and In Memory of John Peel Radio. Since 2010, Patterson, has a role as curator for WFMU’s Free Music Archive. Later the same year, Patterson, started to curate, together with Anthony Donovan (Murmurists), the Classwar Karaoke netlabel, which releases quarterly compilations of experimental music and short-films by artists from around the world. Some of his musical collaborations include Anthony Donovan & Classwar Karaoke, AG Davis,< Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, Hopek Quirin, Alessandra Celletti, William Davison (Recordism), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) & Vania Rovisco, Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas)

Jack White (music producer)

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Horst Nußbaum (2 September 1940 – 16 October 2025), known professionally as Jack White, was a German composer, producer and footballer. Born in Cologne, Nußbaum first played football professionally for six years during the 1960s. In music, he initially tried his hand as a singer with little success, but became one of the most successful producers of schlager music by the 1970s. As a singer, he had already used the stage name Jack White and kept it as a producer, as the name was easier for the international English-speaking stars and their managers he worked with. In his music career, White created 25 of his own records, and is credited on 2512 other records, including 870 production credits. Some of the most notable international artists he worked with were Laura Branigan (“Gloria”, “Self Control”), David Hasselhoff (“Looking for Freedom”), Paul Anka, Engelbert Humperdinck, Barry Manilow, and Jermaine Jackson (“When the Rain Begins to Fall”). On the German-language market, White worked with leading Schlager musicians such as Roland Kaiser, Roberto Blanco, Tony Marshall, Jürgen Marcus, Heino, Andrea Berg, Andrea Jürgens, and Hansi Hinterseer. It is estimated that productions by or w

Jacob Schmitt

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Jacob Schmitt, also called Jakob, Jaques or Jacques, (2 November 1803 – June 1853) was a German composer and piano teacher who worked in Hamburg. He was born in Obernburg near Aschaffenburg and died in Hamburg. Life Jacob Schmitt was the youngest of the seven children of Franz Bartholomäus Schmitt and Anna Maria Scheller; his oldest brother was the composer Aloys Schmitt. His father was already an aspiring musician, who supported his salary as a teacher by being an organist in the town’s parish church St. Peter and Paul. He supported his sons musically, giving them their first musical lessons and making sure, that they were taken up in the house of the music publisher Johann Anton André in Offenbach. There, Schmitt was taught by André as well as his brother Aloys and had his first performances as a piano accompanist in 1814. At this time in the view of the public, he was the little brother of the already well-known Aloys whom he had a close relationship with. Schmitt’s way into the world of the free music business began around 1823. This becomes clear from an exchange of letters with his former patron André. In these letters, Schmitt initially asked for the financing of a new grand pi

Jacques Blumenthal

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Jacques Blumenthal (4 October 1829 – 17 May 1908) was a German pianist and composer. Born “Jakob” in Hamburg, he began his musical studies at an early age, receiving instruction from Friedrich Wilhelm Grund, Carl Maria von Bocklet, and Simon Sechter. In 1846 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied the piano under the tutelage of Henri Herz and Fromental Halévy. In 1848 Blumenthal settled in London, where he became the pianist to Queen Victoria. The position contributed to his demand as a teacher in London society, and he prospered greatly. His students included composer Jane Roeckel. Blumenthal also composed a number of works; his short piano pieces and songs achieved considerable popularity, though his efforts at larger pieces did not meet with similar success. He died at his home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea in May 1908; his widow, Léonie Souvoroff Blumenthal, née Gore, assigned the copyrights of his music to the Royal Society of Musicians. Selected compositions Piano music * La Source. Caprice, Op. 1 (Paris: Brandus & Cie., 1849) * Trois Mazurkas, Op. 20 (Paris: Brandus & Cie., 1851) * Fleurs emblématiques, Op. 21 * Le Gondolier du Lido. Barcarolle, Op. 40 (London: Cr

Jacques Offenbach

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Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory. Born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire; he found academic study unfulfilling and left after a year, but remained in Paris. From 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achieving international fame, and as a conductor. His ambition, however, was to compose comic pieces for the musical theatre. Finding the management of Paris’s company uninterested in staging his works, in 1855 he leased a small theatre in the . There, during the next three years, he presented a series of more t

Jakob Adlung

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Jakob Adlung, or Adelung, (14 January 1699 – 5 July 1762) was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist. Biography He was born in Bindersleben, near Erfurt, to David Adlung, an organist and his first teacher, and the former Dorothea Elisabetha Meuerin, from Tondorf. He attended the St. Andreas lower school in Erfurt from 1711, moving on to the Erfurt Gymnasium in 1713, during which time he lived in the household of Christian Reichardt, who also taught him organ. He studied philosophy, philology, and theology at the University of Jena from 1723 to 1726, where he studied the organ further with Johann Nikolaus Bach. At this time, he became friends with Johann Gottfried Walther in Weimar, and borrowed his works on music theory; he later wrote some books on the subject, most of which were destroyed, along with his house, in a fire in 1736. He returned to Erfurt in 1737 where he succeeded Johann Heinrich Buttstedt as organist of the Prediger church after the former’s death, a post he retained for the rest of his life. He was also professor of languages at the Erfurt Gymnasium and taught, by his own estimate, 218 organ students and 284 lang

Jakob Greber

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Johann Jakob Greber ( He is presumed to have studied in Italy and arrived in London from there in 1702, accompanied by his mistress, the opera singer Margherita de L’Epine. He was to remain in London for the next three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L’Epine, including that for the 1702 premiere of Nicholas Rowe’s play The Fair Penitent, including four arias sung by L’Epine during the interlude. It was during this time that Rowe dubbed L’Epine “Greber’s Peg”, a name by which she was known for several years. Although L’Epine left Greber in 1703 to live with Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, she returned to him in 1704, and they took up residence on Suffolk Street in London. He continued composing arias for her and accompanying her in concerts and theatrical interludes at Lincoln’s Inn Fields and other venues. The London newspaper The Post Man noted their appearance together at the spa town of Tunbridge Wells in August 1703: They write from Tunbridge Wells that there is arrived there that famous Italian Lady, Signiora Francesca Margaretta de L’Epine that gives every week entertainments of musick, all compos’d by that great Master Signior Jacomo Greber, pe

Jakob Hassler

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Jakob Hassler (18 December 1569 – 1 January 1622) was a German Renaissance composer. Life He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, the youngest son of Isaak Hassler, and brother of Hans Leo Hassler and Kasper Hassler. The Hasslers were an important Franco-Flemish musical family in Middle Europe during the late Renaissance. Baptized in Nuremberg, Jakob was initially instructed in music, like his brothers, by his father Isaak. Hassler is first identified on the rolls of musicians in Augsburg in 1585, and he was ennobled, along with his two brothers, by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in 1595. In between, Hassler is believed to have traveled to Italy to study at the behest of the aristocratic Fugger family, possibly with Andrea Gabrieli. Hassler’s term in the Fugger household was interrupted when he was thrown in jail for impregnating an Augsburg girl named Leonora Ostermair; Hassler was released on bail to marry her on 17 February 1597. In May, Hassler accepted a post in the prestigious court of Count Eitel Friedrich IV of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. In 1600, Hassler published his book of madrigals, which spread his popularity; certain madrigals from this publication appeared in collections print

Jakob Rosenhain

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Jakob Rosenhain (Jacob, Jacques) (2 December 1813 – 21 March 1894) was a German Jewish pianist and composer. Rosenhain was born in Mannheim; he made his debut at the age of 11. During their 1837 season, he was a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (on 17 April), which in 1854 (also in April) programmed one of his symphonies. He was a friend of Felix Mendelssohn at least from 1839. Rosenhain died in Baden-Baden. * Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 43 (performed, possibly premiered, 1846 by Mendelssohn in Leipzig) * Symphony No. 3 “Im Frühling”, Op. 61 ;Chamber works * Piano Quartet in E, Op. 1 * Sonata in E for piano with violoncello or violin, Op. 38 * Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 44?; à M. Fétis * Sonate Symphonique in F minor (Piano Sonata No.2?), Op. 70 (pub. Breitkopf, 1887) * Piano Sonata (No.3?) in D, Op. 74 (published by Breitkopf, 1886) * 3 String Quartets, Opp. 55, 57, 65 (pub. 1864) * Sonata in D minor for cello (or violin, or viola) and piano, Op. 98. (manuscript for viola, noted in RISM Online and dates from 1893) * Four Piano Trios ;Songs * at least two dozen References Bibliography * * Brown, James Duff (1886). . A. Gardner. page 522. * Hubbard, W. L. (William

James Kwast

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James Kwast (23 November 185231 October 1927) was a Dutch-German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor. Biography Jacob James Kwast was born in Nijkerk, Netherlands, in 1852. After studies with his father and Ferdinand Böhme in his home country, he became a student of Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory, and had later studies in Berlin under Theodor Kullak, and Brussels under Louis Brassin and François-Auguste Gevaert. He settled in Germany in 1883, initially as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and later at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and the Klindworth-Scharwenka (1903–06) and Stern conservatories in Berlin. His students included Else Schmitz-Gohr and Walter Braunfels. He participated in the first performance in England of Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, with Carl Fuchs and Carl Deichmann. Clara Schumann played her last public concert in Frankfurt on 12 March 1891. The last work she played was Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn, in the piano-duet version, with Kwast as her partner. He died in Berlin in 1927, aged 74. Teacher His reputation as a teacher reached far and wide. The list of his stude

James Simon (composer)

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James Simon (29 September 1880 – 12/14 October 1944) was a German composer, pianist and musicologist. Timeline * Born on 29 September 1880 in Berlin * Married on 1 May 1907 to Anna Levy in Berlin * Birth of his son, Jörn Martin Simon on 14 September 1910 in Berlin * Birth of his son, Ulrich Ernst Simon on 21 September 1913 in Berlin * Emigration: 1 April 1933, via Zürich to Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Death of his son, Jörn in 1937 in Russia during the purge of the Moscow Trials * Deported from Westerbork 5 April 1944 to Theresienstadt, ghetto * Transferred 12 October 1944, to Auschwitz, extermination camp * Death: 14 October 1944, Auschwitz, extermination camp – officially declared dead, age 64 Biography James Simon was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 following his internment at Theresienstadt. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Berlin piano (Conrad Ansorge) and composition (Max Bruch). In 1934 he was forced to leave Germany to Zurich, later Amsterdam where he was arrested and deported to Theresienstadt. From there, on 12 October 1944, James Simon boarded the transport to Auschwitz and was murdered in a gas chamber shortly after his arrival

Jan Dismas Zelenka

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Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745) was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka was raised in Central Bohemia, educated in Prague and Vienna, and spent his professional life in Dresden. The greatest success during his career was the performance of the extensive composition Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis in the presence of the Emperor Charles VI, shortly after his coronation as king of Bohemia in 1723. Life Early life Zelenka, baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka, was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem in Bohemia, a market town southeast of Prague. He was the eldest of eight children born to Marie Magdalena (née Hájek) and Jiří Zelenka. The middle name Dismas is probably his confirmation name. Zelenka’s father Jiří was a schoolmaster and organist in Louňovice, and was likely his first music teacher. Nothing more is known with certainty about Zelenka’s early years, except that he received his musical training at the Jesuit college Clementinum in Prague and that his instrument was the violone (bass viol). His earliest known work is the school drama Via laureta (ZWV 245), compo

Jan Müller-Wieland

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Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas. Career Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center. Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93. He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2002. From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München since 2007. Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde. He is married to the Austrian author . Opera As of 2011, Müller-Wieland had composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled “Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists”, a chamber opera after Frank Wedekind’s Posse (farce) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992. The lib

Jean Berger

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Jean Berger (; September 27, 1909 – May 28, 2002) was a German-born American pianist, composer, and music educator. He composed extensively for choral ensemble and solo voice. Early years Berger was born Arthur Schloßberg into a Jewish family in Hamm, Westphalia. He studied musicology at the universities of Vienna and Heidelberg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1931 with Heinrich Besseler as his advisor. He also studied composition with Louis Aubert in Paris. While working as the assistant conductor at an opera house in Mannheim, he was forcibly removed from a rehearsal by Nazi Brown Shirts. After the Nazi Party seized power in Germany in 1933, he moved to Paris, where he took the French name Jean Berger and toured widely as a pianist and accompanist. From 1939 to 1941, he was an assistant conductor at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro and on the faculty of the Brazilian Conservatory. He also toured widely throughout South America. In 1941, he moved to the United States and served in the U.S. Army starting in 1942. In 1943, he became a US citizen. He worked in the Office of War Information producing foreign-language broadcasts and USO shows until 1946. From 1946 to 1948, he wo

Jean Gilbert

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Jean Gilbert (11 February 1879 – 20 December 1942), born Max Winterfeld, was a German operetta composer and conductor. Life and career Gilbert was born in Hamburg into a family of musicians; his ancestors were cantors of the Jewish community, his cousin Paul Dessau became a famous composer and conductor. He attended composition lessons held by Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin and studied at the conservatories in Sondershausen and Weimar. After first public appearances as a pianist, the 18-year-old obtained an appointment as Kapellmeister in Bremerhaven. Soon after he moved to the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg and, at the age of 20, succeeded Leo Fall as musical director of the theatre on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. He adopted the name of Jean Gilbert for the production of his first operetta Das Jungfernstift in 1901. He continued to work as a Kapellmeister at the Berlin on Friedrichstraße, where he conducted operettas by Paul Lincke. In 1908, Gilbert moved to Düsseldorf and again turned to composing. Back in Berlin by 1910, he composed more than 50 operettas before and after World War I. His most successful work was Die keusche Susanne (1910), which was also popular in an English adaptati

Jean Kurt Forest

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Jean Kurt Forest (2 April 19093 March 1975) was a German violinist and violist, Kapellmeister and composer. He began his career as concertmaster in film orchestras conducted by Paul Dessau, then played principal viola in Frankfurt and Hamburg. Drafted to the Wehrmacht in 1942, he defected to the Red Army in 1945 and remained a prisoner of war until 1948. Back in East Berlin, he shaped musical life in the GDR in several positions, before he focused on composition from 1954, composing political songs and operas raising social awareness. Life Born Jean Kurt Forst Further reading * “Forest, Jean Kurt”. In Minister of Intra-German Relations (ed.): SBZ-Biographie. Ein biographisches Nachschlagebuch über die sowjetische Besatzungszone, collated by . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1964, . * Hans-Joachim Kynaß: Jean Kurt Forest / Kurzbiographie und ausgewählte Werke, in association with the Music Council of the GDR. Association of German Composers and Musicologists, Musikinformationszentrum, Berlin 1967. External links * * Georg Plathe: Interview (interview, in German) in: Siegfried Trzoß: Schlagergeschichte(n) des Ostens, vol. 1. 1945–1965, Berlin 2007 * Jean-Kurt-Forest-Archiv Archives of

Jean-Adam Guilain

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Jean-Adam Guilain Freinsberg (born Johann Adam Wilhelm Freinsberg; c. 1680 – after 1739) was a German-French organist and harpsichordist who was mostly active in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century. Biography Little is known about his life. He was born in Germany, possibly around 1680 (the exact dates of birth and death are unknown). For an unknown reason he moved to France some time before 1702, and almost certainly became one of Louis Marchand’s pupils - Guilain’s organ collection is dedicated to Marchand, by then a prominent organ teacher. He was a Catholic, though it is unknown whether he was baptised Catholic or converted later. Guilain died some time after 1739, the year when he published a collection of harpsichord pieces. Compositions Although of German origin, Guilain’s musical style appears to be in the pure French tradition. Harpsichord The sole surviving copy of Guilain’s only known collection of harpsichord works may be found in the collection of the British Library. The volume is entitled “PIÈCES DE CLAVECIN / D’UN GOUT NOUVEAU / PAR Mr. GUILAIN./ Gravées par De Gland Graveur du Roy./ Prix 3l./ A PARIS.” and has twenty-six pieces: * Fanfare * Je veux

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

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Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, also known as Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (31 August 1741 – 14 February 1816) was a French composer of German birth during the classical period. He is best known today for the vocal romance “Plaisir d’amour,” on which the 1961 Elvis Presley pop standard “Can’t Help Falling in Love” is based. He is often confused with the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Martini, so is sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco (“Martini The German”). Life and career Martini was born Johann Paul Aegidius Martin in Freystadt, Bavaria, as the son of the schoolmaster Andreas Martin and his wife Barbara. He was educated at the Jesuit seminary in Neuburg an der Donau and later started a study of philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau, which he quit unfinished. He temporarily adopted the code name “Schwarzendorf”, presumably trying to cover his tracks for the fear of being urged to refund his education costs. He re-adopted his original family name in the Italianized form “Martini” after moving to France. There, he established a successful career as a court musician. In 1764, he married Marguerite Camelot. Having directed concerts for Queen Marie Antoinette, he adapted to the changing regime

Jean-Siegfried Blumann

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Jean-Siegfried Blumann (2 February 1887 – 1965) was a German conductor and composer. Life Blumann was born in Osnabrück, in Hamburg according to other sources. Already at the age of four he showed interest in music and played harmonica. At the age of seven he received music lessons, at 13 he performed in public for the first time. Blumann attended the Kapellmeister class at the Hamburger Konservatorium. His studies also led him to the Conservatory in Vienna. On 5 October 1906 he conducted an orchestra for the first time in an examination concert in the . The Adagio by Ludwig van Beethoven, which he had instrumentalized himself, was performed. He then conducted a small amateur orchestra as well as a women’s choir until he went to the Mecklenburg State Theatre as répétiteur in 1908. Two years later he became choir director and kapellmeister in Lübeck. (today Albert-Vater-Straße) in the district . On 7 April 1933, Blumann, who presumably came from a Jewish family, was granted leave by the newly appointed National Socialist theatre management. Between 1933 and 1938 he fled from Germany and went to France where he lived during World War II as well as in the post-war period. At least in

Jens Joneleit

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Jens Gerd Joneleit (born 17 September 1968) is a German composer, known for his operas. Early life and education Joneleit was born in Offenbach am Main in Germany. His parents both played piano, and he learned music theory when he was only seven years old. In 1975 he started taking percussion lessons, and performed in a local marching band, and local rock and jazz groups. Around 1984 he taught himself piano and started composing his own music. He graduated from the Gymnasium in 1988, and for the next two years completed his community service. He moved to the United States in 1990 to study at the University of South Dakota, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with majoring in Art and a minor in Music in 1992. He then entered graduate school in painting at the University of Wisconsin, and completed his Master of Fine Arts in 1997. Musical career From 1991 Joneleit studied music with Bartók’s pupil Lewis Hamvas in Yankton, South Dakota, and in Vermillion, South Dakota with Robert Marek (1915–1995) and Stephen Yarbrough (born 1946). From 1994 he studied in Madison, Wisconsin with Joel Naumann, a pupil of Stefan Wolpe. In 2003 he hired Roscoe Mitchell of the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Jens Josef

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Jens Josef (born 5 August 1967) is a German composer of classical music, a flutist and academic teacher. Career Born in Solingen-Ohligs, Josef received flute instructions from Rita Eggenweiler and Klaus Grünow, principal flute of the Staatstheater Kassel, and took composition classes with Jörn Tegtmeyer, the director of church music of Hann. Münden. From 1989 to 1997 Josef studied at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, flute with Peter Brock and Paul Dahme, and composition with Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. He finished his examinations in 1995, his concert examinations in 1997. He also studied flute with András Adorján and composition with Rainer Kunad. He was a member of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie in Rostock in 1992/93, and the flutist of the orchestra Saitensprünge in 1994/95. He has worked as a freelance artist, flutist, composer, teacher, and conductor. in 1997 he founded the ensemble Gruppe Kontraste together with Christian Ridil. In 1998 he was principal flute of the Junge Philharmonie Hessen-Thüringen. He has collaborated with the Mutare Ensemble in Frankfurt. He has participated in the educational project Ohrwurm-Projekt, a music project aiming at elementary school children. His o

Jiří Čart

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Jiří Čart (German: Georg Czarth, Zarth, Czard, Szarth, Tzarth, or Zardt; 8 April 1708 – c. 1780) was a Bohemian composer, violinist and flautist of the late baroque period. Life Georg Czarth was born in Vysoká. He received his first musical instruction from his father, Lukas Lorenz, cantor in Havlíčkův Brod and teacher of Johann Stamitz. After attending school in Vysoká, Czarth furthered his musical education in Prague and then, at the age of 17, in Vienna. In Vienna he received violin instruction from the Royal Court musicians Franz Josef Timmer and Johann Otto Rosetter (1690–1752); and from Biarelli he learned the flute. In Vienna he also met the violinist Franz Benda and in 1729 the two musicians left Vienna. After being joined in Breslau (today Wrocław) by the violinist Carl Höckh and the hornist Wilhelm Weidner they searched for better employment opportunities in Poland. In Warsaw, Czarth and the three other musicians were taken into the employment of the Starosta Jan Suchorzewski and formed part of a small orchestra of around nine musicians. After the departure of Benda in 1732, Czarth became the concertmaster of Suchorzewski’s orchestra, but later that year followed Benda in

Jo Blankenburg

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Jo Blankenburg is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. His primary musical instrument is the piano. He was trained to play organ. Personal life Blankenburg resides in Los Angeles, but has also resided in New York City and Auckland, New Zealand. Albums Floatovations Jo Blankenburg’s debut album, Floatovations, published by Zero Latency, was released on January 9, 2007. The album comprised five meditative compositions with an ocean/sea theme. Vendetta An album composed by Jo Blankenburg for Position Music, released on March 21, 2011. Its songs were used for major motion advertising campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, X-Men: First Class and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn among many others. Elysium Elysium was released on July 31, 2012 by Position Music, following the success of Vendetta. Trailer music * 2009 – The Wolfman * 2009 – How To Train Your Dragon * 2009 – FlashForward * 2011 – “Dystopic” for featurette X-Men: First Class * 2011 – “Satorius” for TV Spot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows * 2011 – “Conquest of Antaria” for Featurette Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows * 2011 – “Juggernaut” and “Sa

Joachim Burmeister

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Joachim Burmeister (1564 in Lüneburg – 5 May 1629 in Rostock) was a German composer, cantor, and music theorist active in northern Germany during the late Renaissance. He is noted for his writings on music as rhetorical-poetic composition (). Life Burmeister was the eldest of five children born to a beadworker and townsman of Lüneburg. His brother Anton (d. 1634) became the cantor of St. Michaelis, Lüneburg, succeeding Christian Praetorius. He attended the University of Rostock, where he earned a master’s degree, and became cantor at the and St. Mary’s Church, Rostock. He then taught grammar, Latin, rhetoric, and poetry at the Rostock Gymnasium (Scholae Rostochiensis Collega Classicus), where he was acquainted with humanists including , , , and . Writings In his writings, Burmeister argued for the dignity of music as an art of eloquence. In his treatments of , including Musica autoschédiastikè (“Extemporaneous music”) and Musica poetica (“Poetic composition in music”), he describes musical solecisms, ornaments, and figures, as well as formal and stylistic categories. He also addresses musical phrasing and rhetorical propriety. His works draw on Greek and Latin sources and cite auth

Joachim Raabe

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Joachim Raabe (born 1974) is a German church musician and a composer of sacred music, especially of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Career Born in Haiger, Raabe studied church music from 1997 to 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He was then the church musician of the parish St. Peter und Paul in Villmar, and the leader of Tonspuren, a band of young people in Villmar. From 2005 to 2012, he was church musician of the Westerwälder Dom in Wirges. He was also until 2013 Geschäftsführer of the commission Arbeitskreis Kirchenmusik und Jugendseelsorge im Bistum Limburg of the Diocese of Limburg. Raabe joined in 2013 the ecumenical association inTAKT for the support of Neues Geistliches Lied, art, culture and education, for which he has composed new songs and conducted events of continued education. External links * Neues Geistliche Lied inTakt

Johann Abraham Peter Schulz

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Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (31 March 1747 – 10 June 1800) was a German musician. He is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius’s poems “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” and “Wir pflügen und wir streuen”, and the Christmas carol “Ihr Kinderlein kommet”. Life Schulz was born in Lüneburg, where he attended St. Michaelis school from 1757 to 1759 and then the Johanneum from 1759 to 1764. In 1765, he was the student in Berlin of composer Johann Kirnberger, and then taught in Berlin himself. In 1768 Kirnberger recommended Schulz for the position of music teacher and accompanist to the Polish Princess Sapieha Woiwodin von Smolensk. Schulz traveled with her for 3 years throughout Europe, where he came into contact with many new musical ideas. He served as the conductor of the French Theatre in Berlin from 1776 to 1780 and from 1780 to 1787 he was the Kapellmeister of Prince Henry in Rheinsberg. Schulz then went on to serve as Court Kapellmeister in Copenhagen from 1787 to 1795 before returning to Berlin. He died in Schwedt. Schulz wrote operas, stage music, oratorios, and cantatas, as well as piano pieces and folk songs; he also wrote articles on music theory for Johann Geo

Johann Adam (composer)

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Johann Adam (c. 1705 – 13 November 1779) was a German violist and composer of the Baroque era. Life Little is known about Johann Adam’s early years and his birth year is an estimate. In 1733, he was listed as a Jagdpfeiffer at the Royal court in Dresden. External links *

Johann Adam Hiller

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Johann Adam Hiller (25 December 1728 – 16 June 1804) was a German composer, conductor and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the Singspiel, an early form of German opera. In many of these operas he collaborated with the poet Christian Felix Weiße. Hiller was a teacher who encouraged musical education for women, his pupils including Elisabeth Mara and Corona Schröter. He was Kapellmeister of Abel Seyler’s theatrical company, and became the first Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Biography By the death of his father in 1734, Hiller was left dependent to a large extent on the charity of friends. He came from a musical family, and also learned the basics of music from a school master in his home town, Wendisch-Ossig. From 1740 to 1745, he was a student at the Gymnasium in Görlitz, where his fine soprano voice earned him free tuition. He died at the age of 75 in Leipzig in 1804. He was the father of the composer Friedrich Adam Hiller (c. 1767–1812), but he was not related to the musician Ferdinand Hiller. Operas A theme from Hiller’s opera Der Aerndtekranz (1771) was the basis for Max Reger’s orchestral Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hiller (1907). Literary

Johann Adolf Scheibe

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Johann Adolph Scheibe (5 May 1708 – 22 April 1776) was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music. Though much of his theoretical work survives, most of his compositions are lost, though the extant ones demonstrate a style between the Baroque and Classical periods. Life Johann Adolf Scheibe was born in Leipzig as the son of Johann Scheibe (c. 1675 – 1748), an organ builder, and started keyboard lessons at the age of six. In 1725, he began studying law and philosophy at Leipzig University, and in the course of his studies he encountered the professor of rhetoric and poetry Johann Christoph Gottsched, whose aesthetic theories deeply influenced Scheibe. Gottsched’s writings, which were primarily targeted toward the reform of German poetry and drama, greatly informed Scheibe’s formulation of his philosophy of music. Due to financial difficulties, Scheibe was unable to finish his university studies, and devoted himself instead to a largely self-taught career in music. In 1729 he applied unsuccessfully for the post of organist at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where Johann Sebastian Bach was the cantor. Scheibe was active in the musical scene of Leipzig until 1735

Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen

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Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (2 December 1670, Bad Gandersheim — 12 February 1739, Halle an der Saale) was a German Lutheran theologian associated with the Pietist Halle School and a scholar and follower of August Hermann Francke. He was the second director of the Franckeschen Stiftungen, a collection of schools for orphans. Biography Freylinghausen was born on 2 December 1670. He studied theology in Jena and in 1695 was his assistant in ministry at St. Ulrich’s Church in Halle. At his death in 1739, he was priest of St. Ulrich and director of the orphanages and boarding schools. Freylinghausen’s significance lies with his administrative accomplishment for all of the districts of hymnology. He himself wrote 44 hymns and published hymnals. His Geistreiches Gesangsbuch (Spiritual Songbook), a hymnal with 1500 old and new songs was known as “Freylinghausen’s Songbook” abroad. His hymns include Durch Adams Fall und Missetat and Mein Herz, gib dich zufrieden, und bleibe ganz geschieden. Family He married Johanna Sophia Anastasia Francke, daughter of theologian August Hermann Francke. Legacy A melody from his main hymnal was combined with a modern text, when it appeared in the common

Johann André

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Johann André (28 March 1741 – 18 June 1799) was a German musician, composer and music publisher of the Classical period. He was born and died in Offenbach am Main. In 1774, as the patriarch of a Huguenot family, André founded one of the first music publishing houses to be independent of a bookshop, in Offenbach am Main. Among his closest friends in Offenbach were Goethe, at the time of his engagement to Anna Elisabeth Schönemann, and he is pictured in the seventeenth book of Goethe’s autobiography Dichtung und Wahrheit with an Offenbach am Main background in 1775. In 1777, André was appointed musical director at the German theatre in Berlin, the Deutsches Theater, without having to abandon Offenbach am Main, however. He composed some 30 operas, ballads and songs. His son, Johann Anton André (1775–1842), followed his footsteps into composing and music theory. After taking over the music publishing business from his father in 1799, Johann Anton André acquired Mozart’s musical legacy from Mozart’s widow Constanze in Vienna. She entrusted him with writing concluding measures to the overture to Don Giovanni, so that it could be performed in concert. He developed the music publishing bus

Johann Andreas Herbst

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Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588 – January 24, 1666) was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in importing the grand Venetian style and the other features of the early Baroque into Protestant Germany. Life He was born at Nuremberg, and most likely had his early education there. Possibly he studied with Hans Leo Hassler, one of the most prominent German composers at the turn of the century, since Hassler was teaching in Nuremberg while Herbst was a student, and there is a close stylistic relationship between the music of the two composers. Herbst became Kapellmeister at Butzbach in 1614, at Darmstadt in 1618, and at Frankfurt am Main in 1623. In 1636 he accepted a position in Nuremberg, and returned to the city of his birth; it was evidently a frustrating appointment for him, for he wrote of his time there bitterly, and in 1644 he went back to Frankfurt, where he remained for the rest of his life. His most productive time was the period in Nuremberg and the second Frankfurt employment, during which he wrote his theoretical treatises and composed the bulk of

Johann Andreas Streicher

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Johann Andreas Streicher (13 December 1761 – 25 May 1833) was a German pianist, composer and piano maker. In 1793, he married Nannette Streicher (1769–1833), another piano maker and daughter of Augsburg piano maker Johann Andreas Stein. In 1794, they moved to Vienna. From that time, Streicher worked as a piano teacher and became increasingly known for his compositions. The Streicher piano-making business provided at least one fortepiano to Beethoven in his early years, of which the composer was fond, writing that it was “too good for me … because it robs me of the freedom to produce my own tone”. Works * (S. Johann Andreas Streicher ): Schiller’s Flucht von Stuttgart und Aufenthalt in Mannheim von 1782 bis 1785. Stuttgart und Augsburg, Verlag der J ohann . G eorg . Cotta’schen Buchhandlung Inhaber: Georg von Cotta , 1836. Incomplete text of the biography without the final chapters. * (Johann)Andreas Streichers Schiller-Biographie. Hrsg. von Herbert Kraft. (Mannheim, Wien, Zürich 1974) (Forschungen zur Geschichte Mannheims und der Pfalz, hrsg. von der Gesellschaft der Freunde Mannheims und der ehemaligen Kurpfalz. Mannheimer Altertumsverein von 1859, Neue Folge, 5). First complete

Johann Anton André

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Johann Anton André (6 October 1775 – 6 April 1842) was a German composer and music publisher of the Classical period, best known for his central place in Mozart research. Life Born in Offenbach am Main, André wrote operas, symphonies, masses, and lieder, as well as an unfinished (Textbook of the Art of Composition) in two volumes. His teachers were Ferdinand Frenzel (violin) and Johann Georg Vollweiler (theory and composition). In 1799, André purchased a large volume of Mozart’s musical papers (the ) from the composer’s widow Constanze, and brought them to Offenbach. This collection contained over 270 autographs and included the operas The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute, a series of string quartets and string quintets, several piano concertos, and Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Based on these autographs, the André publishing house (founded in 1774 by André’s father Johann André (1741–99) and still owned by the family today) prepared and issued some highly respected editions of Mozart’s works, bringing many compositions into print for the first time. For this, André earned the title “father of Mozart research”. He supplied the title Zaide to Mozart’s hitherto unnamed and incomplete

Johann August Just

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__NOTOC__Johann August Just (c. 1750 in Gröningen, Holy Roman Empire – December 1791? in The Hague) was a German keyboard player, violinist and composer. He wrote a number of works for keyboard and chamber ensembles, many of a pedagogical nature, and at least two one-act operas. He was a pupil of Johann Kirnberger, and later became music master to the Princess of Orange. There is much uncertainty about his date of birth (variously given as 1750, 1758, or 1760) and date and place of death. It appears that he was born in Gröningen in Germany, but a number of reference articles have confused this with Groningen in the east of the Netherlands. Some of his works have been recorded by the German ensemble Trio 1790. Works (incomplete list) Keyboard and chamber ensemble *Opus 1: Six divertissements pour clavecin et violon *Opus 2: Six sonates pour le clavecin ou le piano-forte, avec accompagnement de violon ou flûte et violoncelle ad libitum - also referred to as Piano trios *Opus 3: Six favourite sonatinas for the harpsichord composed for the use of beginners *Opus 4: Six concertos with instrumental parts for a violon principal with accompaniments *Opus 5: Six sonatinas for the harpsichor

Johann Balthasar Christian Freißlich

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Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich (also Freißlich, Fraißlich, baptised 30 March 1687 - 17 April 1764) was a German composer and organist. Life Johann Balthasar Christian Freißlich was born in Immelborn near Bad Salzungen, the son of a clergy man. He probably received his earliest musical education at the Court of Saxe-Meiningen, where the Hofkapelle at the time was under the direction of Georg Caspar Schürmann. From 1709, Freißlich studied in Jena. In 1714, he received an appointment as court organist to the Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in Sondershausen, where he also had to teach. In 1716, he was promoted to the position of court Kapellmeister.

Johann Balthasar König

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Johann Balthasar König (baptised 28 January 1691 – buried 2 April 1758) was a German Baroque composer, especially of hymn melodies, having published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies. He was the church musician at Frankfurt’s main Protestant church, the Katharinenkirche, and the town’s Kapellmeister. He was also closely associated with Georg Philipp Telemann. Early life and career Born in Waltershausen, König was a son of Johann Jakob König. He was in Frankfurt a chorister of the municipal gymnasium. Sources * * Further reading * Peter Cahn: Kirchenmusik an St. Katharinen. In: Joachim Proescholdt (ed.): St. Katharinen zu Frankfurt am Main. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1981. External links * * “Johann Balthasar König (Composer)”, Bach Cantatas website 2006 * Johann “Balthasar König”, hymnary.org * “Harmonischer Lieder-Schatz”, reader.digitale-sammlungen.de * “Johann Balthasar König / Komponist, Musikdirektor”, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek *

Johann Bernhard Bach

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Johann Bernhard Bach (23 May 1676 – 11 June 1749) was a German composer, and second cousin of J. S. Bach. Life Johann Bernhard Bach was born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, in 1676, in the house named “Zu den drei Rosen” (The Three Roses) on Junkersand Street, and was baptized on 25 November 1676 in Erfurt’s Kaufmannskirche (Merchant’s Church). He (like his younger brother Johann Christoph, born in 1685) received his early musical tuition from his father, Johann Aegidius Bach. After attending the Schola Mercatorum at Erfurt, he entered Erfurt’s major secondary school at that time, the Ratsgymnasium. As early as 1695, at the age of 18, he became the organist at the Kaufmannskirche. In 1699, he moved to Magdeburg where he was appointed organist for St Catharine’s Church. In 1703, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach called him to Eisenach to serve as harpsichordist at the ducal court. In Eisenach, he also became the organist at St George’s Church, succeeding his uncle Johann Christoph Bach. From 1708 to 1712, Johann Bernhard Bach worked together with Georg Philipp Telemann who held, first, the position of the leader of the violin section, and, from August 1709, that of a conductor

Johann Bernhard Logier

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Johann Bernhard Logier (9 February 1777 – 27 July 1846) was a German composer, teacher, inventor, and publisher resident in Ireland for much of his life. He invented the chiroplast, a device to help students learn the piano, and developed one of the first systems for attempting to teach music in groups, which faced heavy opposition at the time. Except for a three-year stay in Berlin (1822–26), he spent the remainder of his life in Dublin, where he died in 1846. Logier invented the chiroplast, a sliding frame meant as a pedagogical device to guide the hands and fingers while playing the piano, the intention being to improve and control the position of the hand and wrist. Green’s music shop in London had sold 1,600 chiroplasts by 1824. He also developed his own teaching method, later called the Logierian System of Musical Education, which he published in a series of pamphlets and instruction books beginning with The First Companion to the Royal Patent Chiroplast, or Hand-Director (1815). In this method, several pupils are taught at a time, with technical instruction done together with instruction in principles of harmony. This method of teaching multiple students simultaneously was n

Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab

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Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab (27 February 1759 – 19 August 1813) was a German composer, writer, music publisher, and critic who was born and died in Berlin. Rellstab was a very influential figure in Berlin’s musical life. Career He performed in student concerts 1768 to 1775 at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. He studied with Johann Friedrich Agricola from 1773 to 1776, and composition with Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. Around the turn of the century Rellstab began to write criticism for the Vossische Zeitung, the oldest daily in Berlin. Rellstab’s compositions include a Te Deum, a mass, numerous cantatas, lieder, and an unperformed singspiel, Die Apotheke, among other works. His son Ludwig Rellstab was also a music critic and a poet. Rellstab’s eldest daughter, Caroline Rellstab (1793–1813), was a singer noted for her extraordinary range extending to F 6 . She sang at Breslau from 1811, and was particularly well known for her role as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Published works Source: * Versuch über die Vereinigung der musikalischen und oratorischen Declamation, hauptsächlich für Musiker und Componisten mit erläuternden Beyspielen (1786) * Über die

Johann Caspar Aiblinger

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Johann Caspar Aiblinger (23 February 1779 – 6 May 1867) was a German composer associated with the Cecilian Movement. Biography Aiblinger was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria. In his eleventh year, he commenced his studies at Tegernsee Abbey, where he was instructed in piano and organ-playing. Four years later, he entered the gymnasium at Munich, where he studied under Professor Schlett, his countryman. In 1800 he began his studies at the University of Landshut. Inwardly drawn to the Catholic Church, he completed his study of philosophy and began that of theology, but the secularization of many religious orders in Bavaria prevented his entrance into a cloister. He now devoted himself solely to music. Led by the then prevailing idea that without a visit to Italy no musical education is complete, he turned his footsteps southward. After a stay of eight years at Vicenza, where he fell under the influence of his countryman Johann Simon Mayr, Aiblinger (1811) went to Venice and there met Meyerbeer, who procured for him an appointment at the Conservatory. His failure to establish a school for classical music led him to Milan to assume the direction of the local ballet. On his return to

Johann Caspar Kerll

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Johann Caspar Kerll (9 April 1627 – 13 February 1693) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle. Born in Adorf in the Electorate of Saxony as the son of an organist, Kerll showed outstanding musical abilities at an early age, and was taught by Giovanni Valentini, court Kapellmeister at Vienna. Kerll became one of the most acclaimed composers of his time, known both as a gifted composer and an outstanding teacher. He worked at Vienna, Munich and Brussels, and also travelled widely. His pupils included Agostino Steffani, Franz Xaver Murschhauser, and possibly Johann Pachelbel, and his influence is seen in works by Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach: Handel frequently borrowed themes and fragments of music from Kerll’s works, and Bach arranged the Sanctus movement from Kerll’s Missa superba as BWV 241, Sanctus in D major. Although Kerll was a well-known and influential composer, many of his works are currently lost. The losses are particularly striking in vocal music, with all 11 known operas and 24 offertories missing. The surviving oeuvre shows Kerll’s mastery of the Italian concerted style, employed in almos

Johann Caspar Vogler

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Johann Caspar Vogler (23 May 1696 – 3 June 1763) was a German organist and composer taught by Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography He was born in Hausen, near Arnstadt; from 1706 he studied with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was organist there between 1703 and 1707. He also taught, in Rudolstadt, by P. H. Erlebach and Nicolaus Vetter. He moved to Weimar to study further with Bach from 1710 to 1715, during which time he copied Jacques Boyvin’s two livres d’orgue. He was appointed organist at Stadtilm in 1715, leaving in May 1721 to take up Bach’s former post of organist to the Weimar court. He failed in two applications in 1729 for organ posts at the Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, and Sts Peter und Paul, Görlitz, which were filled by Bach pupils Johann Schneider and David Nicolai. The Leipzig judges remarked that he ‘played too fast and confused the congregation’; this did not deter him from boasting of his ‘swiftness of hand and feet’ in the second application. He was selected for the post of organist of the Marktkirche in Hanover in 1735, but forbidden from leaving Weimar by Duke Ernst August, the same prohibition that Duke Wilhelm Ernst had imposed years before on Bach. Nevertheless, he became

Johann Christian Bach

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Johann Christian Bach (5 September 1735 – 1 January 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era and the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach received his early musical training from his father, and later from his half-brother, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin. After his time in Berlin he made his way to Italy to study with the famous Padre Martini in Bologna. While in Italy, J.C. Bach was appointed as an organist at the Milan Cathedral. In 1762 he became a composer to the King’s Theatre in London where he wrote a number of successful Italian operas and became known as “The English Bach”. Bach is responsible for the development of the sinfonia concertante form. He became one of the most influential figures of the classical period, influencing compositional styles of prolific composers like Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There are two others named Johann Christian Bach in the Bach family tree, but neither was a composer. Life Johann Christian Bach was born to Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena Bach in 1735 in Leipzig, Germany. His father, Johann Sebastian Bach, instructed him in his early musical training. After his father’s death, he moved to Berlin to pur

Johann Christian Kittel

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Johann Christian Kittel (18 February 1732 – 17 April 1809) was a German organist, composer, and teacher. He was one of the last students of Johann Sebastian Bach. His students included , , Johann Wilhelm Hässler and Christian Heinrich Rinck. Biography Kittel was born and died in Erfurt. He first studied with Jakob Adlung. He moved to Leipzig in 1748 and was a favourite – and the last – pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach until Bach’s death two years later. He was appointed organist and teacher in Langensalza in 1751, following which he returned to Erfurt as organist of the Barfüßerkirche, in 1756, moving to the Predigerkirche in 1762. He refused many generous and more munificent offers, including one in 1790 from Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel to travel to Italy, remaining in Erfurt for the rest of his life. He played many evening recitals there and was famous as a virtuoso organist. Goethe, Herder, and Wieland all went to hear him play, and he made a concert tour to Hamburg in 1800, remaining there for a year while preparing a book of chorales for Schleswig-Holstein. Compositions He considered himself to be “grounded in the principles of Bach” and aimed “to awaken, maint

Johann Christian Schickhardt

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Johann Christian Schickhardt (or Schikardt; c. 1682c. 25 March 1762) was a German composer and woodwind player. Biography Schickhardt was born in Braunschweig, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and received his musical education at the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel court under the patronage of Augustus William, third son and heir of Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. In the first decade of the 18th century, he was employed in the Netherlands and associated with Friedrich of Hesse-Cassel, Henriëtte Amalia van Anhalt-Dessau (daughter of John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and widow of Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz) and her son John William Friso, Prince of Orange. List of works Source: Lasocki Published works * Opus 1: Seven sonatas for alto recorder and basso continuo * Opus 2: Seven sonatas for oboe or violin and basso continuo * Opus 3: Seven sonatas for alto recorder and basso continuo * Opus 4: Six? sonatas for 2 alto recorders and basso continuo * Opus 5: Six sonatas for alto recorder, 2 oboes or violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo * Opus 6: Six sonatas for 2 alto recorders and basso continuo * Opus 7: Twelve sonatas for 2 oboes or violins an

Johann Christoph Altnickol

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Johann Christoph Altnickol, or Altnikol, (baptised 1 January 1720, buried 25 July 1759) was a German organist, bass singer, and composer. He was a student, copyist and son-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Altnikol was born in Berna bei Seidenberg, Oberlausitz, and first educated at the Lauban Lyceum in 1733. He was employed as a singer and assistant organist at St Maria Magdalena, Breslau, between 1740 and 1744. He began studying theology at the University of Leipzig from March 1744, after being granted four thalers as a viaticum in January of that year. From Michaelmas 1745 he sang as a bass in Johann Sebastian Bach’s choirs (asserted by Bach in May 1747 when Altnickol claimed a grant of 12 thalers in April/May 1747 for the work), something he should not have been allowed to do as a university student. He also served as a scribe for Bach, copying for example The Well-Tempered Clavier. He was recommended by W. F. Bach as the successor to his post at Dresden in April 1746, with the assertion that he had studied keyboard and composition with his father, but was not awarded the appointment. He was appointed as organist and schoolmaster at Niederwiesa, near Greiffenberg, Sile

Johann Christoph Bach (organist at Ohrdruf)

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Johann Christoph Bach (16 June 1671 – 22 February 1721) was a musician of the Bach family. He was the eldest of the brothers of Johann Sebastian Bach who survived childhood. Life Christoph was born in Erfurt, on 16 June 1671, a few months before the family moved to Eisenach, where Johann Sebastian was born fourteen years later as the last child. In 1686, Johann Christoph was sent to Erfurt to study under Johann Pachelbel for the next three years. By the end of his apprenticeship he was organist in the St. Thomas church in that town for a short time, followed by some months at Arnstadt where several Bach relatives lived. His mother Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt had died earlier that year, and his father Johann Ambrosius Bach died in March the next year. Two younger brothers, Johann Jacob and Johann Sebastian, who up till then had been living with their father in Eisenach, came to live with Johann Christoph’s family in Ohrdruf. At the time, Johann Jacob was thirteen, and Johann Sebastian not even ten. Johann Christoph’s five sons were born between 1695 and 1713. Johann Christoph became his youngest brother’s keyboard teacher, or, at least, Johann Sebastian “laid the foundations of his o

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (21 June 1732 – 26 January 1795) was a German composer and harpsichordist, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the “Bückeburg Bach”. Born in Leipzig and the Count stood as godfather to his son Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. J.C.F. educated his son in music as his own father had, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst went on to become music director to Frederick William II of Prussia. In April 1778 he and Wilhelm travelled to England to visit Johann Christian Bach. J. C. F. Bach died in 1795 in Bückeburg, aged 62. Assessment The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica says of him: “He was an industrious composer, … whose work reflects no discredit on the family name.” He was an outstanding virtuoso of the keyboard, with a reasonably wide repertory of surviving works, including twenty symphonies, the later ones influenced by Haydn and Mozart; hardly a genre of vocal music was neglected by him. A significant portion of J. C. F. Bach’s output was lost in the World War II destruction of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin, where the scores had been on deposit since 1917. Musicologists Hansdieter Wohlfahrth, who catalogued his wo

Johann Christoph Kellner

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Johann Christoph Kellner (15 August 1736 – 1803) was a German organist and composer. He was the son of Johann Peter Kellner. Life He was born in Gräfenroda, Thuringia, Germany, where he studied music with his father, moving to Gotha to study with Georg Benda in 1754, returning home in 1755. He went on to live in Amsterdam and The Hague between 1762 and 1763, eventually settling in Kassel, Hesse, Germany, in 1764, where he was appointed court organist and cantor in the Lutheran church in 1772. He died there in 1803. He wrote a treatise on music theory entitled (Principles of basso continuo), Op. 16, pt. 1 (Kassel, 1783, 1796), which was very successful. Most of his compositions are keyboard works in a similar galant style to his father’s, with homophonic textures and clear song-like melodies. His concertos for harpsichord or piano anticipate the Viennese classical concerto, and share common features with his contemporary C. P. E. Bach. Many of his works were popular in their own time, as demonstrated by their inclusion in several 18th-century collections. Compositions Concertos for piano or harpsichord Published in Frankfurt: *Op. 4: 1 concerto *Op. 5: 3 concertos *Op. 7: 3 concerto

Johann Christoph Pepusch

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Johann Christoph Pepusch (; 1667 1752), also known as John Christopher Pepusch () and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born Baroque composer who spent most of his working life in England. Early life Pepusch was born in Berlin, son of a Protestant minister. He studied music theory under Martin Klingenberg, cantor of the Marienkirche in Berlin. At the age of 14, he was appointed to the Prussian court where he gave music lessons to the future Frederick William I of Prussia. He resigned this position in 1698 after witnessing the execution of an officer without trial. He then first went to Amsterdam. In 1704, he settled in England, but continued to publish in Amsterdam until 1718. Career At first, Pepusch earned a living playing the viola, then as a theatre director, music theoretician, teacher and organist. In 1726, Pepusch founded The Academy of Vocal Music with others; in around 1730–1, it was renamed The Academy of Ancient Music. In Joseph Doane’s Musical directory for the year 1794, the founding of the academy is discussed. On page 76, Doane states: He also founded the Madrigal Society. Both were devoted to researching the history of music but specifically music of the Elizabethan period.

Johann Crüger

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Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, Praxis pietatis melica. Early life and education Crüger was born in Groß Breesen (now part of Guben) as the son of an innkeeper, Georg Crüger. He was an ethnic Sorb, baptized as Jan Krygar. He studied at the nearby Lateinschule (then located in Guben) until 1613, and that school’s teaching program included music and singing. He fell ill with plague, and almost died of that disease, losing five children and his wife in 1636. In 1637, having recovered from the disease, he got married a second time, to the 17-year-old daughter of an innkeeper, with whom he had fourteen children, most of whom died at a young age. One of his daughters married the court painter Michael Conrad Hirt, who made a portrait of Crüger in 1663. Crüger died in Berlin. References External links * * *Free scores at the Mutopia Project

Johann Daniel Mylius

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Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 15831642) was a composer for the lute, and writer on alchemy. Born at Wetter in present-day Hesse, Germany, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of Marburg. He was the brother-in-law and pupil of Johann Hartmann (1568–1613). In 1616, while still a medical student, Mylius published Duncan Burnet’s Iatrochymicus. The , Mylius’ own alchemical work, was published two years later. He is known for the collection (1622) of pieces for the lute. In the same year his was published. Mylius was the personal physician of Moritz of Hessen and his patrons included Maurice and Frederick Henry of Nassau. Works *Opus medico-chymicum. 1618. *Antidotarium. 1620. *Philosophia reformata. 1622. *Anatomia auri. 1628. *Danielis Milii Pharmacopoeae spagyricae, sive Practicae universalis Galeno-chymicae libri duo. - Francofurti : Schönwetter, 1628. digital edition References External links *Recolored emblems from Philosophia reformata

Johann David Heinichen

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Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus II the Strong in Dresden. After he died, Heinichen’s music attracted little attention for many years. As a music theorist, he is credited as one of the inventors of the circle of fifths. Biography Johann David Heinichen was born in 1683 in the small village of Krössuln (currently part of the town of Teuchern, in Saxony-Anhalt) near Weissenfels. His father, Michael Heinichen, had studied music at the celebrated Thomasschule Leipzig associated with the Thomaskirche, served as cantor in Pegau and was pastor of the village church in Krössuln. Johann David also attended the Thomasschule Leipzig. There he studied music with Johann Schelle and later received organ and harpsichord lessons with Johann Kuhnau. The future composer Christoph Graupner was also a student of Kuhnau at the time. Heinichen enrolled in 1702 to study law at the University of Leipzig and in 1705–1706 qualified as a lawyer (in the early 18th century law was a favored field of study for composers; Kuhnau, Graupner and Georg Philipp Telemann were also law

Johann Ernst Altenburg

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Johann Ernst Altenburg (15 June 1734 – 14 May 1801) was a German composer, organist and trumpeter. He is not to be confused with a similarly named composer in the 1620s who contributed to the collection Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen. Life Altenburg was born in Weißenfels. His father, Johann Kaspar Altenburg (1688–1761), worked from 1709 as a field trumpeter under Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, and from 1711 as head trumpeter for the duke’s brother, Duke Christian von Sachsen-Weissenfels at his residence, Castle Neu-Augustusburg in Weissenfels. Here, Johann Ernst Altenburg was born on 15 June 1734. By age 18 the young Altenburg had received a formal acquittal as trumpeter. He studied organ for at most two years with Johann Theodor Roemhildt and Johann Christoph Altnikol. From Merseburg and Landsberg near Halle, where he worked for a brief time as an organist, he went to Bitterfeld in 1767 and received his lifetime post as an organist. He stayed at this post until his death on 14 May 1801, although the post was hardly sufficient. Work Altenburg as a composer is most known for his six harpsichord sonatas. He achieved musicological importance through his publicatio

Johann Ernst Galliard

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Johann Ernst Galliard (?1666/?1687–1747 ) was a composer from the Holy Roman Empire. Galliard was born in Celle, Holy Roman Empire to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age 15. Galliard studied composition under Jean-Baptiste Farinel, the director of music at the Court of Hanover, and Abbate Steffani. In addition to his compositional ability, he was also a capable oboe and recorder player. Galliard made a step forward in his musical career when he performed one of his original compositions. This Sonata for oboe and two bassoons debuted at one of Farinel’s concerts. Galliard earned an esteemed seat in the chamber music of George, Prince of Denmark. Later, he moved to England where he became chapel-master of Somerset House. Galliard became a familiar face in high society due to his proximity to and frequenting of the royal residence. In response to war victories, Galliard composed a Te Deum, Jubilate, and three additional anthems. Bigger and better things seemed promising following his participation in the founding of the Academy of Ancient Music. However, in the kingdom-wide competition for directorial status, Galliard could not match Handel and Bononcini

Johann Fischer (composer)

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Johann Fischer (1646–1716) was a German violinist, keyboardist and composer of the baroque era. His name is not to be confused with another composer named Johann Fischer, born in Lübeck and listed by Johannes Moller in Cimbria literata (v. I, p. 176). He is mentioned as a good clavier and violin player, who is said to have especially loved the return of the strings and, in this way, he mainly composed for the violin and also the viola, which he sought to write for in his overtures. In any case, his works are of historical interest since they are likely to betray the influence of the then French instrumental music. Biography Johann Fischer was born in Augsburg, in Swabia, as the son of town piper Jonas Fischer and Maria, née Mayr. He had music lessons with his father as well as with cantor Tobias Kriegsdorfer (1608–1686). After Capricornus’ death in 1665, Fischer worked for five years in Paris where he was a scribe for Jean-Baptiste Lully, the Kapellmeister of Louis XIV. *Vier Suiten für Blockflöte (Violin, Flute, Oboe, Viola) with Bass (Cembalo with Gamba, Cello, Lute, also Cembalo bzw. Cembalo only or Gamba, Cello and Lute) *Balletto a 4 in C minor (1690): **Sonatina **Allemanda *

Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel

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Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (3 December 1750 in Würzburg – 12 October 1817 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist in the 18th and early 19th centuries. He was educated at the University of Würzburg and in 1778 he became chaplain and musician at the court in Mainz. He lived in Regensburg (from 1802 to 1810), then in Aschaffenburg, and finally retired to Würzburg in 1815. At first Sterkel was an organist in Neumünster. In 1774 he was ordained a priest. He moved to Mainz and became court chaplain, but toured Italy as a pianist from 1779 to 1782. After a visit to Italy in 1782, where he met Padre Martini, he returned to Mainz, becoming music director to the Electoral orchestra in 1793. From 1793 to 1797 he was court Kapellmeister at Mainz. When the capella was disbanded, he went to Würzburg, Regensburg and later Aschaffenburg, where he served the Grand Duke of Frankfurt. From 1810 to 1814, as a prolific and successful composer he wrote mostly instrumental music, including symphonies and concertos, chamber works with keyboard solo, piano sonatas and piano duets. Many of the sonatas have a lyricism and loose-knit structure pointing towards Franz Schubert. Among his vocal works are

Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda

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Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda (also Ernst Friedrich Johann Benda or Ernst Benda; baptized 10 October 1749 – 24 February 1785) was a German musician and composer of Czech origin. Life Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda was the eldest son of the court musician and Kapellmeister Joseph Benda. He was baptized on 10 October 1749 in Berlin. From an early age, he received instruction on piano and violin from hs father, and in 1766 at the age of 19, was employed in the royal Hofkapelle of Frederick the Great in Berlin as Kammermusikus. In 1770, together with the violist Carl Ludwig Bachmann, he founded the so-called Liebhaberkonzerte, which he directed until his death. These performances, which continued until 1797, took place in the Corsicaischen Saale opposite Monbijou Palace (today Oranienburger Straße) and were mostly subscription events with his own orchestra and choir. One notable guest soloist was Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who later married Juliane Benda (d. 1785) and then Minna Brandes (daughter of actor and poet Johann Christian Brandes). Wilhelm Otto Gottlieb Benda (1775–1832), one of three sons of Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda became Kriminalrat and mayor of Landsut, Silesia (today Ka

Johann Friedrich Naue

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Johann Friedrich Naue (November 17, 1787, in Halle (Saale) – May 19, 1858, in Halle) was a German composer, organist, and choir director and music theorist. He was a student of Ludwig van Beethoven and Daniel Gottlob Turk and Carl Friedrich Zelter. He composed both secular and spiritual music, and is known for reforming Protestant liturgical music in romantic-era Germany. Naue studied music in Berlin. Along with Felix Mendelssohn, Naue took lessons from Carl Friedrich Zelter. Zelter exposed him to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel. In 1808, he returned to Halle to study with Daniel Gottlob Türk. In 1815 Naue became a member of the Halle Masonic Lodge “of the three swords” along with Türk and Carl Loewe. Naue went to Vienna to study briefly with Ludwig van Beethoven. On November 23, 1823 Beethoven dedicated his three-part canon “Kurz ist der Schmerz”, WoO 163, to Naue. The text “Kurz ist der Schmerz und ewig ist die Freude” (“Brief is the pain and forever is the joy”), is from The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich von Schiller, the same poet who wrote the text for Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” In 1829, Naue sold all of his books and spent all of his inheritance in

Johann Friedrich Reichardt

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Johann Friedrich Reichardt (25 November 1752 – 27 June 1814) was a German composer, writer and music critic. Early life Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and Stadtmusiker Johann Reichardt (1720–1780). Johann Friedrich began his musical training, in violin, keyboard, and lute, as a child. Reichard’s father was a student of Timofey Belogradsky, who in turn was a student of Sylvius Leopold Weiss. When Reichardt was ten years old, his father took the choir in which he sang, the “Wunderknaben”, on a concert tour in East Prussia. After being encouraged by Immanuel Kant, Reichardt later studied Jurisprudence and Philosophy in his hometown and in Leipzig from 1769 to 1771. In 1771, he escaped civil service by embarking on a Sturm-und-Drang tour as a virtuoso. He returned to Königsberg in 1774 and became the Kammersekretär (Chamber Secretary) in Ragnit. After Reichardt sent his opera Le feste galanti as a sample piece to Friedrich II, he was appointed to the position of the Royal Prussian Court Kapellmeister, a position previously held by Carl Heinrich Graun. Two years later, he already withdrew from the job and married the singer, pianist and Lieder composer Julia

Johann Georg Albinus

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Johann Georg Albinus (6 March 1624 – 25 May 1679) was a German Protestant pastor and hymnwriter. He studied at the University of Leipzig and served as a rector at the Naumburg Cathedral School and the pastor of St. Othmar’s Church, both in Naumburg. His hymns have been set by various composers, for instance by Johann Rosenmüller who set his hymn “Welt, ade! Ich bin dein müde” for SSATB voices (published 1652), a setting which was adopted by Johann Sebastian Bach as last movement of his cantata Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende? BWV 27 (1726). Also Bach’s cantata Der Friede sei mit dir, BWV 158 contains a stanza of this hymn, set to Rosenmüller’s hymn tune (Zahn No. 6531). References

Johann Georg Pisendel

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Johann Georg Pisendel ( – 25 November 1755) was a German Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. He was the leading violinist of his time, and composers such as Tomaso Albinoni, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi all dedicated violin compositions to him. Life Pisendel was born in Cadolzburg, a small town near Nuremberg, where his father Simon Pisendel was the cantor and organist. At the age of nine, Johann Georg became a choirboy at the court chapel of Ansbach, where the singer Francesco Antonio Pistocchi was music director, and violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli was concert master. It is thought that Pisendel studied voice with Pistocchi and the violin with Torelli. After his voice broke, Pisendel went on to play the violin in the Court Orchestra in 1704. In 1709, he left Dresden for Leipzig to further his musical studies. On the way to Leipzig, he met Johann Sebastian Bach at Weimar. Pisendel was a member of the Collegium Musicum founded by Georg Philipp Telemann, and conducted it in 1710/11, while Melchior Hoffmann went on a concert tour. In 1711, after

Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach

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Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (11 May 1715 – 27 May 1739) was a German musician. It is not known whether he composed, and his career as an organist is not in itself notable, but his life throws light on his famous father, Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Gottfried was the fourth child of Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara Bach to reach adulthood. Early life He was born in Weimar, where his father was employed until 1717, when the family moved to Köthen. His mother died in Köthen in 1720 and his father remarried the next year. Education In 1723, J.S. Bach was appointed Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He is believed to have moved to Leipzig partly because of the educational opportunities there for his sons. J.G.B. Bach attended the Thomasschule, where his father was responsible for the musical education that was an important part of the curriculum. He also studied privately with his father. Musical career In contrast to his elder brothers Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Gottfried did not get the opportunity to study at Leipzig University after finishing school. Like his father before him, he auditioned for posts as a musician. He first served as organist at the Marienkirch

Johann Gottfried Müthel

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Johann Gottfried Müthel (January 17, 1728 – July 14, 1788) was a German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso. Along with C.P.E. Bach, he represented the Sturm und Drang style of composition. As far as is known, he was the first to use the term fortepiano in a published work, in the title of his Duetto für 2 Clavier, 2 Flügel, oder 2 Fortepiano (1771), which reflects the rising popularity of the instrument at that time. Biography He was born in Mölln in the Duchy of Lauenburg, the fifth of nine children. His father was Christian Caspar, an organist and friend of Georg Philipp Telemann. He studied music with his father, and later Johann Paul Kunzen in Lübeck. When only 19 years of age, he became a court organist and harpsichordist for Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in Schwerin. In 1750 he was given leave to become the student of Bach in Leipzig. He became Bach’s last pupil, beginning study only three months before the master’s death. In that time, he notated a number of the blind composer’s final works, including parts of the Orgelbüchlein. According to Bach’s biographer Philipp Spitta, he was present at Bach’s deathbed, and took over his duties for nine weeks. Sub

Johann Gottfried Piefke

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Johann Gottfried Piefke (9 September 1817 – 25 January 1884) was a German band leader, (Kapellmeister) and composer of military music. Life Piefke was born in Schwerin an der Warthe, Prussia (now Skwierzyna, Poland). In the 1850s, he was band leader for the 8th Infantry Regiment in Berlin. His famous marches include Preußens Gloria, Düppeler Schanzen-Marsch and the Königgrätzer Marsch – the latter composed after the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War). He arranged Franz Liszt’s symphonic poem – Tasso for military band and may also have similarly arranged some of Liszt’s marches. He died in Frankfurt an der Oder. Piefke also wrote: * Pochhammer Marsch * Siegesmarsch * Gitana Marsch * Margarethen Marsch * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Siegesmarsch * Der Alsenströmer, a march commemorating the Battle of Als during the Second Schleswig War. * Der Lymfjordströmer, another march commemorating the Danish War. Honors Piefke received the following medals: *Düppeler-Sturmkreuz, 1864 *Golden Medal of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, 1865 *Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, 1869 *Iron Cross Second Class, 1870 *Prussian Crown Order, 1880 In popular culture * “Pi

Johann Gottfried Vierling

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Johann Gottfried Vierling (January 25, 1750 – November 22, 1813) was a German organist and composer. Life and career Vierling was born in Metzels. From 1763 he studied at the Lyzeum in Schmalkalden. In 1768 he succeeded his teacher Johann Nikolaus Tischer (1707–74) as organist in Schmalkalden. He later continued his musical studies with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Philipp Kirnberger. Vierling died in Schmalkalden. Vierling composed several collections of easy organ pieces, a four-voice organ chorale book (1790) and cembalo music such as two trios, one quartet and six sonatas. Two handwritten annual volumes of Kirchenkantaten are preserved. He also published a handbook on the art of basso continuo, “Allgemein faßlicher Unterricht im Generalbaß”. Among Vierling’s students was Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, who became a famous musician in Sweden. Through Vierling, Hæffner was a third-generation pedagogical descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. Works *Achtundvierzig kurze und leichte Orgelstücke *48 leichte Choralvorspiele, Leipzig *Sonata in C-major for cembalo / organ *Prelude in c-minor for organ *About 160 cantatas *Choralbuch auf vier Stimmen zum Gebrauch bey dem öffe

Johann Gottfried Walther

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Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Life and work Walther was born at Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz and cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. Walther was most well known as the compiler of the Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1732), an enormous dictionary of music and musicians. Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical information about composers and performers up to the early 18th century. In all, the Musicalisches Lexicon defines more than 3,000 musical terms; Walther evidently drew on more than 250 separate sources in compiling it, including theoretical treatises of the early Baroque and Renaissance. The single most important source for the work was the writings of Johann Mattheson, who is referenced more than 200 times. Some further information on Walther can be found in the book Musica Poetica by Dietrich Bartel. On page 22, Bartel quotes Walther’s definition of musica poetica, or musical rhetoric, as: :“Musica Poetica or musical composition is a mathematical science through

Johann Gotthilf Ziegler

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Johann Gotthilf Ziegler (25 March 1688 in Leubnitz, Electorate of Saxony – 15 September 1747 in Halle an der Saale) was a German baroque composer and organist. He is a descendant of a musical family, not unlike that of J.S. Bach, though on a somewhat smaller scale, and belongs, together with Gottfried Kirchhoff and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow to the group of composers of the so-called Hallischen Spätbarock. His father was the schoolhead and organist Daniel Ziegler (born 1630), son of the Saxon schoolteacher Johann Ziegler. Life Ziegler had already caused a stir as a child prodigy at the Dresdener court of August the Strong, as his contemporary Johann Gottfried Walther, a distant cousin of Bach, wrote in his Musicalischem Lexicon that he could sing at the age four, play the keyboard a couple of years later, and as a 10-year-old play the organ at religious services. Gotthilf became a pupil of Christian Petzold, organist of the Sophienkirche. He also studied three years in the Collegium musicum des Paedagogium regium of August Francke, in Halle, where he also studied law and theology for 3 years. In 1710 he became a pupil of Friedrich Zachow (who was also the teacher of Johann Philipp Kr

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg

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Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (; baptized 14 March 1727 – 13 April 1756) was a German virtuoso harpsichordist, organist, and composer of the late Baroque and early Classical period. He is best known for lending his name, as the probable original performer, to the renowned Goldberg Variations of J. S. Bach. Life Goldberg was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), (Crown of Poland), and was baptized there on 14 March 1727 at St. Mary’s Church, Gdańsk. Little is known for certain about his childhood, other than that he was an exceptionally talented performer, attracting the attention of Hermann Karl von Keyserling, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, around 1737. Goldberg was reported to have studied with both J. S. Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Bach’s eldest son, though the periods of study are not known; Goldberg may have studied with J. S. Bach as early as 1737, shortly after Keyserling recognized his talent in Danzig, and Goldberg may have studied with W. F. Bach at any time before 1745, since W. F. Bach was in Dresden throughout Keyserling’s tenure there as ambassador. The most famous part of Goldberg’s life is the portion, probably in 1741, recounted by J. S. Bach’s biographer Johann Nikolaus Fo

Johann Gottlieb Graun

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Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 27 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is the better known of the two. Johann Gottlieb studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught the violin to J.S. Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann. He joined the court of the Prussian crown prince (the future Frederick the Great) in 1732. Graun was later made Konzertmeister of the Berlin Opera in 1740. He composed over 50 songs and compositions. Graun’s compositions were highly respected, and continued to be performed after his death: “The concert-master, John Gottlib Graun, brother to the opera-composer, his admirers say, ‘was one of the greatest performers on the violin of his time, and most assuredly, a composer of the first rank’,” wrote Charles Burney. He was primarily known for his instrumental works, though he also wrote vocal music and operas. He wrote a large number of violin concertos, trio sonatas, and solo sonatas for violin with cembalo, as well as two string quartets — among the earliest attempts in t

Johann Gottlieb Naumann

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Johann Gottlieb Naumann (17 April 1741 – 23 October 1801) was a German composer, conductor, and Kapellmeister. Life Johann Gottlieb Naumann was born in Blasewitz, Dresden and received his musical training from the teachers at his town school, where he was instructed in piano and organ. Later, he studied at the Kreuzschule in Dresden and was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. In Dresden he was taught by the organist and cantor of the Kreuzschule, Gottfried August Homilius, a student of Bach. In May 1757, he traveled to Italy with the Swedish violinist Anders Wesström. The composer Giuseppe Tartini encountered Naumann in 1762 and took an interest in his work. Later that year, he made his debut as an opera composer in Venice with Il tesoro insidiato. Following his successful 1764 production of Li creduti spiriti, he was engaged as the second church composer at the Dresden court, on the composer Johann Adolf Hasse’s recommendation. The chord sequence which became known as the Dresden amen was composed by Naumann for use in the Court Church in Dresden. Such was its popularity that it spread to other churches in Saxony, both Catholic and Lutheran. It was also used by later composers, in

Johann Hartmann

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Johann Ernst Hartmann (24 December 1726 – 21 October 1793) was a Danish classical composer and violinist. He is remembered in particular for his two operas on texts by Johannes Ewald in which he helped creating a national musical style. The first of these, Balders død, builds on the old Nordic mythology and uses dark colours when depicting the old Gods and Valkyries. The second, Fiskerne, describes contemporary fishermen’s lives, and uses melodies inspired by the Scandinavian folk style. Most of the works of Hartmann were destroyed in the fire of Christiansborg Castle shortly after his death. Hartmann was the ancestor of a long line of musicians and composers and other cultural personalities in Denmark. Life Johann Hartmann was born in Groß-Glogau in Silesia on Christmas Eve 1726. In 1754 he started as violinist in the orchestra of the Archbishop of Breslau, Count Schaffgotsch; later he became concertmaster in the small town of Rudolstadt, and then in Plön under Duke Frederick Charles. When the Duke died in 1761, his Duchy became Danish, the Plön Chapel was dissolved and Hartmann together with some of the other orchestra musicians went to Copenhagen. In Copenhagen he was immediatel

Johann Heinrich Buttstett

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Johann Heinrich Buttstett (also Buttstedt, Buttstädt) (25 April 1666 – December 1, 1727) was a German Baroque organist and composer. Although he was Johann Pachelbel’s most important pupil and one of the last major exponents of the south German organ tradition, Buttstett is best remembered for a dispute with Johann Mattheson. Life Buttstett was born in Bindersleben (now part of Erfurt) into the family of Johann Henricus Buttstett, a well-educated local pastor who had studied at the University of Erfurt. He began studying music at an early age, becoming a pupil of Johann Pachelbel, then organist of Erfurt’s Predigerkirche, in 1678. His professional career began in 1684 at the Reglerkirche and continued at the Kaufmannskirche, where he was working in 1687. In both cases, he was not only the church organist but also teaching in church schools. In 1691, Buttstett succeeded Nicolaus Vetter at the Predigerkirche (Pachelbel quit in 1690 and Vetter, who succeeded him, moved to Rudolstadt in 1691); he remained there until his death 36 years later. Buttstett married Martha Lämmerhirt (a distant cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach’s mother) in 1687 and had ten children with her. In 1716, Buttstet

Johann Heinrich Walch

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Johann Heinrich Walch (1776–1855), was a German conductor, chamber musician and choral master at the court of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg. Life Walch acted in various capacities for Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and after his death for Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the father of Queen Victoria’s husband Albert, Prince Consort. Works Walch composed many well-known marches, some of which have long been wrongly attributed to Beethoven and the Prince Consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Many marches supposedly written by Prince Albert for cavalry regiments are actually by Walch, including the regimental quick march of the Somerset Light Infantry. References Sources * Werner Probst, “Johann Heinrich Walch komponierte den bekannten Trauermarsch von Beethoven” in Mitteilungsblatt des Arbeitskreises Militärmusik (German Society for Military Studies, 21st Year, No. 2, June 1998), pp. 98–105 External links * Beethoven Funeral March No 1 played during * Beethoven Funeral March No 1 played during * Beethoven Funeral March No 1 played during

Johann Hermann Schein

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Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German music, and was one of the most polished composers of the period. Biography Schein was born in Grünhain. On the death of his father, Schein moved to Dresden where he joined the choir of the Elector of Saxony as a boy soprano. In addition to singing in the choir, he received a thorough musical training with Rogier Michael, the Kapellmeister, who recognized his extraordinary talent. From 1603 to 1607 he studied at Pforta, and from 1608 to 1612 attended the University of Leipzig, where he studied law in addition to liberal arts. Upon graduating, he was employed briefly by Gottfried von Wolffersdorff as the house music director and tutor to his children; later he became Kapellmeister at Weimar, and shortly thereafter became Thomaskantor, music director in Leipzig, especially cantor at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig and conducting the Thomanerchor, a post which he held for the rest of his life. Unlike his friend Heinrich Schütz, he was afflicted with p

Johann Hugo von Wilderer

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Johann Hugo von Wilderer (1670 or 1671 – buried 7 June 1724) was a German Baroque composer. He was born in Bavaria and died in Mannheim, where in his later years he served as the Kapellmeister of the court orchestra. His compositions include eleven operas, two oratorios, cantatas, and sacred works. Life and work Wilderer was born in Bavaria. He studied with Giovanni Legrenzi in Venice. Probably in 1687 he was employed at the Palatine court in Düsseldorf as an organist. A document dated 1 October 1692 indicates that he was organist at the church St. Andreas, the court church at the time. He held the office until 1697. On the occasion of his first opera Giocasta, first performed for the opening of the opera house at the Mühlenstraße in 1696, Georg Andreas Kraft (1660-1726), a friend of Wilderer, wrote the ballet music for several of his operas, including his 1696 Giocasta. A high point in Wilderer’s career was the coronation of emperor Charles VI at Frankfurt am Main in 1711, where he conducted the entire orchestra of 53 members. At a time when European music was dominated by French and Italian artists, Wilderer gained a reputation as a German musician. His works include eleven opera

Johann Joachim Quantz

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Johann Joachim Quantz (; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flautist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great, where he served as the king’s flute teacher. Quantz composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, and wrote On Playing the Flute, an influential treatise on flute performance. His works were known and appreciated by Bach, Haydn and Mozart. Biography 1697–1723: Early life Quantz was born as Hanß Jochim Quantz in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Lower Saxony, in the Electorate of Hanover. His father, Andreas Quantz, was a blacksmith who died when Hans was not yet 11; on his deathbed, he declared that his son should follow in his footsteps. Quantz states in his autobiography that he had been trained as a blacksmith from the age of nine. As a result of his father’s death he was given the opportunity to choose his own career path and from 1708 to 1713 he began his musical studies with his uncle Justus Quantz, a town musician in Merseburg; he also studied for a time with a cousin’s husband, the organist Johann Friedrich Kiesewetter. From 1714, Quantz studied composition extensive

Johann Joseph Fux

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Johann Joseph Fux (; c. 1660 – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrinian style of Renaissance polyphony. Life Fux’s exact date of birth is unknown. He was born to a peasant family in Hirtenfeld, Styria, Austria. Relatively little is known about his early life, but likely he went to nearby Graz for music lessons. In 1680 he was accepted at the Jesuit Ferdinandeum University there, where his musical talent became apparent. Fux traveled again to Italy, studying in Rome in 1700; it may have been here that he acquired the veneration for Palestrina which was so consequential for music pedagogy. Fux became the Hofkapellmeister (head musician of the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle) in 1715, along with Antonio Caldara as his vice-Kapellmeister, and F.B. Conti as the court composer. Fux served Leopold I until the latter’s death, and two more Habsburg emperors after that: Joseph I, and Charles VI, both of whom continued to employ him in high positions in the court. Fux was

Johann Justus Kahle

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Johann Justus Kahle (11 February 1668 in Helmstedt – c. 1731 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld) was a German organist and composer. Life He was born, son of the baker Bathold Kahle, on 11 February 1668, and christened on 12 April 1668 in the church . Nothing is known of his childhood; and his name cannot be found in the records of the Academia Julia. He was first organist at St. Stephani, then he moved to be organist at Zellerfeld. He is known today only through the discovery in the library in Ostrau of Hans-Hasso von Veltheim of his church consecration cantatas which he composed on behalf of Otto Ludwig von Veltheim (1672 - 1714) around 1704. Works Four Psalm Cantatas for soprano and instruments for dedication of in Ostrau: * Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth (Psalm 84), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 violins and basso continuo * Wie der Hirsch schreyet nach frischem Wasser (Psalm 42), cantata for soprano, 2 violins and basso continuo * Ich hebe meine Augen auf zu den Bergen (Psalm 121), cantata for soprano, solo violin and basso continuo * Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt (Psalm 100), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 violins and basso continuo Recordings * Psalm 84 “Wie lieblich

Johann Kirnberger

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Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721, Saalfeld – 27 July 1783, Berlin) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues) and music theorist. He studied the organ with Johann Peter Kellner and Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber, and starting in 1738 he studied with the violinist Meil in Sondershausen, but most significant is the time he spent from 1739 until 1741 (with breaks) studying performance and composition with Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and worked in Poland for powerful magnates including Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at the Benedictine Cloister in Lviv (then part of Poland). He spent much time collecting Polish national dances and compiled them in his treatise . Kirnberger played a significant role in the intellectual and cultural exchange between Germany and Poland in the mid-18th century. Kirnberger became a violinist at the court of Frederick the Great in 1751. He was the music director to the Prussian Princess Anna Amalia from 1758 until his death. Kirnberger greatly admired Johann Sebastian Bach, deeming him “the greatest of all composers”. Kirnberger sought to secure the publication of all of Bach’s choral

Johann Krieger

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Johann Krieger (28 December 1651 – 18 July 1735) was a German composer and organist, younger brother of Johann Philipp Krieger. Born in Nuremberg, he worked at Bayreuth, Zeitz, and Greiz before settling in Zittau. He was one of the most important keyboard composers of his day, highly esteemed by, among others, George Frideric Handel. A prolific composer of church and secular music, he published several dozen of his works, and others survive in manuscript. However, hundreds more were lost when Zittau was destroyed by fire in 1757, during the Seven Years’ War. Krieger’s keyboard music places him among the most important German composers of his time. The two published collections, Sechs musicalische Partien (1697) and Anmuthige Clavier-Übung (1698), contain harpsichord suites, organ toccatas, fugues, ricercars, and other works. Krieger’s contemporaries praised his contrapuntal skill, evident in the extant fugues and ricercars. Johann Mattheson was particularly impressed with Krieger’s double fugues, remarking that he knew nobody who surpassed Krieger in this form, except Handel. Handel himself admired and studied Krieger’s work, even taking a copy of Anmuthige Clavier-Übung with him t

Johann Ludwig Bach

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Johann Ludwig Bach (14 February 1677 – 1 May 1731) was a German composer and violinist. He was born in Thal (Ruhla) near Eisenach on 4 February 1677. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there, and later Kapellmeister. He wrote a large amount of music and regularly oversaw performances, both at Meiningen and neighbouring courts. He was a third cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach, who made copies of several of his cantatas and performed them at Leipzig. The cantata Denn du wirst meine Seele nicht in der Hölle lassen, BWV 15, once thought to be by Johann Sebastian, and listed as BWV 15 in Wolfgang Schmieder’s catalogue of his works, is now thought to be by Johann Ludwig. Bach died on 1 May 1731 in Meiningen. and Alfred Dörffel listed 17 cantatas and the Mass in E minor, with their incipits, in Vol. 41 of the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (1894). The Johann-Ludwig-Bach-Verzeichnis (catalogue of compositions by Johann Ludwig Bach, abbreviated JLB) contains 39 compositions, starting, in the same sequence, with the 17 cantatas listed by Dörffel: #Gott ist unser Zuversicht, sacred cantata for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. Scored for soprano, alto, tenor and

Johann Ludwig Böhner

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Johann Ludwig Böhner (7 January 1787 - 28 March 1860) was a German composer, pianist, and organist. He was known as the “Thuringian Mozart” by his contemporaries. Life Böhner was born in Töttelstädt, Thuringia, near Erfurt. After his musical exposure and training by his father, Johann Matthias Böhner (a cantor and organist), Johann Christian Kittel, and , he worked as a piano teacher in Gotha, where he met Ludwig Spohr, until attaining the position of music director in Nuremberg in 1811. During his years at Nuremberg (1811-1814), many of his more well-known works were composed, including his Fantasies for Bassoon and Orchestra and Clarinet and Orchestra, and his romantic opera Die Mädchen in einsamen Mühlenthale. As a pianist, Böhner scored his first success in Leipzig’s Gewandhaus on 16 May 1814. From 1815 onwards, he toured through Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Switzerland. However, Böhner’s successful piano career was soon to be compromised by increasing eccentricity, fraud, and ill health. Because of his character flaws, he had a mental breakdown in Hamburg in 1819 and stayed mostly in Gotha for the rest of his life. At a performance in Leipzig in September 1834, composer Robe

Johann Mattheson

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Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. His writings on the late Baroque and early Classical period were highly influential, specifically, “his biographical and theoretical works were widely disseminated and served as the source for all subsequent lexicographers and historians”. Early life and career Johann Mattheson was born on 28 September 1681 in Hamburg. The son of a prosperous tax collector, Mattheson received a broad liberal education and, aside from general musical training, took lessons in keyboard instruments, violin, composition and singing. Death After his death in 1764, Johann Mattheson was buried in the vault of Hamburg’s St. Michaelis Church where his grave can be visited. Literary and musical legacy Mattheson is mainly famous as a music theorist. He was the most prolific writer on performance practice, theatrical style, and harmony of the German Baroque. He is particularly important for his work on the relationship between the disciplines of rhetoric and music, for example in Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre, Hamburg 1713, and , Hamburg 1739. However, his books draw attention also because Matthe

Johann Michael Bach

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Johann Michael Bach (baptised 19 August 1648, Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – 27 May 1694, Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as first cousin, once removed and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach (he was the father of J.S. Bach’s first wife Maria Barbara Bach). He is sometimes referred to as the “Gehrener Bach” to distinguish him from the “Wuppertaler Bach”, Johann Michael Bach (musician at Wuppertal). Life Johann Michael was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, who was the great-uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673, Johann Michael became the organist and town clerk of Gehren, where he lived until his death. Works His most-performed work is the small chorale prelude for organ, In Dulci Jubilo, which for many years was attributed to J. S. Bach (it was ascribed the catalog number BWV 751). His other most important works include cantatas Ach, bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ (for choir, strings and continuo), Liebster Jesu, hör mein Flehen (for soprano, alto, two tenors, bass, strings and continuo), and Ach, wie sehnlich wart’ ich der Zeit (also for soprano, strings, and continuo). *Das Blut Chris

Johann Nepomuk Schelble

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Johann Nepomuk Schelble (16 May 1789 – 6 August 1837), was a German conductor, composer, singer (tenor) and music teacher. Best known as the founding conductor of Cäcilienverein (the Choir of Saint Cecilia, known today as the Cäcilienchor Frankfurt), he also helped revive interest in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Johann Nepomuk Schelble was born in Hüfingen, a small town in the Black Forest in what is now the Schwarzwald-Baar District in the south of what would soon be the Grand Duchy of Baden but was still at that point part of the soon to end Holy Roman Empire. He was the second of 14 children and the only son of barrel painter Franz (or Franciscus) Joseph (Donat) Schelble (17 February 1762 – 13 February 1835) and Katharina Schelble née Götz (1 November 1760 – 4 April 1847), The Schelble family had a history of musical interest. Katharina Götz, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, was both musically inclined and possessed a beautiful singing voice. Franz Josef Scheble had received instruction in Donaueschingen in both organ and piano playing, although he gave up his aspirations as a musician due to his poor singing voice; he continued to make pianos as a hobby. Both F

Johann Nikolaus Tischer

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Johann Nikolaus Tischer (1707–1774) was a German organist, composer, and teacher of the Baroque and early Classical eras. He is best known for his long tenure as the town organist in Schmalkalden and for his pedagogical influence on Johann Gottfried Vierling. Life and education Born in Böhlen, Tischer studied with several notable masters, including the violinist Johann Graf. In 1728, he was appointed as the town organist at the municipal church in Schmalkalden, a position he held for nearly fifty years. He also served as a Kammermusikus (chamber musician) to the court of Hesse-Kassel. Tischer was an “extraordinarily versatile musician”. He studied the organ with Johann Balthasar Rauche in Böhlen (1719) and violin, viola d’amore, and composition with Kapellmeister Schweitzelberg in Arnstadt. He was also a proficient oboist. In 1726, Tischer travelled to Leipzig, where he is recorded as having studied with Johann Sebastian Bach. Works Tischer was a prolific composer whose works were noted for their educational utility and “charming” character. His compositions primarily include keyboard music and suites, often written in an accessible style suited for students and amateurs. His major

Johann Pachelbel

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Johann Pachelbel (also Bachelbel; baptised 11 September 1653 – buried 9 March 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. Pachelbel’s music enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime; he had many pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central Germany. Pachelbel is most famous for the Canon in D; other well known works include the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations. He was influenced by southern German composers, such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Caspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers, and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. He preferred a lucid, uncomplicated contrapuntal style that emphasized melodic and harmonic clarity. His music is less virtuosic and less adventurous harmonically than that of Dieterich Buxtehude, although, l

Johann Paul von Westhoff

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Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – buried 17 April 1705) was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked violinists of his day, and composed some of the earliest known music for solo violin. He worked as musician and composer as a member of Dresden’s Hofkapelle (1674–1697) and at the Weimar court (1699–1705), and was also active as a teacher of contemporary languages. Westhoff’s surviving music comprises seven works for violin and basso continuo and seven for solo violin, all published during his lifetime. More works, particularly a 1682 collection of solo violin music, are currently considered lost. His work, together with that of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Johann Jakob Walther, greatly influenced the subsequent generation of German violinists, and the six partitas for solo violin inspired Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous violin sonatas and partitas. Life The composer was born in the Dresden, then capital of Saxony. He received a solid musical education as a pupil of Heinrich Schütz (d. 1672), and in 1674 joined the Dresden Hofkapelle, where his father, a former Swedish cavalry officer,

Johann Peter Cavallo

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Johann Peter Cavallo (23 December 1819 – 19 April 1892) was a German organist, pianist and composer of Italian origin and active in France. Life Born in Munich, Cavallo settled in Paris around 1842, where he was organist in the churches of St. Vincent de Paul, a monthly sheet music magazine of short piano pieces of his own compositions in association with choirmaster Frédéric Viret. Selected works *Valse rustique, Op. 24 *Le Crépuscule, Op. 33 *Un Dernier jour d’hiver, Op. 46 *Mazurka, Op. 47 *La Tristesse, Op. 48 *Fandango, Op. 49 *Le Vertige, Op. 50 *Pensée fugitive, Op. 56 *Galop des Sylphes, Op. 57 *Près la fontaine du loup, Op. 61 References ;Attribution *This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the French Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the History section. External links *

Johann Peter Kellner

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Johann Peter Kellner (variants: Keller, Kelner; 28 September 1705 – 19 April 1772) was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner. Biography He was born in Gräfenroda, Thuringia, and was intended by his parents to follow his father into a career as a lamp-black merchant. He was devoted to music from childhood, and first learnt singing from the cantor Johann Peter Nagel and keyboard from his son Johann Heinrich Nagel. He studied for a year from 1720 with the organist Johann Schmidt in Zella, followed by a year with the organist Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl (or Kehl) in Suhl, during which time he also studied composition. He knew Johann Sebastian Bach well, although it is not known whether he was taught by him. He was also acquainted with George Frideric Handel. In 1722, he returned to work as a tutor at Gräfenroda for three years. He was appointed cantor of Frankenhain in October 1725, returning to Gräfenroda in December 1727 as assistant cantor. He became cantor after Nagel’s death in 1732, and remained in the post for the rest of his life; his pupils included Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Johannes Ringk, and J.E. Rembt. Kellner was admired as an org

Johann Peter Pixis

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Johann Peter Pixis (10 February 178822 December 1874) was a German pianist and composer, born in Mannheim. He lived in Vienna from 1808 to 1824, then in Paris to 1840, during which time he was among the city’s most prominent pianists and composers, although he is almost entirely forgotten nowadays. Biography He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (1755–1805), who in 1790 followed his own father to become Preceptor and Organist at the Evangelical Reformed Church. Johann Peter’s older brother, also Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (1785–1842), was a violinist who later became prominent in the musical life of Prague. The two brothers received early musical training from their father, who took the talented boys on concert tours beginning in 1797; they traveled through Germany and to Denmark, Russia (St. Petersburg), and Poland (Warsaw). During the tour, the older brother also played piano duets with Johann Peter, who in turn accompanied his brother on the cello and violin. While in Hamburg in 1798, Viotti was so impressed by Friedrich Wilhelm junior that he gave daily lessons, which Johann Peter also attended, for two months, and he organized a concert for the two boys. Friedrich Wilhelm sen

Johann Philipp Förtsch

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Johann Philipp Förtsch (14 May 1652 – 14 December 1732) was a German baroque composer, statesman and medical doctor. Life Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from Johann Philipp Krieger. Moving to Hamburg in 1674 to write librettos, he then became in the 1680s one of the main composers in the heyday of the Oper am Gänsemarkt. In later life he returned to medicine. Works Operas (all lost) * Das unmöglichste Ding (Lukas von Bostel, after Lope de Vega, 1684) * Der hochmüthige, gestürzte und wieder erhabene Crösus (Lukas von Bostel, after Nicolò Minato, 1684) * Der Grosse Alexander in Sidon (Christian Heinrich Postel, after Aurelio Aureli, Hamburg 1688) * Die Heilige Eugenia, or the Conversion of Alexandria to Christianity (Christian Heinrich Postel, probably after Girolamo Bartolommei, Hamburg 1688) * Der im Christenthum biß in den Todt beständige Märtyrer Polyeuctes (Heinrich Elmenhorst, after Pierre Corneille, Hamburg 1688) * Der mächtige Monarch der Perser, Xerxes, in Abidus (Christian Heinrich Postel after Nicolò Minato, UA Hamburg 1689) * Cain und Abel, oder der verzweifelnde Bruder-Mörder (Christian Heinrich Postel, after Michael Johansen, 16

Johann Philipp Krieger

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Johann Philipp Krieger (also Kriger, Krüger, Krugl, and Giovanni Filippo Kriegher; baptised 27 February 1649; died 7 February 1725) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger. Life Early years The Krieger brothers came from a Nuremberg family of rugmakers. According to Johann Mattheson’s Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte, Johann Philipp started studying keyboard playing at age 8, with Johann Drechsel (a pupil of the celebrated Johann Jakob Froberger) and other instruments at around the same time, with Gabriel Schütz. He was apparently a gifted student, displaying absolute pitch and a feeling for keyboard music: according to Mattheson, already after a year of studies he was able to impress large audiences and was composing attractive arias. Johann Philipp soon left Nuremberg for Copenhagen, where he spent some four or five years, studying organ playing with Johann Schröder, the royal organist, and composition with Kaspar Förster. The precise dates of his stay in Copenhagen are unknown: Mattheson reports 1665 to 1670, but Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, author of a 1730 biographical volume on famous residents of Nuremberg, claimed Johann Philipp stay

Johann Rosenmüller

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Johann Rosenmüller (1619 – 10 September 1684) was a German Baroque composer, who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north. Career Rosenmüller was born in Oelsnitz, near Plauen in Saxony. He studied at the University of Leipzig, graduating in 1640. He served as organist of the Nikolaikirche Leipzig from 1651, and had been assured of advancement to cantor. He died in Wolfenbüttel on 10 September 1684, and is buried there. Works Kern-Sprüche mehrentheils aus heiliger Schrifft Altes und Neues Testaments (Core sentences, mostly from holy scriptures Old and New Testament), Leipzig (1648) *Aeterne Deus, clementissime Pater, 1v, 2 str, bc *Christum lieb haben, 3vv, 2 str, bc *Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei, 3vv, 2 str, bc *Danket dem Herren und prediget, 2vv, 2 str, bc *Danksaget dem Vater, 5vv, 2 str, bc *Daran ist erschienen die Liebe Gottes, 5vv, 2 str, bc *Das ist das ewige Leben, 3vv, bc *Das ist ein köstlich Ding, 2vv, 5 str, bc *Die Augen des Herren, 4vv, 2 str, bc *Ein Tag in deinen Vorhöfen, 3vv, 2 str, bc *Habe deine Lust an dem Herren, 1v, 5 str, bc *Hebet eure Augen auf gen Himmel, 2vv, 2 str, bc *In te Domine speravi, 4vv, 2 str, bc *Lieber Herr Gott, 1v,

Johann Rudolph Ahle

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Johann Rudolph (or Rudolf) Ahle (24 December 1625 – 9 July 1673) was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. Biography Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not much is known of his early musical training, he attended the grammar school in Göttingen and then studied theology at the University of Erfurt from 1645 to 1649. In 1654 Ahle assumed the post of organist at the Divi Blasii in Mühlhausen. The next year he married Anna Maria Wölfer; their son, Johann Georg Ahle (1651–1706), was also a well-known composer and organist. Ahle was elected a town councillor in Mühlhausen in the 1650s, and was elected mayor shortly before his death in 1673. References Further reading * Uwe Wolf – Programme notes to BIS-CD-821, 1996 * Markus Rathey, Johann Rudolph Ahle. 1625–1673. Lebensweg und Schaffen, Eisenach: Wagner, 1999 * “Johann Rudolf Ahle (Composer)”, Bach Cantatas website External links * *

Johann Schelle

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Johann Schelle (6 September 1648 – 10 March 1701) was a German Baroque composer. Biography Schnelle was born on 6 September 1648 in Geising, Saxony. From 1655 to 1657 he was a choirboy in Dresden and pupil of Heinrich Schütz. From 1657 to 1664 on Schütz’s recommendation he was a singer in Wolfenbüttel. He was the cantor of the Thomanerchor, Leipzig, from 1677 to 1701. In 1689/90 he collaborated on a cycle of chorale cantatas with Leipzig theologian Benedict Carpzov. Leipzig When his former teacher Sebastian Knüpfer died, Schelle succeeded him as Kantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, a post later held by J.S. Bach. He obtained the post on 31 January 1677, and held it until his death. His appointment was made against the wishes of the city mayor, who remained antagonistic to him and the changes he introduced in the musical content of services. The matter came to a head when Schelle replaced the Latin compositions written by Italian masters with music to German texts, especially cantatas. When the city council finally took Schelle’s side on the problem Schelle started the practice of introducing into the Protestant liturgy in Leipzig not only the Gospel cantata to German texts but la

Johann Schobert

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Johann Schobert (c. 1720, 1735 or 1740 – 28 August 1767) was a composer and harpsichordist. His date of birth is given variously as about 1720, about 1735, or about 1740, his place of birth as Silesia, Alsace, or Nuremberg. He died after eating poisonous mushrooms that he insisted were edible. Career In 1760 or 1761, Schobert moved to Paris, France, where he served in the household of Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti. He composed many books of sonatas for his instrument, most of them with an accompanying part for one or more other instruments. Schobert also wrote harpsichord concertos, symphonies and the opéra comique Le Garde-Chasse et le Braconnier. In Paris, Schobert came into contact with Leopold Mozart during the family’s grand tour. Reportedly, Schobert was offended by Mozart’s comments that his children played Schobert’s works with ease. Nevertheless, Schobert was a significant influence on the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who arranged a number of movements from Schobert’s sonatas for use in his own piano concertos. Mozart biographer Dyneley Hussey writes that it was Schobert’s music that opened up Mozart to the possibility of adopting a poetic stance in his mu

Johann Speth

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Johann (Johannes) Speth (9 November 1664 – 12. Oktober 1728 Augsburg) was a German organist and composer. He was born in Speinshart, some 150 km from Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in Augsburg, where he worked as cathedral organist for two years. His only surviving music is a 1693 collection, Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni, which includes toccatas, Magnificat versets and variations in the south German style. Life Speth was born in Speinshart, Bavaria, to teacher Heinrich Speth and his wife Margareta (née Vichtl). Past scholars established that Speth must have received music lessons from the abbot of the Premonstratensian monastery at Speinshart, one Dominikus Lieblein; however, this has recently been disproven. Nothing is known about his life before 1692, when he applied for the position of organist of Augsburg Cathedral. The application, which contained Speth’s compositions, was accepted, and he was appointed organist on 4 November 1692. The music he supplied with the application was published the next year in Augsburg as Ars magna Consoni et Dissoni. In the files of the cathedral administration there is a note from 1705 showing that Speth had also to work in the office of th

Johann Staden

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Johann Staden (baptized 2 July 1581 – 15 November 1634) was a German composer and organist of the early Baroque period. He is best known for establishing the so-called Nuremberg School. He was father to the composer Sigmund Theophil Staden. Life He was the son of Hans Staden and Elisabeth Löbelle. The exact date of his birth is unknown; it is believed that he was born in Nuremberg in 1581 (the date on the only surviving portrait) and records show that a certain Johannes Starnn was baptised in July 1581. At 18 Staden was already quite famous and serving as organist of one of the city churches; by 1604 he was employed as court organist in Bayreuth; he got married the same year. In 1605 the court moved to Kulmbach, where Staden remained until 1610, publishing two collections of secular songs, Neue teutsche Lieder (1606) and Neue teutsche geistliche Gesäng (1609). He may have visited Bayreuth again in 1610 and returned to Nuremberg by 1611, the year his daughter was baptised there. In June 1612 he left Nuremberg again to succeed Hans Leo Hassler as court organist in Dresden. He stayed until around 1614/15, becoming organist at Nuremberg’s Spitalkirche on 20 June 1616. Later that year h

Johann Theile

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Johann Theile (29 July 1646 – 24 June 1724) was a German composer of the Baroque era, famous for the opera Adam und Eva, Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch, first performed in Hamburg on 2 January 1678. Life After studying law in Leipzig and Halle, Theile took instruction in composition in Weißenfels. His teacher there was Heinrich Schütz, the most prominent German composer of the 17th century. Theile is believed to have been one of his last pupils, and is considered one of the most gifted among them. Between 1673 and 1675 he held the position of Court Kapellmeister for Duke Christian Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. Some years later he held the position of Kapellmeister in Wolfenbüttel, where he commenced a musical apprenticeship to Johann Rosenmüller, who by this time had permanently returned to Northern Germany after having spent most of his career in Italy. He also worked in Naumburg, where he likewise held the position of Kapellmeister; Berlin, where he was active as a music teacher to the royal court; as well as Lübeck and Stettin, where he also served a music instructor. In 1673 he wrote his Matthäuspassion (St. Matthew Passion) in Lübeck. In 1694, Th

Johann Ulich

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Johann Ulich, the younger (Wittenberg, 1677-Zerbst, 1742) was a German organist and composer in Zerbst, and music teacher to the princely family. Ulich was born in 1677 in Wittenberg, Germany. His father, also called Johann Ulich (1634-1712), was organist and Kantor, director of music for Wittenberg’s churches, and teacher at the city school. Ulich studied with his father and then from 1695 at the University of Wittenberg. He was employed at the court in Zerbst from 1708 (although his official contract is dated 6 March 1709, the accounts of the St. Bartholomäikirche show that he was paid at least one quarterly salary installment and some of the bonuses that all permanent staff there enjoyed annually in 1708). Almost immediately he started composing music for the court; on 24 June 1708, his cantata “Glückselige Stunden! gesegnetes Licht” for the birthday of Princess Sophia (wife of Prince Carl Wilhelm) was performed and, at least for some years, Ulich seems to have been considered the court composer. This changed in 1716 when Johann Baptist Kuch was appointed Capell Director. When Kuch suddenly vanished from Zerbst in 1722, Ulich temporarily seems to have taken charge of music again

Johann Ulrich Steigleder

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Johann Ulrich Steigleder (22 March 1593 – 10 October 1635) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder (1561–1633), his father, and Utz Steigleder (died 1581), his grandfather. Steigleder was born in Schwäbisch Hall on 22 March 1593. He was instructed in music by his father Adam, whose teacher was the then-famous Simon Lohet. In 1613 he became organist of Stephanskirche in Lindau, on Lake Constance; then in 1617 he left Lindau for Stuttgart, where he became organist of the Stiftskirche the same year. In 1627 Steigleder was appointed ducal organist at the Württemberg court. While in Stuttgart, he may have taught, among others, Johann Jakob Froberger. He died of plague in 1635 in the midst of the Thirty Years’ War. Steigleder’s most important works are his two published collections of organ pieces. The first, Ricercar tabulatura of 1624 (published at Stuttgart), introduced a number of important innovations. It was the first German music collection to be published using engraved copper plates (the title page indicates that the composer did the engraving himself). It was also, together with

Johann Valentin Meder

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Johann Valentin Meder (baptised May 3, 1649 – July 1719) was a German composer, organist, and singer. (He is not to be confused with the German composer Johann Gabriel Meder, born in 1729 near Erfurt, and active in Amsterdam until 1800; nor is there evidence that the two men were related.) Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being organists or Kantors. It is rumored that he moved to Leipzig in 1666, and began his University studies in theology there in 1669. In 1670, Meder left Leipzig to pursue continued studies at the University of Jena. Unable to secure a position there at the university, he resorted to taking a post as a professional singer in the Hofkapelle of Duke Ernst der Fromme (d. 1675). He was employed as court singer at Gotha in 1671, Bremen in 1672–1673, Hamburg in 1673 and Copenhagen and Lübeck, where in 1674 he met Buxtehude, whose work influenced Meder’s own sacred compositions. From 1674 to 1680 he was Kantor at the Gymnasium at Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia). After a sojourn in Riga (now in Latvia), in 1685-1686 he succeeded Balthasar Erben as Kapellmeister at the Marienkirche in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland)

Johann Vogel (composer)

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Johann Christoph Vogel (also given as Fogel) (18 March 1756, in Nuremberg – 28 June 1788, in Paris) was a German composer. Life He spent most of his life working in France. He moved to Paris in 1776, and entered the service of the Duke of Montmorency and then of the Count of Valentinois as a horn player. He composed a great number of orchestral and chamber works but is best remembered for his oratorio Jephté, performed at the Concert Spirituel in September 1781, and for his two operas. Although his music was received favourably, his works never became extremely popular because they were deemed as ’too complicated and baroque’. Vogel was an enthusiast for the operas of Gluck, and his first opera, La toison d’or, is dedicated to the composer as ’législateur de la musique’. In places it appears to be a faithful stylistic imitation of Gluck’s two Iphigenia operas, Iphigénie en Tauride and Iphigenie auf Tauris , but with a fuller orchestration and a greater lyricism in the arias. The opera was written in 1781 but was not performed until 5 September 1786 at the Opéra National de Paris. It played for only 12 performances and was met with limited success since it seemed old-fashioned and c

Johann Walter

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Johann Walter, also known as Johann Walther or Johannes Walter (original name: Johann Blankenmüller; 1496 – 25 March 1570), was a Lutheran composer and poet during the Reformation period. Life Walter was born in Kahla, in present-day Thuringia, in 1496. According to a document filed with his will, he was born with the surname of Blanckenmüller, but adopted out of poverty by a citizen of Kahla, and given an education at Kahla and Rochlitz under his new name: Johann Walter. He began his career as a composer and bass cantor in the chapel of Frederick the Wise at the age of 21. It was a position he would hold until Frederick’s death in 1525. By this time, he was the director of the chapel and had become an outspoken musical spokesman for Lutherans. Walter edited the first Protestant hymnal for choir, , in Wittenberg in 1524, with a foreword by Martin Luther himself; and for the German-language Deutsche Messe produced in 1527. Following the conclusion of his appointment to Frederick’s chapel, Walter became cantor for the Torgau town choir in 1525, a post he would hold until 1548, when he was named court composer for Moritz, Duke of Saxony in Dresden, on whose orders he founded the orche

Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw

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Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw (16 March 1745 – 14 May 1833) was a German composer and musician active at the St. Mary’s Church, Lübeck. Life Born in Hamburg, he studied piano and singing with his father. At 13 years old, the boy became a soprano in the Lübeck Marienkirche under Adolph Kunzen, who taught him composition, organ, and violin. He also learned the cello. Königslöw became his assistant in 1772, taking over the direction of the Abendmusiken in 1773, and succeeding Kunzen in 1781. In 1776, he married Margarete Catharina Friedlein. Königslöw was a leading figure in Lübeck’s musical activities. He conducted Good Friday concerts, annual evening concerts, promoted amateur concerts, and founded a choral society. In 1810, he discontinued the evening concerts due to financial problems, and later in 1823 also stopped conducting the amateur concerts. Königslöw continued conducting the Good Friday until 1832. He died in 1833 in Lübeck. His music show the influence of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most of Königslöw’s compositions were composed for the Abendmusiken. They are mostly within the Classical style, except for various stylistic

Johann Wilhelm Hertel

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Johann Wilhelm Hertel (9 October 1727 – 14 June 1789) was a German composer, harpsichord and violin player. He was born in Eisenach, into a family of musicians. His father, Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754) was Konzertmeister (from 1733) and director of music at the Eisenach court, while his grandfather, Jakob Christian Hertel (c. 1667-c. 1726), had been Kapellmeister in Oettingen and later Merseburg. At an early age Johann Wilhelm accompanied his father, an accomplished viola da gamba player, on tour at the harpsichord. He also learned the violin, which he studied with Franz Benda. In 1742 he came with his father to Mecklenburg-Strelitz where he was active playing both instruments. Among his pupils there was Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800). After further music studies in Zerbst and Berlin, Hertel moved to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, where he made a successful career, initially as principal and later becoming court composer, and likewise undertaking teaching. During the reign of Duke Christian Ludwig II, Hertel wrote primarily representative instrumental music, while during the reign of his successor, Frederick II (called ’the pious’) he focused on sacred music.

Johann Wolfgang Franck

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Johann Wolfgang Franck (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – c. 1710 in London) was a German baroque composer. Life He worked from 1673 to 1679 as Kapellmeister in Ansbach and then lived from 1679 to 1690 in Hamburg. Here he initially composed several geistliche Sing-Spiele for the Oper am Gänsemarkt. From 1682 to 1685 he held the position of cantor in St. Mary’s Cathedral. From 1690 he lived in London. Together with Robert King, he went there first as a concert promoter (1690 to 1693) and was thereafter only active as composer. Besides operas, he produced some songs (especially for the Concerts in London), cantatas and numerous hymn tunes. Works Operas *Die errettete Unschuld, oder Andromeda und Perseus, Ansbach, 1675 *Der verliebte Föbus, Ansbach, 1678 *Die drey Töchter (des) Cecrops, Ansbach, 1679 *Don Pedro, oder Die abgestraffte Eyffersucht, Hamburg, 1679 *Die macchabaeische Mutter mit ihren sieben Söhnen, Hamburg, 1679 *Pastorelle, Lustschloss, Triesdorff, Ansbach, 1679 *Die wohl- und beständig-liebende Michal, oder Der siegende und fliehende David, Hamburg, 1679 *Aeneae, des trojanischen Fürsten Ankunft in Italien, Hamburg, 1680 *Alceste, Hamburg, 1680 *Sein sel

Johanna Kinkel

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Johanna Kinkel (8 July 1810 – 15 November 1858), born Maria Johanna Mockel, was a German composer, writer, pedagogue, and revolutionary. Biography Kinkel was born in Bonn to Catholic parents Marianna and Peter Joseph Mockel, a school teacher at the Bonner Lycée. She composed her first musical work, “The Bird Cantata” (“Die Vogelkantate”), op. 1, in 1829 for her musical society in Bonn and the work was published in 1838 by Trautwein. She spent a few years living and composing in Berlin, where she attended salons and formed friendships with women such as Bettina von Arnim and Fanny Hensel. She maintained a career as a published composer and writer as well as a music pedagogue throughout her life. In 1832, Johanna Mockel married the 29 year old music and bookseller Johann Paul Matthieux. The marriage quickly turned restrictive and abusive as Matthieux forbade his young wife from any activity beyond her domestic duties and tyrannized her to her psychological limits. In 1840, she was divorced from the Cologne bookseller Matthieux. Her second marriage, in 1843, was to the German poet Gottfried Kinkel, with whom she had four children. Following the 1848 Revolutions she was forced to aband

Johanna Senfter

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Johanna Senfter ( 27 November 1879 – 11 August 1961) was a German composer. Family background Johanna Senfter was born in 1879 as the youngest of the six children of Elise and Georg Senfter. Her maternal grandfather was the Oppenheim pharmacist and quinine manufacturer (1786-1865), who succeeded in extracting an antipyretic and anti-infective agent from cinchona bark to combat malaria, which was rampant in Oppenheim at the time. To produce this quinine, he set up his own pharmaceutical factory. The successful production of the drug enabled the Koch family’s social and financial upswing. The son of company founder, , eventually became mayor and, thanks to his achievements in this office, an honorary citizen of the town. Johanna’s father, Georg Senfter, owner of a brickworks, coal and timber business, was also considered wealthy. He married Elise, Carl Koch’s sister, and acquired the imposing , an old aristocratic residence, including the vineyard, which had previously belonged to the von Cronberg family. In 1864, he joined Carl Koch’s quinine company as managing director, co-entrepreneur and financier. Both families belonged to the upper social class, led a prosperous life and owned

Johannes Brahms

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Brahms’s father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was from the town of Heide in Holstein. Against his family’s will, Johann Jakob pursued a career in music, arriving in Hamburg at age 19. He found work playing double bass; he also played in a sextet in the Alster-pavilion in Hamburg’s Jungfernstieg. In 1830, Johann Jakob was appointed as a horn player in the Hamburg militia. He married Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen the same year. A middle-class seamstress 17 years his senior, she enjoyed writing letters and reading despite an apparently limited education. Johannes Brahms was born in 1833. His sister Elisabeth (Elise) had been born in 1831 and a younger brother Fritz Friedrich was born in 1835. The family then lived in poor apartments in and struggled economically. (Johann Jakob even considered emigrating to the United States when an impresario, recognizing Johannes’s talent, promised them fortune there.) Eventually Johann Jakob became a musician in the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg playing double bass, horn, and flute. For enjoyment, he played first violin in string quartets. The family moved over the years to ever better accommodation in Hamburg.

Johannes Driessler

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Johannes Driessler (26 January 1921 – 3 May 1998) was a German composer, organist, and lecturer. He composed operas, chamber music, and especially sacred music both vocal and for organ. Life and work Driessler was born in Friedrichsthal on 26 January 1921. He also composed for harpsichord, including Akrostichon (Op. 56; 1967), which repeats the motives in an “‘acrostic-like’ technique”. His work is described by Hanspeter Krellmann in his Grove Music Online entry as traditional, tonal and contrapuntal. A contemporary reviewer for Music & Letters describes his music as containing “slightly acid dissonance”, akin to Hindemith. His work was published by Bärenreiter and Breitkopf & Härtel. He was in 1959 the first recipient of the , and was awarded the in 1962. Driessler died in Detmold on 3 May 1998, at age 77. Works Sources: * Sinfonia Sacra * Dein Reich komme, oratorio, Op. 11 (1950) * Claudia amata, lyric opera, Op. 17 (premiered 1952 Münster) * Prinzessin Hochmut, fairy-tale opera, Op. 21 (premiered 1952 Kassel) * Der Umfried, opera (premiered 1957) * Doktor Luzifer Trux, opera (premiered 1958) * Three Small Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 8 * Vier kleine Stücke für Flöte und Klavi

Johannes Eccard

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Johannes Eccard (1553–1611) was a German composer and kapellmeister. He was an early principal conductor at the Berlin court chapel. Biography Eccard was born at Mühlhausen, in present-day Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to Munich, where he became the pupil of Orlando Lasso. In his company, Eccard is said to have visited Paris, but in 1574, he was again at Mühlhausen, where he resided for four years. There he, together with Joachim a Burck, edited some works of his first master, a collection of sacred songs, called Crepundia sacra Helmboldi (1577). Soon afterwards he obtained an appointment as musician in the house of Jacob Fugger, the Augsburg banker. In 1583 he became assistant conductor, and in 1599 conductor at Königsberg to Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Anspach, the administrator of the Duchy of Prussia. In 1608 he was called by Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg as principal conductor in Berlin, but this post he held only for three years, owing to his death at Königsberg in 1611. Eccard’s works consist exclusively of vocal compositions, such as songs, sacred cantatas and chorales for four or five, and sometimes for seven, eight, or even ni

Johannes Fritsch

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Johannes Georg Fritsch (27 July 1941 – 29 April 2010) was a German composer. At the age of seven, Fritsch found a violin in the attic of his uncle’s house in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany, and began lessons with a village music teacher named Knapp. When he was ten, his family moved to Cologne, and he began studying with the principal violist in the Gürzenich Orchestra. He studied music, sociology, and philosophy from 1961 to 1965 at the University and the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Cologne with, amongst others, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gottfried Michael Koenig. In the following years he applied himself to the most varied musical activities. Amongst other things he played viola in the Stockhausen-Ensemble from 1964 to 1970, and took part in the German exhibition at Expo ‘70, the World’s Fair in Osaka in 1970. Although he had begun to compose at the age of 17, Fritsch regards as his first real composition the Duett für Bratsche (Duet for Viola), for viola and tape, which had a succès de scandale when he performed it at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1962—one newspaper review called him a kühner Kratzer (audacious scraper). In 1966 Fritsch received the Förderpreis (Monetary Award) o

Johannes Gelbke

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Johannes Woldemar Gelbke (19 July 1846 – 1 March 1903) was a German composer, choir lieder, conductor and singer He became known especially in Germany for his song Horch! Die alten Eichen rauschen… (“Heimkehr”). He also worked as a composer, conductor, choirmaster and singer in the US, where he lived and worked from 1882. Life Gelbke was born in Radeberg. Father Ernst Ludwig Gelbke (1812 Radeberg - unknown) was “veterinarian and company blacksmith in the local Königl. Sächs. Brigade Reiter Artillerie” in the Radeberg garrison. quickly recognised the boy’s musical abilities, introduced him to the ecclesiastical Tonkunst and gave him lessons in music theory. Already here, the young Gelbke composed songs and church choir. No specific information is available about his numerous compositions from 1882 onwards in Buffalo. The home of Gelbke’s choral society “Orpheus”, the “New Music Hall Buffalo”, burned down in March 1885, whereupon Gelbke handed over the direction of the choir to Carl Adam in November 1885. Gelbke was the conductor of the Buffalo Sängerbund for several years and also conducted the Central Sängerbund, which was made up of 12 regional choral societies, the Mendelssohn

Johannes Jeep

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Johannes Jeep (pronounced “Yape”; also Johann or Jepp; 1581/1582 – 19 November 1644) was a German organist, choirmaster and composer. Biography Jeep, who was born in Dransfeld, Germany, is remembered for his choral writing. He collected his student songs in Studentengartlein, the first volume published in 1607, the second volume in 1609, and both published as a single volume in 1614. He also published more than one hundred hymns in the Hohenlohe Hymnbook in 1629. He was one of the first German musicians to travel to Italy. In 1613, he was appointed director of music for the court of the Count of Hohenlohe, serving until 1625. Around 1635, he served as organist at Frankfurt Cathedral. In 1642, he was appointed conductor for the court of the Count of Hanau. He died in Hanau, Germany. His best-known song is the 4-part madrigal “Musica, die ganz lieblich Kunst” (“Music, the most lovely art”). Influence The novelist James Joyce was an accomplished tenor. In Ulysses (Episode 16, “Eumaeus”, 663:14-22), Joyce’s autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, performs Jeep’s spirited song “Von der Sirenen Listigkeit” (“Of the Siren’s Cunning”) for Leopold Bloom, and the two men bond over its m

Johannes Kalitzke

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Johannes Kalitzke (born 12 February 1959) is a German composer and conductor. After studying in Cologne and at the IRCAM in Paris, he was chief conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen for several years, then led the ensemble musikFabrik and composed operas on commissions in Germany and Austria. He has been Professor of Conducting (Contemporary Music) at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 2015. Early life Born in Cologne, Kalitzke trained on the piano from 1967 to 1977 with Jeanette Chéro and studied church music in Cologne from 1974 to 1976. He studied further at the Musikhochschule Köln from 1978 to 1981, studying piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer, and composition with York Höller, and later electronic music with Ulrich Humpert. He focused on electronic music at the IRCAM in Paris with Vinko Globokar in 1982–83, on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Career From 1984 to 1990, Kalitze was first Kapellmeister and then chief conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. From 1986, he was also the leader of the Forum für Neue Musik there, succeeding Carla Henius. From 1991, he was artistic director of the e

Johannes Kreidler

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Johannes Kreidler (born 1980) is a German composer, performer, conceptual and media artist. Kreidler came to prominence with a series of politically charged pieces of musical performance art, beginning with 2008’s product placements: a 33-second recording containing 70,200 samples of other recordings, which the composer then attempted to register individually with the German copyright authorities. Later in 2009, Kreidler realised the controversial work Fremdarbeit (Outsourcing), in which he ‘outsourced’ his commission from Klangwerkstatt Berlin to a Chinese composer and an Indian computer programmer to write the piece on his behalf, imitating his style, for a fraction of the commission fee. These three compositions came to encapsulate the composer’s approach to ‘conceptual music’, as theorised by Kreidler himself and by the philosopher Harry Lehmann in subsequent lectures, essays and publications. Since 2010, the composer’s catalogue has included many more ‘conceptual pieces’ — often video works for gallery or online display — in addition to large-scale music theatre works like the seven-hour Audioguide (2014), the opera My State as Friend and Beloved (2018), and Selbstauslöser (Se

Johannes Lippius

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Johannes Lippius (24 June 1585 – 24 September 1612) was an Alsatian theologian and music theorist. He coined the term “harmonic triad” in his Synopsis musicae novae (Synopsis of New Music; 1612). Life Lippius was born in Strasbourg, the son of the pastor of St. Peter, Johann Lippius (1554–1622), and his wife Susanna Klehmann. In early childhood, he had already received education in languages and the seven liberal arts, which allowed him to be appointed at the University of Strasbourg to the Master of Philosophy at a young age. By his twenty-first birthday he had given private and university lectures, after which he entered the University of Leipzig, 1606, the University of Wittenberg, the University of Frankfurt (Oder), the University of Jena, where he became adjunct of the faculty of philosophy, and the University of Erfurt. He died in Speyer, aged 27. References Further reading * * * *

Johannes Magirus the elder

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Johannes Magirus (26 March 1537 – 4 July 1614) was a German Lutheran Theologian. Name change His name at birth, like that of his father, was Johannes Koch. The English language equivalent would be “John Cook”. At some point he renamed himself “Johannes Magirus”, reflecting an enthusiasm for classical culture that was common among many intellectuals of his time and place. Magirus (“Μάγειρας”) is the Greek word for “cook.” Life Johannes Koch was born in Backnang in Württemberg. and underwent an impoverished upbringing, supporting his mother Magdalena (born Magdalena Kurtz). As a boy he excelled at scholarship, especially in his study of Latin, raising concern on the part of a step father that he might be taken to Spain by Spanish soldiers of the Imperial army who were in Backnang in connection with the Schmalkaldic War between December 1546 and December 1549. He was removed from school and apprenticed in a craft trade for more than a year in order to divert attention from his academic prowess, but by 1553, at the unusually youthful age of just 16, he was studying Theology with a scholarship to the University of Tübingen. Continuing in his scholarly precocity, he became a Bachelor of

Johannes Nucius

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Johannes Nucius (also Nux, Nucis) (c. 1556 – March 25, 1620) was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers of musical activity, he was a polished composer in the style of Lassus and penned an extremely influential treatise on the rhetorical application of compositional devices. Life Nucius was born in Görlitz, in Lower Silesia. He studied at the Gymnasium in Görlitz with Johannes Winckler, who was so influential in his development that he referred to him reverentially in his later writings. In 1586 he became a monk in the monastery in Rauden, in Upper Silesia; there he received a humanistic education to supplement the considerable musical training he had received under Winckler. He rose in the hierarchy at the monastery, becoming a deacon, and later an abbot at Himmelwitz; however in 1598 he turned over most of his duties to his assistants in order to compose and write his musical treatise. He died at Himmelwitz (now Jemielnica, Poland), near the town of Strehlitz, in Upper Silesia (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). Works and influence Nucius’s music shows the influence of Lassus above all. He

Johannes Pache

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Johannes Johann Fürchtegott Pache (9 December 1857, Bischofswerda – 24 December 1897, Limbach) was a German composer and organist. Life Pache was born in Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, as son of a teacher. It was his father wish that Johannes should become a theologian as his two elder brothers did. Pache attended the school in Zittau, where his love to music awoke. He played piano, sang in a chorus and accomplished the first compositions. However, he neglected his school duties and stayed down. The father tried to convince him to become a teacher, all in vain. Pache resumed school in Bautzen, where he gave some music lectures and composed his first known pieces. Finally he convinced the father to let him study music in Dresden. In 1879 Pache got in Herisau his first appointment as organist and music director. Two years later he returned to Dresden, where he earned his money with casual engagements. In 1884 he moved to Leipzig, where he became known as concert pianist and composer. In Naumburg he was appointed music director and founded a widely known chorus. In these years Pache achieved material prosperity, especially after music publishers in Leipzig engaged him as advisor. Pache

Johannes Palaschko

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Johannes Palaschko (13 July 1877 in Berlin – 21 October 1932 in Berlin) was a German composer, violinist and violist who wrote numerous works for both violin and viola. He became a violin student of Joseph Joachim in 1891, concurrently studying music theory with Ernst Eduard Taubert and composition with Heinrich von Herzogenberg. In 1899 he graduated from the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. In 1913 he became Director of the Böttscher Conservatory in Berlin; that same year he married Martha Jürgens. Many of his viola etudes are still in print; he published 480 violin etudes and 217 viola etudes. He also published 178 works for violin and piano. Works A listing by opus number is found in the German version of this article. Keyboard *Op. 29: Postludium. C moll Postludium. C Minor . Organ. Leipzig: C. F. Kahnt, ca. 1901. *Op. 60: Ballet Music. Piano. Philadelphia: T. Presser, 1923. *Op. 67: Rondoletto. Piano. London: Alfred Lengnick & Co., 1924. Viola Etudes *Op. 36: 20 Etüden für Viola zur Förderung der Technik und des Vortrags 20 Etudes for Viola for Developing Technic and Artistry . Viola. Leipzig: Kistner, 1905. *Op. 44: 10 Künstler Etüden 10 Artist Studies . Viola. Leipzig: Zimmerman

Johannes Petzold

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Johannes Petzold (24 October 1912 – 19 May 1985) was a German church musician, composer of several hymnal songs and docent at the Thuringian Church Music School. Life Born in Plauen, Vogtland, Petzold, son of a pattern draughtsman in the lace and curtain industry of his home town, studied education in Leipzig 1932–1935, majoring in music. One month after his matriculation he became a member of the “New Saxon Teachers’ Association” (30 May 1932). As a result of the Gleichschaltung of the teachers’ associations, he belonged to the Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund from the On 7 July 1933, he joined the Sturmabteilung. After graduating, he worked as an primary school teacher in small villages in the Vogtland and Ore Mountains regions. As a “young teacher” he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party with effect from 1 May 1937. (membership number 5,816,055, dated 15 June 1938). Already at the beginning of his studies, he came into contact with the and took part in singing weeks with Alfred Stier and Hugo Distler. His lifelong friendship and collaboration with began in autumn 1932 with a joint choir tour through Saxony. Petzold’s early compositions and texts were

Johannes von Soest

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Johannes Steinwert von Soest (Johannes de Susato) (1448 – 2 May 1506) was a German composer, theorist and poet. Most biographical details about his life survive in Johannes’ verse autobiography, which was printed in 1811 (although the manuscript no longer survives) and has been partially translated into modern English. He was born in Unna and brought up in the nearby town of Soest. As a boy, he sang at the church of St. Patrokli. At one point a juggler almost succeeded in kidnapping him for his beautiful voice, but the plan did not succeed. The boy eventually left Soest when John I, Duke of Cleves hired him as a singer. At Cleves, Johannes von Soest studied composition with an unknown teacher, quickly distinguishing himself as the best student and becoming, in his own words, a better composer than his master. Johannes’ attitude towards music changed completely when he heard two English singers who were travelling through Cleves; he persuaded them to teach him their distinctive English style. They agreed to do so on the condition that he go to Bruges with them; accordingly, Johannes managed to get a permission to leave the Duke. He subsequently worked at Overijssel, Maastricht, and

John Christian Bechler

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John Christian Bechler (7 January 1784 in Oesel, Governorate of Livonia (present-day Estonia) – 18 April 1857 in Herrnhut, Saxony (present-day Germany)) was a Moravian bishop, composer, and organist. Biography Bechler was educated at the Moravian school in Niesky, Germany and continued studies at the Theological Seminary in Barby, Germany. He was called to the United States in 1806 to teach at the boys school of Nazareth Hall, in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, as a tutor. In the following year the Moravian Theological Seminary was founded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and he was appointed one of its first professors. In 1817 he accepted the principalship of Nazareth Hall, and subsequently had charge of various churches in Pennsylvania and on Staten Island. In 1829 Bechler was transferred to Salem in North Carolina, and presided over the Moravian work in the South (Wachovia Tract) around what is now Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was consecrated to the episcopacy at Lititz, Pennsylvania, 17 May 1835. In the following year he went to Europe as a member of the general synod, and did not return, but was transferred to Russia, where he stood at the head of the Moravian establishment at Sarept

John Hartmann

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John Hartmann (October 24, 1830 – 1897) was a Prussian brass composer. He is notable for having served Prince George, Duke of Cambridge as bandmaster in the British 4th Regiment, 12th Lancers. Hartmann was born in Auleben. When he went to fulfil his mandatory service obligation to the Prussian military, he chose to be a musician. Doing that gave him the option of choosing the regiment he would serve with. He chose to serve with the Cuirassiers in Cologne. While with the Cuirassiers, he played solo cornet and violin. In 1854, his bandmaster, Herr Schallehn, left service and traveled to England, joining the Crystal Palace Company. Hartmann joined him when his service was over in October 1855. John’s brother Ernest also joined Schallehn (prior to John). Hartmann continued to play cornet in the Crystal Palace Band until he was offered the position of bandmaster of the Tyrone Militia at Sheffield. He served with them, with the 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards, and with the Royal Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham Militia), who were “one of the best brass bands in the country.” He organized the band of the 2nd Battalion of the (King’s Own) 4th Foot at Chichester. He served with the 4th Foot Guard

Jörg Duda

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Jörg Duda (born 17 December 1968) is a German composer of classical music. Life and career Born in Munich, Duda was influenced by the church music of Scheyern Abbey. He took lessons in organ and improvisation with Harald Feller, in theory and composition with Dieter Acker. From 1988 to 1992 he studied church music at the Musikhochschule München. He studied choral conducting with Roderich Kreile and was a member in his choir Junge Kantorei München. He played organ concerts and worked as a Korrepetitor for the choir of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Philharmonischer Chor München. From 1992 Duda studied composition with Peter Kiesewetter at the Musikhochschule Hannover and continued with Dieter Acker in Munich, completing the “Meisterklasse” in 1997. From 1998 to 2022 Duda was Kantor of St Emmeram in Geisenfeld. He taught at times music theory at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. Duda co-founded the and the piano quintet . In 2007 he was awarded the (culture award) of Geisenfeld. His motet Friede über Israel was commissioned and recorded in 2000 by Roderich Kreile and the Dresdner Kreuzchor. Duda composed four Finnish Quartets, each for a woodwind instrument and a string trio. T

Jörg Herchet

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Jörg Herchet (born 20 September 1943) is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Herchet grew up as the son of a driver and a worker in modest circumstances. As a pupil he received recorder and cello lessons, later piano and singing lessons. Already at that time he composed his first smaller compositions. From 1962 to 1965 he studied musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden with Johannes Paul Thilman and Manfred Weiss, cello with Clemens Dillner and piano with Ilse Brähmer. The use of a Franz Kafka text in his composition Interfragmentarium zum werke von franz k. für klavier und alt led to distortions with the Hochschule, whereupon Herchet continued his composition studies at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in East-Berlin with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny from 1967 to 1969. His diploma thesis on The importance of music-theoretical writings by Schönberg and Hindemith for the development of a compositional theory was rejected on the grounds that a compositional theory “must lead to Hanns Eisler and not to Pierre Boulez”. He also studied musicology (among others with Georg Knepler) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After Herchet first worke

Jörg Widmann

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Jörg Widmann (; born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freiburg, he holds a composition professorship at the Barenboim–Said Akademie Berlin. His most important compositions are the concert overture Con brio, the opera Babylon, an oratorio Arche, Viola Concerto, Friedenskantate and the trumpet concerto Towards Paradise. Widmann has written musical tributes to Classical and Romantic composers. He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2018 and the Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2023. He was Gewandhaus composer of the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig and composer in residence for the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life and education Widmann was born on 19 June 1973 in Munich, the son of a physicist and a teacher. His sister is the German classical violinist Carolin Widmann. He first took clarinet lessons in 1980. Four years later he became a composition student of Kay Westermann. Widmann attended the secondary school in Munich. He later studied compositio

Jörn Arnecke

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Jörn Arnecke (born 1973, in Hameln) is a German composer. Arnecke is the professor of music theory, aural training, and historical music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Life Arnecke studied composition and musical theory in Hamburg, Germany, at the Academy for Music and Theatre (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg) under Volkhardt Preuß and Peter Michael Hamel. In 1997/98, during his study, he was a student of Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire National Superieur in Paris. Arnecke graduated in 2000 and since 2001 he has been part-time professor at the music academy in Hamburg. 2004 he was given a scholarship by the Bundeskünstlerförderung (federal artist support) for the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice and in 2007 one for Casa Baldi near Rome. During his studies and later on he has won many prizes, for example the Preis des Landesverbandes Sachen des Deutschen Tonträgerverbandes in 1999. Major works Opera * Ariadne (1999) : opera scene, recited poems: Paul Heyse, Adelbert von Chamisso & Joseph von Eichendorff, written for the Munich Biennale, dedicated to Peter Michael Hamel * Le Nozze di Figaro (1999) : Opera by W. A. Mozart, arrangement for 12 inst

Josef Anton Riedl

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Josef Anton Riedl (11 June 1929 – 25 March 2016) was a German composer. Biography Riedl was born in Munich in 1929 (1927 is also given as his year of birth). Following a period of studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and in courses given by Hermann Scherchen in Gravesano, Riedl, influenced by Carl Orff and Edgar Varèse, devoted himself as a composer particularly to percussion and Lautgedichte (sound poetry). In 1950 he was co-founder of the German Section of the Jeunesses Musicales, together with Herbert Barth, Reiner Bredemeyer and Eckhart Rolfs. Starting in 1952 he did pioneering work in the use of concrete and electronic sounds, joining Pierre Schaefer’s Groupe de Recherche Musicale in 1953. In 1955 he worked in the electronic studio of NWDR in Cologne, and spent some time in 1959 in Scherchen’s experimental studio in Gravesano. From 1959 until its closure in 1966 Riedl was director of the Siemens Studio for electronic music. The concert series Neue Musik München / Klang-Aktionen initiated by Riedl in 1960 continues to this day. In 1967 he established the Musik/Film/Dia/Licht-Galerie group, and in 1974 in Bonn founded the Kultur Forum, which he directed until

Josef Schnabel

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Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (24 May 1767 – 16 June 1831) was a German composer and church musician. Life He was born in Naumburg am Queis in Silesia, now in Poland. He came from a family of musicians and was taught early on by his father. As a child he was a chorister of Vincent Church in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland). From the age of 12 he attended the Matthias Gymnasium because he wanted to become a priest. However chronic ear-ache developed after he fell into some water and he was considered to be no longer suitable for a priest’s life. After he left the Gymnasium he began teacher-training. In 1790 he became a school-master. He was noticed because of the good music performances of his pupils. From 1797 he worked as a violinist at the Vincenzkirche in Breslau and later as an organist at St. Klara. In 1798 he became a violinist and concertmaster in Breslau’s theatre orchestra. On April 1, 1805 he was its Director of Music. In 1812 he became the Director of Music at the university, also teaching at the Catholic seminary and was also director of the Royal Institute of Sacred Music. In 1819 he founded the Association of Sacred Music at the university with Friedrich Wilhelm Berner and Joh

Joseph Ahrens

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Joseph Johannes Clemens Ahrens (April 17, 1904 in Sommersell – December 21, 1997 in Berlin) was a German composer and organist. Ahrens received early training in organ and choral music with Wilhelm Schnippering in Büren and Fritz Volbach in Munich. He read choral studies at Gerleve Abbey and Beuron Abbey. From 1925-1928 he studied at the State Academy for Church and School Music (now called the Royal Music Institute of Berlin) under Alfred Sittard, Max Seiffert, and Wilhelm Middelschulte. In 1928 he began teaching organ playing and improvisation at the same academy. Between 1931 and 1940 Ahrens was the organist for the Berliner Philharmoniker, simultaneously serving as the organist for the Cathedral of St. Hedwig after 1934. From 1945 to 1957 he was organist at the Salvator-Kirche in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He accepted a professorship in church music at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1945 and remained there until 1969, serving as deputy director and professor of keyboard instruments from 1954 to 1958. From 1955 onward he was in charge of the church music department, and chairman of the state examination office for church music. Ahrens was awarded the Berliner Kunstpreis in 1955, be

Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur

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Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur (also Schmittbauer; 8 November 1718 - 24 October 1809) was a German composer, Kapellmeister, instrument maker and music teacher. Life Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur was born in Bamberg and received his musical education from the organ builder of the Würzburg court Johann Philipp Seuffert. He was also a pupil of Niccolò Jommelli, probably in Bologna. Around 1750 he was employed in the court of Rastatt, where he became concertmaster in 1759 and Kapellmeister in 1766. During this time he set German and Italian works for the stage. After the dissolution of Rastatt chapel in 1771, he became concertmaster of the Badische Staatskapelle in Karlsruhe. In January 1775, Schmittbaur was given the position of Kapellmeister of Cologne Cathedral, where he was deeply influenced by the conservative musical activities of the musical academies. Two years later, upon the death of Giacinto Sciatti in 1777, he returned to Karlsruhe to become Kapellmeister. He retired from his duties as Kapellmeister in 1804, leaving his place at the court to his son, Ludwig Joseph Abbe (1755-1829), a composer of Lieder. Three other children of his were musicians: August (b. 1763) was a clarinetist and

Joseph Christoph Kessler

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Joseph Christoph Kessler (26 August 180014 January 1872), also seen as Kötzler, was a German pianist and composer who was active mostly in the Austrian Empire. His études, nocturnes, variations, preludes and bagatelles He studied under the organist Bilek at Feldsberg and at a seminary at Nicolsburg. who used some of Kessler’s works in their own pedagogical material. He also taught at Landshut. Frédéric Chopin became exposed to Kessler’s music while he was in his teens, in Warsaw. Kessler arrived in Warsaw in 1829, and quickly became part of the musical life there. He was one of a number of people who gave regular musical soirees attended by Chopin. It was at such Kessler soirees that Chopin heard for the first time works such as Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio. Kessler and Chopin became firm friends. Kessler’s Études were arranged in a circle of fifths, unlike Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, which is arranged in ascending chromatic order. It has been said that Chopin may have even borrowed the title “étude” from Kessler, and copied from Kessler the idea of using metronome marks in his scores. A decade later, Chopin repaid the dedication in his own 24 Preludes, Op. 28

Joseph Eschborn

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Peter Joseph Eschborn (March 4, 1800, in Mainz – November 17, 1881, in Coburg)

Joseph Kreutzer

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Joseph Kreutzer (11 November 1790 – 16 June 1840) was a German composer, conductor, guitarist, and violinist. Kreutzer was born in Aachen, the son of a local music teacher. He lived in Düsseldorf from about 1805, where he established himself among the leading musicians of the city. He is known to have been a violin teacher to Norbert Burgmüller and probably concert master at the local theatre for a time. He died in Düsseldorf. His compositions consisted mostly of chamber music and instructive pieces for bowed strings and guitar. It is for his charming though conservative guitar works that he is still being performed and recorded today. He also penned a lost symphony. Works Guitar * 6 Variations on a Theme from Weber’s “Der Freischütz” op. 6 (for 2 guitars) * 6 Variations on a theme by Mozart op. 7 * Six Variations brillants über das Lied “A Schüsserl und a Reindl” op. 10 * Six Variations in C major op. 11 * Six Variations on “God Save the King” op. 12 * Variationen über das Lied “Kind willst du ruhig schlafen” aus Peter von Winters Oper “Das Opferfest” op. 13 * 8 Variations in A major on a favourite Tyrolean song op. 14 * 12 Pièces amusantes op. 17 * Trois Rondeaux op. 23 * 6 Varia

Joseph Küffner

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Joseph Küffner (Kueffner) (31 March 1776 in Würzburg – 9 September 1856 in Würzburg) was a German musician and composer who, among other achievements, contributed significantly to the guitar repertory, including chamber music. Life He was a violinist with the Würzburg court orchestra, and was later, when Würzburg became part of Bavaria (1802), assigned to take charge of military music. At this point he became bandmaster with a Bavarian Army regiment. Music A quintet of Küffner’s for clarinet and strings was once attributed to Carl Maria von Weber, He composed seven symphonies and a large number of works for various chamber music combinations. His output also contains a substantial quantity of music for classical guitar (some of it being available in modern editions). Compositions *Symphonies **First Symphony op. 75 (pub. Schott, 1818) **Second Symphony op. 76 (Schott) **Third Symphony op. 83 (pub. André, ca 1820) **Fourth Symphony op. 141 (Schott) **Fifth Symphony op. 142 (pub. by 1824) (Schott) **Sixth Symphony op. 150 (Schott) **Seventh Symphony op. 164 (pub. 1826) (Schott) *Concertante **Polonaise for trumpet and orchestra, op. 126 **Potpourri, Concerto No. 1 in D for viola and

Joseph Riepel

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Joseph Riepel (Rainbach im Mühlkreis, 22 January 1709 - Regensburg, 23 October 1782) was an Austrian-born German music theorist, composer and violinist. Riepel is known for his theoretical work, especially for his innovations in theory of melody and form. Riepel’s writings form one of the foundations for the theory of composition of the later 18th century. He was violin teacher to František Xaver Pokorný. Riepel was the son of a farmer and innkeeper. He attended the Jesuit College in Steyr and began philosophical studies in Linz and Graz, but distinguished himself early on as a violinist. In 1735–1736 he toured the Balkan Peninsula as valet of General Alexander Graf d’Ollone in the 7th Austrian war against the Turks. From 1739 to 1745 he lived in Dresden, where he claims to have regularly frequented Jan Dismas Zelenka and the concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendel had by his own admission and received his first real musical training here. After living in Poland and Vienna, in 1749 he was band master at the court of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in Regensburg, where he spent the rest of his life and created his theoretical writings and the majority of his compositions. Riepel’s major

Joseph Schuster (composer)

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Joseph Schuster (11 August 174824 July 1812) was a German composer. Life and career Schuster was born in Dresden, where he received his first musical training from his father, a court musician, and from Johann Georg Schürer. Thanks to a scholarship from the Saxon Prince-electors, he was able to study with Giovanni Battista Martini and counterpoint in Venice with G. Pera from 1765 to 1768. In 1776, he completed his first opera seria Didone abbandonata, after a libretto by Metastasio. It was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and by all accounts was a great success. In the same year, the opera seria Demofoonte premiered in Forlì. In the following years, Schuster’s position was solidified with operatic successes in Naples and Venice. He was also recognized in Germany as an accomplished composer, and his singspiel, Der Alchymist, oder Der Liebesteufel is considered one of the finest examples of the art form. Most of his works are assigned to the opera buffa, but he also composed religious works, chamber music and orchestral music. Schuster’s work is also found in the string quartets appendix of the Köchel catalogue (No. 210 et seq,), and for a long time the “Milan Quartets” (1772–

Josephine Lang

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Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a German composer. Josephine Lang was the daughter of Theobald Lang, a violinist, and , opera singer. Her mother taught young Josephine how to play piano, and from age five it became apparent that Josephine was possessed with great potential as a composer. As early as age eleven Josephine started giving piano lessons herself. Through her godfather, Joseph Stieler, Josephine was exposed to some of the greatest artists of her time. Both Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller went to great lengths to ensure that Lang learned the proper theory for song-writing, and used their connections to publish Lang’s music. Even Robert Schumann published a song of Josephine’s in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1838. Biography Born in Munich, Lang had from a very young age been described as having a “weak constitution”. Thus she was always struggling to keep up her education and performance while simultaneously maintaining her health. Once during a performance for the king and queen of Bavaria, Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria took notice of Josephine’s poor state of health and arranged for her to go to Wildbad Kreuth in the German Alps t

Julia Kerr

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Julia Kerr (née Weismann, 28 August 1898 – 3 October 1965) was a German composer and pianist. As a composer she used the name Julia Kerwey. She also worked as a translator during the Nuremberg trials. Biography Kerr was born in Wiesbaden on 28 August 1898 as Julia Anna Franziska Weismann to the Prussian prosecutor and his wife Gertrud, née Reichenheim. Her brother was the violinist Dietrich “Diez” Weismann (1900–1982). She studied music with Wilhelm Klatte in Berlin. Kerr married theater critic Alfred Kerr in April 1920. They had two children, Michael and Judith Kerr. The family were Jewish and it became necessary to flee Germany in 1933. Initially they fled to Switzerland and then France before settling in England in 1935. In London, Kerr worked in secretarial jobs until the end of the war. Once the war was over she took roles as an interpreter and secretary for the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Kerr returned to live in Germany after the war and was living in Berlin when she suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 67 in 1965. Kerr’s first opera was Die schoene Lau after a fairy tale by Eduard Mörike, first performed in 1928. In 1929 Alfred started to write the libretto for h

Juliane Klein

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Juliane Klein (born 3 November 1966) is a German composer and publishing director . Life Born in Berlin, Klein began studying clarinet, piano, musical composition and improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin as a young student in 1978 and was a lecturer for composition at the same university from 1989 to 1992. Together with Thomas Bruns, she founded the “Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin” in 1987, which she directed until 1991. From 1993 to 1997 she continued her postgraduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. In 1999 she founded the music publishing house “Edition Juliane Klein”. As a composer, she received residency scholarships at the Pushkinskaya Desyat St. Petersburg (1995), the Cité internationale des arts (1997), in (2001), in the artists’ courtyard “Die Höge” (2002), and at the Rheinsberg Music Academy (2003) and the Villa Massimo (“Casa Baldi”), Rome (2004). In 2006 she was awarded the Förderungspreis Musik of the Kunstpreis Berlin. In 2010 Klein opened her own Christian Science practice in Berlin. Compositional work Klein’s catalogue includes works for music theatre, solo pieces, songs, and chamber and orchestral music, but also composit

Juliane Reichardt

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Juliane Reichardt, née Benda (14 May 1752 – 9 or 11 May 1783), was a pianist, singer and composer from the Kingdom of Prussia. Biography Reichardt was born in Potsdam, the youngest of the six children of violinist and composer Franz Benda (1709–1786), who was concert master at the court of Frederick II. Her mother was Franziska Louise Eleonore Benda (née Stephanie) (1718–1758). Her older sister Maria Caroline Wolf (née Benda) (1742–1820) was later also a well-known singer, pianist and composer. She took music lessons from her father and appeared in concerts in Berlin as a singer and pianist. She married writer and composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1815) in 1776 and had a three children, the second of whom was Louise Reichardt (1779–1826). After her marriage with Johann Friedrich Reichardt, the couple moved to Berlin, from there onwards to Hamburg, Weimar and Königsberg. Juliane Reichardt died of puerperal fever in Berlin. Since 1733, Franz Benda was in the service of the Prussian Crown Prince, later Frederick II, who initially resided in Ruppin and after his enthronement in Potsdam in 1740. The Benda family lived in the small Potsdam, suburb of Nowawes, where Juliane Benda

Julius Benedict

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Sir Julius Benedict (27 November 1804 – 5 June 1885) was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. Life and music Benedict was born in Stuttgart, the son of a Jewish banker, and in 1820 learnt composition from Johann Nepomuk Hummel at Weimar and in 1821 from Carl Maria von Weber at Dresden; it was Weber who introduced him in Vienna to Beethoven on 5 October 1823. In the same year, he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Kärnthnerthor theatre at Vienna, and two years later in 1825, he became Kapellmeister of the San Carlo theatre at Naples. It was here he gave piano lessons to the young prodigy Theodor Döhler. In Naples his first opera, Giacinta ed Ernesto, premiered in 1827, and another, written for his native city, I Portoghesi in Goa, was given there in 1830; neither of these was a great success, and in 1834 he went to Paris, leaving it in 1835 at the suggestion of Maria Malibran for London, where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1836 he was given the conductorship of an operatic enterprise at the Lyceum Theatre, and brought out a short opera, Un anno ed un giorno, previously given in Naples. In 1838 he became conductor of the English o

Julius Buths

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Julius Buths (7 May 185112 March 1920) was a German pianist, conductor and minor composer. He was particularly notable in his early championing of the works of Edward Elgar in Germany. He conducted the continental European premieres of both the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius. He also had notable associations with Frederick Delius and Gustav Mahler. Early career Julius Emil Martin Buths was born in Wiesbaden, the son of an oboist. He studied music at Cologne under Ferdinand Hiller and others, in Berlin under Friedrich Kiel, in Italy and in Paris. He worked as a conductor in Breslau from 1875 to 1879, then in Elberfeld until 1890. That year he was appointed musical director for the city of Düsseldorf, and he played an important role in the Lower Rhenish Music Festivals for a number of years. In 1890, he was co-director with Hans Richter; in 1893 he was sole director; in 1896, he shared the role with Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss; 1902 co-director with Strauss; and sole director in 1905. In Düsseldorf he frequently played chamber music with Max Reger and Joseph Joachim. Elgar Buths was present in Birmingham at the premiere of Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius i

Julius Eichberg

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Julius Eichberg (13 June 1824 – 19 January 1893) was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Julius Eichberg was born in Düsseldorf, Germany to a Jewish family. His first musical instruction came from his father whose pupil was an acceptable violin player by his seventh year. He had further early violin instruction with F. W. Eichler, Julius Rietz, and with Johannes Fröhlich at the Musical Academy of Würzburg. Upon the recommendation of Felix Mendelssohn, he entered the Brussels Conservatoire at the age of nineteen, where he took first prizes for violin playing and composition. He was a pupil of Belgian composer Charles Auguste de Bériot, studied composition under François-Joseph Fétis, and studied violin under Lambert Joseph Meerts. For eleven years he occupied the post of professor in the Conservatoire of Geneva, in Switzerland, and directed an opera troupe. In 1857, he went to the United States, staying two years in New York City and then proceeding to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became the chef d’orchestre at the Boston Museum, directing the Boston Museum Concerts until 1866. These concerts were a major fix

Julius Klengel

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Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig at fifteen, he toured extensively throughout Europe as cellist and soloist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. His pupils include Guilhermina Suggia, Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky and Alexandre Barjansky. Biography Klengel was born in Leipzig, and studied with Emil Hegar in his youth. His father was a lawyer and an amateur musician, and was a friend of Mendelssohn. After his 15th birthday, Klengel joined the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra where Klengel played first cello, and began touring in Europe and Russia. Klengel also became a soloist at that point, frequently giving solo performances. Klengel rose to become principal cellist of the orchestra, aged 22, in 1881. and began composing. He ultimately composed hundreds of pieces for the cello, including four cello concertos, two double cello concertos, cello quartets, a cello sonata, as well as numerous caprices, etudes and other technical pieces. Of his music, the two volumes of etudes (“Technical Studi

Julius Otto Grimm

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Julius Otto Grimm (6 March 1827 – 7 December 1903) was a German composer, conductor and musician who spent the majority of his professional life in Westphalia. He is most-often remembered today as one of the best friends of Johannes Brahms, whom he met in Leipzig in 1853. Brahms went on to dedicate his 4 Ballades, Op. 10 to Grimm in 1854. Life and career Grimm was born in Pernau, Livonia, now Pärnu, Estonia. After studying philology and philosophy at the University of Tartu (then the University of Dorpat), concluding his exams in 1848, Grimm began his career and avocation as a tutor in Saint Petersburg. His first compositions were published around this time. From 1851 to 1852, he pursued further studies in Dresden. In 1855, Grimm took the position of professor of music and choral conductor in Göttingen. In 1860, he accepted the post of conductor of the (music association) of Münster. During his 40-year-long career in Münster, he received many honors and appointments, including an honorary doctorate in 1897. At his death in Münster, “hundreds of letters from Madame Schumann, Brahms and Dr. Joachim” were found in Grimm’s possession. In addition to this collection of correspondence, h

Julius Reubke

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Friedrich Julius Reubke (23 March 18343 June 1858) was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor, renowned as one of the finest organ works in the romantic repertoire. Biography Born in Hausneindorf on 23 March 1834, a small village in the region of the Harz Mountains, he was the eldest son of organ and piano builder Adolf Reubke (1805-1875). Of Julius’s five siblings, two brothers, Emil (1836–1884) and Karl (1840–1860), worked with their father; Emil became a partner in 1860 and owned the company from 1872. His brother Otto (1842–1913) was also a pianist, organist and composer; he prepared the Sonata on the 94th Psalm for its first publication in August 1871. Otto settled in Halle, where he was a professor at the University of Halle, and became its director in 1892. There were also two sisters, Meta and Alma. Reubke’s first musical instruction was in Quedlinburg with Hermann Bönicke (1821–1879). He moved to Berlin in April or October 1851, where he continued his musical education at the conservatory there, which had been founded in November 1850 by Theo

Julius Rietz

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August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (28 December 1812 – 12 September 1877 ) was a German composer, conductor, cellist, and teacher. His students included Woldemar Bargiel, Salomon Jadassohn, Arthur O’Leary, and (by far the most celebrated) Sir Arthur Sullivan. He also edited many works by Felix Mendelssohn for publication. Biography Rietz was born in Berlin, and studied the cello under Bernhard Romberg and composition under Carl Friedrich Zelter. At 16, he joined the orchestra of Berlin’s Königstädter Theater, for which he wrote the music to Karl Eduard von Holtei’s play Lorbeerbaum und Bettelstab. In 1834, he was appointed assistant conductor at the Düsseldorf Opera under Mendelssohn, whom he succeeded the following year. He moved in 1847 to Leipzig, where he served as kapellmeister and conductor of the Singakademie. During 1848, a year after Mendelssohn’s death, Rietz took over Mendelssohn’s former role as conductor of the Gewandhaus concerts in the same city, and as teacher of composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. He was called to Dresden in 1860 to succeed Carl Gottlieb Reissiger as court kapellmeister. Here he spent the rest of his life, frequently appearing as an opera conductor,

Julius Stern

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Julius Stern (8 August 1820 – 27 February 1883) was a Jewish German musical pedagogue and composer. Biography Stern was born at Breslau. He received his elementary education in music from the violinist Peter Lüstner, and at the age of nine played at concerts. In 1832 his parents removed to Berlin, where Stern studied first under Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, Moritz Ganz, and , and later under Rungenhagen at the Königliche Akademie der Künste. As a result of several compositions which he had written while a pupil of the academy, King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who was an ardent lover of art, granted Stern a stipend which enabled him to pursue his studies. He went to Dresden, where he received instruction from Johann Aloys Miksch; and thence to Paris, where he subsequently was appointed leader of the Deutscher Gesangverein Society. While in the latter city he conducted, among other works, the incidental music by Mendelssohn to Sophocles’ Antigone. In 1846, Stern returned to Berlin, where, in the following year, he founded the Stern Gesangverein. The first performance of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah (October 1847) established Stern’s reputation as one of the foremost conductors of his

Julius Weissenborn

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Christian Julius Weissenborn (April 13, 1837 – April 21, 1888) was a German bassoonist, teacher and composer. Biography Weissenborn was born in Friedrichs-Tanneck near Eisenberg, Thuringia. He was principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1857 to 1887. He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory beginning in 1882. Apart from a small canon of Romantic works, he is chiefly remembered for his pedagogical works, the Practical Bassoon School and the Bassoon Studies, Op. 8 (which includes the “Fifty Advanced Studies”), which are still in widespread use. He died, aged 51, in Leipzig. Music The Practical Bassoon School (called “Practical Method for the Bassoon” in the American editions) consists primarily of 25 sets of exercises that gradually increase in difficulty, from the most elementary level to intermediate. Following this there is a brief introduction to the tenor clef and a fairly detailed discussion of various ornaments, with a 26th section applying these concepts. The Bassoon Studies, Op. 8 is published in two parts. The first part is subtitled “For Beginners” and consists of several sections: * I. Essential Kinds of Expression (Tenuto, Legato, Staccato, Portato, Dy

Juls Scherle

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Juls Scherle is a German-raised composer based in Los Angeles. Early life Scherle grew up in a musical family. They have been classically trained since age six. Their father is a lute and guitar builder. Their earliest memories are them hammering away at their family’s home piano. The film The Fifth Element opened up their imagination to writing music for film. Career Scherle started writing music for the TV series, Mr. Robot, and later furthered to other productions like American Horror Story and Scream Queens (2015). They have also been credited for the drama series Pause and Princess of the Row, which The Independent Critic praised their score as “capturing all the right moments of grit and wonder, truth and love.” They have also worked in many films including Heart of Champions, Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, Missing (2023), and Luden. Awards *SoCal Film Award: Best Score for Missing (2024) *Los Angeles Film Award: Best Score for Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2023) *Oniros Film Award: Best Original Soundtrack for Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2023) *Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Award: Best Score for Princess of the Row (2022) *D

Jürg Baur

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Jürg Baur (11 November 1918 – 31 January 2010) was a German composer whose works include Incontri and Mutazioni. Baur studied at the Cologne University of Music and taught there in his later years. Baur was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Education Baur was born in Düsseldorf, where he achieved early recognition as a composer at the age of 18, when his First String Quartet was premiered at the Düsseldorf Hindenburg Secondary School by the then-famous Prisca Quartet. He studied from 1937 to 1948 (interrupted by army service from 1939 to 1945, including several months as a Russian prisoner of war) at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Cologne University of Music): composition with Philipp Jarnach, piano with Karl Hermann Pillney, and organ and sacred music with Michael Schneider. Even before completing his conservatory studies, he was appointed lecturer in music theory at the Düsseldorf Conservatory in 1946. He did postgraduate studies in musicology with Karl Gustav Fellerer and Willi Kahl from 1948 to 1951 at the University of Cologne. In 1952 he was appointed choirmaster and organist at the St Paulus-Kirche in Düsseldorf, a post he left in 1960 when he was awarded a scholarshi

Juro Mětšk

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Juro Mětšk (1 May 1954 – 20 January 2022) was a Sorbian composer. Life and career Born in Bautzen, the son of the Sorbian writer and publicist , he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin until 1976, and was a teacher at a music school from 1976 to 1980. From 1980 to 1983, he completed master studies at the Academy of Arts, Berlin with Reiner Bredemeyer. In 1985, he received the Hans Stieber Prize as part of the Hallische Musiktage. His work Syndrom was awarded a prize at the 1989 competition Forum junger Komponisten of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Mětšk died in Herrnhut on 20 January 2022, at the age of 67. Works Source: * accents antiques for string quartet, 1975 * musica da camera, 1978/79 * Psychogramme for Orchestra * SESTETTO * Canti per Violoncello e Piano * trio…torso…alla…rondo…alla…torso… * mit groteskem riesenbogen … trüb ein pizzicato for viola solo, 1984 * KONTRAKTION“ Kontra-aktionen für kammerensemble, 1988. * syndrom for chamber ensemble * Retour pour grande orchestra References Further reading * Mětšk, Juro. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch. 4th edition, Deutscher Komponis

Justin Heinrich Knecht

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Justinus or Justin Heinrich Knecht (30 September 1752 – 1 December 1817) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. Biography He was born in Biberach an der Riss, where he learnt to play the organ, keyboard, violin, and singing. He attended a Lutheran collegiate institution in Esslingen am Neckar from 1768 to 1771, when he became Lutheran preceptor and music director in Biberach, which was a free imperial city until 1803, and had a rich cultural life. He became organist of St Martin’s church in 1792, which was used simultaneously by Lutherans and Catholics. He led an energetic, busy musical life; he composed for the theatre and church, organised subscription concerts, and taught music theory, acoustics, aesthetics, composition, and instruments at the Gymnasium, which was affiliated to the Musikschule in 1806. He went to Stuttgart in December 1806 in the hopes of a post there as Kapellmeister or similar, but after being appointed Direktor beim Orchester by the King of Württemberg in April 1807, he returned in 1808 to his former life in Biberach where he remained for the rest of his life. Works Collections are in the Wieland-Archiv, Biberach, and the Kick collection at the

Justus Hermann Wetzel

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Justus Hermann Wetzel (11 March 1879 – 6 December 1973) was a German composer, writer and music educator. Life Wetzel was born in Kyritz, Brandenburg, the son of a postal clerk. After his Abitur, which he passed in Potsdam in 1897, he studied biology in Berlin, Marburg and Munich from 1897 to 1901. In Marburg he also studied philosophy with Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. In 1901 he received his doctorate there with a zoological thesis. He then turned to music and deepened his knowledge with private studies in Berlin. The Friedrich-Kiel-Gesellschaft recorded him as a student of Friedrich Kiel. He made his living as a music consultant for various daily newspapers. From 1905 to 1907 he taught at the Riemann Conservatory in Stettin. In 1910 he finally moved to Berlin, where he first taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium and in 1926 he moved to the Royal Music Institute of Berlin in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Although Wetzel lived a relatively secluded life and was hardly committed to his work, a large circle of friends and admirers surrounded him. These included not only musicians, but also visual artists such as Emil Orlik and his pupil Gunter Böhmer, the poet Hermann Hesse a

Justus Weinreich

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Justus Weinreich (May 24, 1858, Kassel - January 19, 1927, Baden-Baden) was a German composer and musician (violinist and violist). He probably received his first lessons from his father Johann Georg Weinreich, an oboist serving in the Elector’s personal bodyguard regiment. After 1873, Weinreich worked as second violin in Kassel’s court theater orchestra. Years of traveling followed. From 1876 to 1878 he worked as 1st violinist in Bonn and in 1879–1880 in Königsberg. Weinreich then moved to Baden-Baden. At the beginning of 1883 he joined the Karlsruhe court orchestra as a viola player, rising in 1885 to court musician, in 1893 to 3rd solo viola, and in 1914 to chamber musician. From 1890 to 1923 was solo violist of Badische Staatskapelle, Karlsruhe (Baden State Symphony Orchestra; founded in 1662). Vision problems and a chronic neuralgic complaint forced him to quit his post in 1917. He returned to Baden-Baden where he died on January 19, 1927. Compositions His compositions include: * 3 Duets (G/C/d), op. 5, for 2 Violas * 3 Suites (Es/F/G), for Solo Viola (Premier recording by Roland Glassl) * Serenade in D for Violin and Viola * 2 string quartets * 18 Etudes for Viola *“Major and

Karl Adolf Lorenz

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Karl Adolf Lorenz (13 August 1837 – 3 March 1923) was a German conductor, composer, and music pedagogue. Career Born in Köslin, his family moved to Stettin where he attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium (de) (a school) for 16 years. During those 16 years, Lorenz studied music with composer Heinrich Trieste (1808–1885). In 1857, Lorenz went on to study at the Humboldt University of Berlin, earning a PhD in philosophy in 1861. In philosophy he was highly influenced by his study of Arthur Schopenhauer. In music, he studied counterpoint with Siegfried Dehn, piano and composition with Friedrich Kiel and instrumentation with choirmaster Wenzel Gährich, all at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Lorenz remained in Berlin until 1864, during which he had several conducting engagements of the Meixnerschen glee club. In 1864, Lorenz moved to Strasbourg to conduct the Musical Society. Two years later he became professor at his alma mater, the Marienstiftsgymnasium. Three years before the death of Carl Loewe in 1869, Lorenz became his successor as music director and organist at the Jakobikirche, Stettin.; and he also became an opera critic. Lorenz died in 1923 in Stettin. Until 1945 Lorenz had been

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

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Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century. Life Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts. He was much affected in his early political development by the events of the unsuccessful Workers’ Revolution in Bavaria that followed the collapse of the German empire at the end of World War I (see Bavarian Soviet Republic). He remained an idealistic socialist for the rest of his life. At the Munich Academy in the 1920s, Hartmann studied with Joseph Haas, a pupil of Max Reger, and later received intellectual stimulus and encouragement from the conductor Hermann Scherchen, an ally of the Schoenberg school, with whom he had a nearly lifelong mentor-protégé relationship. He voluntarily withdrew completely from musical life in Germany during the Nazi era, while remaining in Germany, and refused to allow his works to be played there. An early symphonic poem, Mise

Karl August Krebs

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Karl August Krebs (16 January 1804 as Karl August Miedke – 16 May 1880), also Carl Miedtke, was a German pianist, composer, conductor and Kapellmeister. Life Krebs was born in Nuremberg in 1804. His parents were the actor Carl Miedke and the singer Charlotte Miedke, née Pfister, who both worked at the Staatstheater Nürnberg there. In 1805, the family moved to Stuttgart, where his mother died just one year later. Karl August was adopted, with his father’s consent, by the court singer Johann Baptist Krebs and his wife Maria Anna, and subsequently took the name of his foster father. His foster father’s activities at the and his many contacts in artistic circles encouraged Karl August’s interest in music. As early as his sixth year, he played piano concertos by Mozart, Dussek and Ries, taught by Johann Nepomuk Schelble. His talent for composition, nurtured by his adoptive father, also caused a great stir and he was counted among the child prodigies of his time. In 1825, at the age of 21, he went to Vienna, studied with Ignaz von Seyfried composition and improved his piano playing skills. He distinguished himself as a piano virtuoso and on 1 April 1826 became third Kapellmeister at the

Karl Gottfried Brunotte

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Karl Gottfried Brunotte (born 2 June 1958 in Frankfurt) is a German composer and music philosopher, particularly noted for his contributions to church music. Life Brunotte studied music sociology, music psychology, ancient languages, aesthetics, piano, organ, harpsichord, violin, viola, recorder, singing, conducting, and musical composition, as well as electronic music, with (amongst others) Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Hans Peter Haller, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1974 to 1977 he held the position of Cantor at the Christuskirche in Bad Homburg, where he later was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (1982–1985). From 1980 to 1986 he was Senior Lecturer at the International Vacation Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, and a member of the Darmstadt Institute for Music and Musical Education. In the 1984–85 year he was Rapporteur für Ernste Musik at the Landsmusikrat Hessen. Once a Jesuit novice, in 1987 he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 1993 he has worked at the University of Frankfurt in the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik, as well as at the Fachhochschule F

Karl Heinz Schäfer

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Karl Heinz Schäfer (17 March 1932 – 12 October 1996) was a German-born composer and arranger who worked mainly in France. Life and career Born in Frankfurt to Jewish parents, he moved with his mother during World War II to the United States, where he learned piano and flute. He returned to Europe to study philosophy and linguistics at Heidelberg University, and settled in Paris, France, in the early 1950s. He was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris, and in the evenings played piano in nightclubs, where he worked for a while as an accompanist to Stan Getz. He then spent time touring American military bases, and developed a taste for Arabic and Indian music. From the 1960s, he worked as an arranger in the French recording industry, for singers including Adamo and Charles Aznavour, and the band Rockets, and started working with Michel Magne on film soundtracks. He worked on many soundtracks in the 1970s, notably including László Szabó’s obscure 1973 film Les Gants Blancs du Diable, which has been reissued and excerpts from which have been included in later compilations of French music. Other soundtracks to which he contributed included Tender Dracula (1974), Zi

Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda

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Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (also Carl Benda), (baptised 2 May 1748 – 15 March 1836) was a German violinist and composer of Bohemian origin. Life Karl Benda was the younger of two sons of the violinist and composer Franz Benda. His godparents were the margraves Friedrich Heinrich (Brandenburg-Schwedt) and Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Brandenburg-Schwedt as well as the Russian envoy Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk. Like his sisters Wilhelmine, Maria Carolina, Sophie Anna Henriette, Juliane and his brother Friedrich, he received music lessons from his father Franz Benda. In 1766, Karl was accepted in the Hofkapelle. As a violin virtuoso, especially in his performance of adagios, Karl Benda closely resembled his father. They were also said to be similar in character, stature and physiognomy. He was also a prized piano teacher; among his students were King Friedrich Wilhelm III as well as his brother Ludwig, who gave him a lifelong patronage. Other students of Karl Benda were Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, the actor and singer and the singer Luise Rudorff, whom he saw performing in the Weimarer Hoftheater in 1792, when he was visiting his sisters Wilhelmine and Maria Carolina. Karl Benda was

Karl Höller

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Karl Höller (25 July 1907 – 14 April 1987) was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition. Biography Karl Höller was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He came from a musical family on both sides: his father Valentin Höller was the Bamberg Cathedral organist for 40 years, and his grandfather and great-grandfather were organists at Würzburg Cathedral. His aunt Gretchen was the first female organist at Würzburg. His mother was a singer, whose father had been a choir director and musician. He showed aptitude for the organ at an early age. He was a choirboy from age six, and he studied piano, organ and cello in Bamberg. He went to the Würzburg Conservatory where he studied composition under Hermann Zilcher; and to the Munich Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Joseph Haas and Waltershausen, organ with Gatscher, and conducting with Siegfried von Hausegger. After taking his composition and organ examinations in 1929, he became a master-class student of Haas. He taught at the Munich Academy (1933–1937), from 1937 in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik (1938–1946), and the Munich Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik) (1949–1972; taking over the compositio

Karl Klindworth

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Karl Klindworth (25 September 183027 July 1916) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher. He was one of Franz Liszt’s pupils and later one of his closest disciples and friends, being also on friendly terms with composer Richard Wagner, of whom he was an admirer. He was highly praised by fellow musicians, including Wagner himself and Edward Dannreuther. Among his pupils were Hans von Bülow, Georgy Catoire, and Ethelbert Nevin. Biography Family Klindworth was born in Hanover in 1830 as the son of Carl August Klindworth and Dorothea Wilhelmine (1800–1853), née Lamminger, daughter of court printer Johann Thomas Lamminger (1757–1805). He was the paternal nephew of diplomat and intelligence agent Georg Klindworth and clockmaker Karl Friedrich Felix Klindworth (1788–1851). As a child, the young Klindworth received violin lessons and taught himself to play the piano. As he was not accepted as violin pupil of Louis Spohr, he then joined a traveling theater company as a successful violinist and conductor when he was only 17. In 1850, he took over the leadership of the Neue Liedertafel in Hanover. In the summer of 1852, Klindworth went to Weimar where

Karl Klingler

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Karl Klingler (7 December 1879 – 18 March 1971) was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer. Life Early years Karl Klingler was born in Strasbourg, at that time in Germany, the fifth of his parents’ six recorded children. His father, Theodor Klingler (1845–1905), was a professional viola player who taught at the conservatory there. Klingler began giving concerts at five years of age. In 1897, when he concluded his schooling in Strasbourg, he relocated to Berlin where he was a student at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK) where, now aged 17, he studied the violin with Joseph Joachim, an inspiring teacher and, very soon, a close personal friend. During the years before the war, he was receiving glowing reviews from the critics, notably in the United States in 1911 for a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Welsh cellist Arthur Williams and the Galician pianist Artur Schnabel. His career was interrupted in July 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War: he was called up to fight as a soldier. Towards the end of the war he was able to transfer to musical work in support of the troops. He arranged regul

Karl Komma

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Karl Michael Komma (24 December 1913, Asch, Austria-Hungary (now Aš, Czech Republic) – 23 September 2012, Memmingen, Germany) was a German composer and music-publicist. Life Komma studied at the German Music Academy in Prague with George Szell, Fidelio F. Finke and before he went to Heidelberg in 1934 to study music with Heinrich Besseler. Komma graduated in 1936 with a dissertation on Jan Zach. During this time he also conducted composition studies with Wolfgang Fortner, who became a conductor for Komma (Donaueschingen, premiere of the “German Dances” for string orchestra, 1939). From 1940 to 1945, Komma was the head of the music school in what is now Liberec, and was awarded for his achievements. He also appeared in 1935 with a cantata for a NSDStB-Kundgebung in appearance, composed by a jubilant chorus for the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Hitler in 1938 and came with a pamphlet against Gustav Mahler in 1939 ( in Musik im NS-Staat), 1982, and Macht und Musik, 1992). In 1952, he received the Nordgau Culture Prize of the city of Amberg in the category of music. Komma, from 1954 to 1989, taught music history, music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and worke

Karl Ludwig Drobisch

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Karl Ludwig Drobisch (24 December 1803 – 20 August 1854) was a German composer, music theorist and church musician. He wrote an oratorio about Saint Boniface, but it was not successful, which made him turn to composing sacred music including 18 masses. Biography Karl Ludwig Drobisch was born on 24 December 1803 in Leipzig to Karl Wilhelm Drobisch, a Leipzig city clerk, and his second wife, Renata Dorothee Wilhelmine Klotz. He was the younger brother of Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch. The oratorio was not successful, and he traveled to Munich to study at the libraries there. He left Munich in 1837 and took the position of music director at the Church of St. Anne in Augsburg. He was not employed there long, soon resigning in order to entirely focus on composing. Drobisch died 20 August 1854 in Augsburg. Compositions Drobisch wrote one oratorio in 1825–1826, which was not successful. Following this his style changed, and he focused on works of a purer religious nature, including 18 masses as well as graduals, offertories and psalm settings. References

Karl Ludwig Gerok

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Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Gerok (27 January 1906 – 28 June 1975) was a German organist, composer and organ teacher. Career Karl Ludwig Gerok was born in Oberfischach, the grandson of , a Stuttgart prelate and preacher (Oberhofprediger) at the Schlosskirche, the court church of the Stuttgart palace, and the author of Palmblätter. Karl Ludwig Gerok studied organ at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart under organist Arnold Strebel and then with Karl Straube in Leipzig. From 1930, Gerok was cathedral organist in Halberstadt. He worked from 1946 as an organ teacher at the School of Church Music (Kirchenmusikschule) in Esslingen am Neckar and later at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart where he taught Künstlerisches und liturgisches Orgelspiel (Concert and church organ playing). Among his students were composer Edgar Rabsch (de) (1928–1990) as well as Helmuth Rilling. He was the author of the standard work Lehrgang der Orgelimprovisation (Course of organ improvisation, 1976). From 1948, Gerok was organist at and from 1958 to 1969 served as organist of the collegiate church Stiftskirche, Stuttgart. During this time he was also a significant contributor and editor of the collection Württembergisches Choral

Karl Marx (composer)

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Karl Julius Marx (12 November 1897 – 8 May 1985) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Karl Marx was born in Munich, the son of Josef Marx and his wife Emilie, née Eheberg. After early violin and piano lessons, Marx first studied natural sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1916. His encounter with Carl Orff, with whom he took private composition lessons after World War I, was decisive in determining his choice to turn to music professionally. From 1920 to 1922, Marx studied composition with Anton Beer-Walbrunn and conducting with and Siegmund von Hausegger at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich. From 1924 to 1935, Marx was solo repetiteur in Felix von Kraus’s singing class. From 1935 to 1939, he led his own interpretation class for lieder and oratorio singers at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where he also taught harmony and form theory from 1929 to 1939. From 1928 to 1939, he conducted the choir of the Munich Bachverein (until 1931 together with Edwin Fischer and until 1933 with Carl Orff). During this time, his first settings of texts by Rainer Maria Rilke were composed, and Marx had his first great success with Rilke’s motet Werkleute sind wir

Karl Merz

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Karl Merz (September 10, 1834 – January 30, 1890) was an American composer, author, editor, and arranger of German descent. Biography Merz was born September 10, 1834, in Bensheim, near Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. . He received his early musical instruction from his father, a violinist and organist at the church in their hometown. But for the most part he is considered self-taught. By the age of eight or nine he was playing violin in a quartet club which met at the residence of Baron of Rodenstein. He is also known to have frequently played at “musical gatherings” at the castle of the baron of Rodenstein. At the age of eleven he had “assumed his father’s duties as organist” at the church. After returning to the North, around September 1861 he became a professor of music at Oxford Female College in Oxford, Ohio. He started his career as a musical writer in 1868 and made contributions to Brainard’s Musical World. He became known for his “musical hints.” As his popularity rose he was made assistant editor and in 1873 he became the sole editor. During his career he wrote a vast number of musical pieces consisting of operettas, sacred pieces, choruses, songs, piano solos, waltzes, dance

Karl Scharnweber

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Karl Scharnweber (born 1950) in Rostock is a German church musician, Jazz musician, and composer. Life After his school years in Rostock, Scharnweber began studying church music at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle in 1969. From 1973, he worked as a church musician in various churches in Mecklenburg. In addition to this task, which he held part-time at the inner-city parish of Rostock from 1997 to 2016, he devotes himself to composing and performing new arrangements on various theological texts. As early as the 1970s, Scharnweber worked with the Weber Trio to perform his own jazz compositions. In 1987, he founded a trio by the name of, ChoralConcert with (tenor saxophone, flute) and (guitars), in order to be able to realise his musical ideas. The texts for his works are mainly provided by the theology professor from Rostock, with further texts by . The works reach beyond church music and also deal with historical and contemporary critical themes. Scharnweber is co-founder of the association Canticum novum, which supports Reinmuth’s and Scharnweber’s work and enables a continuous work. Numerous concert tours have taken Scharnweber to various countries in Europe and

Karl Schuberth

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Karl (also Carl) Eduard Schuberth (; 25 February 1811 – 22 July 1863) was a German composer, conductor, and cellist. Life Schuberth was born in Magdeburg, studying piano with his father, Gottlob, and cello with L. Hesse in Magdeburg. He completed his studies under Friedrich Dotzauer. He toured in 1828–29, after that becoming the first cellist in the Magdeburg theater orchestra. Schuberth commenced extensive tours in Europe, funded by his brother Julius. In autumn 1835 Schuberth settled as a solo cellist in the court of Saint Petersburg after his tour (having gone to Hamburg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Paris, and London), becoming music director of the University of Saint Petersburg and conductor in the court, where he introduced the works of Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, and other composers. The cellist was highly admired by the Saint Petersburg society (among them the young Anton Rubinstein). He settled in Zürich in 1855. In May 1863, Schuberth made a trip to Zürich, where he died on 22 July. Works The composer wrote cello, quartets, quintets, and octet works for strings. He published two cello concerti, Variations for Cello and Orchestra, an octet, three quintets (the third

Karl-Ernst Sasse

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Karl-Ernst Sasse (December 5, 1923 – November 12, 2006) was a German composer and conductor. He was considered one of the most important film composers in East Germany. His life’s work as a composer includes numerous stage music as well as more than 500 film soundtracks for various DEFA films. In the 1960s and 1970s he composed the music for several DEFA Indian films and silent film classics that made him famous. From 1959 to 1964 he was chief conductor of the DEFA Symphony Orchestra Potsdam-Babelsberg and from 1964 to 1967 of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle. Early life and education Karl-Ernst Sasse was born in Bremen in 1923 as the son of the music educator and conductor Ernst Sasse and his wife Herta, a chemical assistant. Even as a child he received massive artistic support from his parents. At the age of seven he received private lessons and learned to play various musical instruments such as piano, flute, viola and saxophone at an early age. At the age of ten he composed his own pieces for the first time and was self-taught with music theory. He started his school career in Bückeburg, Lower Saxony, where he attended the Gymnasium Adolphinum from 1934 to 1936. He th

Karl-Rudi Griesbach

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Karl-Rudi Griesbach (14 June 1916 – 8 May 2000) was a German composer, librettist, dramaturge, music critic and academic teacher. Life Born in Breckerfeld, Westphalia, * Orchestral work ** Kleine Sinfonie (1950) ** Afrikanische Sinfonie (1963) ** Sinfonie (67) in memory of the Great Socialist October Revolution (1967) ** Ostinati for orchestra (1976) ** Kontakte for orchestra (1978) ** Szene for orchestra ** Konzertante Musik für Klavier und Kammerorchester (1964) * Stage works ** Kolumbus, opera (1958) ** Der Schwarze – der Weiße − und die Frau, opera (1963) ** Belle und Armand, opera (1988) ** Aulus und sein Papagei, opera (1982) ** Kleider machen Leute, ballet (1954) ** Schneewittchen, ballet (1956) ** Reinecke Fuchs, ballet (1977) ** Samson, ballet (c. 1980) * Vocal music ** Planetarisches Manifest, cantata after Johannes R. Becher for soprano, baritone, piano, choir and orchestra (1962) ** Trinke Mut des reinen Lebens, for baritone, female choir and orchestra based on texts by Goethe (1981) ** Song cycle, texts by Shakespeare, Brecht, and others ** Folk song arrangements * Piano and chamber music ** String Quartet (1977) ** Musik für Flöte und Streichtrio (1953) ** Kleine Olym

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having been called the “father of electronic music”, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization. Stockhausen was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, later studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. As one of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular music. His works, composed over a period of nearly sixty years, eschew traditional forms. In addition to electronic musicboth with and without live performersthey range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments, songs, chamber music, choral and orchestral music, to a cycle of seven full-length operas. His theoretical and other writings comprise ten large

Karola Obermueller

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Karola Obermueller (born 21 March 1977, Darmstadt) is a German composer and teacher. Life Obermueller began her training at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. She studied composition with of the Meistersinger-Konservatorium and the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, Theo Brandmüller of the Hochschule für Musik Saar, and Adriana Hölszky of the Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2010, she completed a doctorate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied with Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, and Harrison Birtwistle. She has taught at Wellesley College and the Young Composers Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since 2010, Obermueller has been one of the directors of the composition program at the University of New Mexico. A portrait CD of hers was released as part of the WERGO Contemporary Music Edition by the German Music Council. as well as awards and commissions from the Fromm Foundation commission, the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and the Bohemians New York Musicians Club. She did a residency at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig. Obermueller frequently collaborates with her husband, American composer, Pe

Kaspar Fürstenau

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Kaspar Fürstenau (26 February 177211 May 1819) was a German flautist and composer. He wrote about sixty compositions for his instrument among rondos, fantasias, suites and concertos. Together with his son Anton Bernhard Fürstenau he traveled extensively around Europe always with acclaimed success. Life Kaspar Fürstenau was born in Münster and received his first musical instruction from his father, an oboist of the court orchestra of the Bishopric of Münster. After his father’s death, his employer, the prince bishop of Münster Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels, organized further training for him with the bassoon teacher Bernhard Anton Romberg. Fürstenau was booked in 1788 by Maximilian Friedrich’s successor, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, in whose court chapel he stayed. Then the flautist Josef Antoni became among other things his teacher. From 1793, Furstenau was again sent by his employer on study trips to the courts of London, Paris and Vienna, to become a member of the court chapel of Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, who was for some time his teacher from 1794. He died in Oldenburg. Selected works * Flute Concerto * Pot-Pourri by Rodolphe Kreutzer arr. by

Kerstin Thieme

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Kerstin Thieme (23 June 1909, as Karl Thieme – 26 November 2001) was a German composer, composition teacher, music educator and music writer. Life and career Thieme was born in Bad Schlema, Ore Mountains. After her Abitur at the in Aue, she studied music education and composition at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Hermann Grabner from 1929 to 1934. Her fellow students included Hugo Distler and Miklós Rózsa. In 1933, she successfully passed the Staatsexamen for teaching at secondary schools and received her doctorate in 1934 with a thesis on the topic of “Klangstil des Mozartorchesters”. Her first teaching activities in Leipzig followed. From 1939 to 1945, Thieme was obliged to serve as a soldier on the front in the Second World War and later became a prisoner of war in Italy. After her political escape from the Soviet occupation zone in 1948, she obtained a position as Studienrat at the Labenwolf-Oberrealschule in Nuremberg, an arts grammar school, from 1950 to 1951. From 1956 to 1960, she was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, where she taught music theory. From 1960 to 1974, she was a lecturer in the Department of Music Education at the Friedrich-Al

Kim Planert

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Kim Planert is a German film and television composer based in Los Angeles. He has composed music for over 230 episodes of prime-time television shows and feature films. His collection of TV credits include: eight seasons on the score for ABC’s television show, Castle, Timeless (NBC), Missing (ABC), The Whispers (ABC series produced by Steven Spielberg), The McKenna Files (Mark Gordon, ABC Pilot), The Unit (CBS), Lie To Me (FOX), The Gates (ABC), The Chicago Code (FOX), Last Resort (ABC) and Rush (USA Network) His film credits include I Into The Blue 2: The Reef. A Reason and Chasing Grace. Feature documentary film credits include Skid Row Marathon, and The Game: Gambling Between Life and Death, which had its theatrical premiere at the Hof International Film Festival in 2021, followed by the television premiere on the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Planert has also written music for video games such as Final Fantasy’s Agni’s Philosophy E3 Trailer and the spatial audio score for Oculus’ virtual reality (VR) game DAVID. In 2022, Studio Babelsberg launched their new image trailer for which Planert contributed the music. The film and music can also be seen and heard in an exhibition in one of Ge

Klaus Doldinger

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Klaus Doldinger (; 12 May 1936 – 16 October 2025) was a German saxophonist known for his work in jazz and as a film music composer. He founded the group Passport in 1971; they played in different formations for decades and became successful internationally. Doldinger composed several filmscores, including Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (1981) and The NeverEnding Story (1984). He is known for writing the theme music of Tatort, running on television since 1970. Life and career Early life and work Doldinger was born on 12 May 1936 in Berlin. The family moved to Vienna when he was age four; his mother moved with him and his brother to Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, where he heard jazz first at age nine, played by American soldiers. He heard his first jazz concert there with the Lionel Hampton big band in 1952. In addition to his studies, he played soprano saxophone in Düsseldorf bars, sometimes together with Günter Grass, They released their first LP in 1963, Jazz Made In Germany, with producer Siggi Loch, who became a friend for life. The band was also praised for their intimate interplay. They regularly performed live and toured continents such as Asia, Europe, and South America, averaging a

Klaus Pringsheim Sr.

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Klaus Pringsheim Sr. (24 July 1883 – 7 December 1972) was a German-born composer, conductor, music-educator and the twin brother of Katharina “Katia” Pringsheim, who married Thomas Mann in 1905. Biography Pringsheim was the son of mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Dohm Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. His son, historian (23 May 1923 – 6 February 2001), attended Bunce Court School, a German Jewish refugee school in Kent, England during World War II. A former pupil of Gustav Mahler, Pringsheim Sr. was invited to Tokyo in 1931 to become professor of music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Known for establishing and propagating Western classical music in Japan, Pringsheim had a great influence on many later Japanese musicians. Among his famous students are Kōmei Abe, Kozaburo Hirai and Isotaro Sugata. See also *Dohm–Mann family tree References

Klaus Schedl

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Klaus Schedl (born 4 January 1966, in Stuttgart) is a German composer. Klaus Schedl studied from 1991 to 1996 composition with Hans-Jürgen von Bose at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In 1993 he founded the piano possibile ensemble for contemporary music. From 1998 he taught at the conservatory of Coimbra. In 2001 he studied on a scholarship of Bavaria at the IRCAM. In 2005 he received a project scholarship from the city of Munich for City Scan München, which was premiered in 2006 as part of the Munich Biennale. In 2010 his opera Tilt, on a libretto by Roland Quitt after the diary of Sir Walter Raleigh, was performed as part of the triple bill entitled Amazonas (with Der Einsturz des Himmels and In Erwartung) at the Munich Biennale, also in São Paulo and Rotterdam. In 2011 his song cycle Les Fleurs du Mal after Charles Baudelaire was premiered. Klaus Schedl is a member of the festival A•DEvantgarde. References External links * * Klaus Schedl Komponist A•DEvantgarde * Klaus Schedl piano possibile * Recent and future performances of Schedl’s operas from Operabase

Klaus Wallrath

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Klaus Wallrath (born 13 May 1959) is a German church musician and composer. He has been responsible for church music at the Basilika St. Margareta in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim from 1987. He has composed especially song motets (Liedmotetten) on Christian hymns, and musicals on Biblical themes for children’s choirs. Compositions have been commissioned for Cologne Cathedral and the Katholikentag. Life Born in Korschenbroich, near Mönchengladbach, as a schoolboy Wallrath was given piano and organ lessons by Franzjosef Franzen (1927–1997). After his Abitur at the , Wallrath studied church music at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf from 1977 to 1982: he was trained in Catholic church music and choral conducting by Heinz Odenthal, and conducting by Hans Kast. He graduated with the post of Kantor. He went on to study piano with Leonore Auerswald, achieving a performing certificate in 1985. * Herr, du bist mein Leben (2018), on “Herr, du bist mein Leben”, for mixed choir, congregation, organ and brass, for Pueri Cantores * Ich sing dir mein Lied (2020), for mixed choir, children’s choir and piano, or organ, or brass, for Stephanie Borkenfeld-Müllers and the choir of * Es führt drei Köni

Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller

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Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller (21 July 1929 – 13 April 2024) was a German musicologist. Life and career Niemöller studied musicology at the University of Cologne from 1950 to 1955. Afterwards he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Nicolaus Wollick and in 1964 his habilitation with Untersuchungen zu Musikpflege und Musikunterricht in den deutschen Lateinschulen vom ausgehenden Middle Ages bis um 1600. In 1969 he was appointed professor. From 1975 to 1983, Niemöller was director of the musicological seminar of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and from 1983 to 1994 director of the musicological institute of the University of Cologne. Niemöller was chairman of the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne and the Robert Schumann Research Centre in Düsseldorf as well as president of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung. From 1976, Niemöller was a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. His focus was on medieval music theory, and on the music history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Niemöller died in Cologne on 13 April 2024, at the age of 94. Publications * Nicolaus Wollick (1480–1541) und sein Musiktraktat, Dissertation Cologn

Kurt Hessenberg

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Kurt Hessenberg (17 August 1908 – 17 June 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Life Kurt Hessenberg was born on 17 August 1908 in Frankfurt, as the fourth and last child of the lawyer Eduard Hessenberg and his wife Emma, née Kugler. Among his ancestors was Heinrich Hoffmann, whose famous children’s book Struwwelpeter Hessenberg was to arrange for children’s choir (op. 49) later in his life. From 1927–1931 Hessenberg studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Among his teachers were Günter Raphael (composition) and Robert Teichmüller (piano). In 1933 Hessenberg became a teacher at the Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main, where he himself had taken his earliest music lessons. In 1940 Hessenberg received the “Nationaler Kompositionspreis” (national prize for composition), joined the NSDAP in 1942, and in 1951 he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Prize of the city of Düsseldorf for his cantata “Vom Wesen und Vergehen” op. 45. Hessenberg was appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in 1953 and taught there until his retirement in 1973. Kurt Hessenberg died in Frankfurt am

Kurt Leimer

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Kurt Leimer (7 September 1920 in Wiesbaden – 20 November 1974 in Vaduz) was a German concert pianist, composer and piano instructor. Life Kurt Leimer demonstrated musical talent from a young age. His great-uncle, Karl Leimer, was instructor to educator Walter Gieseking who together published several piano textbooks. His talent was recognized by Gieseking, Carl Schuricht, and Wilhelm Furtwängler who helped launch his career as a concert pianist. At the age of 18, he received a scholarship to the Berlin Conservatory, where he studied alongside Vladimir Horbowski and Winfried Wolf. The same year, 1938, Leimer made his concert debut in Berlin. In 1939, he continued his studies under Edwin Fischer. During the latter stages of World War II, Leimer was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was imprisoned in Livorno. The wartime injuries of his peers inspired his most familiar work, the Piano Concerto for Left Hand. The work was inspired by a college friend who lost his right arm to a grenade injury. In 1953, Leimer and the Vienna Philharmonic premiered the work with Herbert von Karajan conducting. In 1955, he premiered his 4th Piano Concerto in C minor with Leopold Stokowski conducting at Carneg

Kurt Schindler

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Kurt Schindler (17 February 1882 – 16 November 1935) was a German-born American composer and conductor. Biography He was born on 17 February 1882. He came to the United States in 1905 to serve as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, and founded the MacDowell Chorus. He was married to the singer, writer and editor Ursula Greville. He died on 16 November 1935. Legacy Much of his choral output consisted of folksong arrangements, though he composed original pieces as well. Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal/Música Y Poesía Popular De España Y Portugal by Kurt Schindler was published by the New York Hispanic Institute in the US in 1941. Inline references Sources * *Israel J. Katz: “In the Footsteps of Kurt Schindler: Ballad Collecting in Soria,” in A. Sánchez Romeralo, D. Catalán, and S.G. Armistead, eds., El romancero hoy: Nuevas fronteras (Madrid: Cátedra-Seminario Menéndez Pidal - Univ. of California Press, 1979), pp. 257–66 (with Samuel G.Armistead). *_____: “Melodic Survivals? Kurt Schindler and the Tune of Alfonso’s Cantiga ‘Rosa das rosas’ in Oral Tradition,” in Robert I. Burns, ed., Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth- Ce

Kurt Schwaen

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Kurt Schwaen (June 21, 1909 in Katowice – October 9, 2007 in Berlin) was a German composer. Professional career Schwaen studied piano, organ and composition under Fritz Lubrich. From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, where his teachers included Curt Sachs and Arnold Schering. In 1930 he met Hanns Eisler who had a profound impact on his compositional style. After becoming active in an anti-fascist student group, he joined the Communist Party of Germany; from 1935 to 1938 he was imprisoned because of his political views. After the war he returned to Berlin and spent much of his time working to rebuild the musical culture of that city by writing compositions for amateur music groups, choirs, music schools and chamber ensembles, publishing and serving as a musical advisor. Between 1953 and 1956 he worked with Bertolt Brecht who had a profound impact on his future compositions. He also worked with Ernst Busch. He composed in several genres, producing a cantata for children entitled King Midas. In 1961 he became a member of the DDR Akademie der Künste, where he was head of the music department from 1965 to 1970. From 1962 to 1978 he was president of the E

Kurt Striegler

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Kurt Emil Striegler (7 January 1882 – 4 August 1958) was a German composer and director. Life and career Born in Dresden, the son of a chamber musician at the Saxon State Theatre, he attended the Royal Saxon Kapellknaben Institute in Dresden and was appointed Kapellmeisteraspirant at the Dresdner Hofkapelle by Ernst von Schuch in 1905. In 1912, he was appointed Kapellmeister. For more than 50 years, he was committed to Dresden’s musical life as a teacher, conductor, musician and composer. From 1939 to 1945, he directed the , the Dresden Men’s Singing Society and was docent for composition, conductor training and instrumentation teaching at the orchestra school of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Strieglers’ students include the composer, writer, librettist and director Robert Bosshart, the conductor Rolf Kleinert and the composer and conductor Herbert Trantow. Striegler was a member of the NSDAP and in 1933 succeeded Paul Büttner, director of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and Fritz Busch, general music director of the Semperoper, both of whom had been forced out of office by the National Socialist rulers. In 1950, Striegler moved to Munich. In 1953, the painter a

Kurt Thomas (composer)

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Kurt Georg Hugo Thomas (25 May 1904 – 31 March 1973) was a German composer, conductor and music educator. Life Thomas was born in Tönning. The family lived from 1910 in Lennep where he attended the from 1913 to 1922. Completing with the Abitur on 21 April 1922, he studied law and music at the Leipzig University. He completed his studies in 1925 and worked as a lecturer of music theory at the Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. He composed a Mass in A minor as his Op. 1, which earned him the Beethoven Prize of the Preußische Akademie der Künste in 1927. Initiated by Karl Straube, he was appointed a teacher of composition and leader of the Kantorei (chorale) of the (Institute of church music). The choir was named “Kurt-Thomas-Kantorei” and toured in Germany. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1940, number 7.463.935. External links * * * * Musensöhne documentary about Kurt Thomas and the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main (1939–45) (90 minutes), WDR 2012 * Kurt Thomas (Conductor, Thomaskantor, Composer) Bach Cantatas Website * Kurt Thomas (1904-1973), a remarkable Thomas Kantor and Bach conductor authenticsound.org *

Kurt Weill

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Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he wrote his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which includes the ballad “Mack the Knife”. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in the United States two years later. Settling in New York, he made a substantial contribution to American musical theater through works such as Lady in the Dark and Street Scene. Family and childhood Weill was born on March 2, 1900, the third of four children to Albert Weill (1867–1950) and Emma Weill (née Ackermann; 1872–1955). He grew up in a religious Jewish family in the “Sandvorstadt”, the Jewish quarter in Dessau in Saxony (now part of Saxony-Anhalt), where his father was a cantor. At the age of twelve, Weill started taking piano lessons and made his first attempts at

Laci Boldemann

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Laci Boldemann (24 April 1921 – 18 August 1969) was a Swedish composer of German and Finnish descent. Life and career Boldemann was born in Helsinki. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1937 to 1939, both conducting (with Henry Wood) and piano, where he continued his studies in Stockholm at the outbreak of war in 1939 with Gunnar de Frumerie. In 1941 his citizenship forced Boldemann to join the German army and fight in the Soviet Union, Poland and Italy; he was later imprisoned in the US and returned to Sweden via France and Germany. References

Lajos Dudas

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Lajos Dudas (; born February 18, 1941, in Budapest, Hungary) is a German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist and composer. Biography Dudas studied at the and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He then appeared on concert tours throughout in Europe, not only as a jazz and rock musician but also as a soloist in works such as Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet, Igor Stravinsky’s Solo Pieces for Clarinet and Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone. He won international recognition, above all, with his successful composition ‘Urban Blues’ at the 11. International Jazz Competition in Monaco in 1982. In the 1980s he was ranked high year after year in the ‘Top People Poll’ the famous International Jazz Forum. After his period as a freelance musician (1963–73) Dudas has been a lecturer (School of Music in Neuss/GER) and also taught from 1975 to 1985 at the Rheinland College of Education. In addition, since 1976, after a spell concentrating on classical music, he was worked with well-known musicians on recordings, radio productions and tours: they include Karl Berger, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tom van der Geld, Charles Tolliver, Howard Johnson, Attila Zoller, Philipp v

Lena Stein-Schneider

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Helene Meyerstein (5 January 1874 – 17 June 1958) was a German composer, singer, and pianist who toured throughout the United States during the 1920s and was interned in the Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia) concentration camp during World War II. She performed and published her music under the name Lena Stein-Schneider. Life Stein-Schneider was born in Leipzig to Pauline and Moritz Meyerstein. She studied piano and voice at the Leipzig Conservatory, then married Alfred Schneider, a merchant in Berlin. They had four children. Stein-Schneider composed several patriotic pieces during World War I and dedicated them to the socially-prominent people who attended her musical salons in Berlin. She wrote both the music and libretti for several operas, and presented concerts throughout the United States in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1928. Her opera Composer’s Dream was performed at RKO Keith’s Theater in New York. Inspired by the Rubenstein Choir she saw in New York, Stein-Schneider founded a Rubenstein Club in Berlin, Stein-Schneider was Jewish and therefore banned from performing in public after the Nazis came to power. In 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where sh

Leni Alexander

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Helene Sara Alexander Pollack (; 8 June 1924 – 7 August 2005) was a German-Chilean modernist composer who was among the first to experiment with electronic music in Chile. She fled to Chile in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime in Germany and eventually became a naturalised Chilean citizen in 1951. Alexander was also known for her efforts to promote Chilean and Latin American music across Europe, in addition to her musical educational schemes in Chile. Early life and education Helene Sara Alexander was born on 8 June 1924 in Breslau, Province of Lower Silesia (present-day Wrocław, Poland) to a Jewish family. Alexander’s father, Max Alexander (1898–1962), was a publishing executive and her mother, Ilse Pollack (1894–1964), was an opera singer. Alexander grew up in Hamburg where she first studied piano. In April 1939, Alexander, her mother and step-father fled Nazi Germany on one of the last German ships destined to Santiago. On 28 October 1940, Nazi regime stripped Alexander of her German citizenship. Alexander later studied psychology at the University of Chile, where she specialized Montessori method of teaching for children with disabilities. During this period Alexander developed he

Leo Blech

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Leo Blech (21 April 1871 – 25 August 1958) was a German opera composer and conductor who is perhaps most famous for his work at the Königliches Opernhaus (later the Berlin State Opera / Staatsoper Unter den Linden) from 1906 to 1937, and later as the conductor of Berlin’s Städtische Oper from 1949 to 1953. Blech was known for his reliable, clear, and elegant performances, especially of works by Wagner, Verdi, and Bizet’s Carmen (which he conducted over 600 times), and for his sensitivity as an accompanist. Early life and education Blech was born to a Jewish family in Aachen, Rhenish Prussia. After attending the Hochschule in Berlin where he studied piano with Ernst Rudorff and composition from Woldemar Bargiel, he studied privately with Engelbert Humperdinck. Career After working briefly in sales, he landed a position conducting at the Stadttheater Aachen in 1893. From 1899 to 1906, he conducted at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague before moving to the Königliches Opernhaus in Berlin. In 1913, he was promoted to General Music Director. Between 1923 and 1926, he took various positions at opera houses in Berlin and Vienna, including the Deutsches Opernhaus, the Volksoper Berlin a

Leo Leux

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Leo Leux (7 March 1893 – 8 September 1951) was a German composer of film scores. He began working on films during the Weimar Republic, following the introduction of sound films. During the Nazi era, Leux worked largely on entertainment films such as Truxa (1937) as well more ideogically-oriented films such as Venus on Trial (1941). He continued to work in cinema following World War II, right up to his death in 1951. Selected filmography * Susanne Cleans Up (1930) * A Woman Branded (1931) * Durand Versus Durand (1931) * My Heart Longs for Love (1931) * The Love Hotel (1933) * Little Dorrit (1934) * The Double (1934) * The Switched Bride (1934) * At Blonde Kathrein’s Place (1934) * The Young Count (1935) * His Late Excellency (1935) * Knockout (1935) * A Doctor of Conviction (1936) * Maria the Maid (1936) * The Unsuspecting Angel (1936) * The Bashful Casanova (1936) * Truxa (1937) * The Ways of Love Are Strange (1937) * My Son the Minister (1937) * The Beaver Coat (1937) * Star of the Circus (1938) * Adventure in Love (1938) * Two Women (1938) * The Golden Mask (1939) * Robert and Bertram (1939) * My Daughter Doesn’t Do That (1940) * Venus on Trial (1941) * My Friend Josephine (1942)

Leo Schulz

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Leo Schulz (March 28, 1865 – August 12, 1944 ) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American cellist. Biography Schulz was born in Poznań, the then Kingdom of Prussia, currently Poland. His grandfather, a bandmaster in the Prussian army, was originally named Soltys but was obliged to adopt the German name Schultz. As a child he toured Germany as a pianist along with his sister, a violinist. At 13 attended the Royal Academic High School of Music in Berlin, where he studied under Robert Hausmann, Richard Barth, Woldermar Bargiel, Friedrich Kiel, and Joseph Joachim. He was a principal cellist in Berlin as well as in the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig from 1886 to 1889. In 1889 Schulz moved to Boston to take the post of principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was professor of the New England Conservatory. He became a United States citizen in 1893. He was succeeded by Alfred Wallenstein. While in New York, he was also president of the New York Tonkünstler, played in the Mannes String Quartet and the Margulies Trio. He taught at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York and at Yale University. In 1906 he started his own Leo Schulz Quartet. In the 1920s, with Mikh

Leon Jessel

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Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel (22 January 1871 – 4 January 1942), was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, also known as The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote hundreds of light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music. He achieved considerable acclaim with a number of his operettas — in particular Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl), which remains popular to this day. Because Jessel was a Jew by birth (he converted to Christianity at the age of 23), with the rise of Nazism in the late 1920s, his composing virtually came to an end, and his musical works, which had been very popular, were suppressed and nearly forgotten. Early life and family Leon Jessel was born in the eastern German city of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), in 1871, the son of Jewish merchant Samuel Jessel and his American wife Mary. Leon converted to Christianity in 1894 — the same year he premiered his first operetta Die Brautwerbung (The Courtship) — in order to marry Clara Louis

Leonhard Lechner

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Leonhard Lechner (also Leonard, 15539 September 1606) was a German composer, kapellmeister, tenor and music editor who was taught by Orlando de Lassus. He added Athesinus to his signature, referring to his origin in today’s South Tyrol. His last positions were at the court of court of Stuttgart. He is regarded as a “leading German composer of choral music in the later 16th century”. While many of his works are lost, a Passion, many expressive songs, and a song cycle are extant. The complete works were published by Bärenreiter in 14 volumes. Life Lechner was born in South Tyrol in 1553. He died on 9 September 1606 in Stuttgart. In 1593, he composed a Passion, Historia der Passion and Leidens unsers einigin Erlösers und Seligmachers Jesu Christi, in Württemberg. The 1593 work has five movements and is for a four-part mixed choir with a German text based on the four Gospels. Barely any of his compositions were printed during his lifetime. Some manuscripts are extant while many of his works are lost. His swan song was Deutsche Sprüche von Leben und Tod (German sentences of life and death). Reception The Larousse Encyclopedia Of Music stated, “His music is remarkable for its dramatic po

Leopold Damrosch

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Leopold Damrosch (October 22, 1832 – February 15, 1885) was a German American orchestral conductor, composer, violinist, and teacher. He was the patriarch of the Damrosch family, which includes Frank Damrosch and Walter Damrosch. Biography Damrosch was born in Posen (Poznań), Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Heinrich Damrosch. His father was Jewish and his mother was Lutheran. Leopold Damrosch was baptized a Lutheran when marrying his wife, former opera singer Helene von Heimburg. Damrosch began his musical education at the age of nine, learning the violin against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to become a doctor. Capitulating to the wishes of his parents he entered the University of Berlin and completed his PhD in medicine but during his spare time he studied violin under Ries, and thoroughbass with Dehn and Bohmer. After he completed his degree Damrosch decided to dedicate his life and energy to music. He gained fame as a violinist and began to play to large audiences in many major German cities including Berlin and Hamburg. He went to Weimar, and was received by Franz Liszt, who appointed him solo-violinist in the Ducal orchestra. It has been said mistakenly that Liszt

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

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Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; ; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 after the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans. Elected in 1658, Leopold ruled the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1705, becoming the second-longest-ruling emperor (46 years and 9 months) of the House of Habsburg. He was both a composer and a considerable patron of music. Leopold’s reign is known for conflicts with the Ottoman Empire in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and rivalry with Louis XIV, a contemporary and first cousin (on the maternal side; fourth cousin on the paternal side), in the west. After more than a decade of warfare, Leopold emerged victorious in the east thanks to the military talents of Prince Eugene of Savoy. By the Treaty of Karlowitz, Leopold recovered almost all of the Kingdom of Hungary, which had fallen under Turkish power in the years after the 1526 Battle of Mohács. Leopold fought three wars against France: the Franco-Dutch War, the Ni

Leopold Reichwein

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Leopold Reichwein (16 May 1878 – 8 April 1945) was a German conductor and composer. Life Born in Breslau, Reichwein was court Kapellmeister of the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe from 1909 to 1913. In 1913 he succeeded Bruno Walter as conductor of the Vienna Court Opera. With Wilhelm Furtwängler he was concert director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna from 1921 to 1927. From 1926 to 1938 he conducted the Bochumer Symphoniker. Under his direction, the modern compositions of Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Erwin Schulhoff and Anton Webern, which had been cultivated by this orchestra until then, took a back seat to the repertoire in favour of classical-romantic music. When in 1932 he published the article Die Juden in der deutschen Musik in the party newspaper of the NSDAP Völkischer Beobachter, which was based on Richard Wagner’s antisemitic pamphlet Das Judenthum in der Musik, he drew the wrath of the Bochum citizens, who were still willing to resist. Reichwein was a convinced Nazi and belonged to the NSDAP as early as 1932 (number 1.009.765) and the völkisch minded, antisemitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. He published among other things heated tirades in the Völkisc

Leopold Schefer

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Leopold Schefer (30 July 1784 in Muskau – 13 February 1862 in Muskau), German poet, novelist, and composer, was born in a small town in Upper Lusatia (then under Saxon rule), the only child of a poor country doctor. Biography Leopold Schefer was educated, privately, by his parents, later on by the principal of the Muskau primary school, Andreas Tamm, afterwards in a small private school of the former hofmeister of the local Earl of Callenberg, Johann Justus Röhde. From 1799 up to 1805 he attended the secondary school (“Gymnasium”) at Bautzen. During this time he started writing diaries, poems, and compositions, the last under the influence of his teacher Johann Samuel Petri. After that he returned to Muskau, helping his widowed mother, while writing and composing. During Napoleon’s failed campaign in Russia in 1812, Schefer was appointed manager of the big estates of his newly-won friend, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, doing well under hard circumstances until 1816. The prince, recognizing the literary abilities of his friend, encouraged his early poetical efforts. Having visited England together with Pückler for studying landscape gardens (and being deeply impressed by Eliza O

Lorenz Christoph Mizler

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Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof (also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff; 26 July 1711 – 8 May 1778) was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music composer, and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland. Family of origin Lorenz Christoph Mizler was born in Heidenheim, Middle Franconia to Johann Georg Mizler, a court clerk to the Margrave of Ansbach at Heidenheim, and Barbara Stumpf, of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Education His first teacher was N. Müller, a minister from Obersulzbach, Lehrberg, from whom Mizler learned the flute and violin. From 1724 to 1730, Mizler studied at the Ansbach Gymnasium with Rector Oeder and Johann Matthias Gesner, who became director of the St. Thomas School, Leipzig, from 1731 to 1734. Mizler enrolled at Leipzig University on 30 April 1731, where he studied theology. His teachers there included Gesner, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Christian Wolff. He earned a BS in December 1733 and a MS in March 1734. During this time, he also pursued the study of composition and had some association with Johann Sebastian Bach, whom, he wrote, he had the honor to call his “good friend and patron.” Mizler moved to Wi

Lothar Hensel

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Lothar Hensel (born 14 September 1961) is a German bandoneon player, composer and arrangeur. Life and career Born in Dormagen, studied school Music at the Berlin University of the Arts, majoring in clarinet. During his studies, he began playing the bandoneon. In 1990, he went to Buenos Aires to perfect his playing with teachers Arturo Penón and Nestor Marconi. In Paris, he also had lessons with Juan José Mosalini, one of the most famous tango soloists of tango nuevo. As a bandoneonist, Hensel has worked with renowned orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic which he has recorded in original versions and also in his own arrangements on CD. As a composer, he wrote operas, chamber and orchestral music. In it, he tries to combine mainly South American tango elements with classical European chamber music. As a commissioned work for the , Hensel wrote the chamber opera Ein letzter Tango für Margot H. in 2001. In 2007, his opera Pamina lebt was premiered at the . He also wrote the libretto for this work. In the same year, his 2nd concerto for bandoneon and large orchestra was premiered with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, which was broadcast live by Deutschlandradio. Hensel per

Lothar Windsperger

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Lothar Windsperger (22 October 1885 – 30 May 1935) was a German composer as well as long-standing literary editor and publisher at Schott. Life and career Born in Ampfing, Windsperger, son of a well-known organist and school teacher, received his first basic musical education from his father, who he lost at the age of five. Windsperger nevertheless remained true to music, even when he first began his training as a primary school teacher in Rosenheim, where he had moved with his mother in 1898, at a . In 1900 he finally changed to the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. There he was taught composition and harmony by Josef Rheinberger and Rudolf Louis, among others, and piano by August Schmid-Lindner. Later he continued his studies with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and work weeks with Hermann Abendroth at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. In February 1905 Windsperger appeared in Munich with an orchestral concert in which he performed his one-hour, one-movement “Sinfonie der Sehnsucht”. According to the judgement of H. Teibler in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung of 24 February 1905 (p. 151), however, he thereby “only provoked the unwillingness of all well-meaning people

Lotte Backes

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Lotte Backes (May 2, 1901 - May 12, 1990) was a German pianist, organist, and composer. Life Backes was born in Cologne into a musical family. Her mother, also a composer, was her first teacher. She went on to study organ and piano at the music conservatories in Strasbourg (1915-1917) and Dusseldorf. (1918-1922). She then continued her studies at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1935 to 1938. she studied composition at the Prussian Academy of Arts. Her works written prior to 1945 were destroyed during World War II. She lived in Berlin from 1931 to 1990. Her works after 1947 include two operas, a symphony, and works for choir and organ. She was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Works Orchestra * Sommerliche Wanderung (1947) * Symphonic Poems Chamber Ensemble * Walk in the summer, fl, ob, van, vlc, per, hp, cel * Sprazzo di luce, string quartet, hp, perc (1974) * Reisebilder, string quartet (1980) * Ballade, fl, hp, pf (1980) * Concertante, vlc and pf (1966) * Concerto, vln and organ (1970) * Episodio, trp and organ (1972) * Movimenti improvvisati, hp and per (1973) * Serenata, vln and hp (1965) * Sonata, trp and org (1972) * Sonata I, vln and org (1972) * Spielmusik, ob and pf

Louis Köhler

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Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (5 September 1820 – 16 February 1886) was a German composer, conductor and piano teacher. Biography Köhler was born in Braunschweig. He studied piano in Vienna under Carl Maria von Bocklet, Simon Sechter and Ignaz von Seyfried. As a conductor, he worked in Marienburg and Elbing. After that he settled in Königsberg in 1847, after which time he concentrated on piano teaching and writings on music. Among his pupils were Adolf Jensen and Hermann Goetz. He was a critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung from 1849 to 1886, and was a contributor to Signale für die musikalische Welt from 1844 until 1886. His writings were well known to Liszt and Wagner; he also proposed the formation of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein, with which Liszt was involved. Köhler composed three operas and a ballet, and wrote books on musical theory. He also wrote educational works for piano. He died in Königsberg on 16 February 1886. He was 65 years old. Selected writings * Die Melodie der Sprache (Leipzig, 1853) * Systematische Lehrmethode für Klavierspiel und Musik (Leipzig, 1857–8, 3/1888) * Die Gebrüder Müller und das Streichquartett (Leipzig, 1858) * Führer durch den Clavierunt

Louis Lewandowski

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Louis Lewandowski (April 3, 1821 – February 4, 1894) was a Polish-Jewish and German-Jewish composer of synagogal music. He contributed greatly to the liturgy of the synagogue service. His most famous works were composed during his tenure as musical director at the New Synagogue in Berlin and his melodies form a substantial part of synagogue services around the world today. Life Lewandowski was born in, what was then, Wreschen, Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia. At the age of twelve he went to Berlin to study piano and voice, and became solo soprano in the synagogue. Afterward he studied for three years under A. B. Marx and attended the school of composition of the Prussian Academy of Arts. There his teachers were Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen and Eduard Grell. Lewandowski was the first Jew to be admitted to the school at the request of Felix Mendelssohn. After graduating with high honors, he was appointed in 1840, choirmaster of the Berlin synagogue. In that capacity he developed an extensive body of music for the synagogue ritual. In 1866 he received the title of “royal musical director.” Shortly afterward, he was appointed choirmaster in the New Synagogue, for which he composed the enti

Louis Liebe

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Friedrich Eduard Ludwig (Louis) Liebe (26 November 1819 – 4 July 1900) was a German composer and musical teacher. By 1863, he had published more than 50 works as a composer, including pieces for piano, violin, voice, and male choirs, many of which appeared in France and England. His most popular works included Harmony (words by Adaien Linden of Metz) and a cantata for mixed choir with orchestral accompaniment (words by Emile Drescher). Career From 1842 to 1844, Liebe taught at the Sallmann’schen Schule in Kassel. From 1850 to 1867, Liebe lived in Strasbourg. He was director of the Association of Choral Societies of Alsace and was a music teacher. During this period, he toured Paris, Zürich, Chur, and London. From 1883 to 1886, Liebe was based in Kostanz, where he conducted the Bodan singing society. Personal life and death Liebe married in Mainz in October 1847. He died in 1900 in Chur. Further reading * Neue Berliner Musikzeitung hrsgg. v. Gustav Bock, 6. Jg., Nr. 37 v. 1852-09-22, S. 295, Sp. 1: “Louis Liebe (1819–1900), Musikdirektor in Straßburg; „Louis Liebe, welchem vor Kurzem der Preis für die beste Composition als Männer-Quartett des Gedichtes: ‚Muttersprache‘ von Max von S

Louis Schindelmeisser

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Louis (Ludwig) Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser (8 December 1811 - 30 March 1864) was a nineteenth-century German clarinetist, conductor and composer. He was born Königsberg, Prussia, and studied in Berlin and Leipzig. He was an early and enthusiastic partisan of Richard Wagner, arranging his first performances in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt of Tannhäuser, of which he conducted the premiere, Rienzi and Lohengrin. Life Schindelmeisser attended High School for music in Berlin where he studied clarinet under the guidance of French virtuoso J. M. Hostié who had moved to Berlin in 1824. However, it is possible that he taught him earlier in Königsberg since Hostié had settled there already in 1812. He died in Darmstadt. His own operas were in the tradition of von Weber and Spohr and “he kept the lyrical and dramatic components in balance”. Of note is his Sinfonia Concertante Op. 2 for four clarinets and orchestra composed in 1833, believed to be the only one of its kind, Georg Druschetzky wrote a piece for three clarinets and orchestra. Compositions Music for winds * Ouvertüre zu dem Trauerspiel “Uriel Acosta” für Harmoniemusik in E-flat major. * Sinfonia Concertante op.2 for 4 clarinets

Louis Schlösser

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Louis Schlösser (17 November 1800 – 17 November 1886), born in Darmstadt where he made his career, was a violinist, composer, and conductor. He met Ludwig van Beethoven in 1822, and his recollections of this give a useful impression of Beethoven. Life He was born in Darmstadt in 1800, son of Falk (or Frank) Schlösser. Originally named Lazarus or Löser, he was later known as Louis. His brother Bernhard Schlösser (1802–1859) became a painter in Frankfurt am Main, and his brother Theodor Schlösser became an academy professor in Colmar. He played violin in the court orchestra of Darmstadt, and studied with Christian Heinrich Rinck. As a talented young musician he received a scholarship, and studied for three years, in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried, Joseph Mayseder, Jan Václav Voříšek and Antonio Salieri, and in Paris with Jean-François Le Sueur and Rudolph Kreutzer. He wrote his first compositions in Vienna. In Darmstadt he became concertmaster and from 1846 Hofkapellmeister; he gave concerts as soloist and conductor in Darmstadt and elsewhere. He was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Louis Schlösser died in 1886. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Darmstadt. Co

Louise Japha

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Louise Japha (also Louise Langhans-Japha; 2 February 1826 – 13 October 1910) was a German pianist and composer. Life and work Louise Japha grew up in Hamburg, where she learned to play the piano from Fritz Warendorf and composition from Georg August Groß and Friedrich Wilhelm Grund. Her first concert was on 10 February 1838 in the local Apollo Hall. To practice the piano she went to the piano factory of Baumgarten und Heins, where she met the young Johannes Brahms. They practised and played together and discussed his first compositions. A long-lasting friendly relationship developed between Louise Japha and Brahms, who was seven years younger than her. Brahms dedicated one of his earliest works (Op. 6, six songs) to Louise and her sister Minna to express his gratitude. At the invitation of Clara Schumann, Louise Japha moved to Düsseldorf with her sister in 1853 to complete her musical studies with the Schumanns. There she met Johannes Brahms again. Franz Liszt dedicated his Beethoven Cantata No. 1 (Celebratory cantata for the unveiling of the Beethoven monument in Bonn, 1845) to her. She worked in association with Stephen Heller, François-Auguste Gevaert, Camille Saint-Saëns, César

Louise Reichardt

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Louise Reichardt or Luise Reichardt (11 April 1779 – 17 November 1826) was a German composer and choral conductor. Her German songs, or Lieder, were written in an accessible style akin to folk music and were popular. Louise Reichard was known for composing in the style of “romantic songs,” which are based on poetic settings. Additionally, she was influential in the musical life of Hamburg, Germany, where she lived from 1809. Biography Early life She was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783) and Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814) and the granddaughter of Franz Benda (1709–1786). Her grandfather and father were, respectively, Konzertmeister and Kapellmeister at the court of Frederick the Great. After Juliane Reichardt died when Louise was only four years old, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven also contributed greatly to the collection. Hamburg In 1809 she moved to Hamburg, where she studied with Johann Frederich Clasing. Nor did she rely on her family for financial stability. However, due to the prevailing sexism of the times, she was never allowed to conduct them in public. * XII Deutsche und italiänische romantische Gesän

Louise Strantz

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Louise Tippelskirch Strantz (2 March 1823 - 8 January 1909) was a German composer, poet and singer. Strantz was born in Dusseldorf to Lieutenant General Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch, commandant of Berlin and commander of the Royal Prussian State Gendarmerie. She studied music with Constanze Blank, Jaehns, and Pax. She married Adolf von Strantz, and they moved to Berlin in 1842, where she lived until her death in 1909. Composer Franz Bendel based his Wiegenlied on a text by Strantz. Strantz’s music was published by Bote & Bock, Hermann, and Tobias Haslinger. *Fest - Walzer *Konig Marsch *Reverie *Wilhelm - Marsch Vocal *“Anna Polka” *Cantata: Des Kaiser’s Ruh ‘schütz’ *“Klage dem Liebchen” *Zwei Lieder References

Ludwig Abeille

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Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (20 February 1761 in Bayreuth – 2 March 1838 in Stuttgart) was a German pianist, organist, conductor, music teacher and composer. Life His father was baronial valet and his mother was Christine Louise Abeille, both of whom were employed at the Bayreuth court. Starting at age eleven, he was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart, where his teachers were Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti, and Johann Gottlieb Sämann. In 1782, he became a member of the musicians of the Court at the Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart. He joined the faculty of Karl’s High School (Hohe Karlsschule), a rigorous military academy, in 1786. In 1802, he became concertmaster and later organist of the Court, replacing Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg. In this position, Abeille served as Maestro di Capella to the Duke for several years. In 1815, he became court organist at the court church and director of the Stiftsmusik. He retired in 1832. Ludwig Abeille was married to Henriette Hedwig née Haug, the daughter of the instrument maker Johann Friedrich Haug and his first wife Christine Dorothea Herdle (1736–1766). Christine was a daughter of the Ludwigsburg court musician Johann Jako

Ludwig Daser

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Ludwig Daser (c. 1526 – 27 March 1589) was a German renaissance composer and choirmaster. His career is marked by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation struggles of his time. A noted composer in his day, Daser has been largely overshadowed by Orlande de Lassus, who replaced him in Munich. Biography Daser was born in Munich near the year 1526, the son of fisherman Achacius Daser. At an early age he joined the Bavarian Hofkapelle in Munich. An ordained priest, He became the Munich court choirmaster in 1552, replacing Andreas Zauner. In addition to conducting and composing, Daser was responsible for training boys for the choir, and for hiring vocal and instrumental musicians for the chapel. There is some controversy surrounding Daser’s activities between 1563 and 1572. Daser was subject to an Inquisition, His son-in-law Balduin Hoyoul succeeded him as Kapellmeister in Stuttgart. Daser was significantly influenced by the Franco-Flemish School, demonstrated by his methodology for tying the cantus firmus to the Ordinary. The sources of his melodies often originate from the Netherlands. Daser was highly respected by his contemporaries, receiving high commendation from Bavarian court chr

Ludwig Hartmann (composer)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Hartmann (3 August 1836 – 14 February 1910) was a German composer and music critic. Life Born in Neuss, Hartmann was the son of music director in Neuss, Friedrich Hartmann. He was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig under Moscheles and Hauptmann and then went to Weimar as a pupil of Franz Liszt. He appeared at a concert given by Schröder-Devrient at Dresden in 1859. Latterly he was almost exclusively employed in musical journalism. and contributed numerous articles to periodical literature. Further reading * Kristina Popova (ed.): Die Dresdner Gesellschaft in Porträtzeichnungen von Robert Sterl. Robert Sterl Haus, Naundorf 2007, p. 8f. * Hartmann on Retrobibliothek References External links * *

Ludwig Roselius (composer)

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Ludwig Roselius (2 August 1902 – 6 February 1977) was a German composer and conductor. Life and career Roselius was born in Kassel, the son of the merchant Georg Roselius and a relative of the coffee magnate Ludwig Roselius. He was a répétiteur at the Deutsche Opernhaus Berlin for the 1921/1922 season. He studied composition with Georg Schumann at the Prussian Academy of the Arts from 1921 to 1923, and received a PhD from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin on the subject of the motets of Andreas Raselius in 1924. He achieved his greatest success with the stage works Godiva and especially Gudrun, which was premièred in Graz in 1938 and performed again in Berlin. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and ended World War II as a prisoner of war. He received the Bremer Musikpreis in 1964 in recognition of his contributions. Roselius died 6 February 1977 in Bremen. * Der dunkle Reigen, op. 23 (Totentanzsuite) * Festliche Intrade for speaker, choir, and orchestra * Zwischen Meer und Moor, op. 27 (Niederdeutsche Suite für Orchester) * Friesische Musik, op. 30 * Es waren zwei Königskinder, op. 31 (Fantasie für Orchester) Instrumental works * Variationen für Klavier über ein deutsche

Ludwig Schmidseder

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Ludwig Schmidseder (24 August 1904, in Passau – 21 June 1971, in Munich) was a German composer and pianist of the “Light Muse”. Several of his Schlager compositions are still popular tunes today. The young Schmidseder followed his father’s wishes and trained as a banker, whilst taking piano lessons in secret. He furthered his musical education at the Munich Conservatorium, then left for South America in 1926, ending up in Rio de Janeiro. Starting out as a dishwasher, he went on to become an entertainer and play in a trio on ocean cruises. Schmidseder composed music for the trio, and developed into a virtuoso piano player. From 1930 he worked in Berlin, composing film music, creating operettas and writing more than 500 songs, some of which became much-loved hits. He moved from being a bar pianist (until 1936) to being the house composer at the old Berlin Metropol-Theatre. His operetta Die Oder Keine (That One or No One) was performed more than 600 times. Schmidseder joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933. After World War II, Schmidseder continued to compose film music and appear in films. The corpulent cook would later become famous as a TV cook and produced a book of recipes. Selected work

Ludwig Schuncke

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Christian Ludwig Schuncke (21 December 18107 December 1834) was a German pianist and composer, and close friend of Robert Schumann. His early promise was eclipsed by his death from tuberculosis at the age of 23. He was generally known as Ludwig, and that name also appears as Louis in some references. His surname appears as either Schuncke or Schunke. Biography Ludwig Schuncke was born in Kassel in 1810. His father and first teacher Johann Gottfried Schuncke (1777–1840), and his uncle Johann Michael Schuncke (1778–1821), were both professional horn players. He demonstrated his talents very early, and they were encouraged. In March 1822, aged only 11, he performed Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 85, under the direction of Louis Spohr. He then went on a concert tour of Germany. Carl Maria von Weber expressed his approval of Schuncke’s early compositions. He went to Paris for study, where his main teachers were Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Anton Reicha and Henri Herz, and where he also had friendships with people such as Hector Berlioz, Sigismond Thalberg and Johann Peter Pixis. In Paris, he made his living by demonstrating Duport pianos, and he also lived in Duport’s

Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer

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Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer (February 8, 1789 – October 13–25, 1878) was a German composer, conductor, and violinist born in Potsdam. In 1802, he debuted in Berlin with his first major violin performance. After a brief period of studying French violin style in Mitau (Latvia), Maurer went to Russia at age 17 in 1806, where he would stay for most of his life. For this reason, Maurer is considered both a German and a Russian composer. Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, Maurer performed extensively until the French violinist and composer Pierre Baillot aided Maurer in becoming the conductor of the Count Vsevolozhsky’s orchestra in Moscow. Maurer conducted the orchestra until 1817 when he toured as a performer in Germany and Paris. In 1819 Maurer began using Hanover as a base for directing and conducting, while touring and composing. During this period Maurer also maintained a composing partnership with Aleksey Nikolayevich Verstovsky in the opera-vaudeville form. Toward the end of this period in Maurer’s life, he toured Germany with his sons Vsevolod and Alexis, who played violin and cello respectively. By 1833, however, Maurer was back in St. Petersburg, where he would remain for the rest

Luise Adolpha Le Beau

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Luise Adolpha Le Beau (25 April 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 17 July 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Like many other 19th century female composers, Le Beau began her career in music as a pianist, and later earned her living teaching, critiquing, and performing music. She studied languages from 1863 through 1866 as a guest at the local girls’ school. At age sixteen, she completed her education with a degree from a private institution for girls, and from then on devoted herself to music. Education Following her confirmation on Easter of 1865, Le Beau began to take piano lessons from Hofkapellmeister William Kalliwoda in Karlsruhe. She also received singing lessons from Anton Haizinger. In 1868 she made her debut as a pianist, playing the E-flat major Concerto of Beethoven and the G minor Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn in Karlsruhe. In 1870, she met Franz Lachner and Anton Rubinstein. Le Beau applied for piano lessons with Clara Schumann in 1873 to be taken in Baden-Baden. Her studies with Schumann lasted for one summer,

Luise Greger

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Luise Sumpf Greger (27 December 1862 – 25 January 1944 ) was a German composer and pianist. Life Greger took lessons at five and at nine she played for the Tsar. She began composing at 11. While still in Berlin in the 1890s, Richard Strauss proclaimed her to be a composer. She continued composing into her seventies and in 1933-34 her musical Christmas fairytale “Goose Girl” was performed 13 times to much acclaim. At an old age she was a resident of a nursing home. On December 2, 1943, she was taken to the Merxhausen State Institution because of “gradually increasing senile mental disorder”. There she died on January 25, 1944, from hunger as a victim of National Socialist euthanasia. Decades later her family found some of her songs in a trunk and she has since been honored in many forums in Germany and the US. Some of her descendants are American and it was through her music that they connected with their German family. The “Luise Greger International Women in Music Festival” started in Langley, on Whidbey Island, WA, celebrating her works and those of other talented local and international female composers from Washington state. The “father of Langley” Jacob Anthes was from Hesse,

Lutz Glandien

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Lutz Glandien (born 1954) is a German avant garde composer and musician based in Berlin. He has composed a number of classical and electroacoustic pieces, released four solo albums, and collaborated with English percussionist Chris Cutler to record two acclaimed avant-rock albums, Domestic Stories (1992) and p53 (1996). Glandien has received several scholarships and awards, including the Voya Toncitch Prize at the International Piano Composition Contest in Paris in 1987 for his work entitled 365. He was described as “a major talent” by Facelift Magazine in 1994. Biography Lutz Glandien was born in the small town of Oebisfelde in the former German Democratic Republic. At the age of nine years he started taking piano lessons, but abandoned them after a few years when he became more interested in rock music. While at school he founded a rock band, and his interest in music grew. After school he moved to Dresden to study economics at the Dresden University of Technology, where he also became a songwriter and pianist with a local music group. His interest in composition later led to him to study classical contemporary composition at the “Hanns Eisler” Music Academy in East Berlin. After

Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau

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Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (born 1963) is a German composer of classical music. He was born in Regensburg and studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, continued in a masterclass with Hans-Jürgen von Bose from 1992 to 1994. He has been teaching music pedagogy at the Regensburg University. Selected works * Der Jäger von Fall, opera after a libretto by Wilhelm Killmayer (1991) Orchestra * Times Square Music for large orchestra Orchester (1990) * Running Riot for brass band and orchestra (1993) * …mild und leise…, Tristan’s death for large orchestra (2010) Chamber music * Klavierquintett für Paul Celan, piano quintet (1990) * Berührungen for piano 4 hands and conga (1999) * The Day After Rendevouz for violin, tuba and tape (1992) * Silence invades the breathing wood for soprano, violin, viola, cello and small percussion (2011) * Takte und Gewichte, string quartet (2001) * In der Schwebe for cello and piano (2009) * Yolimba läßt grüßen, variations on a theme by Wilhelm Killmayer for violin and piano (2010) * Duo concertant for two pianos (1997) Vocal * Zwei Lieder für Bariton und Klavier, songs for baritone and piano on poems by Ott

Manfred Gurlitt

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Manfred Gurlitt (6 September 1890 – 29 April 1972) was a German opera composer and conductor. He studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck and conducting with Karl Muck. He spent most of his career in Japan. Life Manfred Ludwig Hugo Andreas Gurlitt was born in Berlin on 6 September 1890 to the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt (1854-1893) and Annarella Gurlitt (1856-1935). The Gurlitt family included many who distinguished themselves in the arts. Manfred was the cousin of musicologist Wilibald Gurlitt (1889-1963) and the great-nephew of the composer Cornelius Gurlitt. Another cousin was Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956), an art dealer who was one of a very few authorized by the Nazis to deal in “degenerate art” and whose holdings of art works looted from Jews during the years of Nazi rule came to light in the 21st century. He studied composition for a time with Engelbert Humperdinck and music theory with Hans Hermann and Hugo Kaun. From 1908 to 1910, he was a coach at the Berlin Court Opera and in 1911 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 Br

Manfred Stahnke

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Manfred Stahnke (born 30 October 1951) is a German composer and musicologist from Hamburg. He writes chamber music, orchestral music and stage music. His music makes extensive use of microtonality. He plays piano and viola. Life Manfred Stahnke was born in 1951 in Kiel. At the age of 15 he started to study violin, piano, and composition in Lübeck. Stahnke studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner (1970–1973), with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough (1973–1974), and with György Ligeti (1974–1979). In addition, he studied piano; his primary piano teacher was Edith Picht-Axenfeld. He also holds a doctoral degree in musicology, with a thesis on the subject of Pierre Boulez’s Third Piano Sonata (1979, under Constantin Floros in Hamburg). In 1979–80 he went to the United States to study with the microtonalist Ben Johnston in Urbana, Illinois, and with the computer music researcher and composer John Chowning at Stanford University, California. Since 1989 he is professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is an emeritus since April 2019. Since 1999 he is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg, where he was the director of the Secti

Manfred Trojahn

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Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. He also studied with György Ligeti, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for musical composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he was President of the ; from 2008 to 2012 he was vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Works His works have been published by Bärenreiter and Sikorski. Publications * Students Among Trojahn’s students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel. References External links * * *

Manos Tsangaris

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Manos Tsangaris (born 8 December 1956) is a German composer, musician, sound art installation and performance artist, and a poet. Since 2024, he is president of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (AdK). Life Born in Düsseldorf, Tsangaris studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1976 to 1983 composition with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Alfonso Hüppi. Since 1980, he has participated several times in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse for Neue Musik and worked for the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 1991, he was invited by the Soviet composers’ association as artist-in-residence in Moscow, in the same year he received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship from the city of Cologne, in 1992/93, the scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and in 1997 the art prize of the Akademie der Künste (AdK) Berlin, of which he has been a member since 2009. In the same year, he received the Orchestra Prize of the Donaueschinger Musiktage for his piece Batsheba. Eat the History. Since 2012, he is head of the AdK section music. Since 2024, he is president of the AdK. In 2017, he was elected full member of the Bayerische Akademie der

Marc Streitenfeld

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Marc Streitenfeld (born 1974) is a German composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with director Ridley Scott. Streitenfeld has composed the music for many high-profile Hollywood features as well as critically acclaimed independent films, including American Gangster, Body of Lies, The Grey, Prometheus, Poltergeist and All I See Is You. Life and career Born in Munich, Germany, Streitenfeld relocated to Los Angeles at age 19 and initially assisted film composer Hans Zimmer. Director Ridley Scott offered Streitenfeld his first composing job when he asked him to write the score for A Good Year (2006). Streitenfeld has written five film scores for Scott, including the BAFTA-nominated score for American Gangster (2007), for which he won the “Discovery of the Year” Award at the World Soundtrack Awards, the sci-fi horror Prometheus (2012) and the action adventure Robin Hood (2010). He has also been recognized for his work with three ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards and two International Film Music Critics Association award nominations. Streitenfeld has also worked with directors Marc Forster on All I See Is You (2017), Joe Carnahan on the action drama The Grey (2011),

Margarete Schweikert

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Margarete Schweikert (16 February 1887 – 13 March 1957) was a German composer, music critic, violinist, and pianist who composed chamber music, approximately 160 songs, and a children’s operetta, The Frog King. Biography Schweikert was born in Karlsruhe, the only child of Friedrich and Luise Petry Schweikert. Her father sold insurance and was also a music critic for Neue Stuttgarter Musikzeitung and Karlsruher Blätter. He gave Schweikert her first violin lessons. Her mother played piano and helped her family manage the Jakob Petry Jewelry Store. Schweikert attended the Munz Conservatory and the Baden Conservatory (today the Baden University of Music). She changed her name to Voigt-Schweikert, but continued to publish her music and writing under the name “Margarete Schweikert.” Works Schweikert wrote music criticism for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Karlsruher Tagblatt, Münchner Zeitung, and Neue Musikzeitung. In 1950 Schweikert became an expert advisor for music at the Karlsruhe Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine (GEDOK; Association of German and Austrian Female Artists). From 1955 until her death in 1957 she served as the director of GEDOK. Schwei

Margarethe Danzi

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Maria Margarethe Danzi ( Marchand; 1768 – 11 June 1800) was a German composer and soprano. Maria Margarethe Marchand was born in the Holy Roman Empire. Some sources give her birthplace as Munich and others Mannheim, and it was possible that the family was on tour in Frankfurt on the date of her birth. She was the daughter of the singer, actress and dancer Magdalena Brochard Marchand and Theobald Hilary Marchand, director of the National Theatre of Mannheim. Margarethe studied music and composition in Munich with Franziska Lebrun and in Salzburg with Leopold Mozart. She apprenticed in supporting roles and debuted in 1787 at the age of 12 at the Mannheim Court Theater, performing the title role in The Youth by Johann Jakob Engel. In 1790, she married conductor and composer Franz Danzi, and performed with him as prima donna of the troupe Domenico Guardasoni on European concert tours. After 1796, Margaret also performed as prima donna at the Munich Court Theatre. She died in Munich of pulmonary disease. Works List of works *Six Sonatas for Keyboard (ca. 1786) — lost (Leopold Mozart unsuccessfully tried to make Torricella publish these sonatas) *Three sonatas for pianoforte with violin

Maria Baptist

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Maria Baptist (born 30 August 1971) is a German musician (pianist, composer) and professor. Career Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path. She began studying piano at the music university in Berlin and won her first international piano competitions on improvisation. During this period, the Berlin Wall fell, which meant a great personal change in Maria’s life. She took the opportunity to move to New York. Here Maria experienced the freedom, space and magic, which opened up whole new musical worlds to her. Maria’s artistic work was significantly influenced and inspired by the tremendous creativity, energy, l

Maria Carolina Wolf

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Maria Carolina Wolf, née Benda, (1742 – 2 August 1820) was a German pianist, singer and composer. Life Maria Carolina Wolf’s father was Franz Benda, first violinist and composer at the court of Frederick II, her aunt Anna Franziska Hattasch was a chamber singer and her uncle Georg Benda was conductor, both with appointments at the court of the Duke of Gotha. Wolf received piano and singing lessons from her father. Before her appointment at the court, Benda had looked after her father’s household because of the death of her mother in 1758. However, in 1761 she went on a concert tour with her father to Gotha, Weimar and Rudolstadt, during which her father remarried. At the Weimar court, Maria Benda met the Hofkonzertmeister Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, who received an appointment at the Duchess’ court in 1768. Two years later the couple were married. In 1775 Anna Amalia handed over the business of government to her son Carl August. Ernst Wilhelm Wolf remained as conductor under his reign, and Maria continued working as a singer. The Duchess developed an interest in theater, introduced in 1776 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maria Wolf worked in the plays as an actress and singer and with her h

Maria Vespermann

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Maria Vespermann Gorres Arndts (5 April 1823 – 22 May 1882) was a German composer, writer, and painter who sometimes used the pseudonym Carl Pauss. Her music was also published under the names Maria Gorres and Maria Arndts. Vespermann was born in Munich to the actor Wilhelm Vespermann and singer Clara Metzger Vespermann. She showed musical talent at an early age, and appeared in her first public concert when she was only 12 years old. Vespermann married the Catholic historian and poet Guido Görres in 1844. They had three daughters before Görres died in 1852. In 1860 she married jurist Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg in Vienna. and her prose was published by Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. Music Her publications include: Piano *Aus den Bergen, opus 8 *Bunte Reihen kurzer Klavierstücke, opus 6 *Four Hand Pieces, opus 5 *Hail Springtime (chorus and piano) *It’s Lovely in Spring (women’s chorus and piano) *Praise the Lord (chorus and piano) *Sacred Songs, opus 3 *Song Cycle ( text Friedrich Wilhelm Weber’s Dreizehnlinden) *Thanks be to the Lord (chorus and piano) *We are the Blacksmiths (men’s chorus and piano) Prose *Dramas for the Christian Home *Juhschreih on the Halseralm *Mozart as a

Marian Dora

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Marian Dora (born 1970 in Southern Germany) is an anonymous German underground film director known for controversial horror films. Biography Marian Dora’s first appearance in the film scene dates back to the early 90s, when he started making short films as member of a group of anonymous underground filmmakers. Some of these short films were featured on two anthologies, Blue Snuff 1 and Blue Snuff 2 (the latter withdrawn due to its extreme content). These anthologies would later be released in the form of various standalone short films. Dora then started working as film producer, editor, and second unit director on several films by Ulli Lommel, whom he had met and started a long-time partnership with in 1996, including Zombie Nation (2004), Green River Killer (2005), B.T.K. Killer (2005), Killer Pickton (2006), and Absolute Evil (2009). Although Dora had already shot his first feature-film, Debris Documentar, in 2003, his debut as director was marked in 2006 by Cannibal, a reconstruction of the case of Armin Meiwes, who killed and ate a willing victim whom he met on the internet. The film was originally an assignment from Ulli Lommel, but Dora had to release it by himself after its

Marianus Königsperger

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Marianus Königsperger (also called Johann Erhard Königsberger) born 2 December 1708 in Roding (Oberpfalz); and died 9 October 1769 in the Prüfening Abbey at Regensburg) was a German composer, organist and Catholic Monk of the Benedictine Order. Works * Vocal music ** 33 Cantilenae sacrae for voices, 2 Violins and Organ op. 1, Lotter, Augsburg 1733 ** 10 Missae solemnes and 2 Missae pastoritiae such as 1 Veni Sancte Spiritus op. 1, Lang, Regensburg 1740 ** 8 Offertories op. 2, Lang, Regensburg 1741 ** 6 Miserere and 2 Stabat Mater op. 3, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1743 ** 6 Missae op. 4, Lotter, Augsburg 1743 ** 4 Vespern and 4 marianische Antiphonen op. 5, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1743 ** 6 Missae rurales and 2 Requiem for 2 Voices and Basso continuo, other Strings and Instruments ad libitum op. 6, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1744 ** 6 solenne Litaneien op. 7, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1744 ** 17 Offertorien op. 8, Lotter, Augsburg 1744 ** 6 Missae solemniores and 1 Te Deum op. 10, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1747 ** 6 Stabat Mater op. 11, Lotter, Augsburg 1748 ** 4 Stationen zum Fest Corporis Christi, 8 Hymnen, 1 Offertorium, 1 Aria de passione and 1 Te Deum op. 12, Lotter, Augsburg 1748 ** 17

Mark Lothar

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Mark Lothar ló:tar (born Lothar Hundertmark; 23 May 1902 in Berlin – 6 April 1985 in Munich) was a German composer. Life From 1921 to 1926, he studied piano with Franz Schreker and Walther Carl Meiszner in Berlin and with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in Munich. Early on he became famous accompanying singers such as Erna Berger, Corry Nera, who in 1934 on became his wife, and Hermann Prey. In 1933 he was recruited as a music specialist for the German Theater by Max Reinhardt, since Lothar was a member of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, an antisemitic organization forming part of the Völkisch movement. One year later he became the musical director of the Prussian State Theater in Berlin thanks to Gustaf Gründgens. He held this position until 1944. During his tenure, he composed various pieces on behalf of Joseph Goebbels. In May 1938 his opera Tailor Wibbel, inspired by a play by Hans Müller-Schlösser, was performed at the Berlin State Opera. In August 1944, Adolf Hitler included in the Gottbegnadeten list, an exclusive list of artists exempt from military service. Since 1945 he worked for the Bavarian state theater and since 1955 as free composer based in Munich. He was also renown as a

Martin Christoph Redel

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Martin Christoph Redel (born 30 January 1947) is a German composer, music theorist, percussionist and university teacher. Life Martin Christoph Redel was born in Detmold on 30 January 1947 as the son of the flutist Kurt Redel and the pianist Erika Redel-Seidler. He studied percussion with Friedrich Scherz and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn, Giselher Klebe and Johannes Driessler at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie (today: Hochschule für Musik Detmold). He then continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Isang Yun. In 1971 he became a lecturer in music theory and ear training at the Detmold Academy of Music. In 1979 he was appointed professor of composition and Redel led the Detmold Academy as rector from 1993 to 2001. In this capacity, he was also chairman of the Rectors’ Conference of Germany’s conservatoires and vice-president of the Association Européen des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC). From 1992 to 2004, Redel was President of Jeunesses Musicales Germany, which subsequently appointed him its Honorary President and on whose behalf he directed the composition courses for young people at Schloss Weikers

Martin Forciniti

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Martin Forciniti (born Wenning 1962 in Horstmar, Westfalen) is a German church musician and composer. Life Forciniti studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. He passed the A exam, the concert exam and the music teacher’s exam. He first worked as cantor in Steinfurt then as cantor in Niestetal near Kassel until May 2005. He has also been involved in radio and television recordings, including BBC, ARD, WDR and the Hessischer Rundfunk. He was organ expert of the Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck until July 2006. Furthermore, he conducted the choirs Schola Cantorum Niestetaliensis, Singkreis Kassel-Rothenditmold and the Choir for Sacred Music Niestetal. Since 2009, he has been cantor at the Kurhessisches Diakonissenhaus in Kassel. Compositions * Drei neue geistliche Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier und /oder Band, op. 11 * Der Kreuzweg - 14 Meditationen über die Kreuzwegstationen für große Orgel op. 12 * Arrangement des Soundtracks zum Film “Wie im Himmel” für Klavier * Fantasie über das Thema EwAlD für Klavier, op. 13 * Toccata festiva über das St. Gertrudis Lied “Du zartes Reis aus edlem Stamm” für g

Martin Karl Hasse

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Martin Karl Woldemar Hasse (20 March 1883 – 31 July 1960) was a German university lecturer, composer and music writer. Life Born in Dohna, Hasse was the son of the pastor Martin Hasse (1852-1915) and his wife Cora († 1922), née Wittich. In 1910 in Heidelberg, he married Aline (1881-1936), a daughter of (1854-1907), pastor and writer. Together with his wife he had three daughters. Of these is known by name: Ruth Hasse (1913-2009), violinist, married to Wilhelm Stross (1907-1966), professor at the Munich Academy of Music. Hasse received his first musical instruction as Thomaner-Alumni in Leipzig. This was followed by practical musical training at the Leipzig Conservatory with Stephan Krehl, Adolf Ruthardt, Karl Straube and Arthur Nikisch. On Karl Straube’s recommendation, he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Max Reger and Felix Mottl; at the university there he listened to musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and Hugo Riemann as well as lectures on history, philosophy and German studies. After a temporary activity as assistant to Philipp Wolfrum in Heidelberg and in Chemnitz as cantor, he became municipal music director in Bielefeld in 1910; in

Martin Röder

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Martin Röder, sometimes as Martin Roeder, (7 April 1851 – 10 June 1895) was a German composer, conductor, voice teacher, music journalist, and writer on music. Born and educated as a musician in Berlin, he began his career as the chorus master at the Teatro Dal Verme (1873-1880). There he also worked as an editor for the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano; also writing for that publication under the pseudonym Raro Miedtner. He worked as an opera conductor in various European cities before embarking as a teacher of singing at conservatories in Berlin, Dublin, and Boston. He died in Boston in 1895. Life and career Martin Röder was born in Berlin, Germany on 7 April 1851. He studied composition with Friedrich Kiel and violin with Joseph Joachim. a post he gained through the assistance of Casa Ricordi. He founded the Società del Quartetto Corale in Milan in 1875 which became well known from performances of vocal quartets. He simultaneously worked as an opera conductor in the 1870s in Bologna, Turin, and the Azores. also working for that publication as an editor. References Citations Bibliography * *

Martin Rößler

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Martin Rößler, also Martin Rössler (1934 – 31 October 2024), was a German church musician, Protestant theologian, music director and university lecturer in Tübingen. Career Born in Pforzheim, Rößler studied church music and Protestant theology. He was music director in the Tübinger Stift and was active in the training of theologians; after working in the parish offices in Hagelloch near Tübingen and near Reutlingen, he taught liturgy and hymnology at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Tübingen. in which the theology, poetry and history of individual hymnbook verses were worked out. Rößler became known for his portrayal of melodists and poets of Christian hymnbooks. Various biographies have been worked up by Rößler according to historical criteria and today they often form the basis for the short biographies that have been published in all major hymnbooks. On the other hand, Rößler investigated the origin and development of hymnbooks, beginning with the Reformation. In his Bronnweiler sermon volume Rößler as hymnologist published selected examples for the genre of a Liedpredigtde. Publications * (as editor): Karl Ludwig Gerok: “Lehrgang der Orgelimprovisation”.

Martin Scherber

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Martin Scherber (16 January 1907 – 10 January 1974) was a German composer and the creator of what he described as “metamorphosis symphonies”. Childhood and youth Scherber was born as the third child of Marie and Bernhard Scherber in Nuremberg, where his father was First Bassist in the orchestra of the State Opera House. Martin was a quiet child, both alert and dreamy, always full of questions. With his great gift for everything technical, it was generally assumed he would become an engineer and for this reason he attended the secondary modern High School (Oberrealschule, today: Hans Sachs Gymnasium). But already early, at about five years of age, he began to play everything on the piano by heart. He had the absolute hearing. He didn’t want to learn any notes, but after conflicts with his father he accepted them as a mean of the representation of music. Later his strength lay in improvising. He seemed to be immediately at home in music. At the age of thirteen he made his first compositions. At this time, he was having advanced piano lessons with the Nuremberg opera conductor, Karl Winkler. He made his first public appearances as a pianist in 1922. In composing and improvising he fel

Mary Wurm

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Mary J. A. Wurm (her surname was originally Würm) (18 May 1860 in Southampton – 21 January 1938 in Munich) was an English pianist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Wurm was born as Mary Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice Verne-Bredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied music in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory, where she joined Olga Radecki in the first composition class the Conservatory opened to women. Her teachers included Clara Schumann, Joachim Raff, Elisabeth Caland and Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women’s orchestra in Berlin. She wrote a piano school according to Caland´s teachings. Her nephew was John Vallier. In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover. Works Selected works include: *Mag auch heiss das Scheiden brennen *Christkindleins Wiegenlied aus des Knaben Wunderhorn (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) *Wiegenlied im Sommer (Text: Robert Reinick) *Praktische Vorschule zur Caland-Lehre, Hannover 1914 Further reading Caland, Elis

Mathias Spahlinger

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Mathias Spahlinger (born 15 October 1944 in Frankfurt) is a German composer. His work takes place in a field of tension between diverse musical influences and styles. Between Renaissance music and jazz; between musique concrète and post-Webernian minimalism; between noise, improvisation, and notation; and between aesthetic autonomy and political consciousness, Spahlinger’s works carry out conflicts for which there are no fixed models. Life His father was a cellist. He taught him fiddle, viola da gamba, recorder, and later cello from 1951. In 1952 he got piano lessons. In 1959 he began to study jazz intensively, took saxophone lessons and wanted to become a jazz musician. In 1962 he left school and took an apprenticeship as a typesetter. During this time he took private composition lessons with Konrad Lechner. After finishing his apprenticeship he continued his studies with Lechner at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. In 1968 he became a teacher at the Stuttgart Music School for piano, theory, early musical education and experimental music. From 1973 to 1977 he studied composition with Erhard Karkoschka at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. In 1978 he became a guest lecturer for m

Mathilde von Rothschild

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Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (5 March 1832 – 8 March 1924) was a German-Jewish baroness, composer and patron. Life and career Mathilde von Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, the second oldest daughter of Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschild. Mathilde was talented in music and studied with Frédéric Chopin. In 1849, she married the banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, a cousin of her father. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus. They had three daughters two of whom survived childhood, Adelheid Rothschild (who married her cousin Edmond James de Rothschild) and Minna Caroline Rothschild (who married Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild). Von Rothschild made grants to a number of foundations including The Rothschilds’ Hospital Foundation and the Georgine Sara von Rothschilds’ Hospital Foundation. She also funded orphanages, sanatoriums, rest homes for the elderly, research projects for the University of Heidelberg and The Jewish Museum of Antiquities. She also founded the at Frankfurt am Main. Von Rothschild wrote so

Matthias Dahms

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Matthias Dahms (born October 17, 1961) is a German virtuoso vibraphone and marimba soloist, percussionist and composer. He has been a percussion soloist ever since 1990, giving concerts and drum courses and mallet-instrument classes in Europe as well as overseas. Biography Dahms was born in Berlin. His father owned a car sales company and was an amateur jazz pianist, while his mother was an artist. Dahms received his university education at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik at Karlsruhe, Germany, and later an advanced diploma as Master of Arts from the University of the Arts Berlin. During his university years he additionally had private lessons with David Friedman (USA) and attended workshops with e.g. Keiko Abe, Billy Hart, Dave Weckl, Billy Cobham, Ed Thigpen, David Liebman/Richard Beirach, and Reinhard Flatischler. Dahms’ playing, which is famous for its beautiful tone and atmosphere, besides accurate tempo and rhythm, has been remarked as: “Stars and angels - extraordinary sense for moods and colors“, “Rhythmical percussionism together with classical dream, Matthias Dahms created a music that conquers all”. In 1999 he was chosen to become part of the ‘Who-Is-Who’ Career In t

Matthias Keller (musician)

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Matthias Keller (born 1956 in Bremen) External links * * Matthias Keller (3) Discogs

Matthias Maute

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Matthias Maute (born 1963) is a virtuoso recorder player and composer. Maute was born in Ebingen, Germany and studied in Freiburg and Utrecht with Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen. In 1990 he won first prize in the soloist category of the competition Musica Antiqua Bruges, Belgium. He subsequently won the Dutch Impressariat Chamber Music Competition. He is a professor at McGill University in Montreal and a member of Vox Saeculorum, a society of composers working in early historical styles. Matthias Maute is artistic director and conductor of the professional choir Ensemble ArtChoral, artistic director of the Bach Society of Minnesota and co-artistic director of Montreal Baroque Festival. Matthias Maute was Mécénat Musica Composer in residence from 2014 to 2018, composing 57 movements of Mécénat Musica Compositions for 113 emerging artists, featuring solo music, chamber music for ensembles and orchestral music with choir. 78 movements of Maute compositions are broadcast on the Mécénat Musica videoclip channel on YouTube Matthias Maute was Mécénat Musica Ambassadeur en résidence from 2013 – 2022. Mécénat Musica Ambassador-in-Residence presents Mécénat Musica in the cultural

Matthias Pintscher

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Matthias Pintscher (born 29 January 1971) is a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. Biography Pintscher was born in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia. As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting. He began his music studies with Giselher Klebe in 1988 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Detmold. In 1990, he met Hans Werner Henze, and in 1991 and 1992, he was invited to Henze’s summer school in Montepulciano, Italy. He later studied with German composer and flutist Manfred Trojahn. He held a Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellowship with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2000 to 2002. With the 2014–2015 season, Pintscher became artist-in-residence with the Danish Radio for a period of three years. For the 2014–2015 season, he was the artist-in-residence at the Cologne Philharmonie. Pintscher concluded his tenure with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the close of the 2022–2023 season. In March 2023, Pintscher first guest conducted the Kansas City Symphony. On the basis of this appearance, the Kansas City Symphony announced in May 2023 the appointment of Pintscher as its next music director, effective with the 2024–2025 season, with an initial contract of five seasons. In Ju

Matthias Weckmann

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Matthias Weckmann (Weckman) (c.1616 24 February 1674) was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla (Thuringia) and died in Hamburg. Life His musical training took place in Dresden (as a chorister at the Saxon Court, under the direction of Heinrich Schütz), then in Hamburg where he worked with the famous organist Jacob Praetorius at the Saint Peter’s church (Petrikirche). He was introduced to the Italian concertato, polychoral and monodic styles — because Schütz had journeyed in Italy when a young man and he had met Giovanni Gabrieli and Monteverdi — as well as the style of Sweelinck’s pupils, some of whom had settled in Hamburg. Weckmann travelled to Denmark in 1637 with Schütz, became organist in Dresden at the Electoral Court of Saxony from 1638 to 1642, and returned to Denmark until 1647 (during the Thirty Years’ War). During a new (and his last) stay in Dresden from 1649 to 1655, he met Johann Jakob Froberger during a musical competition which had been organized by the Elector. They remained friends and in correspondence with each other. In 1655, after a competition, he was named titular organist at Saint James church (Jakobkirche) in Ham

Max Baumann

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Max Georg Baumann (20 November 1917, Kronach – 17 July 1999, Berlin) was a German composer. Biography He studied conducting, piano, and trombone Berlin Hochschule für Musik with Konrad Friedrich Noetel and Boris Blacher. He spent two years as a choir director and deputy Kapellmeister at the opera in Stralsund (1947–1949). He taught piano and music theory at the Berlin College of Music (1946–1978). In 1960 he was appointed professor. After meeting French organist Jean Guillou during this time, Baumann wrote his first compositions for organ (Invocation op. 67 no. 5, Trois pièces brèves op. 67 no. 6, Psalmi op. 67 no. 2), which Guillou premiered in a concert on January 20, 1963, at St. Matthias church in Berlin. Baumann also appeared as conductor and choirmaster and, in 1963, became interim conductor of the choir at St. Hedwig’s Cathedral. His cantata Libertas cruciata was the first composition written specifically with stereo FM radio in mind. Awards * 1953: Berlin Art Prize. * 1963: Prix Italia for the Dramatic Cantata Libertas cruciata - the first stereophonic work. * 1977: Gold Medal “for special merits” by the district Kronach. * 1977: Golden Orlando di Lasso Medal of general Cec

Max Beckschäfer

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Max Beckschäfer (born 23 February 1952 in Münster) is a German organist, composer and academic who taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Hochschule für Musik Augsburg-Nürnberg. He received commissions from the Munich Biennale, the concert series Klangspuren, the Dresdner Kreuzchor, the Palucca-Ballettschule Dresden and Die Singphoniker. He wrote an organ version of Reger’s Hebbel-Requiem. Life and career Beckschäfer took classes at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich in organ, piano, violin and choral conducting. He studied church music at the Musikhochschule München and continued studying composition with Wilhelm Killmayer. He was a Kantor in Munich from 1976 to 1987. On the initiative of Gabriel Dessauer, who wanted to make a performance of Reger’s Requiem possible, Beckschäfer wrote an organ version of the short work, which the composer had scored for a huge orchestra and a choir to match. The organ version was premiered in 1985 in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden by the Reger-Chor, formed for the occasion, and Beckschäfer as the organist, conducted by Dessauer. In 1987 Beckschäfer received the Rompreis for composition and a fellowship of the Villa Massi

Max Bruch

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Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire. Early life and education Max Bruch was born in 1838 in Cologne to Wilhelmine (), a singer, and August Carl Friedrich Bruch, an attorney who became vice president of the Cologne police. Max had a sister, Mathilde (“Till”). He received his early musical training under the composer and pianist Ferdinand Hiller, to whom Robert Schumann dedicated his Piano Concerto in A minor. The Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles recognized Bruch’s aptitude. At the age of nine, Bruch wrote his first composition, a song for his mother’s birthday. From then on, music was his passion. His studies were enthusiastically supported by his parents. His many early works included motets, psalm settings, piano pieces, violin sonatas, a string quartet, and even orchestral works such as the prelude to a planned opera, Joan of Arc. Few of these early works have survived. Bruch’s first music theory lesson was in 1849 in Bonn. It was given by Professor Heinrich Ca

Max Butting

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Max Butting (6 October 1888 – 13 July 1976) was a German composer. Life Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. After attending secondary school (Realgymnasium), he studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst (Academy of Composition) in Munich from 1908 to 1914. There, he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. He also attended lectures in psychology, philosophy and musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Butting learned composition by private instruction from Walter Courvoisier, for the most part, whom Klose had recommended to him after a disagreement. Butting was medically unfit for service in World War I. On the urging of his father, he worked as an assistant in his father’s business when he returned to Berlin in 1919, where he remained until 1923. However, he was allowed sufficient free time for composing. He quickly got in contact with other young artists and became friendly with Walter Ruttmann and Philipp Jarnach, among others. In 1921, Butting

Max Drischner

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Max Drischner (31 January 1891 – 25 April 1971) was a German composer, Kantor, organist, and harpsichordist. Life and work Max Drischner was born in Prieborn (now Przeworno), Silesia. After completing his A-levels at the grammar school in Züllichau, he started theological studies in 1910 at Leipzig and Breslau. However, after seven semesters, he gave this up to study the organ, piano, and harpsichord at the Berlin Music Academy. A teacher in his principal subject, Wanda Landowska, had a major influence on him. Between 1916 and the end of the First World War, he was a voluntary medical orderly in France. During this time, he lost the top of a finger on his left hand. After the war, through self-teaching, he acquired an extensive knowledge of music before the Bach period. He gave his first harpsichord concerts in Breslau in 1920 and in Brieg in 1923. In Brieg, he was trained by Paul Hielscher in organ playing and choir leading. In 1923, he founded a youth choir that was later united with the choir from St. Nikolai in Brieg. In 1924, he was appointed as cantor and organist of St. Nikolai in Brieg. During his tenure in Brieg, he composed the majority of his organ and vocal works. He al

Max Erdmannsdörfer

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Max Erdmannsdörfer (14 June 184814 February 1905) (sometimes seen as Max von Erdmannsdörfer) was a German conductor, pianist and composer. He was born in Nuremberg. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, becoming concertmaster at Sondershausen. In 1874 he married the pianist and composer Pauline Fichtner, a student of Franz Liszt. She later used the professional name Pauline Erdmannsdörfer-Fichtner. Erdmannsdörfer corresponded with Liszt, and he premiered Liszt’s symphonic poem Hamlet at Sondershausen on 2 July 1876. He also once owned at least parts of the score of Liszt’s lost Piano Concerto No. 3, which was finally pieced together only in 1989 from separate manuscript pages that had been dispersed as far afield as Weimar, Nuremberg and Leningrad. Max Erdmannsdörfer also had an association with Joachim Raff. He and Pauline were the co-dedicatees of the two-piano version of Raff’s Piano Quintet, Op. 107, and they premiered it at Sondershausen on 22 September 1877. In 1870, Pauline had been the dedicatee of Raff’s Piano Suite in G minor. Erdmannsdörfer completed Raff’s unfinished Symphony No. 11, Op. 214, after its composer’s death, and had it published. He premiered Sir Alexander

Max Ettinger

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Max Ettinger (27 December 1874 – 19 July 1951) was an Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor. Life Born in Lemberg, Ettinger was the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Lemberg and the son of the landowner Herz Ettinger. His mother, Ernestine Landau, gave him his first musical education. He was taught by tutors on his parents’ estate and took his school-leaving examination at the old German-Polish grammar school in Lemberg. In Berlin, he tried to get accepted at the Hochschule für Musik, but was not admitted. He received private lessons there in 1899 from Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Heinrich van Eyken in harmony and composition. From 1900 to 1903, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Viktor Gluth and Ludwig Thuille, with the latter privately until 1905. In 1906, he worked as a bandmaster in Saarbrücken and in 1910 in Lübeck, but he gave up this job because of health reasons. From 1911, he lived again in Munich as a composer, where he married Josephine Krisack in 1913. In the 1920s, Ettinger was very successful as a composer, his literary operas were performed in Nuremberg, Hamburg, Munich, Kiel and Leipzig. He also worked aga

Max Fiedler

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August Max Fiedler (21 December 1859, Zittau – 1 December 1939, Stockholm) was a German conductor and composer, He was noted as an interpreter of Brahms. He first studied the piano with his father, who conducted the accompanying orchestra when Max made his first public appearance at the age of ten in 1870, playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A, K.488. Continuing his musical studies in Zittau with the organist Gustav Albrecht, who had been a pupil of Mendelssohn, Fiedler then entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1877, where the director, Carl Reinecke, was his piano teacher. He graduated in 1882, with exceptional honours, alongside his friend and colleague Karl Muck. Fiedler also studied composition and was active in the city’s musical life, developing a close relationship with Julius Spengel, a friend of Brahms. Fiedler himself knew Brahms sufficiently well for the composer to ask him to substitute for him in a performance of his Piano Concerto No. 2, an invitation which Fiedler politely declined. He almost certainly heard Brahms conduct the first Leipzig performances of his Symphony No. 2 early in 1878 (though Ethel Smyth later wrote that Brahms “had the knack of rubbing orchestras

Max Meyer-Olbersleben

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Max Meyer-Olbersleben (5 April 1850 in Olbersleben – 31 December 1927 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist. Biography Meyer-Olbersleben studied with Carl Müllerhartung and Franz Liszt at the Weimar Orchestra School, and with Josef Rheinberger, Franz Wüllner, and Peter Cornelius at the Munich Conservatory. After graduation, he became Professor of piano and theory in Weimar. Later, he was Professor of counterpoint and composition at the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music in Würzburg, and became its director from 1907 to 1920. Some notable students were Adolf Sandberger, Heinrich Steinbeck, Bernard Homola and Marc Roland. In addition, he conducted the Würzburg Liedertafel from 1879 and was Court Kapellmeister of Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. Meyer-Olberleben became known primarily as a composer of songs and choral works. His son is the composer Ernst Ludwig Meyer-Olbersleben. Selected works ;Stage * Clare Dettin, Opera in 3 acts, Op. 41 (1894) ;Orchestral * Feierklänge, Concert Overture, Op. 18 (1884) * Fest-Ouverture, Op. 30 (1888) * Sonnenhymnus, Tone Poem, Op. 90 ;Concertante * Concerto in D major for viola and orchestra, Op. 112 ;Chamber music * Piano Trio in E major, Op.

Max Oesten

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Max Oesten (var: Otto Max Oesten, Max Otto Östen, Otto Östen) 1843–1917, was a German pianist, organist and prolific composer. Life Max Oesten was born in Berlin the son of the German composer Theodore Oesten. He spent most of his professional life as a church organist in Königsburg. Oesten was a pupil of August Wilhelm Bach. Among Oesten’s pupils was the German-American fiddler Otto Funk. List of works Choral * op. ? (1879) Aufforderung zum Tanz: polka-rondo (mixed choir and piano). * op. 225 (1914) Für Kaiser und Reich (male-voice choir and orchestra). Harmonium and/or Organ * op. 26 (n.d.) Trauermarsch (after Beethoven op. 26) arr. for harmonium/organ. * op. ? (1869) La Belle Espagnole (piano). * op. 71 (1878) Frühlingsglaube, after F. Ries (piano). * op. 168 (1890) Weihnachtsklänge (piano) * op. ? (1898) Six easy pieces (violin and piano). * op. 201 (1899) Six easy pieces: second set) (violin and piano). External links * Public domain copies of works by Max Oesten at IMSLP. Web resource, accessed 16 December 2021. * Works by Max Oesten listed in the catalogues (Monatsberichte) of the Leipzig music publisher Friedrich Hofmeister for the years 1829–1900. Web resource, accessed 18

Max Reger

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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as Gesang der Verklärten (1903), (1909), Der Einsiedler and the Hebbel Requiem (both 1915). Biography Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger was the first child of Josef Reger, a school teacher and amateur musician, and his wife Katharina Philomena. The devout Catholic family moved to Weiden in 1874. Max had only one sister, Emma, after three other siblings died in childhood. When he turned five, Reger learned organ, violin and cello from his father and piano from his mother. From 1884 to 1889, Reger took piano and organ lessons from Adalbert Lindner, one of his father’s students. During this time, he f

Max Trapp

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Hermann Emil Alfred Max Trapp (November 1, 1887 – May 31, 1971) was a German composer and teacher. A prestigious figure in the Berlin cultural scene during the 1930s, Trapp, amongst others in the Nazi-influenced scene, was regularly invited to contribute to concert programs and competitions. Trapp was born in Berlin and attended the Berlin Hochschule für Musik (now the Berlin University of the Arts) where he studied under Paul Juon and Ernő Dohnányi. After the completion of his studies, he did not have regular employment and worked as an itinerant pianist. In 1920, however, he obtained a post as lecturer at the Berlin conservatoire, becoming a professor there in 1926. His best-known pupils include Josef Tal, Saburō Moroi and Günter Raphael. Between 1926 and 1930, Trapp offered a master class in composition at the music conservatoire in Dortmund. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP. In June 1933, Trapp joined the Nazi movement through an “Appeal to the Creative” (Appell an die Schaffenden). In 1934, he stepped down from the Berlin conservatoire and became the director of a masterclass in composition at the Berlin Academy of Arts (since merged with the University of the Arts). Here from 1936

Max von Schillings

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Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was the chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schillings’ opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano who sang the title role. Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde (1894), Der Pfeifertag (1899) and Der Moloch (1906). Biography Born in Düren, Max von Schillings was brother to the photographer Carl Georg Schillings. He received his first musical training in violin, piano and theory at the same time as his formal education in Bonn. His teachers were Caspar Joseph Brambach and Otto von Königslow. Schillings later studied jurisprudence, philosophy, literature and art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. On October 1, 1892, he married his cousin Caroline Josefa Peill in Römlinghoven. They were divorced in 1923, and on June 11, 1923, he married the opera singer Barbara Kemp in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Max Schillings was given a professorship by the Royal Bavarian Ministry of the Interior (Königliches Bayeris

Max Wagenknecht

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Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht (14 August 1857 – 7 May 1922) was a German composer of organ and piano music. Biography He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia and spent most of his life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region where he was music teacher at the Franzburg Teachers’ College and in his later life organist and composer in Anklam. He is most well known for his Opus 5, 58 Vor- und Nachspiele (“58 Preludes and Postludes”), completed in July 1889 in Franzburg. The work demonstrates a remarkable gift for melodic organ compositions, bridging traditional church music and the late 19th-century romantic music era. Works Wagenknecht published an unknown number of musical works. The following have been preserved: * Three Polkas, Op. 1, for piano. This work was most likely composed while he was studying at the conservatory in Berlin * Rheinländer, Op. 2, for violin or flute with piano accompaniment (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn) * Three Songs, Op. 3, with texts by Schanz, Kletke and Reinick, with piano accompaniment (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn) * 58 Vor- und Nachspiele, Op. 5, for organ (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn, 1889) * Opus 10, 13 and 14: songs with

Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert

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Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert (born 1974, Soltau, Germany) is a composer and violinist. He studied both in Augsburg with John van Buren, and later on at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Heinz Winbeck. His music was performed in countries like Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and the United States. His compositions have been awarded in 1999 by the International Brahms-Competition of the ZEIT-Foundation and in 2006 by the Oslo Grieg Society. From 2001 until 2002 he was in residence of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, by a scholarship of the Bavarian government. At the meantime he was an active violinist, playing in several orchestras, among them the Russian chamber-philharmonics Saint Petersburg and –as a concertmaster- at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Since 2001 Ewert stayed often in Argentina, where he worked together with Oscar Nicolas Fresedo and others, performances of his tangos established him in Buenos Aires. 2006 - 2008 he attended the courses for composition of José Manuel López López, since 2008 he also studies with Walter Zimmermann. In 2007, he was invited by Moritz Eggert to write for the young Lyons concert of the A•DEvantgarde

Maximilian Marcoll

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Maximilian Marcoll (* 1981 in Lübeck) is a German composer and performer. He studied percussion, instrumental and electronic composition in Lübeck and Essen. In his work he has focused on the political potential of music and sound. Since April 2021 he has worked as professor of electroacoustic composition and sound art at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Bauhaus University Weimar. Biography Marcoll first studied percussion at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1992 to 1997, composition with Friedhelm Döhl and Dirk Reith in Lübeck from 1997, and at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen from 2001 to 2006 with Thomas Neuhaus, Dietrich Hahne, Günther Steinke and Orm Finnendahl. In 2002 he founded the electronic duo dis.playce together with Hannes Seidl. Since 2006 he has been a member of the artist group stock11. From 2007 to 2014 he taught at the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, also since 2007 at the Institute for Preparatory Studies at the Musikschule Kreuzberg, and from 2017 to 2020 inclusive he held a teaching position at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. In 2021 Marcoll was appointed professor of electroacoustic composition and

Melchior Ernst Sachs

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Johann Melchior Ernst Sachs (28 February 1843 – 18 May 1917) was a German romantic composer, who also held teaching and performing posts. He studied first at Altdorf Seminary; taught in elementary schools from 1861 to 1863, and later entered the Munich College of Music and remained there from 1863 to 1865, before becoming a pupil there under Joseph Rheinberger, from 1867 to 1869, when it re-opened as the Royal Bavarian Music School, under the overall direction of Hans von Bülow. Sachs conducted the Liederkranz Society from 1868 to 1872, and in 1871 was appointed a teacher of harmony at the Royal Music School. From 1869 until 1873 he conducted a male choral society at Munich, and he was the founder and conductor of the Tonkunstlerverein. As a music theorist he held original opinions on many points. Most of his numerous compositions remain unpublished, but his work includes symphonies; symphonic poems; an opera, Palestrina, which was performed at Ratisbon in 1886; a ballad, Das Thal des Espingo, for chorus and orchestra; a “Pater Noster”; and one work of gigantic dimensions, Kains Schuld und ihre Sühne (Cain, His Sin and Atonement). This production was intended to fill seven evenings

Melchior Franck

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Melchior Franck (c. 1579 – 1 June 1639) was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Lutheran church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations of the Venetian School north across the Alps into Germany. Life Details of his early life are sparse, as is common for composers of the time. He was born in Zittau, and possibly studied with Christoph Demantius there, and also later with Adam Gumpelzhaimer in Augsburg. By 1601 Franck was in Nuremberg, as a music teacher; there he met Hans Leo Hassler, and learned from him both the Venetian polychoral style and the polyphonic style of the high Renaissance, both of which he incorporated into his own composition. In 1602 he took a position as Kapellmeister in Coburg to Prince Johann Casimir, and he remained in Coburg for the rest of his life. For the earlier portion of this time, the situation was ideal for him; he was supported by his patron, and had the resources necessary to carry on his composing. The Thirty Years’ War devastated the region around Coburg; in addition to the military depredations, typhus brought by the armies depopulated the enti

Melchior Hoffmann (composer)

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Georg Melchior Hoffmann (c. 1679 – 6 October 1715) was a Baroque composer who was influential as the leader at the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Some of his compositions have been mistaken for those of Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Hoffman was born sometime around 1679 (or 1685 according to some sources) in Bärenstein (now part of Altenberg), Saxony, Germany. His first musical service was as a choirboy in Dresden, under the tutelage of Johann Christoph Schmidt. Hoffmann succeeded Telemann as director of the Collegium Musicum in 1705, a position that did not end until Hoffman’s death ten years later. In this position he became an educator, and his students included Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Other responsibilities included being the organist at the Neukirche, and director of the Leipzig civic opera, for which he composed several works. He is known to have journeyed to England sometime around the years 1709–1710. In 1713 he began to suffer from the malady which would eventually prove fatal. are likely works by Hoffmann, and of more positive identification is a Magnificat in A minor for solo soprano and small group, which during the 19th century was assigned a BWV number of BWV An

Melchior Vulpius

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Melchior Vulpius (c. 1570 in Wasungen – 7 August 1615 in Weimar) was a German singer and composer of church music. Vulpius came from a poor craftsman’s family. He studied at the local school in Wasungen (in Thuringia) with . From 1588, he attended the school in Speyer. After marrying in 1589, he obtained a position at the Gymnasium in Schleusingen. In 1596, he was named cantor in Weimar. He wrote and published church music, the best known being the setting of the hymn "" (Ah, stay with your grace) on a text by . This setting was often performed in Protestant churches on New Year’s Day and at the end of the service. Important compilations were (1602, 1604), (1604), (1605) and (1609). The Cantional (a collection of songs) was published posthumously in 1646 in Gotha. The St. Matthew Passion is another of Vulpius’ well-known works. By the middle of the 17th century, the music for the Passion had spread also to Sweden and later to Finland. Based on the several copies of music manuscripts that have been preserved in different archives in Finland, it can be concluded that the Passion became rather popular there. According to historical sources, this was the very first polyphonic passion c

Mesías Maiguashca

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Mesías Maiguashca (born 24 December 1938) is an Ecuadorian composer and an advocate of Neue Musik (New Music), especially electroacoustic music. Biography Born in Quito, Maiguashca studied music at the Conservatorio Nacional de Quito, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (1958–65), with Alberto Ginastera at the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 1965–66 he returned to Quito to teach at the National Conservatory, but then moved back to Germany to attend the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, and the Fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1966–67 where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen. He is regarded as one of the central figures of the Cologne School, active since the mid-1970s. Maiguashca worked closely with Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne from 1968 to 1972, and joined Stockhausen’s ensemble for performances at the German Pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka. He also prepared the recording of the collective composition Ensemble, organized by Stockhausen for the Darmstadt Courses in 1967. In 1971 he became a founding member of the Oeldorf Group of

Michael Altenburg

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Michael Altenburg (27 May 1584 – 12 February 1640) was a German theologian and composer. Altenburg was born at Alach, near Erfurt. He began attending school in Erfurt in 1590; he began studying theology at the University of Erfurt in 1598, and was awarded a bachelor’s degree in 1599 and a master’s in 1603. From 1600 he taught at the Reglerschule in Erfurt; he was Kantor at St. Andreas from 1601 and rector of the school at St. Andreas in Erfurt from 1607. In 1609 he quit teaching to become a pastor, moving to Tröchtelborn and preaching there until 1621. During this period Altenburg published music, and was compared to Orlando di Lasso. After 1621 he moved to Sömmerda, working at the Bonifaciuskirche. While he continued to publish and was respected for his compositions, the Thirty Years War sapped his efforts. In 1636 a massive plague wiped out most of his congregation, and his wife and ten of his children died before himself. He returned to Erfurt in 1637, where he remained as deacon and, from 1638, minister at St Andreas. Much of Altenburg’s compositional output consists of vocal concertos, motets and chorales. Works, hymns, editions and recordings Works *Passion after Isaiah ch. 5

Michael Denhoff

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Michael Denhoff (born 25 April 1955 in Ahaus) is a German composer and cellist. Life Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze (composition), Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (cello) and the Amadeus Quartet (chamber music). As a composer and chamber musician, he occupied various teaching posts, including a lectureship in composition at the University of Mainz (1984–85) and a guest professorship at the National Conservatory of Hanoi (1997–99). From 1985 to 1992 he also conducted the Akademische Orchester Bonn, which he founded. As a cellist, he formed the Denhoff Piano Trio with his brother Johannes (violin) and the pianist Richard Braun. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Ludwig Quartet of Bonn, and he also works closely with the pianist Birgitta Wollenweber. As a composer, he has won several prizes and distinctions, including the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize (1986) and the Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Prize (1989). Denhoff’s music shows the influence of poetry and the visual arts. Several of his orchestral and chamber works have been inspired

Michael Flade

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Michael Flade (born in 1975) is a German composer. Life Born in Dessau, Flade was a pupil of Hans Jürgen Wenzel in the . From 1993 he studied musical composition with Jörg Herchet, music theory with Manfred Weiss as well as piano and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. With a DAAD scholarship he was in a master program at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he was taught by Nils Vigeland. From 1998 to 2001 he was a postgraduate student with Wilfried Krätzschmar in Dresden. He also studied musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2001 he has taught composition, acoustics, organology, instrumentation, ear training and Max/MSP in Dresden. From 2006 to 2008 he represented the professorship for electronic music in Dresden and was acting director of the . From 2008 to 2010 he was lecturer for music theory at the Technische Universität Dresden. Since 2010 he is lecturer for ear training at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Flade works and lives as a composer in Stuttgart. Many of his works use live electronic music. Among other things he composed In Verbindung (2005, world premiere by

Michael Jary

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Michael Jary (Maximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk; 24 September 1906 – 12 July 1988) was a German composer who was born in Laurahütte, Siemianowitz and died in Munich. Early years Jary’s father worked at the Königshütte (Chorzów today) iron works and his mother was a tailor. He planned to become a missionary and went to school at the monastery of the Steyl Missionaries near Neisse (Nysa today), where he discovered his love of music. At the age of 18 he moved to the conservatory at Beuthen (Bytom today). He conducted the church choir and started to write his first chamber music works that were transmitted on the radio Gliwice. The city theatre of Neisse and Plauen gave him a position as a second concert master. In 1929 Jary was accepted at the Staatliche Akademische Musikhochschule at Berlin, meanwhile he made money playing as a pianist at cafés or movies. In 1931 he received the Beethoven-prize of Berlin. During the Nazi years When Jary delivered his graduation concert on 8 February 1933, he was bullied by members of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. Paul Graener, the new director of the Stern’sches Konservatorium denigrated his concert as “the cultural bolshevistic musical stammer

Michael Maier

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Michael Maier (; 1568–1622) was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg. He was a learned alchemist, epigramist, and amateur composer. Early life Maier was born in Rendsburg, Holstein, the son of a specialist in beadwork in embroidery named Peter Maier. In the service of Rudolf II (1609–1611) In 1608, he went to Prague, and on 19 September 1609, he formally entered the service of Rudolf II as his physician and imperial counsellor. Ten days later, Rudolf raised him to the hereditary nobility and gave him the title of Imperial Count Palatine. Maier left the city that month. He corresponded with Moritz of Hessen-Kassel, and visited Hessen-Kassel’s brother-in-law, Count Ernst III of Holstein-Schauenburg. He was also a guest of Christoph Reinhard, Doctor of Laws and town syndic of Mühlhausen, to whom he later dedicated his book Atalanta Fugiens. From there he continued on to London arriving in 1611 or 1612. Whether he had arrived in person or not by Christmas 1611 is unknown, but he did send Christmas cards to both James I and his son Prince Henry. He composed a wedding song for the nuptials of Frederick V of the Palatinate to Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I. He wa

Michael Reudenbach

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Michael Reudenbach (born 13 September 1956) is a German composer. He performs as an interpreter of Early and New Music. Life and achievements Reudenbach was born in Aachen. After training as a church musician from 1976 to 1982, Reudenbach studied musical composition from 1986 with Joachim Blume in Cologne and Denis Cohen in Paris. In 1984 he took part in interpretation courses with Philippe Herreweghe. In 1990/1991 he attended composition courses with Helmut Lachenmann and Mathias Spahlinger. He has been teaching music theory, musical analysis and hearing training at the (1982-1999) and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (1999-2016), musical composition at the Solitude Summer Academy in Stuttgart (2005), at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2006) and at the conservatories of Dresden and Stuttgart (substitute professorships between 2012 and 2015). Since the winter semester 2016 he has been Professor of Composition/Music Theory at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Reudenbach received prizes and scholarships from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung of the Südwestrundfunk among other. Works *mirlitonnades pour petite flûte (1991) *Choral f

Michael Vetter

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Michael Vetter (18 September 1943 – 7 December 2013) was a German composer, novelist, poet, performer, calligrapher, artist, and teacher. Biography Vetter was born in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu region of Germany, and received a conventional school education. He adopted the recorder as his preferred instrument, and began experimenting in the late 1950s with its timbres and techniques, such as multiphonics and microtones. He inspired composers such as Louis Andriessen, and Rob du Bois in the Netherlands, Sylvano Bussotti in Italy, and Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany to use the instrument in their compositions. His technical discoveries were codified in a text, Il flauto dolce ed acerbo (The Sweet and Sour Flute, 1969), which included tables of some 2000 fingerings. He began studying philosophy and theology in 1964, while continuing his career as a performer. In 1967 he began composing graphically and verbally notated music, and beginning in 1968 turned to writing experimental/improvisational vocal music for children. From March to September 1970, together with nineteen other musicians, he performed works by Stockhausen (including Hymnen, Spiral, Pole, and Aus den si

Michael von Biel

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Michael von Biel (born 30 June 1937) is a German composer, cellist, and graphic artist. Life Biel was born in Hamburg, the son of Werner von Biel and Ursula von Biel (née Lampert). After finishing school in Canterbury, England, he studied piano, theory, and composition in Toronto (1956–57), Vienna (1958–60), New York (1960, with Morton Feldman, amongst others), London (1961–62, with Cornelius Cardew), and Cologne (with Karlheinz Stockhausen). From 1961 to 1963 he attended the Darmstadt International Vacation/Holiday Courses for New Music. In 1964 he received a commission from the WDR for the electronic piece Fassung, completed after six months of work. From 1965 to 1966 he was Composer in Residence at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Since 1966 Michael von Biel has lived in Cologne sharing a flat with fellow composer Irmin Schmidt. Following the release of Jagdstück, From 1968 to 1969, von Biel studied with Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In the following years he created works in the visual realm especially. Compositions (selective list) *Für Klavier no.1–3 (three piano pieces for Morton Feldman), for piano four-hands (1960–61) *Book for Three, for violin

Mikhail Goldstein

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Mikhail Emmanuilovich Goldstein (, also transcribed as Michael Emmanuilowitsch Goldstein, ; pen name: Mykhailo Mykhailovsky; 18 September 19177 September 1989) was a German composer, violinist and violin teacher of Jewish origin, brother of prominent violinist Boris Goldstein. Biography Goldstein was born as Moisey (Moishe) Goldshteyn in Odessa on October 1, 1917, the son of personal distinguished citizen Mendel Abramovich-Geynikhovich Goldshteyn (born 1885 in Odessa) and Sura Iosifovna Goldshteyn (nee Kigel, born 1887 in Orhei), who registered their marriage on July 26, 1909 in Odessa. His paternal grandparents, married in Odessa on August 10, 1876, were Odessa dweller Abram-Geynikh Goldshteyn and Nemyriv dweller Pesya Yudkovna Siminshteyn. Michael Goldstein started studying the violin at age four at the School of Stolyarsky in Odessa with Pyotr Stolyarsky who was also the teacher of David Oistrach and Nathan Milstein. He was the author of the celebrated musical hoax “Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky’s Symphony No. 21” as well as several others, notably “Expromt” by Balakirev", “Albumblatt” (Листок из Альбома) by Glazunov"’ the “Viola Concerto in C Major by Ivan Khandoshkin”, etc. He concentr

Moritz Brosig

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Moritz Brosig (15 October 1815 - 24 January 1887) was a German cathedral organist and composer. He came to be seen as a leading representative of the so-called Breslau School of church musicians. Despite his Roman Catholic faith, he wrote more than thirty chorale preludes, working in a musical genre more traditionally associated with Lutheran worship. Life Provenance and early years Moritz Brosig was born the youngest son of Joseph Brosig, a minor landowner at Fuchswinke in the countryside on the southern edge of Lower Silesia. His mother Barbara was the daughter of the man who owned the Kreuzer printing works in the Silesian capital, Breslau. Music professional In 1838 Brosig took over as the organist at St. Adalbert’s church in the heart of the city. During this period he deputised with growing frequency for his teacher-mentor, In 1869 the organist Franz Dirschke shared his opinion in the “Zeitschrift für katholische Kirchenmusik” (“Journal of Catholic Church Music”) that Brosig’s playing appealed alike to the musical expert and to the musically untutored: “one can only regret that all those splendid and accomplished improvisations which he had created as a cathedral organist dur

Moritz Eggert

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Moritz Eggert (born 25 November 1965 in Heidelberg) is a German composer and pianist. Life Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium in Frankfurt (with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kühnl), at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (with Leonard Hokanson) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (with Wilhelm Killmayer). Later he continued his piano studies with Raymund Havenith and Dieter Lallinger, and his composition studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose in Munich. In 1992 he spent a year in London as a post-graduate composition student with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Moritz Eggert’s oeuvre includes 7 operas as well as ballets and works for dance and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. In 1997, a German TV station produced a feature-length film portrait about his music. As a pianist he has collaborated with many artists, as soloist with orchestra, as chamber music partner in various formations and as a Lied accompanist. In 1996 he presented the complete works for piano solo by Hans Werner Henze for the first time in one concert. In 1989 he was a pr

Moritz Fürstenau

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Moritz Ludwig Carl Ignaz Franz August Fürstenau (born 26 July 1824 and died on 27 March 1889, also in Dresden) was a German flautist and music historian. He left only a few works that gained little significance, but was extremely helpful as a theater historian. With his former conductor Richard Wagner, he remained on friendly terms, standing by him even after his departure from Dresden. As an early admirer of him, he was in the 1870s with the founding of the Dresden Wagner Society and as early as 1854, he was already involved in the establishment of the Musicians Association, remaining chairman until his death. He also served as a delegate of the General German Musician Association. For his services he was granted the title of professor of music from the king. At the request of Saxon King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Fürstenau was granted permanent position as flutist at the Royal Chapel of Dresden in 1842, being later promoted to royal chamber musician in 1844. With the singer Jenny Lind, Fürstenau traveled in 1855 on a grand tour through the Netherlands, while they appeared together as soloists. Frederick Tröstl and Fürstenau were the first instructors at the newly founded p

Moritz Hauptmann

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Moritz Hauptmann (13 October 1792, Dresden – 3 January 1868, Leipzig), was a German music theorist, teacher and composer. His principal theoretical work is the 1853 Die Natur der Harmonie und der Metrik explores numerous topics, particular the philosophy of music. Biography Hauptmann was born in Dresden, and studied violin under Scholz, piano under Franz Lauska, composition under Grosse and Francesco Morlacchi (who was a rival in Dresden of Carl Maria von Weber). He completed his education as a violinist and composer under Louis Spohr, and until 1821 held various appointments in private families. In addition, he studied mathematics and acoustics. Hauptmann was initially employed as an architect before finding success as a musician. Notable in his early musical output is a grand tragic opera, Mathilde. He joined the orchestra of Kassel in 1822 under Spohr’s direction. There, he first taught composition and music theory. His pupils included Ferdinand David, Friedrich Burgmüller, Gustav Graben-Hoffmann, Charles Edward Horsley, Friedrich Kiel, Ernst Naumann, Oscar Paul, Isidor Seiss and others. In 1842, Hauptmann became Thomaskantor in Leipzig (a post once held by Johann Sebastian Bach

Nicolaus A. Huber

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Nicolaus A. Huber (born 15 December 1939) is a German composer. Education Huber was born in Passau. From 1958 to 1962, he studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Günter Bialas. He pursued his education further with Josef Anton Riedl, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, above all, with Luigi Nono. From 1974 until his retirement in 2003, Huber was Professor of Composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Style and influences Riedl and Schnebel inspired Huber’s vocal and linguistic experiments. Riedl in particular encouraged Huber’s radical tendencies. His treatment of musical material was most strongly formed by his contact with Stockhausen, while Nono inspired in him an acute historical and political (Marxist) awareness, particularly evident in his second compositional phase, beginning around 1969. Huber took part in Stockhausen’s composition project Ensemble at the 1967 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, an experience that gave him an appreciation of the potential for improvisation—a factor that marks not only his compositions for conventional forces, but also his mixed- and multi-media experiments. Stockhaus

Nicolaus Vetter

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Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (; c. 1666 – 13 June 1734) was a German organist and composer. Biography He was born in Herschdorf, in present-day Thuringia. In his Zur Geschichte des Orgelspiels (1884), August Gottfried Ritter gives 30, Oct. 1660 as birth date, and “nach 1740” as time of death. Vetter first studied music with Georg Caspar Wecker in Nuremberg and was a student at the Rudolstadt Gymnasium from 1683 to 1688. He then moved to Erfurt to study with Johann Pachelbel, succeeding him as organist of the Predigerkirche when he left for Stuttgart in 1690; during this time, he may have attended the University of Erfurt. He was succeeded by J.H. Buttstedt in July 1691, when he went to Rudolstadt to take up a position as castle organist; he was later honoured with the appointments of Government Advocate, Church Procurator and Master Over The Page Boys. His surviving compositions are now few, since World War II led to the destruction of all his free organ compositions and a work for chorus and orchestra entitled Zum frohen Empfang Grossherzogs Carl Fürsten Primas. The manuscript Mus.40035 of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, gave his name as the composer of variations three and eigh

Nicu Covaci

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Nicolae “Nicu” Covaci (19 April 1947 – 2 August 2024) was a Romanian guitarist, painter, and music composer. He is best known as the leader and founding member of rock and cult band Phoenix, for which he was the lead vocalist and guitar player, with more than 60 years of activity. Biography Nicolae Covaci was born in Timișoara, on 19 April 1947. His mother Tamara came originally from Bessarabia while his father Grigore came from Banat, close to the Serbian border. He took up playing guitar at the age of 15 and in 1962 he, together with Florin “Moni” Bordeianu, founded a band called Sfinții (The Saints). Covaci died in Timișoara on 2 August 2024, at the age of 77. 1960s * 1962: Nicolae Covaci founds the student band “Sfinții” (The Saints) in Timișoara. The band wins the second prize at the Bucharest Student Festival. From the very beginning the band is criticized for having a western European influence. * 1963: The band’s recordings of their own compositions first receive radio air play. * 1965: The Saints are banned. The authorities accuse the band of spreading religious propaganda, and the band is forced to change its name. PHOENIX is born. Under their new name, the band plays thr

Nikolaus Brass

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Nikolaus Brass (born 25 October 1949) is a German composer. Life and career Born in Lindau (Bodensee), Brass began composing early. After graduating from high school in 1968, he studied medicine in Munich, Scotland and at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied composition with Peter Kiesewetter in Munich, with Frank Michael Beyer at the Universität der Künste Berlin and with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover. In 1980–86, he participated in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. There, he met Morton Feldman, who had a lasting influence on his further musical thinking and work. For many years, Brass worked as a medical doctor - first as a hospital doctor, from 1982 as editor of the journal Ärztliche Praxis - and at the same time as a composer. The “concrete confrontation with the existential fragility of human existence, with departure and happiness, but also pain, infirmity and death, acted like a compass in the search for expression”. Since 1981 Brass’ works have been regularly performed at festivals. In 2008 his work was the focus of the International Weingartener Days for New Music. His compositions Void (for piano) and Void II (for solos and orchestra) - so named after the Voids, the “leeren

Nikolaus Herman

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Nikolaus Herman (first name also Nicolaus or Niklas; 1500 – 3 May 1561) was a German Lutheran cantor and teacher, creating numerous Protestant hymns. Some of them are contained in hymnals in several languages. Career Herman was born in Altdorf. In 1518 he came as cantor and teacher at the Latin School of Joachimsthal (now Jáchymov, Bohemia). He was a supporter of the Reformation; a letter of Martin Luther to him is dated 6 November 1524. He collaborated with people such as Johannes Mathesius, who served there from 1532 as principal of the school, and from 1540 as a pastor. On 24 June 1557 Herman retired. He published his hymns, which he wrote primarily for teaching children, in 1560 under the title (The Sundays’ Gospels through the year in songs written for the children and Christian fathers). Hymns Several of his hymns are part of present-day hymnals, such as the current German Protestant hymnal (EG) and the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob (GL). He created text and melody for a few hymns: * "" (also: “allzugleich”) (Praise God, you Christians all the same) (EG 27, GL 134): The hymn text was published in 1560, with a melody Herman had already published in 1554 (then as tune of “”, Zahn N

Norbert Burgmüller

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August Joseph Norbert Burgmüller (8 February 1810 – 7 May 1836) was a German composer, renowned for his contributions during the nascent stages of the Romantic Era. His oeuvre, albeit cut tragically short due to his untimely drowning at the age of 26, continues to resonate in the annals of classical music. Life Burgmüller was born in Düsseldorf, the youngest son in a musical family. His father, August Burgmüller, was the director of a theatre. His mother, Therese von Zandt, was a singer and piano teacher. He had two brothers, Franz and Friedrich. Friedrich was also a composer. After the death of their father, the family had financial troubles. They were given support from Count . Burgmüller studied with Joseph Kreutzer in Düsseldorf, and Louis Spohr and Spohr’s pupil Moritz Hauptmann in Kassel. After his study he became their piano teacher. He became engaged to Sophia Roland, but in 1830 the relationship ended, to Norbert’s distress. He became epileptic and began to drink excessively. In the same year he returned to Düsseldorf to live with his mother. There he befriended Felix Mendelssohn. He became engaged to Josephine Collin, but this relationship ended too. After Mendelssohn lef

Norbert Linke

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Norbert Linke (5 March 1933 – 10 November 2020) and instrumental works. From 1952 to 1959 he studied composition at the State Academy of Music in Hamburg with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and Philipp Jarnach. During the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for Neue Musik (1962-1964) he received his “final touches” from Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1962 to 1972 he was a teacher at the , before he was a lecturer and professor in music teacher training at the FHS Darmstadt until 1976. Linke became known mainly for chamber music, but also for vocal and orchestral music. Linke has received numerous composition prizes (Hilversum, Darmstadt, Hamburg several times, Hof, Munich, Bonn), including the 1977 Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz-Prize (Stuttgart). Since 1971 he has been a full member of the music section of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg. From 1976 until his retirement he taught as a full professor of music at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 1985 to 1991 Linke was 1st chairman of the and has been its honorary member since 2013. The Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung (WISF) also elected him as an honorary member in 2020. His pseudonym was Aaron Aache

Norbert von Hannenheim

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Norbert Wolfgang Stephan Hann von Hannenheim (15 May 1898, Nagyszeben – 29 September 1945 in the Landeskrankenhaus Obrawalde near Międzyrzecz) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German composer. He is seen as one of the most brilliant later pupils of Arnold Schoenberg. Life A member of the Saxon community in Transylvania, Hannenheim was born in the city of Nagyszeben (in German: Hermannstadt, present-day Sibiu). He visited the German High School in Hermannstadt and received private piano lessons. Hannenheim occupied himself with music since his childhood and occasionally wrote compositions as an autodidact. In 1916 he was scheduled to perform a movement of his piano sonata, but recruitment into the army prevented this. From his early times date some tonalic settings of poems, which he partly published himself. He studied in Graz, Austria, from 1922 to 1923, and subsequently with Paul Graener in Leipzig. Here he composed pieces of chamber music for different ensembles, pieces for orchestra, one concerto for violin with chamber orchestra, one concerto for violoncello with chamber orchestra, one symphony for big orchestra in one movement and a concerto for big orchestra. In 1925, in the com

Nosie Katzmann

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Jürgen Katzmann aka Nosie Katzmann and Morrison Long is a German dance music songwriter and producer. He is known for writing songs for several European electronic dance acts like Culture Beat and Captain Hollywood Project, for whom he contributed various chart hits, among them “Mr. Vain”, “More and More” and others. “More and More” was his first No. 1 in Germany. In 1993, “Mr. Vain” became his biggest hit so far, topping the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK. Discography Solo *Greatest Hits 1 (2008) *Greatest Hits 2 (2010) *Katzmann (2014) Writing / production credits References External links *Nosie Katzmann on Eurodance Encyclopædia

Oliver Drechsel

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Oliver Drechsel (born 10 May 1973) is a German concert pianist and composer. Life Drechsel was born in Langenfeld (Rheinland). After initial lessons with his mother, the concert pianist Ruth Drechsel-Püster, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and Pavel Gililov. Master classes with, among others, Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet complemented this education, which he completed in 1998 with the Konzertexamen. In the same year he released his debut CD “Jürg Baur - Das Klavierwerk” and received the (support prize). For his compositions he received, among others, the 1st prize of the 2007 . Drechsel is dedicated to the performance of 18th and 19th century piano music on original historical instruments from the Dohr Collection (Cologne). This includes piano works by the composers Ferdinand Hiller, Friedrich Kiel, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Christian Heinrich Rinck and Johann Wilhelm Wilms, most of which are world premiere recordings. In addition to solo performances at home and abroad (including in the “Best of NRW” series) as well as radio recordings and CD productions, a further focus of his pianistic work lies in

Oliver Korte

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Oliver Korte (born 10 April 1969) is a German composer, music theorician, musicologist and College professor. Life Born in Hamburg, Korte studied musical composition, music theory and musicology in Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin. Important impulses were also given to him by private composition studies with Gösta Neuwirth. His compositions have been awarded several composition prizes and scholarships. In 2002 he received his doctorate at Technische Universität Berlin with a thesis on the Ecclesiastical Action of Bernd Alois Zimmermann. After teaching positions at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock as well as a position as research assistant at the Universität der Künste Berlin he was appointed professor for music theory and ear training at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in autumn 2006. He is co-founder of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) and editor of the Schriften der Musikhochschule Lübeck. In the winter semester 2017/18 he also taught as a visiting professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Kortes main work to date is the opera Copernicus for singer, narrator, orchestra and electronics, premiered in 2015 at the Festsp

Oscar Fetrás

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Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 – 10 January 1931) was a German composer of popular dance music, military marches, piano pieces and arrangements. Fetrás had over 200 compositions to his name. His best known work is his waltz “Mondnacht auf der Alster” Op. 60 which is still immensely popular to the present day. Biography Fetrás was born as Otto Kaufmann Faster in 1854 in Hamburg. His father Matthias Faster was an Hamburgian editor of a stock-exchange magazine. The Faster family originally came from Bützfleth, a locality of today’s Stade near Hamburg. Fetrás’s grandfather, a sea captain, died in the sinking of his ship Ceres. His mother Amalie Margarethe, born Decker, had ancestral origins from the island of Sylt. Early in his career Fetrás worked for , founder of the Flying P-Liner. Once he became widely regarded as being on the same level as the revered Viennese waltz kings, he departed to conduct his own orchestra. At the age of 26 Fetrás’s compositions attracted the attention of a Hamburg publisher. He changed his name to Fetrás, an anagram of his surname Faster. Fetrás soon rose to the position of conductor of the Uhlenhorster Fährhaus, a famous restaurant with ballrooms in Hambu

Oskar Böhme

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Oskar Böhme (February 24, 1870 – October 3, 1938 ) was a German composer and trumpeter. Life Oskar Böhme, a son of Wilhelm Böhme, also a trumpeter, was born in Potschappel, a small town near Dresden, Germany, which is now part of Freital. For much of his early career, after studying trumpet and composition in the Leipzig Conservatory of Music until graduating in 1888, it is unknown what Böhme’s musical activities were, though it is probable he concertized, playing in smaller orchestras around Germany. From 1894-1896 he played in the Budapest Opera Orchestra and then moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1897. Böhme played cornet for 24 years in the Mariinsky Theatre, turned to teaching at a music school on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg for nine further years, and at the Central Music College on Mokhovaya Street, from 1921-1930, and then returned to opera with the Leningrad Drama Theatre until 1934. All his life in St. Petersburg, he lived on Vasilievsky Island, 3rd line, 26 In 1934, however, the Great Terror began under Joseph Stalin and in 1936 a committee was established to oversee the arts in Soviet Russia. According to Russia’s anti-foreign policies, Böhme was exiled to Or

Oskar Fried

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Oskar Fried (1 August 1871 – 5 July 1941) was a German conductor and composer. He was known as a great admirer of Gustav Mahler, whose works he performed many times throughout his life. Fried was also the first conductor to record a Mahler symphony. He held the distinction of being the first foreign conductor to perform in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution (1922). He eventually left his homeland in 1933 to work in the Soviet Union after the political rise of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party, and became a Soviet citizen in 1940. In 1899, Fried married the amateur poet Augusta (Gusti) Rathgeber (1872–1926) and had two daughters with her, Monika and Emerentia (dates are unknown). From 1892, Gusti Rathgeber had been married to German poet Otto Julius Bierbaum but left him when she and Fried met, and fell in love with each other. Biography Born in Berlin, the son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he worked as a clown, a stable boy and a dog trainer before studying composition with Iwan Knorr (1891–92, Hoch’sche Conservatory) and Engelbert Humperdinck (as private student) in Frankfurt. He later moved to Düsseldorf to study painting and art history. The meeting resulted in the second complete performa

Oskar Rieding

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Oskar Rieding (29 June 1846 – 7 July 1916) was a German violinist, teacher of music, and composer. Oskar Rieding was born in Banie, Pomerania, now Poland. attended first the recently founded in Berlin, and later the Leipzig Conservatory. At the end of the 1860s he moved to Vienna, but in 1871 the conductor Hans Richter, at that time Musical Director of the National Theatre in Budapest, appointed Rieding to the orchestra’s first violin section. He remained there for thirty-two years, from 1884 onwards in the National Opera House. He composed some violin concertos and many pieces for violin and piano. Many of these pieces are appropriate for intermediate-level violin students, and they are still studied and performed by violin students today. After his retirement in 1903, he lived in Celje, Austria-Hungary, now Slovenia, continuing his activities as teacher, composer, and performer, until his death there in 1916. Main works His better-known works include: *Concerto in B minor for Violin and Piano Op. 35 (1909) *Concerto in D major for Violin and Piano Op. 36 *Concertino in G for Violin and Piano Op. 24 *Gypsies’ March Op. 23 No. 2, for Violin and Piano *Concertino in A Minor for Viol

Oskar Sala

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Oskar Sala (18 July 1910 – 26 February 2002) was a German composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the Trautonium, an early form of electronic synthesizer. Early life Sala was born in Greiz, Thuringia, Germany. Sala studied physics at the University of Berlin between 1932 and 1935. He helped to develop the “Volkstrautonium”, a Trautonium that Telefunken hoped to popularize. In 1935 he built a “Radio-Trautonium”, and in 1938 a portable model, the “Konzerttrautonium”. Oskar Sala was a soldier during the Nazi era. He was on the Eastern Front during World War II, where he was injured. Mixtur-Trautonium In 1948, Sala further developed the Trautonium into the Mixtur-Trautonium. Sala’s invention opened the field of subharmonics, the symmetric counterpart to overtones, so that a thoroughly distinct tuning evolved. Pioneering music therapist Maria Schüppel studied and worked with Sala during the 1950s. Sala presented his new instrument to the public in 1952 and would soon receive international licenses for its circuits. That same year, Harald Genzmer delivered the score to the first Concert For Mixtur-Trautonium And Grand Orchestra. In the 1950s Sala also b

Ottmar Gerster

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Ottmar Gerster (29 June 1897 – 31 August 1969) was a German viola player, conductor and composer who in 1948 became rector of the Liszt Music Academy in Weimar. Life Ottmar Gerster was born some 50 km (30 miles) north of Frankfurt during the closing years of the nineteenth century. His father was a neurologist and his mother was a pianist. He attended an Academic secondary school (“Gymnasium”) and entered, in 1913, the Dr Hoch Music Conservatory where his teachers included Bernhard Sekles (improvisation) and Adolf Rebner (violin). It was at the Hoch Conservatory that Gerster also got to know Paul Hindemith who was a near contemporary. setting a text by Baldur von Schirach. In 1936 there was a popular song entitled “The stranger bride” and a choral song “German airmen”. Gerster’s Opera “The Witches of Passau” had its first performance in Düsseldorf in 1941. Further productions quickly followed in Bremen, Magdeburg, Essen und Liegnitz, and in the same year the city of Düsseldorf awarded him its version of the Robert Schumann Prize for the work. In 1943 the National Office for Music Production (die Reichsstelle für Musikbearbeitung) gave him a 50,000 Mark contract to compose his opera

Otto Abel

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Otto Abel (October 24, 1905 – September 21, 1977) was a German organist, cantor, composer, editor, and Protestant . Life Born in Berlin, from 1930 to 1970, Abel was Kantor and organist at the Immanuelkirche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. From 1959, he also served as the Regional Church Music Director for the Eastern Region of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg, and Silesian Upper Lusatia. From 1956 onwards, he was the Church Music Editor at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt in East Berlin. Abel composed several church pieces for the organ. He died on a journey in Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg. Compositions * Angels We Have Heard on High (translation from French) (EG 54, 418) * Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben (Melody and movement 1959, texte by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1944) (EG 65, Gesangbuch der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz 353, Katholisches Gesangbuch der deutschsprachigen Schweiz 554) * O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf; Little Advent cantata for soprano, three-part mixed choir with flute, oboe, and organ with cello ad libitum; published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt in Berlin; 1956 * Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut; Cantata for mixed choi

Otto Ebel von Sosen

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Otto Ebel von Sosen (26 March 1899 – 6 February 1974 ) was a German musician, conductor and composer. Life Born in Rendsburg, Sosen studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. From 1920, he worked as Kapellmeister at several small German Opera houses before he was called to Hanover on 1 April 1926 to work at the , which since its commissioning on 20 November 1924 was accommodated in the attic of the administrative building of Hanomag. On 16 December of the same year, and from there he was already active as conductor and as the first director of the institution. As such, Sosen began to build up a Radio orchestra with initially only three, in 1927 already with 17 musicians. In the following year 1928, he founded and directed, at first under the name “Niedersächsisches Landesorchester”, the later Niedersächsisches Symphonie-Orchester. Still at the time of the Weimar Republic, he had the orchestra from 1931 to broadcast over the radio on Mondays for more than a decade, initially from the Leineschloss. Holzminden: Weserlandverlag, 1953 * Femmes compositeurs de musique. Dictionnaire biographique. Paris, Rosier 1910 (?) See also * Gottbegnadeten list. Further reading *

Otto Goldschmidt

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Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt (21 August 1829 – 24 February 1907) was a pianist, composer, conductor and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical theme, written for the Three Choirs Festival. From a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, he studied under Felix Mendelssohn at the Leipzig Conservatoire and quickly established himself as a pianist. Among the singers whom he accompanied was the soprano Jenny Lind, known as “the Swedish Nightingale”. They toured together in 1851 and married in 1852, after which she insisted on being billed as “Madame Lind-Goldschmidt”. Although Goldschmidt’s compositions were regarded as conventional, his work as a teacher and member of the boards of music institutions made him an important figure in British musical life in the latter part of the 19th century. He took British citizenship in 1861. He outlived his wife by twenty years, dying in London aged 77. Life Early years Goldschmidt was born on 21 August 1829 in Hamburg (now part of Germany, but then an independent city-state). His parents were Moritz David Goldschmidt and his wife Johanna, née Schwabe. Moritz was a prosperous mer

Otto Joachim (composer)

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Otto Joachim (October 13, 1910 – July 30, 2010) was a German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music. Early life and education Joachim was born in Düsseldorf, Joachim to Jewish parents. His father was an opera singer. He trained as a violinist at Düsseldorf and at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. Career In 1934 Joachim left Nazi Germany (as did many Jewish composers of his time). He played in Singapore and Shanghai during the war years, opened a radio shop, and experimented with electronic instruments and accessories. He also performed occasionally in the Shanghai Municipal Symphony Orchestra and organized an orchestra to perform Jewish and other Western music. Joachim left Shanghai at the time of the Communist takeover of China, and settled permanently in Montreal in 1949. For the next 15 years Joachim worked as a player, teacher, instrument builder and composer. He played in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and beginning in 1956 taught violin and viola at both the McGill Conservatory and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. In the 1950s Joachim experimented with twelve-tone music, and in 1956 composed String Quartet, an instrumental piece whi

Otto Neitzel

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Otto Neitzel (6 July 1852 – 10 March 1920) was a German composer, pianist, writer on music, and lecturer. Neitzel was born in the town of Falkenburg in Farther Pomerania (modern Złocieniec, Poland). His father, Gottfried Neitzel was a teacher and his mother, Louise (née Messerschmidt), was a housewife. Biography At the age of 8, Neitzel toured his neighbourhood and cities, giving performances. This “Wonderkid” was praised for his ability to play the piano and move people’s ears. Famous people promoted him for his abilities, mainly:- * Carl Loewe in Stettin * Eduard Grell in Berlin * Violinist Hubert Ries * Wilhelm Taubert (composer) His parents could not afford to pay for music lessons, but Bernhard Lösener, astonished by his music talent, sponsored him to finish his musical education. In 1865, he left home and joined the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin. While there, he continued to study music at the Neue Akademia der Tonkust by Theodore Kullak. From 1873 to 1875, he was a student of Franz Liszt. In 1875, he wrote his dissertation “Die ästhetische Grenze der Programmmusik” (The Aesthetic Limit of Programme Music). Later, he went on a tour with Pauline Lucca (a soprano singer) a

Otto Nicolai

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Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as . In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments. Biography Nicolai, a child prodigy, was born in Königsberg, Prussia. He received his first musical education from his father, Carl Ernst Daniel Nicolai, who was also a composer and musical director. During his childhood his parents divorced, and while still a youth, early in June 1826, Nicolai ran away from his parents’ “loveless” home, taking refuge in Stargard with a senior legal official called August Adler who treated the musical prodigy like a son and, when Nicolai was seventeen, sent him to Berlin to study with Carl Friedrich Zelter. After initial successes in Germany, including his first symphony (1831) and public concerts, he became musician to the Prussian embassy in Rome. When Verdi declined the libretto of Il proscritto by the proprietors of La Scala in Milan, it was offered instead to Nicolai. Later, Nicolai refused

Otto Nitze

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Otto Nitze (20 September 1924 – 8 May 1988) was a German musician and composer, who also published essential compositions under the pseudonym ‘Tom Dawitt’. Life Born in Artern, Nitze came from an old family of musicians. At the age of five he received his first violin lessons from his father, from the age of seven from the 1st concertmaster of the Städtische Bühnen zu Erfurt, at the age of nine he became a pupil of the director of the Musikhochschule zu Sondershausen, Professor Carl Corbach, at the age of ten Nitze was admitted to the conservatory after being granted special permission (“Lex Nitze”). He then attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, In 1957, Nitze was the main initiator for the foundation of the youth harmony orchestra of the Musikverein 1861 Idar-Oberstein, which also played a leading role in the foundation of other youth orchestras. In November 1961, he moved to Schramberg/Black Forest as Municipal Music Director and teacher at the University Institute of Music in Trossingen. In 1965, Nitze returned to Idar-Oberstein to rebuild and revive musical youth work. In 1967, Nitze founded the Municipal Young Brass School, followed in 1968 by the founding of the Birkenf

Otto Schwarz

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Otto Schwarz (10 August 1876 – 1961) was a German travelling musician. He was the leader, or Kapellmeister, of a small band of mixed instruments and sometimes vocalists called the Bavarian String Band, which performed in England in the summer months between 1897 and 1914. The band performed mainly outdoors, and primarily in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, besides other towns. It played Victorian and Edwardian parlour music, as well as extracts from symphonies and operas. At certain charity events, Schwarz would donate the band’s collection of the day to local causes, such as hospitals. At the onset of the First World War, Schwarz and his players were interned and transported to the Isle of Man. Schwarz died in Hinzweiler in 1961. Background Otto Schwarz was born on 10 August 1876 in Hinzweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Before borders changed, Hinzweiler was in Bavaria, Germany. He was the son of bandleader Daniel Schwarz and Katharina Zink. On 20 November 1900 Schwarz married Amalia Merker, whom he had known from childhood in Hinzweiler. They had three children: Wilhelm, Berthold and Marianne. Career Schwarz was a wandermusikant, bandleader, composer, church organist, a

Otto Singer

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Otto Singer (July 26, 1833 – January 3, 1894) was a German musician also active in the USA. He is best known for his piano transcriptions of orchestral works, including symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Life Singer was born in Sora, Saxony. He was educated in Dresden, and later in Leipzig until 1865, and after a short residence in Weimar with Franz Liszt went to New York in 1869. In 1873 he went to Cincinnati as assistant musical director, under Theodore Thomas, of the first May Musical Festival, in that year. He composed the cantata The Pilgrim Fathers for the festival of 1876, and Festival Ode for the opening of the music-hall in 1878. He also wrote a Rhapsodie for Piano and Orchestra in C major (1881) dedicated to Hans von Bülow. He remained with the Cincinnati College of Music until 1892, when he returned to New York, where he died. He was an earnest and aggressive disciple of Liszt and Richard Wagner both in his compositions and piano performances. He conducted various singing societies, and in addition to the cantata mentioned he composed some piano sonatas and a piano concerto. Otto Singer Jr., his son (September 14, 1863 – January 8, 1931),

Otto Wartisch

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Otto Alexander Hermann Wartisch (18 November 1893 – 29 April 1969) was a German composer, conductor, and cultural figure in Nazi Germany. Life Born in Magdeburg, Wartisch received his doctorate from Erlangen with a dissertation titled Studien zur Harmonik des musikalischen Impressionismus in 1928, which was published in 1930. Also in 1930, he became a member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (membership number 400.618). After the Nazi seizure of power, he succeeded Carl Corbach as SA-Standartenführer from 1934 to 1939, and acted as Kapellmeister of the Hofkapelle and the conductors of the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen. During the Second World War, he became the SA-Oberführer Intendant of the Katowice opera house. Wartisch organised, in cooperation with the Auschwitz concentration camp, “troop support events” for the concentration camp personnel there, such as performances of the farces Gitta hat einen Vogel on 5 April 1943 and Gestörte Hochzeitsnacht on 2 October 1943. Wartisch died in Wolfratshausen at age 75. Work * Kaukasische Komödie One-act opera, premiered 8 March 1933 in Nuremberg * Jahrmarktsballade ‘heitere Funkoper’, first broadcast on 17 February 1950 b

Pantaleon Hebenstreit

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Pantaleon Hebenstreit (27 November 1668 – 15 November 1750) was a German dance teacher, musician and composer. Today his notability rests primarily on the pantalon, a keyboard instrument which he invented and which subsequently came to be seen by some as a precursor of the modern pianoforte. Life Hebenstreit was born in Eisleben, a short distance west of Leipzig, in 1668. His father, described in one source as a “Thürmer” (look-out man), died in 1678. On 29 January 1691 Hebenstreit entered the University of Wittenberg. By 1697 he was employed in Leipzig as a violinist, keyboard musician and dancing master (i.e. teacher). In 1705 he travelled with his giant dulcimer to France. According to Johann Mattheson writing in his Critica musica, quoting a French source, it was during this visit that the French king Louis XIV was so impressed both with the instrument and with Hebenstreit’s mastery of it that he rechristened it “Le Pantalon”: the name stuck. Telemann himself left the Eisenach court in 1712. On 11 May 1714 Hebenstreit accepted an invitation to take a position at the Electoral Court in Dresden, the principal court of Saxony. His annual remuneration was 1200 Thalers, described in

Paul Abraham

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Paul Abraham (; 2 November 1892 – 6 May 1960) was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. Abraham was born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (today Serbia), and studied at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1910 to 1916. He studied cello with Adolf Schiffer and composition with Viktor Herzfeld. Career Abraham was a son of Jakab Ábrahám (c. 1859–1909) – who was a merchant from Apatin, later head of a small private bank – and Flóra Blau (1872–1943), who came from Mohács (South-Hungary, next to Danube). Like many other composers of operettas, Abraham started with works of a serious nature. During the decade following his studies he wrote, among other things, sacred music, string quartets and a concerto for violoncello. When he was appointed conductor at the Budapest Operetta Theatre in 1927 he found his way to this more popular art form which was more suited to his talent. He wrote his first operetta, Der Gatte des Fräuleins, in 1928. With his third, Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930), he achieved a resounding success. Through this work, and the next two operettas from 1931 and 1933 Die Blume von Hawaii (The Fl

Paul Büttner

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Paul Büttner (10 December 1870 – 15 October 1943) was a German choir director, music critic, music educator and composer of the late Romantic period. Biography Born in Dresden, Paul Büttner’s parents originally came from the Eastern Ore Mountains. The father worked in a glass factory in Löbtau. Büttner wrote his first smaller compositions at the age of eight. After school he was given a place at the Dresden Conservatory. He first studied oboe and then took composition lessons from Felix Draeseke, whose most prominent pupil he became. His father’s death made him responsible for the upkeep of his family. Büttner earned the money he needed by playing as an oboist in various smaller dance orchestras. After Paul Büttner became head of various workers’ choirs, he worked from 1896 to 1907 as a choir conductor at the Dresden Conservatory. From 1905 he was given the post of federal conductor of the Dresden Workers’ Association. In 1909, he married the journalist Eva Malzmann. He worked for 21 years from 1912 as a music critic for the social democratic Dresdner Volkszeitung. In 1917 he received the title of professor, and was finally appointed artistic director of the Dresden Conservatory in

Paul Dessau

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Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them. Biography Dessau was born in Hamburg into a musical family. his cousin, Max Winterfeld, became known under the name Jean Gilbert as a composer of operettas; From 1909, Dessau studied with Florian Zajic at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, majoring in violin. Dessau died on 28 June 1979 at the age of 84, in Königs Wusterhausen, on the outskirts of Berlin. * Einstein, 1969–1973, libretto by Karl Mickel, 16 February 1974 Further reading and documentary * Dessau, Paul. Notizen zu Noten, ed. Fritz Henneberg (Reclam, Leipzig 1974). * Dessau, Paul. Aus Gesprächen (VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1974). * Henneberg, Fritz. Dessau – Brecht. Musikalische Arbeiten. (Henschel, Berlin 1963). * Hennenberg, Fritz. Paul Dessau. Eine Biographie. (VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1965). * Lucchesi, Joachim (ed.). Das Verhör in der Oper: Die Debatte um die Aufführung “Das Verhör des Lukullus” von Bertolt Brecht und Paul Dessau (BasisDruck, Berlin 1993). * Paul Dessau - Let´s Hop

Paul Graener

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Paul Graener (11 January 1872 – 13 November 1944) was a German composer and conductor. He composed numerous operas and orchestral works in the style of late Romanticism. Biography Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy soprano, he taught himself composition and in 1896 moved to London, where he gave private lessons and served briefly as conductor at the Haymarket Theatre. Before the move, he had married Maria Elisabeth Hauschild, who bore him three children in London. Graener is recorded in the United Kingdom Census of 1901 as a “musical director (theatre)” living at 3 Poplar Grove in Hammersmith together with Maria (born in Kiel), their first two children (Heinz and Paul, aged 4 and 2) and Graener’s author cousin, George. In around 1910, Graener moved to Vienna, where he took up a teaching post at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium. He moved several times in the 1910s, living in Salzburg, Dresden and Munich, eventually accepting the position of professor of composition at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre which had previously been held by Max Reger. In 1925, he left in order to focus on composition. Returning to Berlin in 1930, he directed the Stern

Paul Hindemith

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Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist, and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik, including works with viola and viola d’amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit. His other notable compositions include the song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), the oratorio Das Unaufhörliche (1931), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), the opera Mathis der Maler (1938), and the symphony Mathis der Maler (1934), the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943), and the oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1946), a requiem based on Walt Whitman’s poem. Hindemith and his wife emigrated to Switzerland and the United States ahead of World War II, after worsening difficulties with the Nazi German regime. In his later years, he conducted and recorded much of his own music. Most of Hindemith’s compositions are anchored by a foundational tone, and use musical forms and counterpoint

Paul Klengel

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Paul Klengel (13 May 1854 – 24 April 1935) was a German violinist, violist, pianist, conductor, composer, editor and arranger. He was the brother of cellist Julius Klengel. Biography Klengel was born and died in Leipzig, where he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music and the University of Leipzig receiving his doctorate in 1886 with the dissertation Zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst (The Aesthetic of Music). From 1881 to 1886 he was choral conductor for the Euterpe Music Society in Leipzig and from 1888 to 1891 he worked at the Hofkapelle Stuttgart. He conducted for the German choral societies in New York City from 1898 to 1902. Klengel then returned to Leipzig to conduct the Arion Society and later joined the Leipzig Conservatory as professor of violin and piano. Klengel was a versatile musician; he was an accomplished violinist and pianist who sought a career as a concert musician and soloist. He composed works for violin, viola, and piano, as well as many songs and choral works. Klengel was a “house arranger” for Simrock publishing house. He is noted for his artistic arrangements for violin and viola, Original compositions ;Chamber music * Fünf Stücke (5 Pieces) for 2 violins, Op

Paul Lincke

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Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the “father” of the Berlin operetta. His well-known compositions include “Berliner Luft” (“Berlin Air”), the unofficial anthem of Berlin, from his operetta Frau Luna; and “The Glow-Worm”, from his operetta Lysistrata. Early life Lincke was born on 7 November 1866 in the Jungfernbrücke district of Berlin. He was the son of magistrate August Lincke and his wife Emilie. His father played the violin in several small orchestras. When Paul was only five years old his father died. Emilie moved with her three children to Adalbertstraße, and later to Eisenbahnstraße, near Lausitzer Platz. Lincke’s early musical inclinations were towards military music. His mother sent him after the completion of secondary school education to Wittenberge. Here he was trained in the Wittenberg City Band under Rudolf Kleinow as a bassoonist. He also learned to play the tenor horn, the drums, the piano and the violin. Career Performance and early compositions Instead of pursuing a career as a military musician, Lincke secured employment as a bassoonist at Berlin’s Central Theatre, under Adolf

Paul Scheinpflug

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Paul Scheinpflug (10 September 1875 near Dresden – 11 March 1937) was a German conductor and composer. Born in Loschwitz, Scheinpflug studied at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden from 1890 to 1894, among others with Felix Draeseke. After a short stay in 1897/1898 as a private tutor in Kiev, he moved to Bremen in 1898, where he worked as concert master of the Philharmonic Orchestra and director of several choirs. From 1909 to 1914 he was conductor of the Musikverein in Königsberg and from 1914 to 1920 conductor of the Blüthner Orchestra in Berlin. From 1920 to 1928 he was General Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic and from 1929 to 1932 Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic. After that he often travelled to the countries of Northern and Eastern Europe as a guest conductor. As a conductor he preferred the composers of the late romantic period and was particularly committed to the dissemination of Richard Strauss’s works. As a composer, he created chamber music, smaller orchestral works (Overture to a comedy by Shakespeare, op. 15) and the opera Das Hofkonzert, whereby in his late compositions he distanced himself from the emotional burden of his prev

Paul-Heinz Dittrich

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Paul-Heinz Dittrich (4 December 1930 – 28 December 2020) was a German composer and academic teacher. Based in East Berlin, he focused on chamber music, with many works inspired by poetry. His works were performed earlier in the West than in the East. He was an influential composer of contemporary classical music in Germany who taught internationally, including in the United States, Israel, and Korea. Life and career Born in Gornsdorf, Saxony, on 4 December 1930, In Streichtrio nach dem Gedicht “Tübingen, Jänner” von Paul Celan, Dittrich instructs in the score that the Celan poem should neither be read nor printed in the programme. Dittrich also wrote staged works that set texts by Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Heiner Müller. Dittrich died in Berlin at the age of 90. Further reading * Bettina Brand: “Paul-Heinz Dittrich”. In Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG). Edition Text+Kritik, München 1996, . * “Dittrich, Prof. Paul-Heinz”. In Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch. 4th edition, Deutscher Komponisten-Interessenverband, Berlin 1995, , . * “Ditrich, Paul-Heinz”. In Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-R

Pauline Decker

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Pauline Decker, née von Schätzel, since 1863: von Decker (27 August 1811 – 13 September 1882) was a German opera singer (soprano) and composer. Biography Born as Johanne Sophie Friederike Pauline von Schätzel on 27 August 1811 in Berlin, Pauline Decker comes from the Schätzel noble family. She was the daughter of the royal Soldin district administrator Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Schätzel and his wife Juliane Schick who was a soprano opera singer soprano with the Königliche Oper Berlin. She was a granddaughter of the famous German operatic soprano Margarete Luise Schick (1773–1810) who also performed at the Königliche Oper Berlin. Pauline studied music first from her mother. She was later trained by Heinrich Stümer (1789–1857), a noted German opera singer and composer. In 1828 she debuted at the Königliche Oper and played her first role as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz. From 1828 to 1832, she was engagement at the Königliche Oper. Following her marriage with Rudolf Ludwig Decker (1804–1877), a court printer and publisher, in 1832, she ended her musical career. However, she continued her concert performances, primarily at the Berliner Singakademie. She was an honorar

Pauline Volkstein

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Pauline Volkstein (19 January 1849 – 6 May 1925) was a German composer of more than 1,000 songs. Biography Volkstein was born in Quedlinburg, Germany. She had little formal music training, but came from a musical family. Her mother had studied counterpoint with Friedrich Schneider, and her uncle was cellist and composer Bernhard Cossmann. Volkstein lived in Paris, Dresden, Murano, and Naples, before settling in Weimar with her sister in 1905. Her first songs were published around that time. Several of her songs with guitar accompaniment initially appeared in Der Wächter, a magazine associated with the German youth movement during the 1920s and 1930s. Her music was also published by Fritz Schuberth and Ries & Erler GMBH. Volkstein’s compositions include: *12 Folksongs (see External links) *12 Lieder *12 Lieder (piano setting by Justus Hermann Wetzel; see External Links) *20 Songs with Guitar Accompaniment *24 Folksongs with Simple Accompaniment *Bloom, Dear Violet (arranged by Armin Knab) *Jungfrau Zimperlich (text by Ludwig Pfau) *Melodies (piano setting by Justus Hermann Wetzel) *New Folksongs (1922) *Piano compositions *Spinning Song (arranged by Armin Knab) References External l

Peer Raben

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Peer Raben (born Wilhelm Rabenbauer; 3 July 1940 – 21 January 2007) was a German composer who worked with German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Early and personal life Raben was born in Viechtafell, Bavaria, and attended Musische Gymnasium Straubing. Raben was Fassbinder’s lover for a short time when they shared an apartment with Irm Hermann. He died of cancer in Mitterfels, Bavaria, Germany. Career In 1966, Raben, together with several others, founded the Action Theatre in Munich, which led to the Anti Theatre in 1968, where he was active as writer, composer and director. In 1969 and 1970 he produced Fassbinder’s first films. After working on a film of his own (Die Ahnfrau), he concentrated on composing for theatre and films. He directed three films himself: Die Ahnfrau - Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer (1971), (1972) and Heute spielen wir den Boß (1981), for which he also composed the music. In addition to Fassbinder, Raben composed music for Robert van Ackeren, Barbet Schroeder, Daniel Schmid, Bernhard Sinkel, Peter Zadek, Doris Dörrie, Hansgünther Heyme, Ulrike Ottinger, Werner Schroeter, Tom Toelle, Dan Polsby, Percy Adlon, Wong Kar-wai and Sergej Stanojkovski. In 2006 h

Peter Aderhold

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Peter Aderhold (born 1966) is a German composer, conductor, and music educator known for his work in opera, orchestral music, and contemporary classical composition. Life and career Born in Berlin, Aderhold studied conducting (with Horst Förster, Olaf Koch, Heinz Rögner) and composition (Günter Kochan) at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin from 1982 to 1988. In 1988, he passed his Staatsexamen in composition with the ballet music Diana; this he premiered as conductor on the occasion of the GDR Music Days in Berlin in 1990 with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra; it was broadcast several times on radio and television. From 1988 to 1993, he was conductor at the Volkstheater Rostock, then in 1994/95, he moved to the Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach as conductor. Since 1991, he has been chief conductor of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Youth Orchestra (among others first prize in the 1997 “Youth and Music in Vienna” competition). From 1995 to July 2000, he was first Kapellmeister and deputy general music director at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. Since August 2000, he has been living in Berlin as a freelance composer and conductor. He has been responsible for the musical direc

Peter Autschbach

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Peter Autschbach (born 1961 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German composer, guitarist and music teacher. Biography Peter Autschbach learned to play the guitar being autodidact, in 1988/89 he was a private student of jazz guitarist Joe Pass. In 1990, he completed his jazz studies at the Cologne Musikhochschule with highest honors. He joined the band of the rock opera Tommy written by Pete Townshend, he played about 1,000 shows between 1995 and 2005. He also worked for the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra being guitarist in various musicals such as Cabaret (2002) and West Side Story (2004). Later he was chosen by Brian May to be a guitarist in the Queen show “We Will Rock You” in Cologne and Vienna. Since 1998, Autschbach composes for his band Terminal A, touring in Germany and abroad. Autschbach released nineteen albums with his original compositions. Since 2010, he started a duo with guitarist Ralf Illenberger, who is living in Sedona, Arizona. So far they released three albums, No Boundaries, One Mind and Zero Gravity. In 2013, the US guitar manufacturer Larrivée developed a new electric guitar called the “Autschbach Model”. Also the German luthier Joe Striebel honored Autschbach wi

Peter Cornelius

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Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Early life and education He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard (1793–1843) and Friederike (1789–1867) Cornelius, actors in Mainz and Wiesbaden. From an early age he played the violin and composed, eventually studying composition with Heinrich Esser in 1841. He lived with his painter uncle Peter von Cornelius in Berlin from 1844 to 1852, and during this time he met prominent figures such as Alexander von Humboldt, the Brothers Grimm, Friedrich Rückert and Felix Mendelssohn. Career His early compositions included chamber and church music and secular songs, among which stands the Stabat Mater for soloists, choir, and orchestra, composed in 1849. Cornelius’s first mature works (including the opera Der Barbier von Bagdad) were composed during his brief stay in Weimar (1852–1858). His next place of residence was Vienna, where he lived for five years. It was in Vienna that Cornelius began a friendship with Richard Wagner. At the latter’s behest, Cornelius moved to Munich in 1864, where he married and fathered four children. During his last few years in Ber

Peter Dorn

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Peter Dorn (born November 1931) is a German composer and classical pianist. Life Dorn was born in Wroclaw, capital of Silesia. He attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig. Cologne 1968, . He studied composition with Wilhelm Weismann in Leipzig and as a with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts, Berlin (in East Berlin). He then worked at the Berlin Academy of Arts. Dorn’s violin sonatas are published by C. F. Peters Musikverlag in Leipzig. In 1968, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in Leipzig for his cantata In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit. The premiere was given by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rundfunkchor Leipzig under the direction of Herbert Kegel. The music prize was awarded for the first time that year, together with the composers Ruth Zechlin and Gerhard Rosenfeld. His Klaviermusik 1964 was once compared with Mussorgsky’s composition Pictures at an Exhibition. Work * Sonatine für Violine und Klavier. * In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit * Divertimento. References Further reading * Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies. Arriaga Publications, Booneville 1995, , . External links * *

Peter Förtig

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Peter Förtig (15 March 1934 – 12 April 2024) was a German composer and music theorist. Life and career Born in Pforzheim, Förtig received his first piano lessons at the age of eight with Hedwig Fuchs and from the age of 11 onwards he received lessons in piano and music theory from Georg Mantel and Heinrich Casimir in Karlsruhe. He made his first public appearances at the age of ten, during which time he wrote his first compositions. 1951 saw the premiere of a composition for the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim; in the same concert he appeared as soloist in Beethoven’s first piano concerto in C major. After graduating from the Reuchlin Gymnasium in Pforzheim, he studied from 1953 to 1955 at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, where Josef Schelb was his piano and composition teacher. Afterwards he worked as a freelance pianist for two years. In 1957 he continued his studies at the Freiburg Music Academy, where Carl Seemann (piano) and Wolfgang Fortner (composition) were his teachers. In 1961 he became a lecturer, later a docent and from 1969 until his retirement professor for music theory at the University of Music in Freiburg. There he largely restructured the teaching of th

Peter Gellhorn

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Peter Gellhorn (born Hans Fritz Gellhorn; October 24, 1912 – February 13, 2004) was a German conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher. In 1935, he settled in England, where he continued his career thereafter. Life Gellhorn, the son of an architect, was born as Hans Fritz Gellhorn in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He came from a musical family and was educated at the Schiller Realgymnasium, at Berlin University and at the Berlin Music Academy. He was a pupil of the composer Franz Schreker. When the National Socialists came to power he was obliged to leave Germany (since his father was Jewish) and settled in England in 1935. In 1937 he recorded a collection of twenty Songs by Famous Russian Composers for Parlophone Records with the Russian tenor Vladimir Rosing. The reviewer in The Gramophone wrote, “In the person of Hans Gellhorn Rosing found his best accompanist.” Gellhorn was interned in Mooragh Camp on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien from 1939 to 1941. Ralph Vaughan Williams intervened to help get him released. He finally became a naturalized citizen in 1947 and changed his name to Peter. Gellhorn married the actress Olive Layton (1918–2009, daughter of the economist

Peter Herrmann

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Peter Herrmann (19 December 1941 – 28 October 2015) was a German composer and academic teacher. He composed three operas and a ballet, but mainly instrumental music both for orchestra and chamber music. His works have been performed internationally; his second string quartet was awarded a prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival. He was professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Leipzig from 1969, serving as its rector from 1984 to 1987. Life Herrmann was born in 1941 in Chemnitz. From 1956 to 1960, he studied violin at the . The string quartet was awarded second prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival in 1965. He was appointed professor of composition in 1984 at the Musikhochschule, by now named Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and was its University rector from 1984 to 1987. Work Herrmann composed music of many genres. Herrmann focused on music for instruments. He wrote orchestral music including four symphonies, Concerto for Orchestra, a chamber symphony, Sonatine for string orchestra, a violin concerto, a trumpet concerto, two piano concertos, and two cello concertos. He composed chamber music including four string quartets,

Peter Jona Korn

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Peter Jona Korn (30 March 1922 – 12 January 1998) was a German composer, music educator, conductor, pianist, harpsichord player and writer. He was a son of the Jewish couple Georg Korn, an amateur pianist, and Elisabeth, born Heilborn, a violinist and singer. Life Youth and education Born in Berlin, Korn developed his musical talent in his early years. At the age of ten he worked as a pianist and harpsichord player in the programmes of the broadcasting company “Deutsche Welle” and performed as a soprano soloist at concerts in the Berliner Philharmonie. For parties in his school, he already composed simple works. In 1932, he studied composition in an experimental special class at the University of the Arts in Berlin. For a short time he studied privately with . In 1933, he emigrated to the United Kingdom and continued his composition studies with Edmund Rubbra in London from 1934 to 1936. In 1936 he emigrated to the then still British Mandatory Palestine. From 1936 to 1938, he studied with Stefan Wolpe at the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem. At that time, compositions by the sixteen-year-old Korn were already broadcast. In 1939 he studied with Hermann Scherchen in Tel Aviv. In 1

Peter Josef von Lindpaintner

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Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (8 December 1791 – 21 August 1856) was a German composer and conductor. Born in Koblenz as the son of a tenor, he studied with Peter Winter and Joseph Graetz. From 1819 onwards he was based in Stuttgart. Some of his early operas were Singspiele, but under the influence of Carl Maria von Weber his interest shifted to Romantic opera. He died in Nonnenhorn, Bavaria, on Lake Constance. Works Operas Bibliography * R. Hänsler: Peter Lindpaintner als Opernkomponist (diss., Munich, 1928) * R. Nägele: Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner: sein Leben, sein Werk (Tutzing, 1993) * R. Nägele: Peter von Lindpaintner – Briefe (letters, 1809–1856) (Göttingen, 2001) References * Clive Brown: “Lindpaintner, Peter Josef von”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), External links * * * List of works, operone.de

Peter Kreuder

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Peter Paul Kreuder (18 August 1905 – 28 June 1981) was a German-Austrian pianist, composer and conductor. Life Kreuder was born in Aachen, the son of a Kammersänger. He enrolled as a piano student at the Cologne Conservatory in 1910, where he performed his first concert one year later, and at music academies in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. After World War I he worked as a composer of musical performances at the Hamburg Kammerspiele theatre, at the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, as well as of several Kabarett and revue productions. In the meantime he continued his studies, taking his exams at the Munich Academy of Music in 1924. In 1925 he was employed as Kapellmeister at the Deutsches Theater München, and conducted theatre ensembles, first in Munich and then in Berlin, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. In 1930 he met with Friedrich Hollaender, whom he assisted arranging the musical score of Josef von Sternberg’s film The Blue Angel starring Marlene Dietrich. During the 1930s and 40s he became one of the most sought-after German musical film composers; his credits run to some 150 movies. Several songs, performed by stars like Zarah Leander or Marika Rökk, are popular and cov

Peter Reulein

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Peter Reulein (born 1966) is a German composer, organ improviser, academic teacher and church musician, from 2000 at the church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main. In 2016 he composed for the Catholic Diocese of Limburg the Franciscan oratorio Laudato si. Career Born in Frankfurt am Main, Reulein studied Catholic church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with Wolfgang Schäfer and Uwe Gronostay. After extended studies of organ improvisation with Daniel Roth in Paris, he won several national and international competitions in this field, External links * Peter Reulein Liebfrauen, Frankfurt * Peter Reulein Carus-Verlag * Oratorium Laudato si’ / Ein franziskanisches Magnificat in 5 Bildern – Für Soli, Chor und Orchester Dehm-Verlag

Peter Ruzicka

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Peter Ruzicka (born 3 July 1948) is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival and is professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera “Celan”, about the poet Paul Celan, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. His opera “Hölderlin” had its premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2008. Ruzicka was artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1987 and indendant of the Hamburg State Opera and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg from 1988 to 1997. Moreover, he was Artistic Advisor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam from 1997 to 1999. In 1999 he was named President of the Bavarian Theatre Academy. From 2001 to 2006, Ruzicka took over the Artistic Directorship of the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was appointed professor for cultural management at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 1990. Ruzicka’s works have been performed by leading int

Peter Thomas (composer)

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Peter Thomas (1 December 1925 – 17 May 2020) Further reading * Gerd Naumann: Der Filmkomponist Peter Thomas – Von Edgar Wallace und Jerry Cotton zur Raumpatrouille Orion. ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, – * Joachim Kramp, Gerd Naumann: Das große Album der Edgar-Wallace-Filme. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag 2013, * Peter Thomas: Filmmusik von Peter Thomas, piano music, Firmament. Music: “Natascha” – “Wie ein Traum” – “Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel” – “Der letzte Mohikaner” – “Ask me Later, Alligator” – “My Friend Phil” – “Jerry ‘67” – “Caught At Midnight” – “Jerry-Cotton-Marsch” – “Das Geheimnis der weißen Nonne” – “Der Bucklige von Soho” – “Twisting Monk” – “Hexers Nightclub” – “Blue Romance” – “Theme For Lucy” – “Walking Dandy” – “Poker Face” – “Die seltsame Gräfin”. * Tobias Hohmann, Thomas Wehlmann, Klaus Hintermeier: Edgar & Bryan Edgar Wallace. MPW. . External links * - official Homepage Peter Thomas * *

Peter Winter

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Peter Winter, later Peter von Winter, (baptised 28 August 1754 – 17 October 1825) Further reading * Linda Tyler: “Winter, Peter”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London: Macmillan 1992), . External links * * Peter (von) Winter operone.e

Philipp Christoph Kayser

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Philipp Christoph Kayser (10 March 1755 – 24 December 1823) was a German pianist, composer, orchestra musician, music teacher and poet. He was a close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Life Kayser was born in Frankfurt on 10 March 1755, the son of the organist of the St. Catherine’s Church, Frankfurt. His father gave him his first music lessons. He studied music theory with Georg Andreas Sorge. Already at grammar school, Kayser became friends with Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, who was three years older and later became the most successful playwright of the Sturm und Drang movement. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also joined him later, as did the Strasbourg poet Heinrich Leopold Wagner and the Livonian Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, who lived in Strasbourg and visited Frankfurt from time to time. In 1774, Kayser became a freemason in the Zurich lodge Modestia cum libertate. In 1775, Kayser moved to Zurich. Goethe paid him a visit there in 1775 and 1779. Goethe was so enthusiastic about his songs, that he sent him his Singspiel “Jery und Bäteli” for setting to music. First Kayser refused. However, this did not harm Goethe - he still stood by him as his chosen composer. “What I apprecia

Philipp Dulichius

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Philipp Dulichius (also Deulich, Deilich, Teilich, Dulich, Dulichs) (18 December 1562 – 24 March 1631) was a German composer. Life Dulichius Philip was born in Chemnitz, where his father, Caspar Deulich, was a clothier, councillor and mayor. Of his student days it is only known for certain that he was enrolled in the University of Leipzig in 1579. In 1587 he became cantor at the Gymnasium in Stettin. Since 1618 he taught at the same Gymnasium. He was also a teacher at the Marienkirche in Stettin and at the court of the Pomeranian Duke. In 1630 he retired after 43 years of service, and he died in Stettin. The Marienkirche, where he was buried, burnt down in 1789 and was never rebuilt. Philip Dulichius composed 232 motets, which were highly appreciated at his time and earned him the nickname of the Pomeranian Lassus. On the occasion of the Heinrich-Schütz Days in September 2004 in Greifswald a lecture was given on “Philipp Dulichius - Kantor an St. Marien und am Fürstlichen Pädagogium Stettin 1587-1631” (Philip Dulichius - cantor at St Mary’s and at the Gymnasium of Stettin 1587-1631). In Dulichius’ birth town Chemnitz a memorial plaque was placed at the St Jacob’s church in November

Philipp Jakob Riotte

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Philipp Jakob Riotte (16 August 1776 – 1856) was a German composer who lived primarily in Vienna. In the 1820s, his works were among the most-performed at the Theater an der Wien. He was a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven. Very few of his works remain in the active repertoire today. Life Philipp Jakob Riotte was born at St. Wendel (Saarland). He was probably descended from a French emigrant Huguenot family. The earliest records indicate he was expelled as choirboy in his hometown of Sankt Wendel. He studied violin, violoncello and later piano and organ. In 1793 he received his first employment as an organist at a seminar in Trier. In 1794 to 1805 he resided in Blieskastel, the residence of the Imperial counts of Leyen, as well as in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach. In Offenbach, he continued his studies with the composer and music publisher Johann Anton André. From 1806 to 1808 Riotte was active as a Kapellmeister in Gdańsk and as a chief conductor in Magdeburg. In 1808, Riotte established himself in Vienna. At first he made a living by giving piano lessons and selling his own compositions. In addition, he was active as a musical correspondent. Between 1810 and 1815, he contrib

Philipp Jarnach

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Philipp Jarnach (26 July 1892 17 December 1982 in Börnsen) was a German composer of contemporary music (“Neue Musik”), pianist, teacher, and conductor. Along with composers such as Hindemith, Jarnach is considered one of the leading and formative composers of the late German Romantic and early modern (“Neue Musik”) eras. Jarnach was born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother. Until 1914 he lived in Paris, where he studied piano under Édouard Risler and harmony under Albert Lavignac at the Conservatoire de Paris. During the First World War he was a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zürich. He later completed the opera Doktor Faust, which Busoni had left unfinished on his death in 1924. In the 1920s Jarnach worked in Berlin as a pianist, conductor and composer. In 1927 he became a teacher in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1949 he founded the Hamburger Musikhochschule (Hamburg Music Academy) which he directed until 1959 and at which he taught until 1970. His students included Ivan Rebroff (known as Hans Rolf Rippert at that time), Kurt Weill, Otto Luening, Wilhelm Maler, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Jürg Baur, Walter Steffens, Colin Brum

Philipp Maintz

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Philipp Maintz (born 28 February 1977, in Aachen) is a German composer. Career Maintz studied composition with Michael Reudenbach and Robert HP Platz, and electronic music with Karlheinz Essl. He studied further at the CRFMW (Centre de Recherches et de Formations Musicales de Wallonie) of the University of Liège and the IRCAM (Institut des Recherches et Coordinations Musicales). He received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2005. He was granted a scholarship from the Federal Government for the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2010 he was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo. His opera Maldoror on a libretto by Thomas Fiedler after Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2010. His works have been performed at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, the Salzburg Festival, among others. Artists have included the Arditti String Quartet, the Ensemble intercontemporain, das Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart with Lothar Zagrosek, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Pierre-André Valade. Discography * hängende gärten / tríptico vertical, on: Philipp Maintz – Orchestra Works Vol.1, NEOS 2018 (NEO

Philipp Scharwenka

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Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (16 February 1847 – 16 July 1917) was a Polish-German composer and teacher of music. He was the older brother of Xaver Scharwenka. Early training Scharwenka was born in Szamotuły (Samter), Grand Duchy of Posen. Like his younger brother Xaver he received his first intermittent musical instruction in Posen (today Poznań). After the closure of the Gymnasium (college) in 1865 he studied music theory together with his brother under Richard Wüerst and Heinrich Dorn at the new Musical Academy in Berlin where, from 1868, he himself was taken on as teacher of Theory and Composition. In this period his own first compositions appeared. In 1874 he brought out an overture and a symphony for the first time in a concert of his own. Compositions His many teaching obligations notwithstanding, Philipp Scharwenka stood in the front line as a composer and was recognised as such during his lifetime. His compositions include three Symphonies, Symphonic Poems, a Violin concerto, some Choral works (of which Sakuntala became very famous), the 4-act opera Roland, as well as numerous instrumental works such as Sonatas, Quartets, Caprices and Dances. Many of the major conductors of t

Philipp Wolfrum

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Philipp Julius Wolfrum (17 December 1854 – 8 May 1919) was a German conductor, musicologist, composer, organist and academic teacher. He was influential to university education in church music in Heidelberg, and in 1907 became the town’s Generalmusikdirektor. Career Born in Schwarzenbach am Wald, Philipp Wolfrum was the son of Johann Heinrich Wolfrum, a teacher and church musician (Kantor). He first also worked as a teacher. On a scholarship, he studied from 1876 at the Königliche Musikschule in München organ and composition with Joseph Rheinberger, piano with Karl Bärmann, and choral singing and conducting with Franz Wüllner. From 1878 he was conductor, soloist and composer in Bamberg. In 1884 he was appointed an assistant teacher for music at the theology seminary of Heidelberg University. There, he installed formal education in church music, and initiated public musical events in the town. In 1885 he founded the choirs Akademischer Gesangverein and Bach-Verein (now: ). In 1888 he was appointed Außerordentlicher Professor. In 1890 he published Die Entstehung und erste Entwicklung des deutschen evangelischen Kirchenliedes in musikalischer Beziehung (The origins and initial develop

Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia

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Prince Joachim of Prussia (27 September 1876 – 24 October 1939) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the second eldest son of Prince Albert of Prussia and his wife Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. He is notable for composing music, in particular military waltzes. Family and early life Prince Joachim’s paternal grandparents were Prince Albert of Prussia and Princess Marianne of the Netherlands. His maternal grandparents were Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau. Joachim had two brothers: Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht (1874–1940) and Friedrich Wilhelm (1880–1925). In 1885, Joachim’s father Prince Albert was chosen as regent for the Duchy of Brunswick. Like all male Hohenzollerns, Joachim and his brothers entered the army and became officers. Music always appealed to him however, and he soon made a name for himself composing. In 1898, he presented a military waltz he wrote to a family gathering at the Neues Palais in Potsdam. In 1920, Joachim was ordered under arrest by the German Minister of Defense Gustav Noske after he got into a fight with some French military officers. The dispute apparently began after a few of the aforementioned officers failed

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806)

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Prince Frederick Louis Christian “Ferdinand” of Prussia (; 18 November 1772 – 10 October 1806), was a Prussian prince, soldier, composer and pianist. Prince Louis Ferdinand fought in the Napoleonic Wars. The 1927 German film Prinz Louis Ferdinand depicts his life. Early life Louis Ferdinand was born on 18 November 1772 in Friedrichsfelde Palace, near Berlin. He was a son of Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia and Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and was a nephew of King Frederick the Great. He was given the baptismal name Friedrich Ludwig Christian, but was known as Louis and was soon given the nickname Ferdinand (after his father), so that he could be distinguished from his cousin, also named Louis, Prince Friedrich Ludwig Karl of Prussia (1773–1796). Military career Louis Ferdinand participated in the French Revolutionary Wars, fighting in the War of the First Coalition in 1792 to 1794 near Longwy and Verdun, took part in the Valmy cannonade and was wounded during the Siege of Mainz. Newly promoted to major general, he took part in the Battle of Kaiserslautern in November 1793. On 23 February 1795 Louis Ferdinand was appointed chief of the “von Baden” infantry regiment. Fr

Princess Amalie of Saxony

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Amalie Marie Friederike Auguste (10 August 1794 – 18 September 1870), Princess of Saxony, full name Maria Amalia Friederike Augusta Karolina Ludovica Josepha Aloysia Anna Nepomucena Philippina Vincentia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal, was a German composer writing under the pen name A. Serena, and a dramatist under the name Amalie Heiter. She was the daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony and Princess Carolina of Parma. Life Princess Amalie was the eldest child of Prince Maximilian of Saxony and Princess Carolina of Parma. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma. She was also the granddaughter of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony; niece of Frederick Augustus I, King of Saxony and Anthony, King of Saxony; sister of Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony and John, King of Saxony; and aunt of Albert, King of Saxony and George, King of Saxony. She spent most of her life in Pillnitz Castle near Dresden. Known for her education and intellectual interests, she composed chamber, opera, and sacred music, performed as a singer, wrote comedies, and played the harpsichord. Amalie was a young girl during the time of the Napoleonic Wars and had

Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen

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Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (23 September 1853 – 22 February 1923) was the only daughter of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, by his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia. She was notable as a musician and composer. One of her most famous works is Romanze in F major for clarinet and piano. Early life Princess Marie Elisabeth was born on 23 September 1853 in Potsdam. She was the third child and only daughter of Georg, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, by his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and had one surviving brother, Hereditary Prince Bernhard. Her parents’ marriage was very happy, as it was the rare instance of a love match rather than a marriage of state. In 1855, tragedy struck with the death of their younger infant brother; Charlotte died three months later of complications after childbirth of a baby son, two months earlier. This youngest brother died, one day old. Georg was inconsolable, but remarried several years later to Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in order to provide a mother for his remaining young children. Marie Elisabeth’s father succeeded as Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen in 1866. His second marriage was unhappy; it pr

Rainer Böhm

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Rainer Böhm (23 February 1952 – 21 May 2013) was a German composer. Life Born in Berlin, Böhm studied composition and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”. Afterwards he was a master student for composition at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. In 1984 he became musical director at the Berliner Ensemble. He worked with theatre directors such as Heiner Müller, , Claus Peymann and Manfred Wekwerth. He also wrote several scores for the documentary film director Volker Koepp. Böhm died in Berlin at the age of 61. Awards * 1978: Critics Prize of the Berliner Zeitung. * 1982: Critics Prize of the Berliner Zeitung. * 1983: Hanns Eisler Prize Film musics * 1971: Frankfurter Tor * 1976: Mama, I’m Alive * 1976: Hostess * 1979: Am Fluss * 1979: Tag für Tag * 1980: Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras (Theatre recording) * 1982: In Rheinsberg * 1981: Verflucht und geliebt * 1981: Casanova auf Schloss Dux (Television play) * 1983: Mein Vater ist ein Dieb * 1984: Leben in Wittstock * 1984: Iphigenie in Aulis (Theatre recording) * 1984: Amok * 1985: Ete und Ali * 1989: Die Beteiligten * 1991: Letzte Liebe * 1993: Adamski * 1998: Victor Klemperer – Mein Leben ist so sündhaft lang * 2002: Uckerma

Rainer Kunad

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Rainer Kunad (24 October 1936, Chemnitz – 17 July 1995, Reutlingen) was a German conductor and composer, especially of opera. Life Kunad studied choir and ensemble conducting at the Dresden Conservatoire from 1955 to 1956 and then, until 1959, composition with Fidelio F. Finke and Ottmar Gerster at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig. He spent the last years of his life as a freelance artist in Tübingen. Kunad composed piano pieces, chamber and orchestral music and operas (among others, Bill Brook, according to a story by Wolfgang Borchert and Der Meister und Margarita after the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov). Works Operas * Bill Brook (1959/60), premiered Dresden 1965 * Das Schloss (1961/62) * Old Fritz (1962/63, premiered Dresden 1965 * Maître Pathelin oder Die Hammelkomödie (1968), premiered Dresden 1969 * Sabellicus (1972/73, premiered Berlin 1974 * Litauische Claviere (1974, premiered Dresden 1976 * Der Eiertanz, premiered Bautzen 1975 * Vincent (1975/76), premiered Dresden 1979 * Amphitryon, premiered Berlin 1984) * Der Meister und Margarita (1982/83), premiered 1986 * Der Traum (1993), premiered Hagen 2000 Ballets * Ich: Orpheus (1964/65) * Wir aber nennen Liebe lebendigen Frieden (1

Rainer Riehn

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Rainer Riehn (12 November 1941 – 9 June 2015 He met the music theorist Heinz-Klaus Metzger at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the summer of 1965. In 1968 he founded the Ensemble Musica Negativa, in 1977 the series Musik-Konzepte, which he published until 2003 (together with Heinz-Klaus Metzger). In 1984 Metzger and Riehn received the Deutscher Kritikerpreis as editors of the Musik-Konzepte. electronic composition, realized in Utrecht about a poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont * Das Lied von der Erde, a work of six songs by Gustav Mahler, arrangement for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg, finished by Rainer Riehn (premiere by Ensemble Musica Negativa, Toblach 1983) * nichts – als das Kinderspiel eines Erwachsenen, string trio (premiere by trio recherche, Konstanz 2002) References External links * Website of Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (in German)

Rasmus Borowski

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Rasmus Borowski (born 21 May 1974) is a German composer, singer, and actor. Early life and education Rasmus Borowski was born in Hamburg in 1974. His parents, recording engineer Richard Borowski and singer Gabi Borowski, often took him to the cinema, where Rasmus discovered his passion for films and music. At the age of four, Rasmus performed his first voice recording in a studio. When he was seven, he started taking guitar lessons. Around this time, he also started making his first short films with his father’s Super 8mm film camera. In 1985 he and his mother moved to Brunswick and then, in 1988, to Zimbabwe, where Rasmus went to a boarding school. In 1990, he returned to Brunswick to finish school in Germany. After his Abitur, Borowski took guitar lessons with Andreas Becker (Fee, Peter Maffay), singing lessons with Jane Comerford (Texas Lightning), lessons in orchestral composing and arrangement with Matthias Petereit, as well as acting and voice over lessons with Prof. Marianne Bernhardt at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 1998/2002, Borowski successfully completed the Kontaktstudiengang Popularmusik (Popkurs) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He

Reiko Füting

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Reiko Fueting (born 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen) is a German composer living in the United States. Life and career Reiko Fueting was born in 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany. He studied composition and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden before moving to the United States to pursue graduate degrees at Rice University and Manhattan School of Music. Fueting’s primary teachers include Jörg Herchet and Nils Vigeland (composition) and Winfried Apel (piano). Fueting has been a faculty member at Manhattan School of Music since 2000. He teaches composition and has served as chair of the music theory division since 2005. In 2015, New Focus Recordings released names, erased, a full-length album of Fueting’s music. His own students include Alex Burtzos, Christopher Cerrone, and Michael Harrison. Compositions Solo * names, erased (2014) for cello solo * wand-uhr - infinite shadows (2013) for guitar solo * Echo des Lichts (2012) for organ solo * tanz, tanz (2010) for violin solo * land - haus - berg (2009) for piano solo * red wall (2006) for guitar solo * re-fraction: shadows (2005) for cello solo * nach-klang: dissolve (2004) for piano solo * leaving wit

Reiner Bredemeyer

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Reiner Bredemeyer (2 January 1929 − 5 December 1995) was a German composer. Biography Bredemeyer was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he was drafted into military service and was briefly held as a prisoner of war of the American Army in Bavaria. After the end of World War II, he met composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann who introduced him to the music of Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives and Erik Satie. From 1949 to 1953 he studied composition with Karl Höller at the Munich Academy for Musical Arts. In 1954 Paul Dessau took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. He taught at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and worked together with Bertold Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Ernst Busch. From 1957 to 1960 he was arts director at the Theatre of Friendship in Berlin and from 1961 kapellmeister and composer at the German Theatre. The composers of his generation (Friedrich Goldmann, Georg Katzer und Friedrich Schenker) broke with socialist realism and closed the gap to western Avant-garde music. In 1978 Bredemeyer became a member

Reinhard Febel

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Reinhard Febel (born 3 July 1952) is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum. Career Febel was born in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, and first studied music and piano with Jürgen Uhde at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. On a recommendation from Helmut Lachenmann he studied composition from 1979, with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the IRCAM in Paris where he attended courses in electronic music in 1982. On a commission of the Bayerische Staatsoper he composed the chamber opera Euridice, premiered in 1983. He described his work “The musical world of Euridice is a hybrid of instrumentation, pastiche, collage, composition, sound-noise, and song-language-speech particles.” He worked from 1983 to 1988 as a freelance composer in London, in 1984 in Rome on a scholarship of the Villa Massimo. In 1985 his Symphony, composed for the Youth Orchestra of the European Community, was premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. In 1996 WERGO recorded his Variations for Orchestra, Das Unendliche (The Infinite) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orch

Reinhard Keiser

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Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, but his work was largely forgotten for many decades. Biography Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1694, he became court-composer to the duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, though he had probably come to the court already as early as 1692 to study its renowned operas, which had been going on since 1691, when the city had built a 1,200-seat opera house. Keiser put on his first opera Procris und Cephalus there and, the same year, his opera Basilius was put on at Hamburg and, as the musicologist Johann Mattheson noted, “received with great success and applause”. This was a fruitful period for him – composing not only operas, but ari

Reinhard Lakomy

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Reinhard Lakomy (19 January 1946 in Magdeburg, Germany – 23 March 2013 in Berlin, Germany ) was a German-language composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, and arranger. His musical styles ranged from pop, jazz, and electronic music to radio plays and musicals for children. In the German Democratic Republic, Lakomy was one of the artists with the most official releases next to the Puhdys. His most famous works include the audio musical for children “Der Traumzauberbaum”, which he co-produced with his wife, Monika Ehrhardt. His daughter Hanna Lakomy participated in the 1992 children’s music album Der Wasserkristall. Discography EPs * Mädchen, mir kommt’s verdächtig vor Es war doch nicht das erste Mal (1972, Amiga) * Und ich geh’ in den Tag Wenn du gehst (1973, Amiga) * Du könntest mein Mädchen sein Autofahren (1973, Amiga) * Mir doch egal Ein irrer Typ (1975, Amiga) * Klavierstunde Manchmal find’ ich keinen Schlaf (1975, Amiga) * Es war doch nicht das erste Mal (EP, 1983, Amiga) LPs as the Lakomy-Ensemble * Reinhard Lakomy (1973, Amiga) * Lacky und seine Geschichten (1974, Amiga) * Lackys Dritte (1975, Amiga) * daß kein Reif … (1976, Amiga) * Die großen Erfolge (Best of, 1977, Amiga)

Reinhard Oppel

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Julius Reinhard Oppel (1878 in Grünberg, Hesse – 1941 in Leipzig) was a German composer. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt 1903–1909, was briefly an organist in Bonn, then from 1911 professor of composition at the Kiel Conservatory of Music, and from 1928 professor of music theory at the Leipzig Conservatory. Oppel was a student, correspondent, and friend of Heinrich Schenker, the famous Viennese Jewish music theorist, and made efforts to disseminate Schenkerian theory while a professor at Leipzig. Oppel was an outspoken critic of the Nazis. Until 1938, Oppel often played the organ not only in Protestant and Catholic churches, but also in synagogues in Leipzig. Works For a complete list of works, see the University of Hamburg link given below. *Piano pieces: 5 Stücke op. 21, Suite op. 26 and 4 Preludes op. 27. *String Quartet No.4 in F minor Op.33 (published 1928 by Edition Peters) (nos.2 and 3 are in manuscript at the Oppel Memorial Collection.) *Sonata in D minor for Solo Violin, op. 12 (self-published 1910). *Suite in E minor for Solo Violin, op. 19 (self-published 1913). *Books and articles on Johann Sebastian Bach, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (mostly or wholly arti

Reinhard Pfundt

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Reinhard Pfundt (born in 1951) is a German pianist, composer and academic teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He wrote orchestral works, chamber music and songs, and was awarded prizes in the German Democratic Republic (DDR). Life Born in Burgstädt, Pfundt grew up with weekly singing and lessons in piano and organ. 1985 * 1985 Prize of the Thüringer Landeskirche. * Wind Quiotet * Capriccio, Canto e Canone for flute and clarinet * Three Etudes for piano * Three Pieces for horn * Three Pieces for oboe and viola. * Three Pieces for oboe and percussion. * Three pieces for violin and piano * Fantasia on Luther’s Agnus Dei for organ * Five Pieces for piano * In die Tiefe, Collage for soprano recorder, violin, cello, double bass and harpsichord * Inventions on B-A-C-H for piano * Serenade for flute, alto flute (or violin) and cello. * Sextett for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola and cello * Sonate for viola sola * Four String Quartets * Suite for three flute instruments * Trio for flute, viola and cello * Triosonata for organ * Vertiefung in ein Thema von Bach for flute, two violins, cello, double bass and harpsichord * Four Pieces for piano * Four Monograms for

Reinhold Heil

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Reinhold Heil (born 18 May 1954) is a German musician, producer, and film and television composer. He initially achieved success in Germany as a member of the post-punk and Neue Deutsche Welle groups Nina Hagen Band, Spliff and Nena, and later as a music producer. As a film composer, he is known for his collaborations with director Tom Tykwer, on films such as Run Lola Run (1998), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), The International (2009), and Cloud Atlas (2012). His television credits include the series Deadwood (2004–06). He often works with Australian composer Johnny Klimek. Early life Heil was born in Schlüchtern, in the state of Hesse, West Germany. He grew up twenty meters from Schlüchtern’s 10th century monastery, where he was introduced to classical music. Heil learned to play church organ at a young age and in adolescence began training to become a pianist. In his teenage years, Heil’s father, who owned the town’s only record and hi-fi store, put Heil in charge of selecting all the records sold in his store, inadvertently giving Heil access to the most influential pop music of the times. Heil eagerly immersed himself in rock, soul, jazz, and electronic music. After

Reinmar von Hagenau

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Reinmar von Hagenau (also Reinmar der Alte, Reinmar the Elder) was a German Minnesänger of the late twelfth century who composed and performed love-songs in Middle High German. He was regarded by his contemporaries as the greatest Minnesänger before Walther von der Vogelweide, a view widely shared by modern scholars. Although there are uncertainties as to which songs can be reliably attributed to him, a substantial body of his work — over 60 songs — survives. His presentation of courtly love as the unrequited love of a knight for a lady is “the essence of classical Minesang”. Life Nothing is known of Reinmar’s life except what can be deduced from the manuscript evidence of songs recorded under his name and from remarks by contemporaries. In the Minnesang manuscripts he is referred to simply by his forename, Her Reinmar (also Reimar, Reymar). In the Manesse Codex he is Her Reinmar der Alte, which serves to distinguish him from later singers such as Reinmar von Brennenberg, Reinmar der Fiedler or Reinmar von Zweter. The title Her (“sir”) indicates a man of knightly status, but the nature and scope of the surviving œvre indicate a professional singer reliant on patronage. Unlike Walth

Renate Birnstein

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Renate Maria Birnstein (born 17 November 1946) is a German composer, violinist and pianist. She was born in Hamburg, and studied at the Hochschule fur Musik with Diether de la Motte and György Ligeti, receiving her diploma in composition and piano in 1973. After completing her studies, Birnstein took a position teaching at the Hochschule fur Musik in Hamburg. Birnstein won the 1983 Prix de Rome. Her music has been performed internationally. Her work is completely committed to the ideals of the new music. She prefers small forms in which the musical material is freely processed according to a strict concept. Biography Renate Birnstein was born in Hamburg in 1946. She received her first violin lessons at the age of seven and began composing. Later, she switched to the viola and, at thirteen, despite her family’s initial incomprehension, also began piano lessons. Support was primarily provided for her through creative opportunities, such as those offered by a Waldorf school. As a violist, she was able to participate in numerous ensembles and school orchestras. After a period of writing, she devoted herself entirely to composition from the age of seventeen, becoming particularly intere

Richard Burmeister

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Richard Burmeister (1860 in Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – 1944) He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen. From 1885 to 1897 was the head of the piano department of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Along with fellow composers Joseph Pache, Asger Hamerik, Fritz Finke and Otto Sutro, Burmeister played a sizeable role in the 1890s musical culture of Baltimore. From 1897 to 1899 he was director of the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music’s New York City branch. Burmeister returned to Europe and taught at the Royal Conservatory of Dresden and at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. He died in Berlin in 1944. a ballade for pianoforte, and “The Chase After Fortune” (described as a “symphonic fantasy”) for orchestra. He also published several arrangements, including an arrangement for pianoforte and orchestra of Liszt’s Concerto Pathétique for two pianofortes, a reorchestration of Chopin’s F-minor Piano Concerto, and a piano arrangement of Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-Flat Minor BWV 853. References External links *

Richard Franck

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Richard Franck (3 January 1858 – 22 January 1938) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Life He was born in Cologne and was the son of the German composer, pianist and teacher Eduard Franck. His father, who had studied with Felix Mendelssohn and knew the value of good instruction, sent Richard to the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied with two of the leading teachers of the day, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn. During the course of a long career, Franck held teaching positions at conservatories in both Germany (Kassel, Berlin, Heidelberg) and in Switzerland (Basle). Although he did not reach the front rank amongst his contemporaries, he was nevertheless well respected as a concert artist and as a composer. His conservative style was influenced by Reinecke and by his friend, the Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852–1921). Franck was firmly in the tradition of Mendelssohn and Schumann though it’s clear that he was not immune from the influence of Wagner, Grieg and Reger also. Critics who were familiar with his compositions and his piano playing regularly lavished praise upon them. For example, the Schweizerische Musikzeitung (Swiss Musical Journal), writing about his First P

Richard Fuchs

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Richard Fuchs (; 26 April 1887 – 22 September 1947) was a German composer and architect, the older brother of German national team Olympic football player Gottfried Fuchs. Life Fuchs was in the German Army, and was awarded the Iron Cross. He was active in the Jüdischer Kulturbund Baden and President of the B’nai B’rith Lodge in Karlsruhe in the 1930s. He designed the Gernsbach Synagogue - destroyed in Kristallnacht in 1938 - among other buildings, few of which survive. After Kristallnacht he was in incarcerated at the age of 50, along with his brother Walter, on 1 November 1938 for some weeks in Dachau concentration camp. He was released when his application to emigrate to New Zealand was accepted, and he did so via England, arriving on 17 April 1939, bringing with him a selection of his compositions, listed below. In Wellington he worked as an architect with Natusch and Sons, and the Housing Department while continuing to compose and taking an active part in the Wellington music scene. However, whereas in Germany he was persecuted as a Jew, in New Zealand, he was shunned as a German. He wrote further chamber music, another string quartet and a piano quintet, songs, including A New

Richard Hofmann (composer)

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Richard Hofmann (30 April 1844 – 11 November 1918) was a German composer and music teacher who worked in Leipzig. Richard Hofmann was born in Delitzsch where his father was the municipal music director. He studied with Raimund Dreyschock (1824–1869) and Salomon Jadassohn and settled in Leipzig as a music teacher. He was Professor at Leipzig Conservatory and leader of the Leipzig Choral Society. Hofmann composed numerous instructive pieces for piano, string and wind instruments. Among his literary works are Katechismus der Musikinstrumente (A Catechism of Musical Instruments) published in 1890, and Praktische Instrumentationslehre (Practical Instrumentation, translated by Robin Humphrey Legge) of 1893. Notable students include George Strong, Donald Heins, Jean Paul Kürsteiner, Frank Welsman and Richard Wetz. Hofmann died in 1918 at the age of 74. Selected works ;Orchestral * Aus der Jugendzeit for string orchestra, Op. 60 ;Chamber music * 3 Sonatinas for cello and piano, Op. 42 * Sonatine für angehende Spieler (Sonatina for Advancing Players) in F major for viola (or flute) and piano, Op. 46 (1885) * 2 leicht ausführbare Sonatinen (2 Easy Sonatinas) for oboe (or violin) and piano, O

Richard Klemm

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Richard Klemm (born 1902 in Dresden; died 1988 in Berlin) was a German cellist, composer and teacher. Biography His father (Oskar Richard Klemm) was a versatile musician, who besides his main instrument (the double bass) played various other instruments which gained him a musical reputation through his engagements at private celebrations and events such as weddings. As a child Richard Klemm received from his father a musical education in several instruments (the cello, piano, violin and trumpet), and he also sang in the boys’ choir Dresdner Kreuzchor. In 1919 Klemm left Dresden and took up the position of cellist with the Königsberg Kurorchester. During the years 1923-1926 he studied the cello with Hugo Becker in Berlin, composition with Paul Juon, and the piano. He graduated in both musical disciplines, the cello and the piano. For his final graduation examination pieces he played the solo cello sonata by Zoltán Kodály and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. After completing his studies Richard Klemm became a cellist with the Staatskapelle Berlin (the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera. At the same time he also played in the chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle Berlin as we

Richard Mohaupt

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Richard Mohaupt (14 September 1904 – 3 July 1957) was a German composer and Kapellmeister. Life and career Richard Mohaupt was born in Breslau, where he studied music at Breslau University with Julius Prüwer and Rudolf Bilke. but shortly after this success the Nazis denounced him with the expression “Music Bolshevism” and he was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer. With this exclusion Richard Mohaupt could not work in Germany anymore and so emigrated to the US in 1939 and settled in New York. Mohaupt created his last opera, Der grüne Kakadu, after moving back to Europe in 1955 where he ultimately settled in Austria. (world premiere 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky) * Der grüne Kakadu (world premiere 1958 in Hamburg) Ballets * Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche (after Grimmelshausen; world premiere 1936 in Berlin) * Max und Moritz (after Wilhelm Busch; world premiere 1949 in Karlsruhe) * Der Weiberstreik von Athen (after Lysistrata; world premiere 1957 in Karlsruhe) Orchestral works * Drei Episoden (world premiere 1938 in Amsterdam) * Concerto for piano and orchestra (world premiere 1938 in Warsaw; world premiere of the revised version at the IGNM festival in Frankfurt/Main in 1951) * Tow

Richard Rudolf Klein

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Richard Rudolf Klein (21 May 1921 in Nußdorf/Pfalz – 17 December 2011) was a German composer, musician, and teacher. His compositional output is diverse, including nursery rhymes and music for children, choral music and hymns, incidental music, and orchestral music, as well as chamber music. Life Klein attended the humanistic Gymnasium in Landau, Germany and learned to play the piano, the violin, and the viola. He later learned the trumpet and the organ. He started composing at a young age and as an adolescent had already conducted his own works with his school orchestra on the occasion of school and commemorative events. In 1935, at the age of fourteen, he started performing piano pieces and songs in broadcasts at the former Rundfunk-Sender Kaiserslautern. His teachers included Wolfgang Fortner (composition), Hans Grischkat and Karl Münchinger (conducting), as well as Philipp Mohler. In 1948, when he was 27, Klein received a lecturing position for music theory at the University of Music in Stuttgart, and one year later he became lecturer of music theory at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold. From 1960 to 1984, he was a lecturer in composition, musical form, score readin

Richard Strauss

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Richard Georg Strauss (; ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style. His compositional output began when he was six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His first opera to achieve international fame was Salome. This was followed by Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially the Four Last Songs), the Violin Concerto in D minor, the Horn Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, his Oboe Concerto, and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen. A prominent conductor in

Richard Trunk

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Richard Trunk (born Tauberbischofsheim, 10 February 1879 - died Herrsching, 2 June 1968) was a German composer, pianist, conductor, critic, and member of the Nazi Party. Life He studied in Frankfurt with Iwan Knorr before traveling to Munich for further studies with Josef Rheinberger. He accompanied numerous singers (including Eugen Gura), taught singing for a time, and served as music critic for the Münchener Post from 1907. He was invited to New York City and Newark, New Jersey to conduct the Arion Society in 1912; he returned home with the outbreak of World War I. He later became music critic for the Bayrische Staatszeitung, and taught singing in Cologne from 1920 until 1934. In 1925 he married the singer Maria Delbran. In 1934, through the involvement of Ernst Röhm, he returned to Munich as the president of the Akademie der Tonkunst. He retired to the Ammersee after World War II. Trunk was a member of the Nazi Party, having joined in Autumn 1931. In 1939, he was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft by Adolf Hitler. His songs Op. 65 set to music texts by Baldur von Schirach and Hanns Johst. In 1948, a denazification court classified Trunk as a Mitläufer and iss

Richard Wagner

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Early years#

Richard Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 to an ethnic German family in Leipzig, then part of the Confederation of the Rhine. His family lived at No 3, the Brühl (The House of the Red and White Lions) in Leipzig’s Jewish quarter. He was baptised at St. Thomas Church. He was the ninth, and youngest, child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, a clerk in the Leipzig police service, and his wife, Johanna Rosine Wagner, the daughter of a baker. Wagner’s father Carl died of typhoid fever six months after Richard’s birth. Afterwards, his mother Johanna lived with Carl’s friend, the actor and playwright Ludwig Geyer. In August 1814 Johanna and Geyer probably married, although no documentation of this has been found in the Leipzig church registers. She and her family moved to Geyer’s residence in Dresden. Until he was fourteen, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer. He almost certainly thought that Geyer was his biological father. Geyer’s love of the theatre came to be shared by his stepson, and Wagner took part in his performances. In his autobiography Mein Leben Wagner recalled once playing the part of an angel. In late 1820, Wagner was enrolled at Pastor Wetzel’s school at Possendorf, near Dresden, where he received some piano instruction from his Latin teacher. He struggled to play a proper scale at the keyboard and preferred playing theatre overtures by ear. Following Geyer’s death in 1821, Richard was sent to the Kreuzschule, the boarding school of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, at the expense of Geyer’s brother. At the age of nine he was hugely impressed by the Gothic elements of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, which he saw Weber conduct. At this period Wagner entertained ambitions as a playwright. His first creative effort, listed in the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (the standard listing of Wagner’s works) as WWV 1, was a tragedy called Leubald. Begun when he was in school in 1826, the play was strongly influenced by Shakespeare and Goethe. Wagner was determined to set it to music and persuaded his family to allow him music lessons. By 1827, the family had returned to Leipzig. Wagner’s first lessons in harmony were taken during 1828–1831 with . In January 1828 he first heard Beethoven’s 7th Symphony and then, in March, the same composer’s 9th Symphony, both at the Gewandhaus. Beethoven became a major inspiration, and Wagner wrote a piano transcription of the 9th Symphony. He was also greatly impressed by a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Wagner’s early piano sonatas and his first attempts at orchestral overtures date from this period. In 1829 he saw a performance by dramatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, who became his ideal of the fusion of drama and music in opera. In Mein Leben Wagner wrote, “When I look back across my entire life I find no event to place beside this in the impression it produced on me,” and claimed that the “profoundly human and ecstatic performance of this incomparable artist” kindled in him an “almost demonic fire”. In 1831, Wagner enrolled at the Leipzig University, where he became a member of the Saxon student fraternity. He took composition lessons with the Thomaskantor Theodor Weinlig. Weinlig was so impressed with Wagner’s musical ability that he refused any payment for his lessons. He arranged for his pupil’s Piano Sonata in B-flat major (which was consequently dedicated to him) to be published as Wagner’s Op. 1. A year later, Wagner composed his Symphony in C major, a Beethovenesque work performed in Prague in 1832 and at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1833. He then began to work on an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding), which he never completed.

Richard Wetz

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Richard Wetz (26 February 1875 – 16 January 1935) was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he “seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history”. Biography 1875–1906: Youth Richard Wetz was born to a merchant family in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia (now Poland). During the following years, Wetz devoted himself to the music profession. He gave lessons in the Erfurt city conservatoire (in 1911–1921, composition and history of music), and honed his skills in conducting various choirs During Wetz’s lifetime, his works remained little known outside the circle of his devotees and music-lovers in his home region, to the point that he became nearly unknown after his death. Since that time, his compositions have continued to draw few fans despite the eagerness of his enthusiasts and his reputation as a great music pedagogue. Politically, Wetz made decisions towards the end of his life that may have had an effect on his standing after his death: after the end of the First World War, he became a confessed nationalist who saw the position of his vanquished Germany

Richard Wüerst

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Richard Wüerst (22 February 1824 – 9 October 1881) was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue. Wüerst was born and died in Berlin. He was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen at the Prussian Academy of Arts and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn’s. He later taught in the conservatory of Theodor Kullak (what would soon become the Stern Conservatory) and edited the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (from 1874 to 1875). One of his notable students was Heinrich Hofmann. Selected works 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 (1873 Berlin) *A-ing-fo-hi, comic opera in three acts, after a story by Anton Giulio Barrili, 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

Robert Franz

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Robert Franz Julius Knauth (28 June 1815 – 24 October 1892) was a German composer, mainly of . Biography Franz was born in Halle, Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth. In 1847, Christoph Knauth adopted his middle name Franz as his new surname, and his son followed suit. He suffered in early life from the hostility of his parents to a musical career. He was twenty years old when his father’s opposition was overcome and he was allowed to live in Dessau to study organ playing under Friedrich Schneider. The two years of study under that famous teacher were advantageous chiefly in making him uncommonly intimate with the works of Bach and Händel, his knowledge of which is shown in his editions of the former’s St Matthew Passion, Magnificat and ten cantatas, and the latter’s Messiah and L’Allegro, although some of these editions have long been controversial among musicians. In 1843 he published his first book of songs, which was followed by about fifty further books, containing in all about 250 songs. In his native Halle he filled various public offices, including city organist and conductor of the Singakademie and the Symphony. He also served as royal music-director and music maste

Robert Heger

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Robert Heger (19 August 1886 – 14 January 1978) was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Life and career He studied at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under Franz Stockhausen, then in Zurich under Lothar Kempter and finally in Munich under Max von Schillings. After early conducting engagements in Strasbourg he made his debut at Ulm in 1908 or 1909. He held appointments in Barmen (1909), at the Vienna Volksoper (1911), and at Nuremberg (1913), where he also conducted Philharmonic concerts. He went on to Munich and Vienna, where he recorded a magnificent version of Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic; and then to Berlin (1933-1950), where a live wartime Lohengrin was preserved and afterwards issued on LP, after which he returned again to Munich. In 1932, he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein in the world premiere of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, after Arturo Toscanini had declined Ravel’s invitation to conduct the premiere. In 1937, Heger joined the Nazi Party. Heger conducted one of the final concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic on 12 April 1945 at the Berlin the P

Robert Kahn (composer)

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Robert Kahn (21 July 1865 – 29 May 1951) was a German composer, pianist, and music teacher. Life Kahn was born in Mannheim, the second son of and Emma Eberstadt. One of his seven siblings was the banker Otto Kahn, whose son Roger Wolfe Kahn was a jazz musician, composer and aviator. Khan’s parents belonged to a German-Jewish family of bankers and merchants. In 1882, Kahn entered the Königlichen Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he studied for the next three years. Between 1885 and 1886, he continued his musical education under Josef Rheinberger in Munich. On a visit to Vienna the following year, Kahn met and befriended composer Johannes Brahms, who offered to make Kahn his pupil. Although Kahn declined the invitation, Brahms’s music exerted a profound influence on his compositional style throughout his career. After finishing his military service, Kahn worked as a freelance composer in Berlin until 1890. For the next three years he was employed as a rehearsal pianist at the Stadttheater in Leipzig. Having been appointed lecturer in composition at his alma mater in 1894, Kahn trained some of the best-known musicians of the 20th century. His students include the pianists Arthur R

Robert Köbler

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Robert Hans Friedrich Köbler (21 February 1912 – 7 September 1970) was a German organist, pianist, composer and professor at the University of Leipzig. Köbler was born in Waldsassen. He studied church music in Leipzig from 1931 to 1934, organ with Karl Straube and piano with Carl Martienssen. He was appointed professor of organ and harpsichord in 1956. of cancer, at age 58. * Klavierstücke für Kinder (Edition Peters) * Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Wilhelm Busch (Breitkopf & Härtel) * Vier gemischte Chöre a cappella (Breitkopf & Härtel) * Fünf Fugen (Edition Peters) Recordings He recorded several LPs, principally of Johann Sebastian Bach works, for the DDR’s Eterna label. He recorded mainly on organ, and occasionally on harpsichord. References External links * * Robert Köbler (Organ) Bach Cantatas Website 2011 * * * * “Bleibet hier und wachet …” / Die Universitätskirche zu Leipzig 1240–1968 – Eine Dokumentation Leipziger Universitätschor 1992 * Uraufführung erinnert an Kirchensprengung (in German) idw-online.de 23 May 2008 * Festkonzert in Weimar Neues Deutschland 14 April 1964

Robert Papperitz

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Benjamin Robert Papperitz (4 December 1826 – 29 September 1903) was a prominent German music educator, composer, and organist who served on the faculty of the Leipzig Conservatory for over fifty years. He was highly regarded for his instruction in harmony, counterpoint, and organ, training an influential generation of international composers and performers. Biography Papperitz was born in Pirna, Saxony, on 4 December 1826. Due to his academic success, the Leipzig Conservatory invited him to join its faculty immediately upon his graduation in 1851, where he taught harmony and counterpoint until 1902. In 1868, he succeeded his former teacher Richter as the titular organist of St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig (Nikolaikirche), a post he occupied until 1899. Papperitz died in Leipzig on 29 September 1903 at the age of 76. who later recalled that Papperitz granted him “freer rein” than other instructors, encouraging the integration of chromatic voice leading into his chorale harmonisations. The Irish-born composer Charles Villiers Stanford travelled to Leipzig to study advanced piano under Papperitz between 1874 and 1875. English pedagogue Franklin Taylor, Finnish opera pioneer Oskar Merikan

Robert Rutman

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Robert Rutman (15 May 1931 – 1 June 2021) was a German visual artist, musician, composer, and instrument builder. Best known for his work with homemade idiophones in his Steel Cello Ensemble, Rutman is regarded as a pioneer of multimedia performance in his mixing of music, sculpture, film, and visual art. When the Nazis came to power, he and his mother fled Germany, moving to Warsaw in 1938 and then to Finland just before Hitler invaded Poland. By way of Sweden, Rutman arrived in England in 1939 where he attended refugee schools throughout the Second World War. In 1952 Rutman returned to the U.S. and worked as a traveling salesman in Dallas, Texas, before moving to Mexico City to enroll in art school. He married in Mexico, and the couple had a son, Eric. In 1962 Rutman returned to New York where he opened a gallery on West Broadway in Greenwich Village called “A Fly Can’t Bird But A Bird Can Fly”, which presented poetry, theater, music, and visual art as multimedia events. and sculptor Constance Demby, with whom he made his first sound sculptures in 1966. He named one of his creations the steel cello, and another the bow chimes, describing both as “American Industrial folk instrume

Robert Schumann

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Childhood#

Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, in the Kingdom of Saxony (today the German state of Saxony), into an affluent middle-class family. On 13 June 1810 the local newspaper, the (Zwickau Weekly Paper), carried the announcement, “On 8 June to Herr August Schumann, notable citizen and bookseller here, a little son”. He was the fifth and last child of August Schumann and his wife, Johanna Christiane. August, not only a bookseller but also a lexicographer, author, and publisher of chivalric romances, made considerable sums from his German translations of writers such as Cervantes, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. When he was seven he began studying general music and piano with the local organist, Johann Gottfried Kuntsch, and for a time he also had cello and flute lessons with one of the municipal musicians, Carl Gottlieb Meissner. Throughout his childhood and youth his love of music and literature ran in tandem, with poems and dramatic works produced alongside small-scale compositions, mainly piano pieces and songs. He was not a musical child prodigy like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt or Felix Mendelssohn, According to the musical historian George Hall, Paul remained Schumann’s favourite author and exercised a powerful influence on the composer’s creativity with his sensibility and vein of fantasy.

Robert Stoepel

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Robert Auguste Stoepel (born Auguste Stöpel, 1821 – 1 October 1887) was a German-born American composer and conductor. His compositions include Hiawatha, a symphony for orchestra and vocal soloists, as well as incidental music for plays, piano works, songs, and several operas. Born in Berlin, Stoepel worked in Paris and London, but spent a large portion of his career in New York City where he died at the age of 66. From 1857 until their separation in 1869, he was married to the actress Matilda Heron. Their daughter Bijou Heron was also an actress. Biography Robert Stoepel was born Auguste Stöpel in Berlin in 1821. Because his father had a reputation as a court musician, he adopted his forename. His sister, Hélène Stöpel, was noted as a “charming and talented pianist.” (She later married the composer William Vincent Wallace.) After he graduated from the Berlin Conservatory of music, he went to Paris where he graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, where his teachers included Luigi Cherubini, Fromental Halévy, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. He got his start at composing incidental music for dramas there, being one of three composers who contributed to a stage production of Monte-Crist

Robert Volkmann

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Friedrich Robert Volkmann (6 April 1815 – 30 October 1883) was a German composer. Life Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch near Meißen in the Kingdom of Saxony. His father, a music director for a church, trained him in music to prepare him as a successor. Thus, Volkmann learned to play the organ and the piano with his father, studied violin and cello with Friebel, and by age 12, he was playing the cello part in string quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In 1832, he entered the Freiberg Gymnasium for the purpose of becoming a teacher. There he studied music with August Ferdinand Anacker, who encouraged him to devote himself to music more fully. From there he went on to Leipzig in 1836 to study with Carl Ferdinand Becker. In Leipzig, he met Robert Schumann who encouraged him in his studies. They met again several times after that. When he finished his studies, he began working as voice teacher at a music school in Prague. He did not stay there long, and in 1841 he moved to Budapest, where he was employed as a piano teacher and a reporter for the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung. After a short period of freelance work, he became the choirmaster and organist of a Reform synagogu

Robert Zollitsch (composer)

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Robert Zollitsch (; born 1966) is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (, literally “Old Ro/Gong”) in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music. Early life and education Zollitsch was born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Zollitsch grew up with the Folk music of his home region, learning early in his childhood a classical Bavarian folk music instrument, the Bavarian zither. From 1986 to 1990 he studied music theory and graduated from the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study Chinese traditional music and the Chinese zither Guqin in Shanghai. Musical career Zollitsch is known as an expert in Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan art music. He has been producing and working with Chinese musicians or singers as Gong Linna, Urna, Du Cong, Qiu Ji, Luo Yan, by composing pieces for traditional Chinese instruments that make extensive use of harmonies, fusing together elements of different cultures, which leads to music that seems to be of traditional Chinese art music style with a western influence, sometimes sounding like

Rochus Dedler

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Rochus Dedler (15 January 1779 – 17 October 1822) was a German composer. He is best known as the author of a stage music for the version of the Oberammergau Passion Play by Father . Life Dedler was born on 15 January 1779 in Oberammergau. His father Johann (1737–1811) and his mother Barbara (1736–1825) ran the inn “Zum weißen Lamm” there. Originally Dedler was destined for a spiritual profession. He was a choirboy at Rottenbuch Abbey and went to Munich for further education, where he graduated in 1798 from the (present) Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich). Subsequently, he began the obligatory basic studies (philosophy) at the affiliated Lyceum, but then returned to Rottenbuch to work as chamber scribe of the prelate. In 1802, however, he gave up his spiritual career and took a position as a teacher and choir director in Oberammergau. Dedler was married to Maria Josepha, née Sepp, from Uffing (1779–1824). Together they had three sons and six daughters. Dedler died on 17 October 1822 at age 43 due to a lung disease in Oberföhring, where his brother was a pastor, and was buried there at the cemetery of St. Lorenz. A path leading past the cemetery is named “Rochus-Dedler-Weg” in his honour. In

Rolf Alexander Wilhelm

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Rolf Alexander Wilhelm (23 June 1927 – 17 January 2013 ) was a German composer, film composer, arranger and conductor. Life Born in Munich, at the age of seven Wilhelm received piano lessons. Afterwards he attended the grammar school in Berlin and Vienna. From 1942 he studied piano with a special permission with Grete Hinterhofer and musical composition with Joseph Marx at the Wiener Musikhochschule. His war deployment as Luftwaffenhelfer and the subsequent imprisonment interrupted the musical career of Wilhelm, who returned to destroyed Munich in 1945 with a Notabitur. There he was able to continue his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1946 and passed the school-leaving examination in 1948. Among his teachers were Heinrich Knappe (conducting), Joseph Haas (musical composition) and Hans Rosbaud (master class) Even before that, in 1946, Radio München, the forerunner of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, produced The Canterville Ghost, one of its first radio plays after the Second World War. Through the mediation of his brother Kurt Wilhelm who acted as assistant director for the play, the nineteen-year-old composer received his first commission. The work was convin

Rolf Riehm

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Rolf Riehm (15 June 1937 – 3 January 2026) was a German composer who wrote stage and orchestral works as well as music for ensembles and solo instruments. He began as an oboist and music teacher and was later a professor of music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1974 to 2000. He joined the wind ensemble Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester from 1976 to 1981 as oboist and arranger; they played at political demonstrations. His opera Sirenen was premiered at the Oper Frankfurt in 2014. Life and career Riehm was born in Saarbrücken on 15 June 1937 and grew up in Frankfurt. His father, Karl Riehm, was a school music teacher, and his mother, Elly, was a piano teacher. During his schooling he served already as organist at the American Central Chapel. He completed school with the Abitur in 1957. Riehm worked first as a solo oboist. Riehm’s opera Sirenen had its premiere at the Oper Frankfurt in 2014. Stage music * Das Schweigen der Sirenen, premiered by Staatsoper Stuttgart (1994) Music for ensemble * Uncertain Melody (1989) for eight instruments * Double Distant Counterpoint (J. S. Bach, Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XI) (1994) for large

Rolf Schweizer

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Rolf Schweizer (14 March 1936 – 6 June 2016 ) was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director, who was based primarily at Pforzheim. Schweizer was part of the movement Neues Geistliches Lied, and his compositions, several of which appear in the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), were heavily influenced by contemporary secular music, especially jazz. Life Schweizer was born in Mundingen (now a suburb of Emmendingen). His first musical instruction was as a member of the local brass band. He studied Protestant church music at the Evangelische Kirchenmusikalischen Institut in Heidelberg, with Wolfgang Fortner, , Wolfgang Dallmann, Heinz Werner Zimmermann and others. From 1956 to 1966 he was choirmaster of St John’s in Mannheim. In 1966 he became district choirmaster of Pforzheim, a position he retained until his retirement. In 1969 he was promoted to Kirchenmusikdirektor (church music director), and in 1975 he became state choirmaster (Landeskantor) for Mittelbaden. The couple has three daughters. One of the daughters, Constanze Schweizer-Elser is currently the church choir director at Selb in north-eastern Bavaria. and the second daughter, Felicitas Schewize

Rolf Thomas Lorenz

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Rolf Thomas Lorenz (born 19 May 1959 in Klingenthal) is a German composer and music teacher. Life From 1974 to 1982 Lorenz received composition lessons from Jürgen Golle in Zwickau. From 1978 to 1982 he studied composition, clarinet and piano at the conservatory “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden with Wilfried Krätzschmar, Josef Oehl, and Hermann W. Finke. Since 1982 Lorenz has been teaching clarinet, composition and music theory at the Heinrich-Schütz-Conservatory Dresden, and he also works as a freelance composer. Since 2004 he has been chairman of the Dresden working group of the German Composers’ Association. Prizes * 1. Prize of the 2nd Saxon Composition Competition 2001 organized by the (Drei Bagatellen für 3 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen, Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig) Compositions * Kaleidoskop für 4 B-Klarinetten und Bassklarinette. Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig * Columbus Skteches for Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra, 2001 * Solo della ramificazione 1982/2003 for clarinet, Musikverlag Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig * 3 Nocturnes pour clarinette solo 2010/11, self edition * Drei Bagatellen für 2 Trompeten und 3 Posaunen, 2000, Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeist

Roman Bunka

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Roman Bunka (2 December 1951 – 12 June 2022) was a German guitarist, oud player and composer, active in world music and jazz fusion bands. He lived most of his life in Munich, Bavaria, where he was involved in various musical crossover projects. Career Bunka was born in Frankfurt on 2 December 1951. In 1979, Embryo traveled overland to India with three buses and their instruments. The tour was documented in the movie Vagabunden Karawane. Besides the guitar, his second instrument was the Arabic oud, which he studied mainly in Egypt. Having spent long periods of time there, he often played in the band of Egyptian singer and movie actor Mohamed Mounir, In 1994, Bunka presented his ethno jazz project Color me Cairo, featuring Malachi Favors of Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Egyptian musicians Fathy Salama, Hosam Shakir and Khaled Goma at the Berlin Jazz Festival, curated by George Gruntz. The same line-up was recorded by Enja Records, with Rolling Stone magazine writing: “Bunka gets fame in a growing musical diaspora as ‘best oud-player north of Mekka’.” Bunka was known for his artistic collaboration with German and international musicians, such as the German world music groups Embryo, D

Roman Hoffstetter

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Roman Hoffstetter (born 24 April 1742, in Laudenbach, near Bad Mergentheim, Holy Roman Empire; died: 21 May (Baker’s) or June (New Grove 2nd) 1815, in Miltenberg-am-Main, Germany; alternative spelling Romanus Hoffstetter) was a classical composer and Benedictine monk who also admired Joseph Haydn almost to the point of imitation. Hoffstetter wrote “everything that flows from Haydn’s pen seems to me so beautiful and remains so imprinted on my memory that I cannot prevent myself now and again from imitating something as well as I can.” In 1965, the musicologist Alan Tyson (with H.C. Robbins Landon) published the finding that the entire set of six String Quartets long-admired as Haydn’s Op. 3, including the Andante cantabile of No. 5 in F Major known as Haydn’s Serenade, were actually by Roman Hoffstetter. Further discoveries have purported to establish Hoffstetter’s authorship of the first two of the six quartets, but not the other four. Little is known about his early training or life, though it is likely that he came from a musical family. He was a twin; the other was Johann Urban Alois Hoffstetter, who became director of the Franconian province of the Teutonic Order and also a sma

Rudi Spring

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Rudi Spring (17 March 1962 – 28 December 2025) was a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic teacher. He also worked as a church organist and conductor. He was known for vocal compositions on texts by poets and his own, and for chamber music such as his three Chamber Symphonies. As a pianist, he played with several regular duo partners and made recordings of works by Bach and his sons, Schubert and Sibelius. He taught Lied interpretation at the Musikhochschule München from 1999. Life and career Born in Lindau on 17 March 1962, Spring received piano instructions from , starting in 1971. Composer Spring composed songs and song cycles, inspired by poems of Heinrich Heine and Hermann Lenz. His song cycle in four volumes Galgenliederbuch sets poems from Christian Morgenstern’s collection. He wrote a song cycles Nero lässt grüßen after Martin Walser’s monodram, So nah in der Ferne, setting poems by ), and a sequence of songs, Liederfolge für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier after poems by August Stramm, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ingeborg Bachmann and Jakob van Hoddis. Several of these works were recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk, with singers such as Martina Koppelstetter. Pian

Rudi Stephan

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Rudi Stephan (29 July 1887 – 29 September 1915) was a German composer of great promise who was considered one of the leading talents of his generation. * Opus 1 for Orchestra * Liebeszauber for baritone and orchestra, after Hebbel (1907, rev. 1911) * Music for Orchestra No. 1 (1910) * Grotesque for violin and piano * Music for Violin and Orchestra (1910, rev. 1913) * Music for Seven Stringed Instruments (2 violins, viola, violoncello, doublebass, harp and piano) (1907–11; unfinished revision for piano quintet, 1914) References External links * *

Rudolf Alberth

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Rudolf Alberth (writing into the 1950s: Albert) (28 March 1918 – 29 May 1992 ) was a German conductor. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Alberth originally studied in composition at the Hoch Conservatory, however instead took up interest as a conductor and made his conducting debut in 1945. Alberth was strongly committed to contemporary music, in particular with the Bayerischer Rundfunk and conducted numerous world premieres at home and abroad. In the 1950s he collaborated with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and conducted the premiere of Messiaen’s composition Oiseaux exotiques in the Théâtre Marigny on 10 March 1956. In 1964 Alberth was appointed principal conductor of the Niedersächsisches Symphonie-Orchester in Hannover which he conducted until the dissolution of the orchestra at the end of the 1967/1968 concert season. Alberth has left numerous recordings in the BR archives, including his own works; commercial recordings are also available from Telefunken and the French Club de Disques. He is the author of a book in which he presents personal experiences and reflections on music: Da capo. Heiteres und Nachdenkliches aus meinem Musikerleben, Munich: Langen Müller 1980. Alberth died in Munic

Rudolf Bial

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Rudolf Bial (26 August 1834 – 23 November 1881) was a German violinist, composer, conductor and theater director. Life Born in Habelschwerdt, Prussia, Bial received his musical education in Breslau, where he was employed at the age of 15 as the first violinist in the chapel of the local municipal theatre. He was Kapellmeister in Lübeck from 1854 to 1856, then made a concert tour to Australia as a violin virtuoso together with his brother Karl, became Kapellmeister in 1864 at August Conradi’s place at Wallner-Theater in Berlin and from 1876 to 1879 was the director of the Krollschen Theater, whose repertoire he refined by cultivating German and Italian operas. In the latter year he moved to New York. There he led a concert band and died at the age of 47. His brother Karl Bial (1833-1892) worked as a piano virtuoso, composer and music teacher in Berlin. He left behind several pieces for piano and songs. Work Among Rudolf Bial’s partly popular compositions (in total 130 numbers) his operetta Der Herr von Papillon (1868) had the greatest success. * 1872: Die Mottenburger, burlesque with music * 1874: Mein Leopold, burlesque with music (singing burlesque in three acts), premiere 28 Sept

Rudolf Hindemith

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Rudolf Hindemith, since 1951 officially Paul Quest, pseudonym Hans Lofer They made music together early. From age 10, Rudolf took cello lessons at Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium in Frankfurt. a project of Gauleiter Hans Frank. Rudolf Hindemith died in isolation in 1974 in Neuperlach * Concerto I. A minor, Opus 14 * Concerto III. B minor, Opus 51 * Concerto IV. G major, Opus 65 * Concerto VI. D major, Opus 100 Recordings The Amar Quartet with Rudolf Hindemith as the cellist can be heard on a CD published by Arbiter in 2011, including the premiere recording of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2. The Dreyer-Gaido label released three CDs, entitled Rudolf Hindemith Edition, between 2003 and 2010. In 2008, Stephanie Timoschek made a premiere recording of the complete piano works on 2 CDs for ORF. References External links * *

Rudolf Maria Breithaupt

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Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (11 August 1873 – 2 April 1945) was a German composer and music educator (piano). Life Born in Braunschweig, Breithaupt attended the grammar school in Braunschweig. He studied jurisprudence, then philosophy, psychology and art and musicology at the universities of Jena, Leipzig and Berlin. His teachers were the musicologists Hugo Riemann and Hermann Kretzschmar. At the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Breithaupt was a student of Robert Teichmüller, Salomon Jadassohn and Oscar Paul since 1897. Between 1904 and 1911 Breithaupt worked at the Humboldt University of Berlin and later, at least from 1919 to 1929, as piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Breithaupt died in Ballenstedt at age 71. The “natural piano technique” In its physiological foundations, Breithaupt’s “natural piano technique” depends, in its explicit recognition, on the almost contemporary work of the physician and physiologist Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen. Breithaupt’s formula “don’t think about your fingers, don’t want to play with your fingers” effectively summarizes the fundamental principle of the weight technique in antithesis to the digital technique. The latter prescr

Rudolf Mauersberger

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Rudolf Mauersberger (29 January 1889 – 22 February 1971) was a German choral conductor and composer. His younger brother Erhard was also a conductor and composer. Career After positions in Aachen and Eisenach, he became director of the renowned Dresdner Kreuzchor in 1930, a position he held until his death. In May 1933, Mauersberger became a member of the Nazi Party; there are strong indications though that he tried to minimize the influence of the NS-Ideology and in particular of the Hitler-Jugend onto the choir. He refused to stage NS-songs with the choir, and continued to perform the works of banned composers such as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Günter Raphael, at least as late as 1938. Probably his most famous work is the motet Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How desolate lies the city), written after the destruction of Dresden in February 1945. The text is taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, verses 1,1.4.9.13; 2,15; 5,17.20–21. The work is often seen as a bemoaning of the destroyed city, but given the biblical context, it can also apply to the whole of Germany and her people, the destruction of the country being punishment for its iniquities. Mauersberger’s also reflects

Rudolf Mors

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Rudolf Mors (16 July 1920 also broadcast by ZDF in the sixties, is still occasionally found on playbills today. In 1963, Mors changed to the position of a drama composer at the Bielefeld Theatre, where he could devote himself more to the composition of free works. In 1983, Mors was awarded the of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe for his complete works. Mors died in Eisingen at the age of 68. Work The compositions by Mors include: Piano * Sonate für Klavier zu 4 Händen, WV 13 (1950) ca.12’, 1950 (Munich) * Steinigung, Fantasie für Klavier, WV 26a (1982) ca.11’ (Konzertante Fassung des Balletts WV 26), 1983 (Bielefeld) * Sonate für Klavier, WV 42 (198?) (Fragment) (1. Satz vollendet; ca.3’), 1989 (Bielefeld) Organ * Orgel-Fantasie on H-C-A-B, WV 34 (1985) ca.6’, 1986 (Bielefeld) * Kleine Orgi-Suite for Organ, WV 38 (1987) ca.7’, 1987 (Bielefeld) Vocal music Choir with Orchestra * Symphonic Cantata after serious words by Christian Morgenstern for soprano and baritone solo, large choir and orchestra, WV 10 (1950) ca.25; first performed in 1963 by the under the conduct of Hans Jakob Haller. * Pater noster for mezzo-soprano solo, four- to six-part choir and orchestra, WV 27 (1983)

Rudolf Neuhaus

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Rudolf Neuhaus (3 January 1914 − 7 March 1990) was a German conductor. Life Born in Cologne, Neuhaus studied at the Musikhochschule Köln, especially with Hermann Abendroth. From 1934 to 1944 he worked at . In 1937 he joined the Nazi Party. In 1945 he came to Schwerin and worked there as a conductor until 1953, and from 1950 he succeeded Hans Gahlenbeck as Generalmusikdirektor of the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle. He became a member of the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany). In 1953 he was appointed conductor at the Staatsoper in Dresden and lecturer at the Musikhochschule Dresden. Guest conductors have taken him to the Staatsoper Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He was appointed professor in 1959. His students included and Udo Zimmermann. He conducted numerous world premieres and first performances. Neuhaus died in Dresden at thee age of 76. Awards * 1964: Kunstpreis der DDR * 1974: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Bronze * 1979: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Silber * 1984: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Gold * 1987: * 1989: . Publications * References Further reading * Grete Grewolls: Wer war wer in Mecklenburg und Vorpo

Rudolf Tobias

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Rudolf Tobias (29 May 1873 – 29 October 1918) was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an oratorio, Des Jona Sendung (Jonah’s Mission) (1908, revised and premiered 1909, later reconstructed by Vardo Rumessen). Early life Rudolf Tobias was born in Selja, Käina Parish, on the island of Hiiumaa. He was the son of local parish clerk Johannes Tobias and his wife Emilie. Tobias received his first musical training from his father. Under his father’s tutelage, he began musical training at an early age and composing his first composition exercises from 1882 when he was 9 years old. In 1885 he entered the Haapsalu school and studied piano under Catharina von Gernet, a local pianist. After he graduated, Tobias moved with his parents to Kullamaa, where his father had become the parish clerk. In 1889 Tobias entered Tallinn Nicolai High School, where he passed the tutor’s exam and studied both organ and music theory with Ernst Reinicke, the Tallinn Cathedral organist. Gallery File:Tobias.IMG 0843.jpg Monument to Tobias in Haapsalu. File:

Rudolf Wagner-Régeny

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Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (28 August 1903, Szászrégen, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Reghin, Romania) – 18 September 1969, Berlin) was a composer, conductor, and pianist. Born in Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, since 1920 Romania, he became a German citizen in 1930, and then East German after 1945. From 1919 to 1920 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1920 he enrolled at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik as a student of Rudolf Krasselt and Siegfried Ochs for conducting, and for orchestration of Emil von Řezníček, and with Friedrich Koch and Franz Schreker for musical composition, graduating in 1923. He served as choirsmaster at the Volksoper Berlin from 1923 to 1925. In 1927 joined Laban’s dance company where he conducted productions for three years. Wagner-Régeny first gained notice as a composer with his theatre pieces for Essen. In 1929 he met the designer Caspar Neher, who wrote the texts for Wagner-Régeny’s best-known operas. In 1930 Wagner-Régeny became a naturalized German citizen, and married, his wife being half-Jewish. Between 1930 and 1945 he worked as a freelance composer and teacher, and with the rise of the Nazis was promoted by a fa

Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme

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Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme (13 March 1924 – 11 January 2006) was a German composer and piano teacher. Life Hoyme was born in Wurzen as the second daughter of the commercial gardener Walter Hoyme. She attended the elementary school and later for some years the state high school of the city. Against her father’s will she took piano lessons. At the age of nine she had her first composition exercises. Through many countless performances, which she often reached overland on her own bicycle, she had saved up her own piano over the years. After high school she graduated from the Frauenfachschule für Hauswirtschaft in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth. A fortunate circumstance brought her together in 1940 with the Leipzig pianist Elisabeth Knauth (b. 1894), who gave her inspiring piano and music theory lessons. She also encouraged Hoyme to study piano and prepared her for the entrance examination at the Leipzig Conservatory. She passed this examination in 1941, but she had to spend an unavoidable year of work in Stettin before she could begin her studies in 1942. Since Germany was at war, however, she had to work as a locksmith in the armaments industry. She therefore interrupted her studies until 1946.

Ruth Schönthal

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Ruth Esther Hadassah Schonthal (June 27, 1924 – July 10, 2006) was an acclaimed classical composer, pianist, and teacher. Born in Germany, she lived in the U.S. for most of her life. After she moved to the U.S. she dropped the umlaut from the name Schönthal. She came to study composition at Yale University in 1946. After her marriage in 1950 she lived first in New York City and then in New Rochelle. Biography Ruth Schonthal was born in Hamburg of Viennese parents. At the age of five she began composing and became the youngest student ever accepted at the Stern’sche Konservatorium in Berlin. In 1935, Schonthal and her family were forced to leave Nazi Germany for Stockholm on account of her Jewish heritage. At the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, she studied composition with Ingemar Liljefors and piano with Olaf Wibergh. At the age of fourteen, she had her first sonatina published. In March 1941, three months before she would have been able to graduate, the family was once again forced to flee as a result of the rising political tension. They traveled to a variety of places—Moscow USSR, then Japan—and finally to Mexico City. In 1942 she married Oscar Manuel Ochoa. Their s

Ruth Zechlin

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Ruth Zechlin (22 June 1926 – 4 August 2007) was a German composer. Life Ruth Oschatz was born in Grosshartmannsdorf, where she began piano lessons at the age of five years, and wrote her first composition at the age of seven. From 1943 to 1949 she studied music theory with Johann Nepomuk David and Wilhelm Weismann, church music and organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin and piano with Rudolf Fischer and Anton Rohden at the Music Academy in Leipzig. After she completed the state exam, she worked at the academy for a year as a lecturer and also worked as a deputy organist at the Nikolai Church in Leipzig. In 1951 she married pianist Dieter Zechlin, and the marriage lasted until 1972 when the couple divorced. Zechlin gained lectureship in music theory at the German College of Music in Berlin in 1969, where she taught harpsichord and studied harmony, counterpoint, form, orchestration and composition. After 1970 she was professor of composition at the Academy of Arts and taught a master class in composition. After her retirement in 1986, Zechlin continued teaching as a visiting professor. Beginning in 1990, she was a member of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin and served as vice presid

Salomon Jadassohn

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Salomon Jadassohn (13 August 1831 – 1 February 1902) was a German pianist, composer, and teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory. Life Jadassohn was born to a Jewish family living in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. This was a generation after the emancipation of the Jews in Central European German-speaking lands and during a time of relative tolerance. First educated locally, Jadassohn enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1848, just a few years after it had been founded by Felix Mendelssohn. There he studied composition with Moritz Hauptmann, Ernst Richter and Julius Rietz, as well as piano with Ignaz Moscheles. At the same time, he studied privately with Franz Liszt in Weimar. On 13 April 1851 in Weimar he was the soloist at the first performance, under Liszt’s baton, of Liszt’s arrangement for piano and orchestra of Carl Maria von Weber’s Polonaise (Polacca) brillante “L’hilarité” in E major, Op. 72. As a Jew, Jadassohn could not qualify for the many church jobs as music directors or organists which were usually available to Christian graduates of a conservatory such as Leipzig, as they required deep knowledge of Christian liturgy and practice. Instead he

Samuel Adler (composer)

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Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is a German-American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler’s musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards, including Germany’s Order of Merit – Officer’s Cross. Biography Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler who was an amateur pianist. At the age of ten, Samuel was separated from his father while Hugo was imprisoned in the Netherlands following the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. After Hugo’s return to Mannheim, the family was reunited and subsequently fled the Nazi regime in Germany through the Netherlands to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of T

Samuel Rüling

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Samuel Rüling (also Rühling, Rhuling, Rülich) (1586 – June 1626) was a German composer and poet in the early 17th century. Before Kreuzkirche Rüling was born around 1586 in Groitzsch, near Leipzig, as the son of Johann (also Johannes, Hans) Rüling. His father (1550–1615) served as organist in Zeithain from 1572 to 1575, then in Döbeln until 1582, and finally until his death in Groitzsch, where he was also town clerk. Johann Rüling also published the Tabulaturbuch auff Orgeln und Instrument in 1583, and consequently his considerable musical accomplishments make it likely that Samuel received an extensive musical education early on. Samuel Rüling entered the Fürstenschule at Grimma on 20 June 1601, and left it on 4 July 1606. His instructors in Grimma were primarily the rector Martin Hayneccius and cantor Fridericus Birck. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig in the same summer semester, where he studied with Ambrosius Sonewaldt, and later with Mühlmann, Harbart and Corvinus. He must also have been in close proximity with the prominent Thomaskantor Sethus Calvisius. Around 1610, he became cantor at the university church Paulinerkirche, which was famous for its substantial mus

Samuel Scheidt

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Samuel Scheidt (baptized 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. Life and career Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with Sweelinck, the distinguished Dutch composer, whose work had a clear influence on Scheidt’s style. On his return to Halle, Scheidt became court organist, and later Kapellmeister, to the Margrave of Brandenburg. Unlike many German musicians, for example Heinrich Schütz, he remained in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War, managing to survive by teaching and by taking a succession of smaller jobs until the restoration of stability allowed him to resume his post as Kapellmeister. When Samuel Scheidt lost his job because of Wallenstein, he was appointed in 1628 as musical director of three churches in Halle, including the Market Church. Scheidt was the first internationally significant German composer for the organ, and represents the flowering of the new north German style, which occurred largely as a result of the Protestant Reformation. In south Germany and some other countries of Europe, the spiritual and artistic influence of Rome remained strong, s

Sandeep Bhagwati

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Sandeep Bhagwati (born 4 June 1963) is a German composer of western classical music and an academic teacher. Career Bhagwati was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, to a German mother and an Indian father. Living in Germany since the age of five, Bhagwati went to school at the Athenaeum Stade in Stade, Lower Saxony, and studied from 1984 to 1987 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with teachers such as Boguslaw Schaeffer, Kurt Prestel, Walter Hagen-Groll, Kurt Maedel, Josef Maria Horváth and . Bhagwati studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich with Wilhelm Killmayer, and took master classes with Killmayer and Hans-Jürgen von Bose, and with Edison Denisov at the Lucerne Festival of 1991. He studied computer music for one year at IRCAM. He studied further with Brian Ferneyhough and Tristan Murail. From 1989 to 1991 Bhagwati organized a chamber concert series “KammerMusikUtopien” at the Gasteig in Munich. He was a co-founder, with Moritz Eggert, of the festival A*Devantgarde in 1991. From 1990 to 1992, together with Gerd Kühr, he was artistic director of the composers’ workshop “AmateurKomponistenWerkstatt” of the Munich Biennale, which had been established by Ha

Sarah Nemtsov

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Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter, born 28 May 1980) is a German composer. Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and now lives in Berlin. She started her music lessons and composing aged eight. She started playing the Oboe aged 14. Her compositions are recognizable through their confrontation with literature and other art forms. She became a full-time composer in 2007. Several of her works are published by Peermusic Classical GmbH. She is married to the pianist and musicologist . Her mother was the painter . Since 2022, she has been professor of composition at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria. Since winter semester 2022, Nemstov has been teaching as a professor of composition at the Mozarteum university in Salzburg. She is also a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin (Music Section). Education She studied composition under Nigel Osborne and Johannes Schöllhorn, and oboe under at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. At the Universität der Künste Berlin, she continued her oboe studies under Burkhard Glaetzner, and her composition at post-graduate level with Walter Zimmermann, where she graduated with distinction. fives times between 1995 and 1999, as well as the international Delm

Sebastian Anton Scherer

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Sebastian Anton Scherer (3 October 1631 – 26 August 1712) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era. Scherer was born in Ulm, where he resided until his death. On 17 June 1653 he was elected town musician, and it was also around that time that he became assistant to Tobias Eberlin, then organist of the famous Ulm Münster. Sherer probably started studying with Eberlin at the same time, later married his daughter and in 1671 succeeded him as organist of the cathedral. Sources disagree on whether Scherer was later appointed organist or simply organ consultant at St. Thomas (Église Saint-Thomas) in Strasbourg, but it was most probably the latter case, since apparently he remained Ulm’s cathedral organist until his death in 1712. Scherer’s surviving works are few, as is typical for the era. They include a collection of sacred vocal music (motets, mass movements and psalm settings) somewhat notable for its imaginative word-setting in some of the pieces, fourteen trio sonatas published as one volume in 1680, all of considerable quality, and a two-part volume of organ music. This latter publication exhibits Italian influence, particularly that of Frescobaldi, which was typical

Sebastian Knüpfer

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Sebastian Knüpfer (6 September 1633 – 10 October 1676) was a German composer, conductor and educator. He was the Thomaskantor, cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig and director of the towns’s church music, from 1657 to 1676. Life Most of the biographical information about Knüpfer comes from a published obituary. He was born in Asch (now Aš, Czech Republic), and was first taught music by his father, a Kantor and organist. He also studied regularly with an unidentified tutor living near Asch, from whom he gained a solid grounding in, and lasting love for, a number of scholastic disciplines. At the age of 13 he entered the Gymnasium Poeticum at Regensburg and remained there for eight years. During this unusually long period he became well versed in the city’s musical traditions (such as the works of Andreas Raselius), studied the organ, perhaps with Augustin Gradenthaler, and mastered a number of humanistic subjects, especially the poetic arts and philology. His gifts as a student were supported by scholarships from the city of Regensburg, and he was commended by influential members of the staff of the Gymnasium and the city council, some of the latter providing him with favourable t

Seedo

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Seedo (also Sidow) (c. 1700 – c. 1754), also called Mr Seedo, as his forename is unknown, was a German composer who worked primarily in England until 1736 when he became musical director to Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia. Life Seedo was a son of Samuel Peter Sidow, a musician employed by the Elector of Brandenburg. By the mid-1720s, Seedo was working at the Little Theatre in London’s Haymarket. On 27 September 1727 he married the singer Maria Manina, who had small parts in London’s Italian operas beginning in 1711, including Handel’s Teseo. Between 1731 and 1734, Seedo worked on Drury Lane imitations. He wrote several successful stage works, of which his ballad opera The Devil to Pay was the most successful. When the work was first performed on stage it was a failure, but when the composer cut it significantly, from a full opera of 42 airs to an afterpiece of sixteen airs, it became a hit. Apart from The Beggar’s Opera, The Devil to Pay was by far the most popular ballad opera of the 18th century. The work was given regular London performances until well into the 19th century and a translation by C. W. von Borcke made it popular in Austria and the German states as well. Borcke’s tr

Siegfried Alkan

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Siegfried Alkan (30 March 1858 – 24 December 1941) was a German composer from Saarland in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was assaulted and his musical business was looted during the Kristallnacht. Biography Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland, within the Kingdom of Prussia to prominent Jewish piano businessman Johannes Alkan and his wife Johanna . His grandfather and two of his nephews were also musicians. He had three siblings. He was a distant relative of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy through his mother’s relationship to the Oppenheim family. and his piano looted by the Nazis. He refused to seek treatment at a Christian hospital, he tried to seek help at his synagogue, unaware it had been set ablaze. * "" (English: “Oh, if only you knew”; Op. 39) * "" (English: “Proto-Great-grandmother”; Op. 80) * "" (English: “The fog rolls through the valley”; Op. 92) References

Siegfried Behrend

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Siegfried Behrend (19 November 1933 – 20 September 1990) was a German classical guitarist and composer. Biography Behrend was born in Berlin. He studied piano, harpsichord, conducting and composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and taught himself classical guitar. In 1953, he gave the first German performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. At the age of 30 he already was a world-renowned artist with this instrument, playing for the Shah of Persia, the Emperor of Japan and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo. In 1962, he met singer Belina during the making of a TV show and they endeavoured to create some musical projects together. With their chansons, folk songs and Yiddish songs, they became highly respected and well-known representatives of German culture in the aftermath of World War II. They performed in more than 120 countries and were regular guests on German television and talkshows. In these years, they recorded several LP albums. In the 1970s Behrend married the German actress Claudia Brodzinska, also a singer. In performances with her, Behrend focused more on contemporary art music. Behrend was also renowned as a teacher for classical guitar. Martin Ma

Siegfried Bimberg

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Siegfried Bimberg (5 May 1927 – 2 July 2008) was a German composer, conductor and musicologist Life Born in Halle (Saale), After his return from the war and captivity, Bimberg completed his pedagogical studies. After working briefly at a one-grade rural school, he studied psychology, music education and musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1956, Bimberg won his habilitation with a thesis Über das Singen der Großterz aufwärts. Ein Beitrag zur Musikpsychologie und Musikästhetik auf der Grundlage elektro-optischer Untersuchungen. At the same time, Bimberg worked as a publishing editor from 1953 to 1958. In the process, Bimberg held the chair of music education from 1969 until his retirement in 1992. His field, however, included aesthetics of music and music psychology. In 1981 he habilitated again (Kontrast als musikpädagogische Kategorie). Bimberg made a name for himself primarily through numerous youth and children’s songs, choral works and children’s operas and arrangements for choir. His Rodellied (Schneemann bau’n und Schneeballschlacht) was part of the standard repertoire in kindergartens and schools in the GDR and was extremely popular. In 1963, he

Siegfried Borris

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Siegfried Borris (born Siegfried Jakob Boris Zuckermann; His dissertation was Kirnbergers Leben und Werk und seine Bedeutung im Berliner Musikkreis um 1750, about the life and influence of Johann Kirnberger. His works and personal documents are held by the Academy of Arts, Berlin. 1947/48 Halle 1950 * Grundlagen einer musikalischen Umweltkunde. Wolfenbüttel, Zürich: Möseler 1975 * Kulturgut Musik als Massenware. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 1978 Notes and references Notes References External links * * Siegfried Borris Archive at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin * *

Siegfried Fietz

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Siegfried Fietz (; born 25 May 1946) is a German singer-songwriter, composer, music producer and sculptor. He is known for songs of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, particularly his setting of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poem “Von guten Mächten”. Career Born in Berleburg, Fietz grew up in Hilchenbach. He began to play on his father’s violin at age five, and learned to play the guitar a little later. He began voice training at age 15, and piano lessons at age 17. A year later, he took an exam as a church musician and organist. They have published around 250 productions with him as a performer, and others, to a total of 320 recordings. He has collaborated with Ivan Rebroff, Clemens Bittlinger, Dieter Falk, Literature * Jan Vering: Siegfried Fietz – Von guten Mächten und bewegten Zeiten. Biographie, Gerth, Asslar 2011, . * Siegfried Fietz: Aufbruch wagen. Kunst Broschüre, Abakus Musik, Greifenstein 2012, . * Siegfried Fietz: Skulpturen Bilder. Kunst Broschüre, Abakus Musik, Greifenstein 2011. References External links * * * Abakus Musik * * Siegfried Fietz, list of songs, liederdatenbank.de * * Kunst und Skulpturen von Siegfried Fietz skulpturenpark.info

Siegfried Fink

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Siegfried Fink (born 8 February 1928 in Zerbst/Germany, died 3 May 2006 in Würzburg/Germany) was a German percussionist, composer and professor. He is recognized as an important figure in the development of the professional percussion scene in Germany after World War II. Life From 1948 to 1951, Fink studied timpanis and percussion in the class of Alfred Wagner at the University of Music in Weimar (Germany). He also studied composition in the class of Helmut Riethmüller at the same institution. After several orchestral and teaching positions in Weimar, Magdeburg, Lübeck and Hannover, he attained a permanent teaching position for timpanis and percussion at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. In the year 1974, he was promoted to a full professor and became head of the Studio für Perkussion in Würzburg. He held this position until his retirement in 1993. Work Under the guidance of Fink, the Studio für Perkussion in Würzburg became one of the world’s most renowned schools for percussion. He educated more than 100 students and claimed, that he developed new teaching methods and new ways of playing percussion instruments, especially concerning contemporary art music. Unfortunately there ar

Siegfried Geißler

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Siegfried Rudolf Geißler (26 March 1929 – 10 July 2014) was a German composer, conductor, hornist and politician. He founded the Thüringen Philharmonie Suhl in 1979. After the Wende, he was a member of the New Forum who was elected to the first Landtag of Thuringia in 1990. As its senior, he was its Father of the House and opened the inaugural session. Career Composer, conductor and hornist Born in Dresden, Geißler was born the son of a working-class family in Dresden, attended elementary school from 1935 to 1943 and then studied piano and horn at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden until 1946. Already at this time he made some minor appearances as hornist with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Semperoper and the Dresden Philharmonic. He then worked as principal hornist at the municipal theatre of Cottbus. In 1947, he escaped to the West and became principal hornist in the symphony orchestra of Speyer. During this time he first appeared as a conductor. After his return to the DDR in 1951 he became solo hornist of the Kreiskulturorchester of Sonneberg. From 1953 he was conductor of the Erzgebirgsphilharmonic of Aue, in 1956 of the Thüringisches Kreiskulturorchester Mü

Siegfried Kurz

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Siegfried Kurz (18 July 1930 – 8 January 2023) was a German conductor, composer and academic. He influenced the musical scene of Dresden, as the conductor of the Semperoper for three decades, and a professor of conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. He conducted the world premiere of Udo Zimmermann’s . Life Born on 18 July 1930 in Dresden, From 1945, he studied composition (with Fidelio F. Finke), and orchestral conducting and trumpet at the Academy of Music and Theatre in his home town. Already in 1949, a year before completing his studies, he was given the direction of the drama music at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 1984, he was Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Kurz, who lived in Niederlößnitz, part of Radebeul, was awarded the in 2001. after a long illness. Orchestral works * Symphony No. 1, Op. 28 (1958) * Symphony No. 2, Op. 29 (1960) * Sinfonia piccola, Op. 24 (1953) * Heiteres Vorspiel for orchestra (1952) * Konzertante Musik for orchestra (1953) * Tänzerische Suite, Op. 25 (1955) * Orchestermusik, Op. 30 (1960) * Orchestervariationen, Op. 33 (1965) * Sonatine für Orchester, Op. 34 (1967) * Musik für Blechbläser, Pauken und Streic

Siegfried Matthus

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Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as Judith, were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus is considered one of Germany’s most often performed contemporary composers. Biography Matthus was born in (now in Ozyorsky District), East Prussia. His father made sure that the son received piano lessons. Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. After graduating, he continued his studies in composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Hanns Eisler, and was shortly thereafter made the youngest composer in residence in the history of the Komische Oper Berlin by Walter Felsenstein. Stage works Matthus composed more than a dozen stage works. The opera Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Cornet Christoph Rilke’s song of love and death ) after Rainer Maria Rilke was completed in 1983, first pe

Siegfried Ochs

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Siegfried Ochs (19 April 1858 – 6 February 1929) was a German choral conductor and composer. Life Born in Frankfurt, Ochs first studied medicine and chemistry at the Polytechnikum Darmstadt (today the Technische Universität Darmstadt) and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He later devoted himself entirely to music, studying at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, under Schultze and Ernst Rudorff, and later privately under Friedrich Kiel and Heinrich Urban. In 1882, Ochs founded the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin (Philharmonic Choral Society of Berlin), which he would lead until 1920. At first an obscure organization, it became prominent through numerous performances given by Hans von Bülow, an intimate friend of Ochs. It arguably became the greatest choral society in Berlin and was distinguished for its helpful patronage of young musicians, whose compositions were performed for the first time. The choral society continues operations to present day. Ochs died in Berlin. Works Ochs was noted for humorous or parodic compositions. He wrote both the libretto and music of the three-act comic opera Im Namen des Gesetzes (Hamburg, 1888), two operettas, duets for soprano

Siegfried Translateur

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NOTOC Salo Siegfried Translateur, or Siegfried “Salo” Translateur, (19 June 1875 – 1 March 1944) was a German conductor and composer of waltzes, marches, and other light dance music. Today he is most famous for his waltz, which became popular as Sportpalastwalzer in 1920s Berlin. Biography Siegfried Translateur was born in Carlsruhe in Upper Silesia, in the Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (Pokój in Poland), the natural son of Rosaline Translateur (1858 in Lublin, Lublin Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire 1934, Moravský Krumlov) and an unknown father, and adopted child of her later husband, the ḥazzān Salomon Lagodzinsky (1857, ? 1915). He started his music studies in Breslau, Vienna, and Leipzig, and also learned from a French composer of dance music, Émile Waldteufel. Translateur’s entertainment music became increasingly popular; his orchestra played on international tours and even in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1911, he founded the “Lyra” music publishing company in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. It mostly published his own works, but also compositions by José Armándola, Marc Roland, Franz von Blon and Paul Lincke, among others. Translateur’s

Siegmund von Hausegger

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Siegmund von Hausegger (16 August 1872 – 10 October 1948) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Early life Siegmund was born in Graz, the son of Friedrich von Hausegger (1837-1899), a lawyer and writer on music. According to Siegmund’s own account, Friedrich was “one of the first in Austria to recognize the greatness of Richard Wagner and to exert himself to the utmost in propagating his music and his ideas”. According to one account, the young von Hausegger may have been made the vehicle of his critic-father’s ideals. Siegmund studied music initially under his father, and a strong Wagnerian tinge is found in his own compositions, which included masses, operas and symphonic poems as well as many choruses and songs. At the age of nineteen, von Hausegger composed a Mass for chorus and orchestra that he described as “my first serious composition”. Conducting career Hausegger conducted orchestras in many German and Austrian cities including Graz; Munich, where he shared the conductorship of the Kaim Orchestra with Felix Weingartner; Frankfurt (1904-6); Berlin (Blüthner Orchestra, 1910–15); and Hamburg (1910-20). After the First World War he served as conductor of the Scottish Orchest

Siegrid Ernst

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Siegrid Ernst (3 March 1929 – 20 March 2022) was a German pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child. She later studied piano and composition in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Vienna, at the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Heidelberg and Mannheim and at the University of the Arts Bremen. After completing her studies, she performed contemporary music both solo and in chamber ensembles for concerts and radio productions, and taught piano and composition, music theory and improvisation. She became successful as a composer, and her works have been performed in Europe, the United States, Mexico and Japan. Since 1998 she has been chair of the jury of the Bremer composers competition. She has worked with the German Music Council and has chaired the “Women and Music” International Working Group Association. She was co-founder of the International Congress of Women in Music. Honors and awards *Grant from the Federal Republic of Germany for the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, 1981. *Honorary professor of the Inter American University of Humanistic Studies, Florida, 1989. Her w

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

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Sigfrid Theodor Karg-Elert (né Karg; 21 November 18779 April 1933) was a German composer and organist who wrote prolifically for pipe and reed organs. Biography Karg-Elert was born Siegfried Theodor Karg in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, the youngest of the twelve children of Johann Jacob Karg, a book dealer, and his wife Marie Auguste Karg, born Ehlert (sic). According to another account, however, his father was a newspaper editor and publisher . The family finally settled in Leipzig in 1882, where Siegfried received his first musical training and private piano instruction. At a gathering of composers in Leipzig, he presented his first attempts at composition to the composer Emil von Reznicek, who arranged a three-year tuition-free scholarship at the Leipzig Conservatory. This enabled the young man to study with Salomon Jadassohn, Carl Reinecke, Alfred Reisenauer and Robert Teichmüller. From August 1901 to September 1902 he worked as a piano teacher in Magdeburg. It was during this period that he changed his name to Sigfrid Karg-Elert, adding a variant of his mother’s maiden name to his surname, and adopting the Swedish spelling of his first name. Having returned to Leipzig, he sta

Silvius Leopold Weiss

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Silvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. He was born in Silesia (in present-day Poland) to the lutenist Johann Jacob Weiss, who taught the lute to his children. Weiss was a child prodigy and played for Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor . He was employed by nobility including Charles III Philip of Palatinate-Neuburg and Alexander Sobieski, travelling with them to various courts and cities in Europe. From 1718, Weiss was a musician at the Dresden court of Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. He played the lute and the theorbo on many occasions. He was acquainted with Johann Sebastian Bach, who frequently visited Dresden, and on occasion they played music together, reportedly competing in playing fantasias and fugues. Bach’s trio in A major for violin and harpsichord BWV 1025 is based on a sonata by Weiss. At the time of his death, Weiss was the highest-paid instrumentalist at the Dresden court. He left the largest known corpus of music for lute and is recognised as one of the greatest lutenists of all time. Early life and travels Silvius Leopold Weiss was born on 12 October 1687. His birthplace was probably Gr

Simon Mayr

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Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. In 1805 he founded the Bergamo Conservatory. He was an early inspiration to Rossini and Meyerbeer and taught and advocated for Donizetti. Life He was born in Mendorf near Altmannstein, Landkreis Eichstätt, Bavaria, and studied theology at the University of Ingolstadt, continuing his studies in Italy from 1787. He was closely associated with the Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt while a student in Ingolstadt, and the ideals of the French Enlightenment were a strong influence on his philosophy as a musician as corroborated by his famed Zibaldone or “Notebooks” compiled toward the end of his career. Shortly thereafter, he took music lessons with Carlo Lenzi, and later with Ferdinando Bertoni. He moved to Bergamo in 1802 and was appointed maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Bergamo, succeeding his old teacher Lenzi. He held the post until his death, and became a central figure in the city’s musical life, organizing concerts and intro

Simon Molitor

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(Alois Franz) Simon (Joseph) Molitor (3 November 1766 – 21 February 1848) was a German-born Austrian composer, guitarist, violinist and music historian – an influential figure both in early 19th-century guitar music and in the development of music history as a subdiscipline of musicology. Life and music Simon Molitor was born in Neckarsulm, southern Germany. According to Zuth (1920), he was to follow his father’s wish and become a school teacher, but as an 18-year-old student he secretly left university and began the life of an itinerant violinist, until during 1796–7 he became the conductor of an orchestra in Venice, Republic of Venice. In 1798, he became a civil servant in the Austrian Commissariat of War in Vienna where, from 1802, he took a career in catering there until his retirement in 1831. From that time on, Molitor concentrated exclusively on music. Between 1832 and 1842 he organised regular ‘academies’ in his house – semi-public musical performances and lectures, mainly devoted to historic music of the 16th to 18th centuries (in particular focusing on Bach, Corelli, Kirnberger, Monteverdi and Palestrina). Molitor possessed one of the largest musical libraries of his time

Simon Stockhausen

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Simon Stockhausen (born 5 June 1967) is a German composer. His parents are the artist Mary Bauermeister and the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; the musician Markus Stockhausen is his half-brother. Life Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Stockhausen received his musical education from his father and various private teachers. He wrote his first compositions as a child and in 1980, he appeared publicly as a synthesizer player in the performance of his father’s composition Sternklang. In 1981, he performed as soprano saxophonist at the Teatro alla Scala in the opera Donnerstag aus Licht. After graduating from the in 1986, Stockhausen gave concerts worldwide with his father’s ensemble and was involved in the production and composition of electronic music for two operas from the cycle Licht. In 1996 he ended the collaboration with his father. Since 1982, he has also worked in various ensembles (including Kairos, Aparis and Possible Worlds) with his half-brother Markus Stockhausen. Together with Jo Thönes, they formed the jazz trio Aparis, which gave international concerts and published two CDs at ECM. In 1991, Simon and Markus together composed the piece Köln Music Fantasy for the fifth annivers

Sophia Maria Westenholz

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Sophia Maria Westenholz (née Elenore Sophia Maria Fritscher; 10 July 1759 - 4 October 1838) was a German composer, musician, singer and music educator. Born in Neubrandenburg, she was raised in a privileged family and spent most of her life in the courts of Schwerin and Ludwigslust, capitals of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At the behest of Duke Ludwig, she studied piano and singing with Konzertmeister Johann Wilhelm Hertel in Schwerin beginning at age ten. By the time she was sixteen, she was employed as a singer in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel at Ludwigslust. She became the second wife of the Kapellmeister Carl August Friedrich Westenholz in the summer of 1777; they had eight children together. By the 1780s, Westenholz received great acclaim in Berlin, Leipzig, Ludwigslust and Rostock, amassing a following including composer Ernst Wilhelm Wolf and Carl Friedrich Cramer. Wolf is quoted as saying “Mrs. Westenholz’s manner is that of the great Bach in Hamburg.” In a review of his six sonatas, which Wolf had dedicated to Sophie Westenholz, Cramer also praised the balance in the musical expression of her playing. When Carl Westenholz died in 1789, Sophia received the tit

Søren Nils Eichberg

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Søren Nils Eichberg (born 23 July 1973) is a German/Danish classical composer and conductor. Biography Eichberg was born in Stuttgart. He studied piano, composition and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen, Cologne and Berlin. He had his first break-through in 2001 when winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Composers in Brussels in 2001. Other awards and honours include the Tanglewood fellowship, the German Konrad-Adenauer Composition Grant and the Composition Stipend of the Danish Arts Foundation. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra’s history, which led to a close collaboration with the orchestra over a period of five years and to premieres and recordings of several large-scale works. His symphonic work was in 2017 shortlisted for the German Music Authors’ Prize. Hilary Hahn recorded his composition Levitation for her Deutsche Grammophon album In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores, which was awarded a Grammy Award in 2014. His works include three symphonies, several concertos, five operas and solo- and chamber music and are published by Universal Edition and Edition Wilhelm Hansen (Wise Music Gr

Sören Sieg

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Sören Sieg (born 1 November 1966) is a German tenor, songwriter, composer, arranger, satirist, columnist and writer. He is a co-founder of the a cappella group , in which he sang as a tenor and hosted the performances from 1994 to 2012. From 2009 to 2013, he regularly wrote a front page column for the Bremer Newspaper. In the meantime, he works mainly as a freelance writer and composer. Life Childhood, school and youth years, political studies Born in Elmshorn, Sieg is a son of the teacher, writer and satirist (1936–2015) and also comes from a family of musicians. His mother Elisabeth Sieg, who later worked as a psychological psychotherapist, taught recorder at the Staatliche Jugendmusikschule Hamburg; his grandfather Heinrich Paff conducted a chamber orchestra. He grew up together with his older siblings Katrin (now a theatre scholar at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.) and Sönke (now musical director on a cruise ship of the Hamburg shipping company TUI Cruises) in Elmshorn. Sieg learned languages at an early age, started school at the age of five, skipped a grade as a highly gifted child and graduated from Elmshorn High School as a 17-year-old in 1984 in the Elsa Brändströ

Stanley Vann

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William Stanley Vann Hon FTCL FRCO ARCM (15 February 1910 – 27 March 2010) was an English composer, organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer, primarily in the Anglican cathedral tradition. Early life Born in Leicester, he started to learn the piano around the age of six. He turned to the organ in 1927, achieving his ARCM, ARCO and FRCO diplomas by 1930. The start of a musical career 1931 saw his appointment as Assistant Organist at Leicester Cathedral, whilst still a pupil under the organist George Charles Gray. This was followed by his becoming the Organist at Gainsborough Parish Church in 1933, and then a move to Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa to be Organist in 1939. Whilst in Leamington he founded the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and (in 1940) the Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra. https://wso.org.uk/ His time at Leamington was interrupted between 1942 and 1946 by service in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. After his initial service, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 17 December 1943, later rising to the rank of captain. In 1949 he was appointed as Organist of Chelmsford Cathedral and Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at Trinity College

Stefan Eichinger

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Since 1994 Stef Lopazz, also known as LOPAZZ, has been part of the Heidelberg based HD800 team; he also runs the multimedia label 800achtspur, and is renowned as a film composer and Mix-Mastering-Engineer, having written, produced and engineered many internationally acclaimed records and films. In 2001, he had success with Redagain P when they remixed the Miami Vice & Magnum, P.I. themes; then, in 2003, Lopazz’s self-titled EP was released by Output Recordings, followed by the singles ‘Blood’ (including a Tiefschwarz remix) and his first bona fide club hit ‘I Need Ya’ (later relicensed by French fashion label Colette). Its success led to Lopazz remixing Germany’s biggest pop act Xavier Naidoo, while techno legend Sven Väth snapped up ‘I Need Ya’ for his Sound of the Fourth Season mix CD. Stefan’s relationship with Berlin-based Get Physical Music began when he was commissioned to remix Chelonis R. Jones’ ‘I Don’t Know’. The label went on to issue Lopazz’s own vocal track ‘Migracion’, which was subsequently remixed by Chilean producers Luciano and Ricardo Villalobos. Releases for Pokerflat, Cocoon and Compost Black Label followed, along with remixes and productions for the likes of I

Stefan Hertrich

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Stefan Andreas Hertrich is a German vocalist for the band Shiva in Exile and formerly of Darkseed, Betray My Secrets and SpiRitual. The band is quoted as a “new age/oriental/gothic project” and was formed by Hertrich in 2003. The same year, Ethnic, Shiva in Exile’s debut album, was released by Canadian label Trostlos Records. In 2004, the album won the Just Plain Folks Music Award in the category “Best New Age/World Album 2004”. Since 2011, Hertrich is mainly occupied with writing spiritual audio books. Darkseed Hertrich first started his music career as the lead vocalist of the band Darkseed. Darkseed is a German gothic metal band formed in 1992. Darkseed, beginning as a death metal band, took a more unconventional song writing method that aimed more towards the gothic experimental route. Hertrich left Darkseed in 2006 to pursue his own projects. Shiva in Exile Hertrich has stated that the band’s name conveys a spiritual view about the world. He has stated that its meaning intends the world lacks a spiritual point-of-view or morale and that “Shiva” or “Spirituality” is in Exile. However; he has also stated that the name “is a bit too negative” and has noticed more people integrati

Stephan König

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Stephan König (born 4 October 1963) is a German composer, pianist and conductor. He is the musical director of the “LeipJAZZig-Orkester” and the chamber orchestra “artentfaltung” and is considered one of the most authoritative Jazz musicians in Leipzig. Life König was born in Berlin in 1963. After six years of music school lessons in Magdeburg, König was a pupil at the Spezialschule für Musik in Halle from 1974 to 1980. In 1980, he began studying at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, majoring in conducting (Olaf Koch and Christian Kluttig), piano (Wolfram Merkel) and composition (Peter Herrmann) and graduated in 1986 in all three subjects. He then completed additional studies in composition at the same university until 1988. Since the same year, he has held a teaching position at the university. In the field of jazz/popular music he currently teaches jazz piano and piano. In 1985, he made a guest appearance as harpsichordist of the Halle Opera House in Poland. In 1986, he was a founding member of the Leipzig Jazz Theatre, of which he was musical director for two years. In 1987, the pianist founded the König Trio together with Thomas Moritz (double bass) and Jörg Steffens

Stephan Mathieu

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Stephan Mathieu (born 11 October 1967) is a German mastering engineer and former musician. He currently lives in Bonn, Germany where he runs Schwebung Mastering, an independent studio for audio mastering and restoration. :"(In 1997), I worked as an engineer and teacher in a classic electronic music studio in France, the former CERM (Centre européen de recherche musicale) Metz, where I had set up an experimental analog lab around their vintage devices by ARP, Crumar, EMS, Moog, New England Digital and Roland, as well as a digital production studio featuring the latest Pro Tools 24-Bit audio technology. There I started mastering in 1998 – without exactly knowing that’s what I did – by transferring countless DATs and reels with recordings made during their annual festival, cleaned, edited, and EQed them for archival purposes and as CD-R copies for the composers and performers. Around the same time, I began a long journey of learning more about listening critically, frequencies and dynamics while attending many mastering sessions for my material." Mathieu founded Schwebung Mastering in 2014 and has “collaborated with producers running the gamut of modern recorded music.” He has worked

Susanne Erding-Swiridoff

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Susanne Zargar-Swiridoff (née Erding, born 16 November 1955) is a German composer and curator. She studied composition, English and American literature and linguistics in Stuttgart and Munich. She has composed more than 90 works of opera, orchestral music, concertos, chamber music and vocal music. Biography Susanne Erding was born in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. She studied composition and music education with Milko Kelemen at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 1977 she graduated in British and American studies and drama theory from the University of Stuttgart, and in 1981 in composition from the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She continued her studies during summer courses in England, the United States, Canada and Argentina. In 1979 Erding-Swiridoff took a position as lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, and in 1991 and 1992 she was a visiting professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim. She has also lectured as a visiting professor in Madrid, Vienna, Shaoxing, Shanghai and Vilnius. She married German journalist, broadcaster and Photographer Paul Swiridoff in Rome in 1988 and in 1994 they had a dau

Suzanne Doucet

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Suzanne Doucet is a German new-age musician, producer, composer, and singer, best known for being one of the founders of new age music. She was the founder of the first new age music store in Hollywood, California Only New Age Music in 1987 and founded the first New Age Music Conference in Los Angeles in 1989. Doucet was an actress and singer in Germany and Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s receiving European airplay for her German version of Be My Baby, which charted at number 1 on German music charts. Bunter Drachen, which appeared in the Guy Ritchie film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. also charted at number 1. She starred in Godspell, alongside Donna Summer, which toured throughout Europe. In 2020, Fact Magazine listed Doucet’s album Reflecting Light, Vol. 1 from 1983 at number 4 of the 20 Best New Age Albums of all Time. Her single, Forever, was featured in Shirley Maclaine’s videos, Inner Workout and Going Within. Early life and career Suzanne Doucet was born on August 27, 1944, in Tübingen, Germany. Her father, Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Doucet, wrote numerous books on dream interpretation and parapsychological phenomena and her mother, Helen von Muenchhofen was a theater actress. She

Sven Helbig

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Sven Helbig (born 30 October 1968) is a German composer, director and music producer known for his genre-crossing works that blend classical music with electronic and contemporary elements. His compositions have been performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras around the world, including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the BBC Singers, the Fauré Quartet, the London Contemporary Orchestra, and many others. Helbig’s versatility has made him a much sought-after collaborator for crossover projects; he has worked as a producer, composer and arranger with Rammstein, Pet Shop Boys, Snoop Dogg, cellist Jan Vogler, opera singer René Pape, pianist Olga Scheps and more. Helbig’s work builds on the tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing art form) and he often takes responsibility for concept, music and production at the same time. Biography Helbig was born in 1968 and grew up in Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany. His first experience with music began with the clarinet, later he added guitar, piano and drums. In 1996, Helbig and hornist Markus Rindt founded the Dresden Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra is specialized in new, symphonic music in unusual producti

Theo Bleckmann

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Theodor Raoul Bleckmann (born 28 May 1966) is a German singer and composer. Biography Bleckmann was born in Dortmund, West Germany. With guitarist Ben Monder he recorded his first solo album, Origami (2001), an album of impressionistic vocalese and lyrics sung in German and French. He subsequently collaborated with Monder on several critically acclaimed albums, as a co-frontman or sideman. He collaborated with pianist Fumio Yasuda on the albums Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne (2006), Berlin – Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile (2007), and Schumann’s Favored Bar Songs (2009). The last album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album. In 2010, he recorded an album as the group Moss with vocalists Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, Kate McGarry, and Luciana Souza. With the jazz rock group Kneebody he recorded an album of unorthodox arrangements of compositions by Charles Ives. Four years later he recorded an album songs written by pop singer Kate Bush with drummer John Hollenbeck, bassist Skuli Sverrisson, keyboardist Henry Hey, and Caleb Burhans on viola and guitar. He has worked with Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Steve Coleman, Da

Theo Brandmüller

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Theo Brandmüller (* 2 February 1948 in Mainz; † 26 November 2012 in Saarbrücken) was a German composer of contemporary music, organist and university Professor. Life Brandmüller studied school and church music as well as composition with Giselher Klebe, Olivier Messiaen and Cristóbal Halffter and instrumental theatre with Mauricio Kagel; he was accepted as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. After working as organist at St. George’s in Mainz-Bretzenheim, he received a call to the Hochschule für Musik Saar in 1979. There he first worked as professor for music theory, then for composition, analysis and organ improvisation. Later he was also director of the Institute for Contemporary Music. Since 1982 he has also been titular organist at the Ludwigskirche in Saarbrücken and since 1986 consiliarius of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae in Rome. He achieved his international breakthrough as a composer in 1977 at the World Music Days in Athens with the work Ach, trauriger Mond, a commissioned work for Südwestfunk. His compositional output, consisting of some 130 works, includes secular music and church music, chamber and vocal music as well as mu

Theo Mackeben

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Theo Mackeben, born 5 January 1897 in Preußisch Stargard, Westpreußen, died 10 January 1953 in Berlin, was a German pianist, conductor, and composer, particularly of film music. Life and career From 1916 to 1920 Mackeben studied violin and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, as well as taking lessons from Jules de Westheim. In the 1930s he composed music for stage plays and over 50 films, including some directed by Max Ophüls, Gustaf Gründgens, and Willy Forst. After the war, he wrote a piano concerto and a Sinfonische Ballade for cello and orchestra, while also being conductor at the Metropol-Theater. Recordings As a conductor, Mackeben’s recordings from the late 1920s through the 1930s include extracts from Die Dreigroschenoper (in 1930 in conjunction with the film soundtrack with Lotte Lenya) and Die Dubarry, Scassola’s Laendische Suite, Mendelssohn’s ‘Spring Song’, and fantasies from Smetana’s Bartered Bride, Zeller’s Der Vogelhändler, Verdi’s La traviata, Weill’s Mahagonny and Suppé’s Die schöne Galathée, on labels such as Telefunken and Berlin. A LP selection of Mackeben’s music was recorded in 1980 by Das Grosse Orchester Willi Stech on the HGBS label, and in 1995 a CD b

Theobald Boehm

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Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and Clarinet and its fingering system (now known as the “Boehm system”). He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer. The fingering system he devised has also been adapted to other instruments, such as the oboe and the clarinet. Life and works Born in Munich, in the Electorate of Bavaria, to the goldsmith Carl Friedrich Böhm and his wife Anna Franziska (née Sulzbacher), the daughter of a court haberdasher, Böhm learned his father’s trade of goldsmithing in his childhood. This skill enabled him to make his own flute. He became proficient enough to play in an orchestra at the age of seventeen, and at twenty-one was appointed first flautist in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra. In 1871 Boehm published Die Flöte und das Flötenspiel (“The Flute and Flute-Playing”), a treatise on the acoustical, technical and artistic characteristics of the Boehm system flute. Boehm’s experience as a goldsmith was a key factor in his ability to redesign the flute. For example, in The Flute and Flute-Playing he recounts having mad

Theodor Albin Findeisen

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Theodor Albin Findeisen (October 1, 1881, in Zeitz – March 3, 1936, at his country house in Rasberg near Zeitz) was a German double bass player, composer and teacher. Life Little is known about Findeisen’s life and work. His 5 volumes of studies helped in the development of the bass technique. His works Schule Der Lehrer des Kontrabass-Spieles and other practice literature such as his 25 technische Studien are still in use. He wrote solo literature and chamber music for double bass, which, however, has largely been forgotten. Findeisen was the son of the businessman Theodor Findeisen and attended public school in Zeitz from 1888 to 1896. In Ronneburg he attended the music school until 1900 and then played in the Köthen city orchestra. In the following two years he received lessons from Hugo Keyl in Dresden and Franz Simandl in Vienna. He then did his military service from 1902 to 1904 with the music corps of the 96th Infantry Regiment in Gera. From 1904 to 1906 he worked with Oswald Schwabe in Leipzig, graduating with excellence. He then became solo bassist in Breslau, in 1907 he was second first double bass player in the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and in 1920 he was first do

Theodor Blumer

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Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931, he became the conductor of the Dresden Radio Orchestra and subsequently moved to Leipzig to head the Middle German Radio Orchestra there for eleven years. He spent the rest of his life in Berlin. These include a piano quintet, two violin sonatas, string trio (1928), a flute sonata, four woodwind quintets, a string quartet (in G minor, his opus 51), a comic opera Die Fünfuhrthee (The Five-o’Clock Tea) (produced in Berlin and Bremen in 1912) and a symphonic poem Erlösung. Some of his chamber music has been recorded on three CDs on the label Crystal Records. References External links *

Theodor Kirchner

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Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner (10 December 1823 – 18 September 1903) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic era. Musical career Kirchner enjoyed the friendship and admiration of many leading composers of the 19th century yet was unable to maintain a successful career, apparently due to a disordered way of life which included extravagant spending and an addiction to gambling. He was born at Neukirchen near Chemnitz and at the age of eight was already an accomplished organist and pianist. From 1838 to 1842, he studied in Leipzig under (piano) and Karl Ferdinand Becker (organ and theory). Kirchner subsequently was a pupil of in Dresden and attended the Leipzig Conservatory for a short time. In 1843, he became organist in Winterthur, Switzerland on the recommendation of Mendelssohn. He remained there for nearly 20 years, but travelled much in Germany, befriending Robert and Clara Schumann and Brahms. Clara Schumann was very fond of him, though she wrote that ‘in his character there is no stability’, and it appears they had a discreet affair in the early 1860s. In 1862, Kirchner moved to Zürich as the director of the subscription concerts there. This only lasted three years. F

Theodor Kullak

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Theodor Kullak (12 September 1818 – 1 March 1882) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Background Kullak was born on 12 September 1818, in Krotoszyn. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in Poznań. He progressed sufficiently to excite the interest of the artistic Prince Anton Radziwill in his eighth year. This early ability to attract noble patronage was an art he continued to deploy to advantage for many years to come. In 1829, the prince used his influence to secure a Berlin court concert. He appeared with soprano singer Henriette Sontag. The usually undemonstrative King Frederick William IV was so delighted that he presented young Kullak with thirty Friedrichs d’or. He performed a concert in Breslau that was received with gratifying applause. The kindly Prince Radziwill then saw to a rounded education for Kullak, sponsoring his school fees in Sulechów (now in Poland). Kullak eventually lost Radziwill’s patronage and from age thirteen to eighteen, had to make do with just occasional access to a piano. At age nineteen, at his father’s behest, he opted for a sensible profession and went to study medicine in Berlin. A new aristocratic friend, Count von Inge

Theodor Schubach

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Theodor Schubach (born in 1985) is a German composer. Life Born in Berlin, from 1997 to 2004 Schubach attended the . During his school years he received piano lessons from Gunnar Nauck and Marlies Jacob and musical improvisation with Anja Damianow and Ute Pruggmayer-Philipp. After the Abitur, Schubach studied conducting with Ekkehard Klemm, followed composition lessons with Wilfried Krätzschmar and Jörg Herchet and electroacoustic music (at the with and Michael Flade at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber as well as composition with and Mark Andre at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. Additionally he took part in master classes with Brian Ferneyhough, Bernhard Lang, Enno Poppe and Rebecca Saunders among others in Tel Aviv, Warsaw and Graz. Since 2011 he is enrolled in the master’s program in composition and computer music with Marco Stroppa and Piet Johan Meyer at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. His works have been interpreted by the singers Lisa Fornhammar and Anna Palimina and the pianist Ian Pace, among others. Furthermore, the ensemble courage, the Ensemble Sortisatio, the Dresden Philharmonic () and the Loh-Orchester S

Theodor W. Adorno

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Theodor W. Adorno (; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left. In an intellectual climate shaped by existentialism and logical positivism, Adorno developed a dialectical conception of history and philosophy that challenged the foundations of both, anticipating the divide that would later emerge between the analytic and continental traditions. As a classically trained musician, Adorno studied composition with Alban Berg of the Second Viennese School, influenced by his early admiration for the music of Arnold Schoenberg. Adorno’s commitment to avant-garde music formed t

Théodore Gouvy

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Louis Théodore Gouvy (3 July 1819 – 21 April 1898) was a French/German composer. Biography Gouvy was born into a French-speaking family in Goffontaine, now of Saarbrücken-Schafbrücke, Germany. The family was of Belgian descent. Gouvy’s great-grandfather Pierre came from Goffontaine, a Belgian village near Liège. Around 1753, being mayor of Saarlouis, he named his ironworks factory “Goffontaine”. Because this region fell under Prussian control shortly before his birth, Théodore Gouvy could not attain French citizenship until the age of 32. He began piano lessons with a private tutor at the age of eight, and was educated in Sarreguemines (France), developing a keen interest in Classical Greek culture and in modern languages. He spoke not only German and French, but English and Italian as well. In 1837, he went to Paris to study law, continuing his piano lessons with a pupil of the pianist and composer Henri Herz (1803–1888) and became friendly with Adolphe Adam. This led to further music studies in Paris and Berlin. Unable to pursue music instruction at the Conservatoire de Paris, he took up private courses. Drawn toward instrumental music rather than opera, Gouvy chose to live the l

Theodore Oesten

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Theodore Oesten (also Theodor in German) (December 31, 1813 – March 16, 1870) was a German composer, musician, and music teacher. Oesten was born in Berlin. He learned to play wind and string instruments from the Stadtmusikus in Fürstenwalde (a small town outside Berlin). At the age of nineteen he studied composition with Böhmer, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, G. A. Schneider and August Wilhelm Bach in Berlin. Oesten is perhaps best known for his easy to play piano compositions, including transcriptions of operatic works, written in the sentimental style of his day. He died in his native city of Berlin. His son Max Oesten also became a composer. *Alpine Glow (Alpengluhen Idylle), Op. 193 *Carnival Of Venice (Capricietto Brillant) *Cradle Song (Schlummerlied), Opus 91 *De Boself *Der kuss, Opus 205 *Dolly’s Dreaming and Awakening (Puppchens Traumen Und Erwachen!); Cradle Song (Wiegenlied), Opus 202, No. 4 *Echo Idylle, Opus 223 *Farewell *Forest Roses *Gondellied, Op. 56 *Heavenly Bliss (Seliges Gluck), Opus 50, No. 4 *Illustrations: Six Elegant Fantasias n Favorite Themes, Op. 99 *La fille du régiment, Opus 57, No. 10, Perles de L’Opera, 12 Morceaux Elegantes *Long Long Weary Day, Op.

Thomas Baltzar

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Thomas Baltzar (c. 1630 – 24 July 1663) was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians. Sources suggest an array of music teachers who may have taught him in his early years. According to the writings of Samuel Hartlib, composer and violinist Johann Schop was one of those instructors. Baltzar may have studied the violin with Gregor Zuber and composition with Franz Tunder. He may have also received instruction from composer and violinist Nicolaus Bleyer, who taught Baltzar’s younger brother. Through contacts at Germany’s embassy in Sweden (where, by 1653, Baltzar was employed), he may have come in contact with English musicians accompanying Bulstrode Whitelocke’s mission to Queen Christina. This possible encounter may have been the impetus for Baltzar’s decision to emigrate to England in 1655, leaving behind his newly attained position of Ratslutenist of Lübeck (he had returned briefly to his home city, probably shortly after Christina’s abdication in June 1654). Hartlib’s writings indicate that the Swedish ambassador to England, Christer Bonde, took in Baltzar. Two years later, accord

Thomas Beimel

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Thomas Beimel (30 May 1967 – 29 June 2016) was a German composer, violist and musicologist. Born in Essen, Beimel studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in his hometown, composition with Konrad Grahe and viola with Karin Wolff. He continued his studies from 1988 to 1992, instrumental pedagogy (Instrumentalpädagogik) at the Hochschule für Musik im Rheinland. He cofounded in 1989 with Ortrud Kegel, , Karola Pasquay and the ensemble Partita Radicale, which also plays free improvisation. His research was devoted from 1991 to new music in Romania and Eastern Europe, and from 2003 also to Latin America. In 1997, began composition studies with Myriam Marbe in Bucharest. His opera Idyllen after Jean Paul was premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal. He received a scholarship for work and production by the , together with Gunda Gottschalk, which they used for the audio play Das Paradies. In 2001, Beimel’s music for a stage production of Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie was first performed, again in Wuppertal. From 2005 to 2006 he had a scholarship of the in Bamberg. He was also composer in residence of the Bavarian chamber orchestra Bayerisches Kammerorchester. He died in Wuppertal. Works * Zwei Augen/S

Thomas Blug

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Thomas Blug, born in Saarbrücken in 1966, is a German musician, guitarist, musical electronic engineer and composer. He also formed his own band Thomas Blug Band with whom he released three albums besides his solo albums. He has also worked with band Dreist with whom he released an album in 1997 and a live album a decade later. After being a product designer for Hughes & Kettner for 27 years, he launched his own company, Bluguitar, in 2014 which produces guitars, amplifiers, cabs and effects units. Discography Albums ;Solo *1996: The Beauty of Simplicity *1998: Electric Gallery *2002: 21st Century Guitar *2011: Blug plays Hendrix (Live album) *2012: Thomas Blug – Best of (Compilation album CD) ; with Thomas Blug Band *2005: Guitar from the Hear (Live album + DVD) *2005: Guitar from the Heart – Live in Raalte, NL (Live album) *2009: Soul & Pepper ;with band Dreist *1997: Weiber *2007: Neue Zeit (Live album) Singles Awards *1997 “Best German Rock and Pop Guitarist” *2004 “Fender Strat(r) King of Europe” References External links *Official website *Stratking award information *Article on Thomas Blug

Thomas Buchholz

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Thomas Walter Buchholz (born 27 August 1961) is a German composer and music educator. Life Buchholz was born in 1961 in Eisenach as the son of the oratorio singer and vocal pedagogue Kurt Wichmann and the concert pianist and music teacher Jutta Buchholz née Gensty. His father was editor of the vocal school of Pier Francesco Tosi. Buchholz went to school in Eisenach and from the age of six years he received lessons in singing, piano, organ and music theory at the Eisenacher Musikschule. Afterwards he trained as a piano maker at the Pianofortefabrik in Leipzig. Afterwards he worked as piano tuner in Eisenach and as musical instrument restorer at the Michaelstein Abbey in Blankenburg. From 1983 to 1988 Buchholz studied singing with Rudi Ploß, musical composition with Günter Neubert and music education with Hans-Georg Mehlhorn at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. From 1988 to 1992 he was for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He also took composition courses with Rudolf Kelterborn, Witold Lutosławski and John Cage. From 1988 to 1992 he was assistant for music theory at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He taught instrumentation, cou

Thomas Christoph Heyde

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Thomas Christoph Heyde (born 12 November 1973) is a German composer, media artist and curator. He is chairman of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig. Life Heyde was born in Leipzig in 1973 as the son of a pastor. From the age of seven he was trained on the piano and later received private composition lessons from Lorenz Stolzenbach. Without passing his Abitur he first completed a pharmaceutical education and worked as a nurse in a Leipzig hospital. and with Thomas Kesseler at the of the City of Basel Music Academy. From 1998 to 2006 he taught the new media art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and was head of the electronic studio there. Since 2003 he is artistic director of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig (FZML). He organized among others the international art and music project Cage100 (2012/13) and the transmediale project ABENDMAHL – “diminishing horror increasing love”. In the winter semester 2012/13 he was a lecturer on John Cage and in 2016/17 on musical concepts after 1945 at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Leipzig. He writes mainly orchestral and chamber music. His compositions have been broadcast by Deutschlandradio, Deutschl

Thomas Gabriel (composer)

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Thomas Gabriel (born 25 August 1957) is a German church musician, composer and arranger. Career Born in Essen, Gabriel studied Catholic church music at the , organ with Sieglinde Ahrens and Josef Bucher. From 1983 to 1986 he served as cantor at the in Recklinghausen. He worked freelance from 1987 to 1988 for the West German Radio and the in Recklinghausen. From 1989 to 1991 he was district cantor at St. Martin, Idstein, where he founded a youth choir called Martinis in 1988. From 1992 to 1997 he was regional cantor in Saarbrücken. Since 1998, he has been cantor for the Regional Institute of Sacred Music in the Diocese of Mainz with a focus on (NGL, New sacred song), for the deaneries Offenbach, Rodgau and Seligenstadt, at the church ). Gabriel gives many concerts as an organist, harpsichordist and pianist, particularly as a member of the Thomas Gabriel Trio, whose artistic focus is on jazz arrangements of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. As a composer, Gabriel tries to combine traditional church music with elements from jazz and pop. He composed in 2005 Missa mundi (Mass of the world) for the final mass of the World Youth Day in Cologne on 21 August 2005, representing five conti

Thomas Müller (composer)

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Alfred Thomas Müller (born 12 January 1939 in Leipzig) is a German conductor, composer and pianist. He won the 1988 Handel Prize presented by the city of Halle. Works Orchestra and chamber ensemble * flares (1979/80) * picture for orchestra (1983/84) * Spuren (1986) * Epiphanie (1993/94) * Entasis II (2001) * Scheidt-Adaptionen (1991) Solo instrument with orchestra * Konzert für Klavier und Kammerorchester (1984) Choir * Motette (2003) Organ * Credo quia absurdum (1991) Chamber music * Streichquartett Nr. 1 (1973/74) * Streichquartett Nr. 2 (1976/77) * Konzentrationen (1981) * Einblicke – Ausblicke (1982) * Proteus (1985) * Maqam (1987) * Kalamos (1990) * Drei Fragmente (1975/1993) * Streichquartett Nr. 3 (1993) * Ataraxia (1997/98) * Entasis I (2000) * Der Himmer berührt die Erde (2002) Solo instruments * Profile (1978) * Solo mit Händel (1986) * Die Posaunen der sieben Engel (1987) * Vibrationen (1987) * tuba sola (1989) * Anamesis (1990) * Correspondance (1992) * Calls (1992) * Fatum (1995) * Paian (1996) * Vier Gesänge nach Rimbaud (1981) * Altjapanische Gesänge (1995/96) * Canticum cecebratio (1994) * DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Wintermärchen (1995) * Hommage a la Femme (2002) Notes Ref

Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski

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Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (21 June 1949 – 5 January 2013) was a German composer. Schmidt-Kowalski was born at Oldenburg in 1949. He studied composition at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Berlin under Frank Michael Beyer (1971) and at the Musikhochschule Hannover under Alfred Koerppen (1972–77). In the view of critic Jill Barlow, Schmidt-Kowalski “manages to bypass 20th-century modernism by doing a ‘Sturm und Drang’ of his own in 21st-century terms, making himself a ‘must’ for today’s German concert, disc, and radio audiences.” References

Thomas Täglichsbeck

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Thomas Täglichsbeck (31 December 1799 – 5 October 1867) was a German violinist and composer. Täglichsbeck was born in Ansbach. His family settled in the region of the Vogtland between Bavaria, Thuringia and Saxony, in 1800. Following violin lessons from his father, Johann Täglichsbeck, young Thomas moved to Munich where he studied with Pietro Rovelli. In 1817 a mass of his, written under the supervision of Josef Gratz, was performed in Munich. That same year, Täglichsbeck became a violinist in the Isarthortheater orchestra. Two years later, at the age of 20, he succeeded Lindpaintner as music director, making him one of the youngest conductors of the theater orchestra in Lower Saxony. In 1822 he became a solo violinist at the Munich court, which had the added advantage of freeing up his time to work on composing. On 24 August 1823 his first opera, Webers Bild, premiered at the court theater. His variations on La gazza ladra also date from this period. In 1824 he made an extensive tour of Germany, Switzerland and northern Italy; he joined the Società Filarmonica of Bergamo, where Rovelli then lived. Reviews of his concerts in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1825–32) are laudato

Thomas Wilbrandt

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Thomas Wilbrandt (born in 1952) is a German composer and conductor. He is known for Natural Born Killers (1994), Vaters Land (1986), and Perlasca (1993). Education Wilbrandt studied with Franco Ferrara, Hans Swarowsky, and Bruno Maderna in the cities of Rome, Vienna, and Salzburg. Additionally, Wilbrandt worked in Berlin for about three years for both Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. Career In 1980, Wilbrandt founded the Berlin Chamber Academy (Berliner Kammer-Akademie), a forty-piece orchestra originally formed from players of the Berlin Philharmonic with whom he recorded a Mozart Series for RCA Victor. Alongside international conducting activities and collaborations with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Wilbrandt became increasingly focused on his own musical projects and recordings. His personal works were focused particularly in the fields of avant-garde and electronic music, which led to experimentation with multimedia content and new forms of musical presentation. One of Wilbrandt’s first major projects was the creation of a fusion of acoustic orchestral playing, digital and electronic instruments, and sounds

Thorsten Quaeschning

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Thorsten Quaeschning (born 23 February 1977) is a German musician. He is the bandleader of the electronic music group Tangerine Dream which he joined in 2005. He was chosen to continue as leader of the group by founder Edgar Froese shortly before his death in 2015. He performs synthesizers, vocals, guitar and drums. Early life Quaeschning was born in 1977 in Berlin to a classically trained, music-loving family. As a child, he learned violin, piano, drums, and flute; and was drawn to classical composers such as Engelbert Humperdinck, Wagner, Telemann, Smetana and Mozart. Career Before joining Tangerine Dream, Quaeschning worked as a producer for the band Minory. Afterwards, he began to tour with Tangerine Dream behind the scenes in 2003 before joining them two years later. Quaeschning has a second band called Picture Palace music. In 2018, Quaeschning released the soundtrack to the thriller film Cargo. Discography Solo *Icicled Drone Session (2018) *The Seaside Stage Session (2019) *The Munich Session (2019) *Autokino Session (2020) *The Capitol Session (2020) *Ballhaus Session (2020) *Ama (2021) with Ulrich Schnauss *Synthwaves (2017) with Picture Palace Music *Nostalgia (2006) *So

Tilo Medek

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Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek (22 January 1940 – 3 February 2006), was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin’s Decree on Peace led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the West, where he composed an opera Katharina Blum based on Heinrich Böll’s novel, and worked in education. He received international awards from 1967 onwards. Career Müller-Medek was born in Jena, the son of the composer and musician Willy Müller-Medek (1897–1965) and his wife Rosa (1902–1976). He received musical training at the Jenaer Musikschule in violin, piano, improvisation and music theory. In 1957 he attended the 12th Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the western part of Germany where he took classes with Alexander Jemnitz, Luigi Nono, Hermann Scherchen and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1959 to 1962, he studied piano with Kurt Johnen in Quedlinburg. He received his Abitur in 1959, and studied then at the Humboldt University of Berlin, musicology with Walther Vetter, Ernst Her

Torsten Rasch

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Torsten Rasch (born 1965 in Dresden) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Berlin, but has found success in the UK. Biography Torsten Rasch was born in Dresden in 1965 and began piano lessons at the age of six. From 1974-82 he was a member of the renowned Dresdner Kreuzchor and subsequently went on to study composition and piano at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden. In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he emigrated to Japan and established himself as a successful composer of film and TV scores, completing over 40 to date. Following an orchestral commission in 1999 from the (Völuspa-Der Seherin Gesicht for narrator and orchestra), Rasch was approached once again by the orchestra in 2002 for a commissioned song-cycle based on music and lyrics by the German industrial metal band Rammstein. Deutsche Grammophon recorded and released the disc of the resultant 65-minute cycle Mein Herz brennt with bass René Pape, voice Katharina Thalbach and the Dresden Sinfoniker conducted by John Carewe. This followed premiere performances of the work in Dresden and Berlin in late 2003. In 2004 the disc was released in Japan and the USA, and was awar

Trude Rittmann

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Gertrud Rittmann (24 September 1908 – 22 February 2005) was a German Jewish composer, musical director, arranger and orchestrator who lived and worked for much of her life in the United States. Her career particularly flourished with major successes in Broadway theater. Early years Trude Rittmann was born in Mannheim, Germany, and began piano lessons at age eight. She studied with Ernst Toch and Hans Bruch at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and graduated in 1932, already noted as a promising composer. Rittmann fled Germany in 1933, and worked in France, Belgium and England, and in 1937 settled in the United States. Her mother and sister escaped Germany as well, but her father died in prison under the Nazis. Career In New York Rittmann was hired by Lincoln Kirstein as a concert accompanist and pianist for George Balanchine’s American Ballet Caravan. She later became musical director, touring with them for four years and working with composers including Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein. In 1941 Rittmann and Stefan Wolpe composed the music for the film Palestine at War, made by the Palestine Labour Commission. Also in 1941 Rittmann took a position wi

Tzvi Avni

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Tzvi Jacob Avni (first name sometimes spelled Zvi; ; born Hermann Jakob Steinke, September 2, 1927; Saarbrücken) is an Israeli composer. Biography Tzvi Avni was born in Saarbrücken, (now Germany), and emigrated to Mandate Palestine as a child. He studied with Paul Ben-Haim. On the recommendation of Edgard Varèse, he became involved with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s. Later he founded an electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, following the guidelines of his mentor in New York, Vladimir Ussachevsky. Awards In 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music. On September 11, 2012, Avni was made an honorary citizen of Saarbrücken. Notes References *Gluck, Bob. “Go Find Your Own Tricks!: Interview with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni.” eContact! 14.4 — TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto (March 2013). Montréal: CEC. * Gluck, Robert J. “The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center: Educating international composers.” Computer Music Journal 31/2 (Summer 2007), pp. 20–38. External links * Official webpage * Tzvi Avni biography on The Israel Music Institute (IMI) website * “Tzvi Avni” in Ronit Seter

Udo Zimmermann

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Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 Further reading * * Fritz Hennenberg: Udo Zimmermann. Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 1992, . * * External links * Udo Zimmermann, Breitkopf & Härtel * * Udo Zimmermann, Academy of Arts, Berlin * Udo Zimmermann , Sächsische Akademie der Künste * Udo Zimmermann , Archiv für Zeitgenössische Komponisten, Saxon State and University Library Dresden * Oper im 20. Jahrhundert, Springer, *

Ulrich Leyendecker

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Ulrich Leyendecker (29 January 1946 – 29 November 2018) was a German composer of classical music. His output consisted mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music. Life Leyendecker studied composition with Ingo Schmitt (1962–1965) and Rudolf Petzold (1965–1970), and piano with Günter Ludwig. In 1971 he became a lecturer at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Performing Arts, and in 1976 he was appointed Professor of Composition and Theory at the Hamburg Music and Theatre Hochschule. In 1994, he became Professor of Composition at the State Hochschule for Music and the Performing Arts of Heidelberg-Mannheim. Music Leyendecker’s music, although not serial, is largely atonal, but often with subtle hints of tonality. He employed regular time signatures in his pieces, but it sometimes does not sound that way, for he utilized carefully calculated and complex rhythms. His music often contains novel sonic architectures, while still managing to express powerful emotions directly to the listener. He often employed classical abstract forms such as the symphony and concerto form while avoiding operas and ballets. Works Orchestral *Symphonies **Symphony No. 1 (1974) **Symphony

Ulrich Stranz

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Ulrich Stranz (10 May 1946 – 27 April 2004) was a German teacher and composer. Life Born in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Upper Bavaria, Musik für zwei Violoncelli und Orchester (1999/2000) together with Horst Lohse, Wolfgang Rihm and Manfred Trojahn) * 1976 in the category composition * 1980 Villa Massimo * 1992 Schneider-Schott Music Prize * 2000 References Further reading * Stranz, Ulrich. In Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): Das große Lexikon der Musik in 8 Bänden. Volume 8, Herder Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1982, , . * Thomas Gartmann: Stranz, Ulrich. In Wilhelm Ziehr (Red.): Schweizer Lexikon in 6 Bänden. Volume 6, Verlag Schweizer Lexikon, Lucerne 1993, , . External links * * * Stranz, Ulrich on the Swiss Nationalphonothek * Ulrich Stranz Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online * Ulrich Stranz dream.cs.bath.ac.uk p. 16

Ursula Mamlok

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Ursula Mamlok ( Meyer; February 1, 1923 – May 4, 2016) was a German-born American composer and teacher. Education and influences Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family, and studied piano and composition with Professor Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until her family fled Nazi Germany following the nationwide pogrom in 1938. Due to American immigration quotas, the family moved to Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ursula emigrated alone to New York City in 1940 to attend the Mannes School of Music, which had offered her full scholarship on the basis of one of her compositions. Career and awards Also an influential teacher, Mamlok held many university positions including placements at: New York University (1967–76), City University of New York, Temple University, Kingsborough Community College (1972–75) and the Manhattan School of Music, where she taught for four decades. She served on the board of the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music. Mamlok had received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1974 and 1981), a Fromm Foundation Grant (1994), a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1995) and commissions from various orga

Valentin Haussmann

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Valentin Haussmann (c. 1560 – c. 1613–14) was a German composer, music editor and poet, known from the publications of his compositions, derived from Italian and Polish models. Life Little is known of Haussmann’s life, and information is ascertained from the titles, prefaces and dedications of his printed works. He published compositions between 1588 and 1611, and was very active from 1602 to 1606. He appended “Gerbipola” (a Latinized form of Gerbstedt, a town in Saxony-Anhalt) to his name, so this is assumed to be his home town. It is thought he did not have a permanent position anywhere, but travelled throughout Germany, composing in various places works which he dedicated to princes and towns. There are many songs in German that are derived from Italian canzonettas, and there is instrumental music where he uses the melodies and rhythms of Polish folk music. In later years, from 1606 to 1609, he published, with German translations, villanellas by Luca Marenzio, canzonettas by Orazio Vecchi, tricinia by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi and ballets by Thomas Morley. His publications were evidently popular, since collections went through several editions within a few years. His biographer

Vassily Brandt

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Karl Wilhelm (Vasily Georgievich) Brandt (Willy Brandt) (1869 – 2 February 1923) was a German-Russian trumpeter, pedagogue, and composer. He is the founder of the Russian trumpet school. Life Karl Wilhelm Brandt was born and educated in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, now part of Germany. Between 1887 and 1890, he worked alternatively in the spa orchestra in Bad Oeynhausen and in Helsinki. He was active in the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, now the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, under Robert Kajanus. In 1890, he changed his name to Vassily Georgyevich and moved to Moscow, Russia. The opening of the Saratov Conservatory in September 1912 drew Vassily Brandt to Saratov for the remainder of his life. He spoke Russian quite poorly, often relying on demonstration for musical instruction. He died on 2 February 1923, purportedly as the result of a vaccination. Career Vassily Brandt became principal trumpet of the Bolshoi Theatre in 1890 and became first cornet in 1903. He succeeded Theodor Richter (1826–1901) as the second ever trumpet professor of the Moscow Conservatory in 1900, and also taught band orchestration there. In Moscow, he was part of the Russian Musical Society and toured a

Victor Bruns

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Victor Bruns (; 15 August 1904 – 6 December 1996) was a German composer and bassoonist. He played with the Leningrad Opera, the Volksoper Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. As a composer, he is known for his ballets and for bassoon concertos and sonatas. Career Victor Bruns was born to German parents in their summer house in Ollila near St Petersburg, in an area which was, at the time, part of the Russian Empire. External links * * Stomberg, Eric Wolf: The Bassoon Sonatas of Victor Bruns: An Analytical and Performance Perspective (With an Annotated Bibliography of Works for Bassoon) 2004 *

Viktor Suslin

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Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin (; 13 June 1942 – 10 July 2012) was a Russian composer. An associate of Sofia Gubaidulina’s, together with her and Vyacheslav Artyomov he formed the improvisatory ensemble ‘Astraea’ in 1975. He emigrated to Germany in 1981. Biography At the age of four (1946) Suslin began to study piano and made his first attempts at composition. From 1950 to 1961 he attended Kharkiv Music High School, and from 1961 to 1962 the Kharkiv Conservatory where he studied composition with Dimitri Klebanov and piano with V. Topilin. From 1962 to 1966 he studied composition with Nikolay Peyko and piano with Anatoly Vedernikov at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow. He worked as an editor at the publishing house Muzyka in Moscow (1966–1980). Suslin became a member of the Union of Soviet Composers in 1967. In 1969 his piano sonata was given an award at the Young Composers Competition. In 1971 his music was performed outside of Russia for the first time at the Festival de Royan, France. Suslin taught instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory (1972–1975). In 1975 he founded the ‘Astraea’ improvisation ensemble together with Vyacheslav Artyomov and Sofia Gubaidulina. In November 1979 after

Vinzenz Lachner

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Vinzenz Lachner (also spelled Vincenz) (19 July 1811 – 22 January 1893) was a German composer and conductor. Early life Born in Rain am Lech, Vinzenz was the youngest brother of Franz Lachner, also a composer and conductor. The elder Lachner was known as a close friend of composer Franz Schubert. As a composer Vinzenz was essentially self-taught. He was first educated by his father Anton Lachner, the municipal organist. After Anton’s death, Vinzenz was schooled in Augsburg. Career Vinzenz scratched out a living by teaching music in Augsburg until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Posen. In 1831 he moved to Vienna to continue his musical training, becoming assistant conductor at the Court Opera and organist at a Protestant church (though he himself was Catholic). In 1836 he became court conductor at Mannheim in succession to Franz, where he was so highly valued that his contract was renewed and extended whenever he received offers from other musical centres. In all he remained there for 37 years, during which Mannheim had the reputation of performing the largest repertoire of operas of any

Vivienne Olive

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Vivienne Olive (born 31 May 1950) is a British-German composer and music educator. Career Born in London, Vivienne Olive studied piano, harpsichord, organ and music theory at Trinity College of Music in London. After 1968, she continued her education at the University of York, where she graduated in composition in 1975. Her teachers included the composers Bernard Rands (York 1971–1972), Franco Donatoni (Milan, 1972–1974), Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (Vienna, 1974–1975) and Klaus Huber (University of Music Freiburg 1975–1978, where she also studied harpsichord with Stanislav Heller). She received her Ph.D. in composition from the University of York in 1975. She was awarded composition grants from the Department of Education and Science (1971–1974) and the German Academic Exchange Service (1975–1978). In 1979, Olive became a lecturer in music theory and composition at the Nuremberg Meistersinger Conservatory (now the College of Music Nuremberg). In 1980 she co-founded the Days of New Music in Nuremberg. In 1995, she became a board member of the International Working Women and Music. From 1993 until 1995 she taught at the University of Ballarat and the James Cook University in Australia

Volker Bräutigam

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Volker Bräutigam (23 May 1939 – 31 May 2022 ) was a German composer, and church musician. Life and career Bräutigam was born in the village of Frohnau in southeast Germany. From 1949 and 1953 he sang with the Dresdner Kreuzchor, at that time under the direction of Rudolf Mauersberger. In 1957 he entered the Musikhochschule Leipzig and remained there until 1962 studying composition under Johannes Weyrauch as well as conducting, piano, organ, and film music. After completing his studies he worked for the next two years as an assistant organist and a free-lance composer for the animation department of the East German film studio DEFA. In 1962 he succeeded Johannes Weyrauch as cantor at the in Leipzig, a post he would hold for over 30 years. In the 1980s and early 90s he also taught organ and composition at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle. He was appointed professor of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in 1993. Bräutigam’s compositions, which are primarily choral and organ music, are stylistically diverse. The critic for Westdeutsche Zeitung described his Epitaph for Maximilian Kolbe as “a work of surprising sounds, melodic lines, and chords, a piece that t

Volker David Kirchner

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Volker David Kirchner (25 June 1942 – 4 February 2020) * Die Trauung (The Wedding, 1974) after Witold Gombrowicz, premiered 27 April 1975, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden * Die fünf Minuten des Isaak Babel, Szenisches Requiem in zwölf Bildern (1977–79), premiered 19 April 1980 at the Opernhaus Wuppertal * Das kalte Herz / Ein deutsches Märchen after Wilhelm Hauff (1980), premiered 1981 in Wiesbaden, revised in 1987 for a performance on 27 October 1988 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz * Belshazar (1986); commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper, premiered on 25 January 1985 * Erinys, Threnos in two parts after the Oresteia by Aeschylos (1986–89), premiered on 15 April 1990 in Wuppertal * Inferno d’amore (Shakespearion I) after Shakespeare and Michelangelo (1992), staged premiere on 12 March 1995, Ballhof by Niedersächsisches Staatstheater * Labyrinthos (Shakespearion II) (1994/95), premiered 17 October 1997 in Mainz for the opening of the Kleines Haus of the Staatstheater Mainz * Gilgamesh (2002), commissioned by the Niedersächsische Staatsoper on the occasion of the EXPO 2000, premiered on 20 May 2000 * Ahasver, scenic oratorio (1998–2000), commissioned by the Theater Biele

Volker Ignaz Schmidt

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Volker Ignaz Schmidt (born 1971 in Leonberg, Germany) is a composer of contemporary music. Volker Ignaz Schmidt started composing in 1986 and has been a member of different rock and jazz bands playing piano, keyboards, trumpet as well as song writing. He has been studying harmony, counterpoint, form and orchestration since 1993. Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England). In 2001 he started composing his own music. Volker Ignaz Schmidt has composed solo works, chamber music, vocal pieces, orchestral music and conceptual music. He has written piano textbooks and he worked in school projects on contemporary music. Schmidt has written music for the Solisten, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Franklin Cox, the Art Ensemble Berlin, the Trio Mondala, the duo Christine Simolka/René Wohlhauser and the Frankfurter Tonkünstlerbund. Some of his pieces have been published by the Simon Verlag Berlin and the Bellmann Verlag Halle. His works have been performed in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France, UK,

W. E. Scholz

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W. E. Scholz (1807 or 1808 – September 1866) was a German composer and Kapellmeister / conductor at the court of Prince August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen in Schlawentzitz in Upper Silesia. Life Wilhelm Eduard Scholz was born in Breslau. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried in Vienna. In 1838 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Prince zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen at the court in Schlawentzitz in Upper Silesia. Most of his compositions – autographs of his works, autographs of the arrangements and prints – are now in the . He composed overtures, symphonies, sonatas, instrumental concertos, masses, art songs and harmony music. He also arranged well-known works for the Hofkapelle in Schlawentzitz. For example Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon and Euryanthe, Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell and Otello, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio and Symphony No. 5, Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz in E-flat major. During his lifetime several of his compositions were published by and Weinhold. The composer’s main tenure dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century as evidenced by some aut

Waldemar von Baußnern

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Waldemar Edler von Baußnern (also Baussnern or Bausznern; 29 November 1866 – 20 August 1931) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Born in Berlin, and descended from Transylvanian Saxons, Baußnern was the son of a financial official. He grew up in both Transylvania and Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in present-day Romania and Hungary respectively). Between 1882–1886 he was a student of Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Musical Academy (Berliner Musikhochschule). He then conducted various choirs; after 1909 he became director of the Großherzoglichen Musikschule in Weimar. From 1916 to 1923 he served as director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. In 1923, he became undersecretary of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He died in Potsdam. Music Baußnern’s extensive catalogue of compositions includes almost all musical genres, yet it displays an emphasis on both choral symphonic and orchestral composition. As a composer, Baußnern found stimulation from poetry, for not only his vocal music, but also his instrumental music; the poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe emerged as an especial source of inspiration. This compositional impetus is reflected

Walter Abendroth

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Walter Fedor Georg Abendroth (29 May 1896 in Hanover – 30 September 1973 in Fischbachau) was a German composer, editor, and writer on music. Life Walter Abendroth was born in the Lower Saxon city of Hanover. The middle child of a land surveyor, he grew up with a younger brother and an older sister in Hanover and, from 1907, in Berlin. He encountered the teachings of Rudolf Steiner as a schoolchild. From that moment on, Anthroposophy, a movement for which he would remain active in many contexts, became a constant companion in his life. From 1914 he studied Painting and Music in Munich; 1916 he was drafted into the military. After 1918, his “Wanderjahre” took him to Göttingen, where he married in 1920, Jena, Hamburg, Cologne and finally back to Berlin in 1930. Following primarily private musical studies, he became a freelance composer and music critic. Between 1930 and 1934 he took over editing the Allgemeine Musikzeitung, combining this activity with contributions to the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger. Following the National Socialists arrival in power, he became a staff music writer at the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger until 1944. In 1934, he expressed agreement with nationalist socialist cultu

Walter Braunfels

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Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He continued his piano studies in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory with James Kwast. Braunfels studied law and economics at the university in Munich until after a performance of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde he decided on music. He went to Vienna in 1902 to study with the pianist and teacher Theodor Leschetizky. He then returned to Munich to study composition with Felix Mottl and Ludwig Thuille. In February 1918 he was wounded at the front and in June 1918 on his return to Frankfurt converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, composing his Te Deum of 1920–21 “not as music for musicians but as a personal expression of faith”. He achieved early success with the melodious opera Die Vögel (The Birds, 1920), such that Adolf Hitler, not realising that Braunfels had a Jewish parent, in 1923 invited Braunfels to write an anthem for the Nazi Party, which Braunfels “indignantly turned down”. Braunfels performed as a professional pianist for many years

Walter Draeger

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Walter Draeger (14 December 1888 – 24 January 1976) was a German composer and music educator. Er war Professor an der and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. In 1955, war er Mitinitiator der ersten Hallische Musiktage. Life Draeger was born in 1888 as the son of a teacher and organist in Batzlow near Freienwalde in the Province of Brandenburg. From 1898, he lived in Berlin, where he lived until the Reifeprüfung from the . Von 1908 bis 1913 studierte er Geschichte, Romance studies and musicology During his studies, he spent two years in Grenoble and Paris (Sorbonne). Until 1944, he was active as a Studienrat at the in Berlin. From 1925, his chamber music and song cycle were broadcast on the . The majority of his early works, however, were destroyed in his Berlin flat during the war in 1944. In 1951, he was elected to the central committee of the Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR (VDK). Außerdem war er Gründungs- und Vorstandsmitglied des Arbeitskreises Halle im VDK und als solcher neben Fritz Reuter, Walther Siegmund-Schultze, Gerhard Wohlgemuth und anderen einer der Initiatoren der 1955 veranstalteten 1. Hallische Musiktage. From 1956 to 1959, he se

Walter Goehr

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Walter Goehr (; 28 May 19034 December 1960) was a German composer and conductor who from 1937, lived and worked in the UK. He was the father of composer Alexander Goehr. Biography Goehr was born in Berlin, where he studied with Arnold Schoenberg and embarked on a conducting career, before being forced as a Jew to seek employment outside Germany after working for Berlin Radio in 1932. He was invited to become music director for the His Master’s Voice, so he moved to London. In 1937, he conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the premiere recording of Bizet’s Symphony in C. During his years as a staff conductor for EMI, he conducted the orchestra for many recordings, including accompaniments for arias sung by Beniamino Gigli, Richard Tauber and Joseph Schmidt. In more popular items, his name appears on the record labels as ‘G. Walter’ or ‘George Walter’. In addition, he conducted for many concerto recordings, including some by Benno Moiseiwitsch, Myra Hess and others. After the war he conducted for several smaller recording companies based in Europe, including for the concerto recordings of the short-lived Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. He also conducted the UK premiere

Walter Kollo

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Walter Kollo (28 January 1878 – 30 September 1940) was a German composer of operettas, Possen mit Gesang, and Singspiele as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher. Life and career Kollo was born in Neidenburg, East Prussia on 28 January 1878. Walter Kollo died in Berlin on 30 September 1940. List of operettas *1911 – Sein Herzensjunge (1 April 1911, Thalia-Theater, Wuppertal-Elberfeld) *1911 – Große Rosinen (31 December 1911, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1912 – Filmzauber (19 October 1912, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1912 – So wird’s gemacht (December 1912, Neues Theater, Hamburg) *1913 – (first version, 4 October 1913, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1913 – Der Juxbaron (14 November 1913, Carl Schultze-Theater, Hamburg) *1914 – Immer feste druff (1 October 1914, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin) *1915 – Wenn zwei Hochzeit machen (23 October 1915, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1916 – Der selige Balduin (31 March 1916, Montis Operetten-Theater, Berlin) *1916 – Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (9 September 1916, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1917 – Drei alte Schachteln (6 October 1917, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin) *1917 – Die tolle Komteß (21 February 1917, Berliner

Walter Niemann (composer)

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Walter Rudolph Niemann (10 October 1876 – 17 June 1953) was a German composer, arranger, and music critic. Life Born in Hamburg, Niemann was the son of composer and virtuoso pianist Rudolph Niemann (1838–1898). His uncle, Gustav Adolph Niemann (1843–1881) was a violinist and important musical figure in Helsinki. Walter Niemann studied with Engelbert Humperdinck as a youth in Leipzig. He then entered the Leipzig Conservatory where he was a pupil of Carl Reinecke. He pursued doctoral studies in musicology at the University of Leipzig under Hugo Riemann and Hermann Kretzschmar, earning a doctorate in 1901. His dissertation was on early ligatures and mensural music. Niemann first worked as a teacher in Hamburg then served as the editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig from 1904 to 1906. From 1907 through 1917 he was a writer and critic for the Neueste Nachrichten in Leipzig. He also taught during those years on the faculty of the Hamburg Conservatory. In 1927, H. Abert in the Illustriertes Musiklexikon styled Niemann “The most important composer for piano today, who understands how to make music both fine and colored, although he often strays into the salon.” He died in Lei

Walter Steffens (composer)

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Walter Steffens (born 31 October 1934) is a German composer. He is noted for the diversity of his creative works, but has specialised in opera, such as Eli, as well as music inspired by paintings. Life The son of a bridge construction engineer, Steffens was born in Aachen-Burtscheid and grew up in Dortmund. His road to music was a bumpy one, especially since his father could not imagine a career in the fine arts as being a respectable way to earn a living. During the Second World War the Ruhrgebiet was being increasingly bombed, and at the age of eight, young Walter was sent, within the Kinderlandverschickung programme — the evacuation of children from war zones to the countryside — to the village of Wollenberg in Baden-Württemberg, and was thus separated from his parents and sister. By the end of the war, the 10-year-old had found a home with his grandparents in Bad Pyrmont. When the family was re-united again and the family’s piano, which had been stored safely in the Sauerland during the war, was returned to their home, the young boy was allowed to accompany his father while singing. Walter was given his first music lessons by a woman from the neighborhood. He received his basic

Walter Thomas Heyn

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Walter Thomas Heyn (born 14 November 1953) is a German guitarist, composer and music producer. Life Born in Görlitz, Heyn was initially musically self-taught. From the age of fourteen he played guitar and performed in singing clubs. From 1974 to 1980 he studied guitar with and , arrangement with Gerd Schlotter and music composition with Carlernst Ortwein at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. His composition teacher recommended him for the class of Siegfried Thiele. Heyn was then for composition with Siegfried Matthus at the Academy of Arts, Berlin in (East) Berlin from 1985 to 1987. He was also a research assistant for composition at the Leipzig Academy of Music until 1984. He took part in events of the Deutscher Verlag für Musik and the Leipzig district association of the composers’ association. From 1988 on he worked without a fixed contract and published the handbook Guitar-Harmonics at in Leipzig in 1989. He appeared as and chamber musician and played on cabaret stages. Heyn received in this time among others composition commissions from private stage music. His works Concerto grosso Nr. 1 op. 18 for 5 soloists and orchestra (1984) and Concerto grosso Nr. 2 op. 20 for

Wendelin Weißheimer

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Wendelin Weißheimer (26 February 1838 – 16 June 1910) was a German composer, conductor, essayist, teacher, and writer on music. He studied with Franz Liszt and was in close contact with Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow, Peter Cornelius, Louise Otto-Peters, Ferdinand Lassalle, August Bebel and many other notable musicians of his time. He served as composer and conductor of choirs in Mainz, Darmstadt, Baden-Baden, Würzburg, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Szczecin, Strasbourg and at Milan’s La Scala. Early life Origin, family and childhood The Weißheimer family resided in Westhofen in the 14th century. Wendelin’s grandfather, Johann Weißheimer I, from Osthofen, inherited a stone mill from his mother’s family at the end of the 18th century. Viticulture, agriculture, animal husbandry and mill grinding were already undertaken on the manor complex in the 19th century. The manor is still owned by the Weißheimer family. This complex was one of the most important in the former Grand Duchy of Hesse. Wendelin Weißheimer was born at the Stone Mill Winery of Osthofen, the eighth and youngest child of Johann Weißheimer II and Ottilie, née Best der Welt. His parents were wealthy and his father

Werner Bochmann

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Werner Bochmann (17 May 1900, Meerane, Kingdom of Saxony – 3 June 1993) was a German composer. Selected filmography * Playing with Fire (1934) * The Island (1934) * One Too Many on Board (1935) * Punks Arrives from America (1935) * Fruit in the Neighbour’s Garden (1935) * Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine (1936) * The Adventurer of Paris (1936) * The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) * The Heart Disposes (1936) * The Grey Lady (1937) * Alarm in Peking (1937) * The Citadel of Warsaw (1937) * Between the Parents (1938) * The Marriage Swindler (1938) * I Love You (1938) * The Girl of Last Night (1938) * Rubber (1938) * Who’s Kissing Madeleine? (1939) * Ursula Under Suspicion (1939) * The Sensational Casilla Trial (1939) * Detours to Happiness (1939) * Congo Express (1939) * My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939) * A German Robinson Crusoe (1940) * Happiness is the Main Thing (1941) * Quax the Crash Pilot (1941) * His Son (1942) * Sky Hounds (1942) * Front Theatre (1942) * Melody of a Great City (1943) * Johann (1943) * Sophienlund (1943) * My Summer Companion (1943) * The Green Salon (1944) * The Black Robe (1944) * Young Hearts (1944) * Quax in Africa (1947) * Everything Will Be Better in the Mo

Werner Egk

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Werner Egk (, 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer. Early career He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augsburg when Egk was six. He studied at a Benedictine Gymnasium (academic high school) and entered the municipal conservatory. Egk demonstrated talents as a composer, graphic artist, and writer, and he moved first to Frankfurt to improve his piano talents and then, in 1921, to Munich. There, working as a theater composer and playing in the pit, he married Elizabeth Karl, a violinist. He derived his pen name “Egk” from his wife’s initials: Elisabeth, Karl (Elisabeth, née Karl). His only son, Titus, was born in 1924. Egk moved to Berlin in 1928, meeting composers Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. He intended to become a cinema composer and accompanied silent films. When radio broadcasting became available to the public, Egk immediately realised its importance as a mass medium and developed operas and radio plays. He was introduced to Hans Fleisch, an important radio executive (also Paul Hindemith’s brother-in-law and a Jew), by composer Kurt Weill.

Werner Eisbrenner

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Werner Friedrich Emil Eisbrenner (2 December 1908, Berlin – 7 November 1981, West Berlin) was a German composer and conductor, best known for his film music. Eisbrenner studied church music and musical education from 1927 to 1929 at the Berlin Staatlichen Musikademie. He then worked as a pianist, arranger, Kapellmeister and conductor, as well as composing violin concertos, orchestral music, the musical comedy Von Hand zu Hand and the music for film, radio and television for which he is best known. This includes the theme for Hans Albers’s film Große Freiheit Nr. 7. Eisbrenner was a member of the jury at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival. Eisbrenner also headed a private “Lehrinstitut für Kirchen- und Schulmusik”. In 1974, he received the Filmband in Gold for his long and outstanding contributions to German film. On 23 April 1998 a plaque was unveiled at his former home at Wohnung Bismarckallee 32a in Berlin. He was married to Kathe (née Jacobi) Eisbrenner (b. ?? – d. 11 March 1974). He is buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem. Selected filmography * The Higher Command (1935) * Donogoo (1936) * The Blue Mouse (1936) * Donogoo Tonka (1936) * Anna Favetti (1938) * Women for Golde

Werner Genuit

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Werner Genuit (3 June 1937 – 3 January 1997) was a German classical pianist, composer and teacher. Career Born in Wuppertal, Genuit was first trained to be a baker. Genuit taught at today’s Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1970 to 1982, and was then professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. The institute named a hall after him. He gave regular master classes in Weikersheim, Trossingen and Curitiba (Brazil). Recordings Genuit made many recordings for record, broadcast (WDR and SWR) and TV. For the WDR, he recorded for example Alexander Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3, with Klöcker (clarinet) and Helmar Stiehler (cello), broadcast again on 1 May 2014. He recorded Clarinet Chamber Music by Ferruccio Busoni with Klöcker and the Consortium Classicum. In 1977, he recorded evening songs and love songs (Abendlieder, Liebeslieder und Romanzen) with soprano Klesie Kelly. tenor Ian Partridge, and instrumental soloists including Hermann Baumann (horn), Klöcker (clarinet), and Karl-Otto Hartmann. He was awarded prizes such as the Premio della Critica Discografico Italiana and the Wiener Flötenuhr for the best interpretation of Mozart’s works, among others. Referenc

Werner Josten

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Werner Erich Josten (June 12, 1885 in Elberfeld, Germany – February 6, 1963 in New York City) was a German-born composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Munich with Rudolf Siegel and in Geneva with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and emigrated to the United States in 1920 or 1921. He became a naturalized citizen and taught at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1923 to 1949, where his notable students included Audrey Kooper Hammann and Alice McElroy Procter. The Werner Josten Performing Arts Library at Smith College is named for him. He is best known for his symphonic poem Jungle (1928), which is inspired by African music. He also directed the first staged performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in the United States on May 11, 1929. He was married to Margaret Fatman, a member of the Lehman family and granddaughter of Meyer Lehman, co-founder of Lehman Brothers; they had two children: Peter Josten and Eileen Josten Lowe. References Bibliography *Marchbanks Press (1964). Werner Josten, 1885-1963; a summary of his compositions with press reviews. New York: Marchbanks Press. External links *Werner Josten book *The Werner Josten collection, 1917-1971 at Isham Memo

Werner R. Heymann

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Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R. Heymann, was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood. Early life and education He was the younger of 4 boys born to a corn merchant. His older brother Walther Heymann who died young wrote expressionistic poems for the magazine Der Sturm published by Herwalth Walden. Werner was a child prodigy, starting to sit at the piano at age 3, receiving violin lessons at age 5, and writing his own compositions at age 8. He became a member of the Philharmonic at age 12 and presented his first work for orchestra at age 16. His Spring Nocturne for Orchestra was based on one of his brother’s texts. Although he had served in the Prussian Army during World War I, he later became involved with the post-war radical politics and pacifism of the Berlin scene. Moving to composing for the stage, he wrote the music for the Ernst Toller play Transformation. Popular music and film When the theater impresario Max Reinhardt opened the satirical cabaret Sound and Smoke he became, with Friedrich Hollaender, one of its two main pianists. Later the film producer Erich Pommer introduced him to the UFA studio, where

Werner Wolf Glaser

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Werner Wolf Glaser (14 April 1910 – 29 March 2006, in Västerås, Sweden) was a German-born Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, professor, music critic, and poet. Life Born in Cologne, Glaser studied piano, conducting, and composition at the Cologne Conservatory, and art history afterwards in Bonn. He finally continued his studies in composition with Paul Hindemith in Berlin, where he also took courses in psychology. From 1929 to 1931, he worked as a conductor at the Chemnitz Opera and went to Cologne in 1932 to conduct choirs. Persecuted by the Nazis due to his Jewish descent, he fled Germany for Paris in 1933. He subsequently moved to Lyngby, Denmark and lectured at the Frederiksbergs Folkemusikhojskole in Copenhagen. In 1939, he opened a School of Music in Lyngbby with composer Irene Skovgaard. Glaser collaborated with Skovgaard and her brother Hjalte Skovgaard on several publications. He escaped during the rescue of the Danish Jews to Sweden in 1943. In Sweden, he conducted the Södra Västmanlands Orkesterförbund from 1944 to 1959 and also directed the Västerås Musikskola, where his colleagues included Ivar Andrén and Gunnar Axén, until 1975. He also wrote music reviews and poem

Wilfried Hiller

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Wilfried Hiller (born 15 March 1941) is a German composer. He became known above all for his stage works for families, children and young people. Life and work Hiller was born the son of the teacher August Hiller and his wife Josepha Hiller, née Hauser, in the Swabian town of Weißenhorn near Ulm. In 1944, the year of the war, his father was killed in Russia and Wilfried became a half-orphan at the age of three. Hiller himself described early childhood experiences in connection with his composition Alkor thus: Training After attending the , he took up piano studies with Wilhelm Heckmann at the Augsburg Leopold Mozart Centre in 1956. From 1958 to 1961, Hiller wrote his first play with music (Die Räuber von Hiller) as well as piano compositions and chamber music and worked as an organist and ballet répétiteur. From 1962, he took part in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse for Neue Musik and was a guest student of Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen. During this time he also became acquainted with his later publisher Peter Hanser-Strecker and the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann. At Hartmann’s suggestion, Hiller began studying music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Münc

Wilfried Krätzschmar

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Wilfried Krätzschmar (born 23 March 1944) is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Krätzschmar received piano lessons from 1952. After his Abitur at the he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman from 1962 to 1968, piano with Wolfgang Plehn and conducting with Klaus Zoephel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. In 1963 he conducted a trombone choir in Dresden. From 1968 to 1969 he took over the direction of incidental music at Theater Meiningen. After this time he returned to the Dresden Academy of Music as an aspirant of Fritz Geißler. In 1975 he took over artistically the Centre for the Promotion of Young Composers of the District of Dresden. In 1988 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Dresden. From 1991 to 2003 he was rector of the Dresden University of Music and from 1992 to 2009 full professor for musical composition. In 2003 he was appointed president of the . From 2011 to 2014 Krätzschmar was vice president and from 2014 to 2017 President of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste. Awards * 1971 Förderpreis des Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Wettbewerbes * 1972 and 1973 Mendelssohn Scholarship des Ministeriums für Kultur * 1979 Hans Stieber Prize of th

Wilhelm Berger

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Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (9 August 1861 – 16 January 1911) was a German composer, pianist and conductor. Life Berger’s father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston (where Berger was born) as a music shopkeeper and made a name for himself as an author after the family had returned to Bremen in 1862. Early on, his son showed signs of musical interest and aptitude. By the time of his first concert, age fourteen, Wilhelm had already composed a large number of songs and works for the piano. Between 1878 and 1884, Berger studied at the Royal Conservatory in Berlin, under Ernst Rudorff (piano) and Friedrich Kiel (counterpoint). From 1888 to 1903, he was a teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, a function that he combined, from 1899, with the chief conductorship of the Berlin Musical Society. In addition, he was very active as a concert pianist. In 1903, Berger was made a member of the German Royal Academy of Arts, and in the same year he was appointed ‘Hofkapellmeister’ in Meiningen as successor of Fritz Steinbach. In 1911 he died at Jena, aged 49, due to complications after a stomach operation. Musical style Like most of the composers from the circle of the ‘Ber

Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach

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Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, also known as William Bach (24 May 1759 – 25 December 1845) was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to King Frederick William II of Prussia. Ernst Bach received training in music from his uncle Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and from another uncle in England, Johann Christian Bach. He was in London when Johann Christian died there on 1 January 1782. Ernst Bach remained in England until 1784, when he returned to Germany via Holland. He was Kapellmeister of Minden in 1786, and Kapellmeister in Berlin from 1788 to 1811, with Friedrich Wilhelm’s blessing. He retired after Prince Heinrich, the brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm III, granted him a pension. At the unveiling of the Bach Monument in Leipzig on 23 April 1843, Ernst Bach met Robert Schumann. Schumann later described Ernst Bach as “a very agile old gentleman of 84 years with snow-white hair and expressive features”. One of Ernst Bach’s most remarkable compositions was Dreyblatt, a concerto for piano involving six hands. It is to be performed by a man with a petite woman on either side of him.

Wilhelm Furtwängler

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Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler ( , ; ; 25 January 188630 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major influence for many later conductors, and his name is often mentioned when discussing their interpretative styles. Furtwängler was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic between 1922 and 1945, and from 1952 until 1954. He was also principal conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra (1922–26), and was a guest conductor of other major orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic. Although not an adherent of Nazism, he was the foremost conductor to remain in Germany during the Nazi era. Despite his open opposition to antisemitism and the ubiquity of Nazi symbolism, the regime did not seek to suppress him, at Joseph Goebbels’ insistence, for propaganda reasons. This situation caused lasting controversy, and the extent to which his presence lent prestige to Nazi Germany is still debated. Early life Wilhelm Furtwängler was born into a prominent family in Schöneberg, Germany (now a district/borough of Berlin). His father, Adolf Furtwängler, was an archaeo

Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel

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Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (baptized 29 August 1686 – 6 June 1764) was a German composer and organist, the elder son of Johann Pachelbel. Life He was born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, and spent the first four years of his life there. The Pachelbel family moved to Stuttgart in 1690, then, fleeing from the War of the Grand Alliance, to Gotha in 1692, and finally to Nuremberg in 1695. Wilhelm Hieronymus almost certainly received his first music education from his father. By age 14 he was proficient enough on the keyboard to receive special commendation from the town council of Nuremberg. After leaving Nuremberg, he worked as organist at Fürth and his native Erfurt’s Predigerkirche, before returning and taking the position at St. Jakob in 1706, shortly before his father’s death. That same year J.S. Richter succeeded Johann Pachelbel at the city’s largest church, Sebalduskirche; Wilhelm Hieronymus took Richter’s former position at St. Egidienkirche. He remained in Nuremberg for the rest of his life, working at St. Egidien until 1719, when Richter died and Wilhelm Hieronymus was chosen to succeed him at Sebalduskirche. Only seven pieces by Wilhelm Hieronymus survive, all of them for

Wilhelm Hill

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Johann Wilhelm Hill (28 March 1838 – 6 June 1902) was a German pianist and composer. Life and work Wilhelm Hill was born in Fulda. He began studying piano and violin with his father at 6 years old. He devoted himself tirelessly to composing at age 14. From May 1854 Hill lived in Frankfurt am Main, where he was pupil of Heinrich Henkel and Johann Christian Hauff. He gave his first public piano performance in Fulda the following year, and performed in Frankfurt in January 1858. In the 1880s, Hill taught at Lindner Institute and Julius Stockhausen’s Vocal School. His opera Alona was awarded second prize in the competition for the opening of the new Frankfurt Opera House in 1882. He married Maria (Mary) Möhring in 1887 and soon after contracted an eye disease which affected his ability to teach and compose. He composed two operas, a piano concerto, chamber music, piano compositions, choral and vocal works including numerous songs. Hill gained popularity through the song “Das Herz am Rhein” (“The Heart of the Rhine”; published in 1866), which was sung frequently by his friend, baritone Karl Hill. The song soon appeared in various vocal and instrumental arrangements and became standard r

Wilhelm Keilmann

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Wilhelm Martin Keilmann (4 August 1908 – 14 November 1989) was a German pianist, Kapellmeister and composer. He composed 74 works, founded a chamber orchestra and was lecturer at the . Life Born in Würzburg, Keilmann received his first instructions in violin and piano playing from his father, Ferdinand Keilmann, a music teacher. He first studied at the Musikschule Aschaffenburg with director Hermann Kundigraber, Heinz Knettel and Valentin Härtl. After one semester at the Musikhochschule München he changed to the Konservatorium Würzburg, where he studied piano under Professor Heinz Knettel, violin and viola under Willy Schaller and conducting as well as composing under privy councillor Hermann Zilcher. Wilhelm Keilmann passed the Staatsexamen with distinction in all four subjects on July 13, 1937, and his commissioned work “Hymne an die Schönheit” after Christian Morgenstern for soprano, choir and orchestra (op. 4) was premiered by Tilla Briem and the Munich Philharmonic on July 15, 1937, in Bad Kissingen. After a year as Kapellmeister at the Mainz City Theatre he married the violinist Hertha Bulle (10 August 1916) and moved with her in 1939 at the outbreak of war as a music teacher

Wilhelm Kienzl

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Wilhelm Kienzl (17 January 1857 – 3 October 1941) However, during the Nazi era there were calls for boycotting his music due to his part Jewish ancestry In 1936 he was placed in the black list of the RS Berlin. Kienzl’s first love was opera, then vocal music, and it was in these two genres that he made his name. For a while he was considered, along with Hugo Wolf, one of the finest composers of Lieder (art songs) since Schubert. His most famous work, Der Evangelimann, best known for its aria Selig sind, die Verfolgung leiden (Blessed are the persecuted), continues to be revived occasionally. It is a folk opera which has been compared to Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and contains elements of verismo. After Humperdinck and Siegfried Wagner, the composers of fairy-tale operas, Kienzl is the most important opera composer of the romantic post-Wagner era. However, Kienzl’s strengths actually lie in the depiction of everyday scenes. In his last years, his ample corpus of songs achieved prominence, though it has largely been neglected since then. Despite the fact that opera came first in his life, Kienzl by no means ignored instrumental music. He wrote three string quartets and a piano

Wilhelm Killmayer

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Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1973 to 1992. He composed symphonies and song cycles on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl and Peter Härtling, among others. Early life Wilhelm Killmayer was born on 21 August 1927 in Munich, Germany. He studied conducting and composition from 1945 to 1951 in Munich at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s Musikseminar. At the same time, he was enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München where he studied musicology with Rudolf von Ficker and Walter Riezler, and German studies. He was a private student of Carl Orff from 1951 and was admitted to his master class at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in 1953. He was a scholar at the Villa Massimo twice, in 1958 and 1965/66. Career Killmayer was a teacher of music theory and counterpoint at the Trappsches Konservatorium in Munich from 1955. He was a conductor of the Bavarian State Opera’s ballet from 1961 to 1964. From 1973 to 1992 he was a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik. Lutz Landwe

Wilhelm Middelschulte

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Wilhelm Middelschulte (April 3, 1863, Werve, Kreis Hamm, now part of Kamen – May 4, 1943, Dortmund) was a German organist and composer who resided in America for most of his career. Life Middelschulte initially studied organ with August Knabe. He later attended the , where he studied organ and theory with August Haupt. After briefly holding a position at the Royal Institute and acquiring a post at the in Berlin, he moved to Chicago in 1891. In 1893, he gave three performances entirely from memory at the Columbian Exposition. From 1896 to 1918 he was organist for what would later become the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. During the 1920s, he regularly returned to his native Germany to give performances. He is regarded as one of the most significant organists of his time, and was critically acclaimed for his performances of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1939, after nearly fifty years in America, Middelschulte returned to Germany, where he died only four years later. His students included Virgil Fox and Cecilia Clare Bocard. Fox frequently used as an encore to his performances Middelschulte’s “Perpetuum Mobile”, an elaborate piece that builds from a subdued sound to, by the end, fortissimo a

Wilhelm Neuland

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Wilhelm Neuland (14 July 1806 – 28 December 1889) was a German musician and composer of the Romantic era, with activities mainly in Bonn (Kingdom of Prussia), London (UK) and Calais (France). Life Neuland was born in Bonn, the son of a tailor named Johann Caspar Neuland and his wife Catharina, née Frings. He attended a local private boys school and studied harmony and some musical instruments with Johann Gottfried Klebs as well as piano and composition with Carl David Stegmann until 1824. He spent the years until 1826 as a military band musician, performing on several instruments, retiring mainly on health grounds, and established himself as a music teacher and composer in Bonn. From 1828 to 1871, Neuland was conductor of the Société Philharmonique (an orchestra and choral society) in Calais, France, a position that he was able to pursue for some months in a year only. He also conducted frequently in neighbouring Boulogne-sur-Mer. In addition, Neuland spent the years 1830 to 1835 mainly in London, where he was much in demand as a guitarist and composer for the guitar, following his contacts with other German-speaking guitarist-composers from Germany and Austria, including Ferdinand

Wilhelm Taubert

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Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert (23 March 1811 – 7 January 1891) was a German pianist, composer, and conductor, and the father of philologist and writer Emil Taubert. Life Born in Berlin, Taubert studied under Ludwig Berger (piano) and Bernhard Klein (composition). In 1831, he became assistant conductor and accompanist for Berlin court concerts. Between 1845 and 1848, he was music director of the Berlin Royal Opera and was also court conductor in Berlin from 1845 to 1869. From 1865, he taught music at the Prussian Academy of Arts; Theodor Kullak was one of his pupils. His compositions include six operas, incidental music, four symphonies, concertos for piano and cello, four string quartets, other orchestral, choral, and piano works, and more than 300 songs. His early compositions were praised by the composer Felix Mendelssohn, who had also studied piano with Berger. Taubert died in Berlin. His grave is preserved in the Protestant “Friedhof I der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde” (Cemetery No. I of the congregations of Jerusalem’s Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor. Operas * Die Kirmes, comic opera, libretto by Eduard Devrient, 23 January 1832, B

Wilhelm Weismann

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Wilhelm Weismann (20 September 1900 – 14 May 1980) was a German composer and musicologist. Life On 20 September, Weismann was born in Alfdorf/Württemberg on the plateau of Welzheim forest. His parents ran a general store. His mother, sister of the renowned musicologist Alfred Heuß, encouraged his artistic inclinations and he received his first piano and music lessons. At an early age the son of a merchant showed his musical interest by composing small choral pieces. After a long struggle for his father’s permission, he studied composition (with Sigfrid Karg-Elert) and musicology (with Hermann Abert and Arnold Schering) at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart from 1919 to 1921 and then in Leipzig from 1921 to 1923. After completing his studies, he embarked on a momentous trip to Italy in 1924, visiting Sicily, Rome, Naples and Florence, during which he was greatly impressed by Italian architecture and painting. In the Uffizi he could see original compositions by Carlo Gesualdo. They inspired him to “Four Italian Madrigals”, which were performed in 1925 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and made him suddenly famous. From 1924 he was editor and correspondent of th

Wilhelmina Koch

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Wilhelmina (Mina or Minna) Amalie Koch (22 February 1845 – 6 March 1924) was a German composer of sacred and secular song melodies, biblical motets and choral and instrumental music. She is one of only four women that have had compositions included in the Protestant hymnal. Biography Mina Koch was born in Waldböckelheim. She was the second of six children of Waldböckelheim pastor Karl August Schapper (1815–1898). She spent her childhood in Münster am Stein and in Koblenz. When she was eleven years old her mother Schapper Amalie née Weinrich (1816–1856) died. In 1860 her father became the Professor and Director of the Royal Theological Seminary and Superintendent for Wittenberg. The family moved there to a big house at the parish church square where Johann Bugenhagen had lived and where Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon had met. Mina Koch spent the first years there in a girls’ school in Droyßig at Zeitz, where her Confirmation was celebrated. The Wittenberg church music director and organist Carl Stein (1824–1902) gave her music theory and harmony lessons. On 27 April 1865 she was married to August Koch (1836–1910) in the Wittenberg church with her father officiating. Mina Koch

Wilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwehrt

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Wilhelmine Auguste Charlotte Helene Apollonia von Troschke und Rosenwerth (1775-1830) was born in Lower Silesia and is considered to be a German composer. She published piano music under the name Wilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwerth. Wilhelmine married Ernst Christoph Gunther von Bronsart and they had two children: Rosaline Louise Adele Antoinette von Bronsart in 1807, and Karl August Johann Georg Ludwig Adolf von Bronsart in 1808. She later married Karl Ludwig Hasenwinkel. Her works include: *4 Themes with Variations for Piano or Harpsichord (1801): **Theme and 6 Variations **8 Variations on ‘Die Milch ist gesünder’ for Harp or Piano *Variations on ‘Ein Männchen oder Weibchen’ for Piano (1801) Download free sheet music by Wilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwerth References

Wilhelmine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

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Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine; 3 July 170914 October 1758) was a Prussian princess and composer. She was the eldest daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, and a granddaughter of George I of Great Britain. She was the older sister of Frederick the Great. In 1731, she married Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. The baroque buildings and parks built during her tenure shape much of the present appearance of the town of Bayreuth, Germany. Early life Born in Berlin, Wilhelmine shared the unhappy childhood of her brother, Frederick the Great, whose friend and confidante she remained all her life, with the exception of one short interval. She was fiercely beaten and abused by her governess during her childhood. Wilhelmine later wrote: “Not a day passed that she the governess did not prove upon me the fearful power of her fists.” The mistreatment continued until the prince’s governess finally said to their mother, who had been oblivious to the abuse, that she would not be surprised if Wilhelmine was eventually beaten until she was crippled. After this, the governess was promptly replaced. Being the eldest daughter i

Willi Vogl

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Willi Vogl (born 3 December 1961) is a German composer, clarinetist and college scholar. Life Vogl was born in Reichertshofen and grew up in Karlskron. From 1983 to 1989 he studied musical composition with Alfred Koerppen and clarinette with Hans Deinzer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Afterwards he studied composition for two years with Heinz Winbeck at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. From 1992 to 2008 he worked as a teacher for composition, music theory, ear training, clarinette and chamber music at . In addition, he held teaching positions at the and at the Music Pedagogical Institute of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. In 2004 he was Composer in Residence at the International Merz Society. Since 2008 Vogl has been active as a freelance composer. Further focal points of his work are the conception and management of musical-literary projects and composition competitions as well as teaching activities in composition and chamber music courses in Germany and abroad. So far he has composed more than 70 works, which have been performed by the Staatskapelle Halle, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the , the Ensemble Sortisatio and the . Work Ballet mu

Willy Berking

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Willy Berking (22 June 1910 – 21 May 1979) was a German orchestra conductor, trombonist, and composer. Career Berking studied music (piano and composition) in Düsseldorf and then in Berlin, where he formed his first big band at the age of 18 in 1928, writing jazz arrangements for the ensemble. In the 1930s he played trombone with various dance and entertainment orchestras including the Goldene Sieben and the Telefunken Swing Orchestra under Heinz Wehner, with whom he went to Berlin in 1934. Towards the end of 1943 he became director of the studio orchestra for Imperial records, known as the “Berking-top series,” which were excellent, swinging sides, despite the Nazi party ban on swing music. At the same time he directed the propaganda big band, “Charlie and His Orchestra”. After the end of World War II continued leading bands, which included Benny de Weille and Louis Freichel as sidemen. Berking was musical director for the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 held in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. As well as conducting the German ensemble, he also conducted the Flemish, Luxembourg and Swiss orchestras. Berking conducted the German ensemble for the Eurovision Song Contest four times 1957

Winfried Heurich

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Winfried Heurich (born 13 February 1940) is a German organist and composer. He was director of church music at Liebfrauen, Frankfurt from 1966 to 2000 and composed music for more than 400 songs. External links * Songs by Winfried Heurich (in German) evangeliums.net/

Winfried Michel

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Winfried Michel (born 1948) is a German recorder, player, composer, and editor of music. Michel studied with Ingetraud Drescher, Nikolaus Delius, and Frans Brüggen. He is lecturer for the recorder at the Staatliche Hochschule Münster and at the Musikakademie Kassel. In addition to compositions published under his own name, he has written numerous pieces in the style of the early 18th century under the pseudonym Giovanni Paolo Simonetti. In 1993 he succeeded in convincing noted Haydn scholar H. C. Robbins Landon and the pianist/scholars Paul and Eva Badura-Skoda that six piano sonatas he had composed were long-lost works by Joseph Haydn. Based on the opening few bars of six lost Haydn works, found in an old thematic index, these sonatas were published in 1995 as works by Haydn, “supplemented and edited by Winfried Michel.” He has similarly completed the Viola Sonata left as a two-movement fragment by Mikhail Glinka with a menuet as third movement, even though Glinka would have—according to his autobiography—put a rondo. Compositions As Winfried Michel *Aceto e vino, for harpsichord (1991) *, for two violins (archive from 9 October 2007, accessed 14 September 2014) *Il flauto da gamb

Winfried Zillig

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Winfried Zillig (1 April 1905 – 18 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor. Biography Zillig was born in Würzburg to the teacher . After leaving school, Zillig studied law and music. One of his teachers there was Hermann Zilcher. In Vienna he was a private pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, later following him to Berlin. His first compositions date from this time. In 1927 he became the assistant of Erich Kleiber at the Berlin State Opera. A short time later he became repetiteur to the Oldenburg Opera. In the years 1932 to 1937, he acted as repetiteur and Kapellmeister at the Düsseldorf Opera. Positions followed as Kapellmeister in Essen and at the beginning of the 1940s as the musical leader of the Posen Opera. After the end of World War II he became the first Kapellmeister of the Düsseldorfer Oper. In the years 1947 to 1951 he occupied the position of conductor at the hr-Sinfonieorchester. He also acted as guest conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in the early months of 1953. After 1959 he led the musical division of Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Zillig died in 1963 in Hamburg. Winfried Zillig was very productive as a composer. His output includes oper

Wipo of Burgundy

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Wipo of Burgundy (also Wippo or Wigbert; c. 995 – c. 1050), often simply Wipo, was a priest, poet and chronicler. He was a chaplain to the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II and may have acted as a tutor to his son Henry III, to whom he dedicated a number of works. His biography of Conrad II, entitled Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris, is a key source for Conrad’s reign. The well-known musical sequence, Victimae paschali laudes is often attributed to him, though its authenticity remains uncertain. Life Information on Wipo’s life is chiefly available from his writings. His name, sometimes spelled “Wippo”, is a shortened form of “Wigbert”. It is believed that he was born in the Swabian German-speaking portion of the Burgundy, because his name is Swabian. He shows a close interest in Burgundian affairs in his writings, and claims to have personally known , Bishop of Lausanne (985–1018). In the course of his education he gained close familiarity with the Vulgate Bible and with a classical Latin texts. He does not refer to any patristic texts. Volker Huth argues that the prologue of the Gesta Chuonradi shows philosophical affinities with the 9th-century theologian , who was based at the Abbey of

Woldemar Bargiel

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Woldemar Bargiel (3 October 182823 February 1897) was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period. Life Bargiel was born in Berlin and was the younger maternal half-brother of Clara Schumann. Bargiel’s father Adolph was a well-known piano and voice teacher while his mother Mariane Tromlitz, a granddaughter of the famous flautist Johann Georg Tromlitz, had previously been unhappily married to Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck. Clara was nine years older than Woldemar. Throughout their lives, they enjoyed a warm relationship. The initial opportunities which led to the success and recognition he enjoyed were due to Clara, who introduced him to both Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. Bargiel received his first lessons at home and later with the well-known Berlin teacher of music theory Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn. Upon the suggestion of Schumann and the recommendation of Mendelssohn, Bargiel at age 18 went to study at the famous Leipzig Conservatory with some of the leading scholars of music: Ignaz Moscheles (piano) and Niels Gade (composition), and also with Julius Rietz. After leaving Leipzig in 1850, he returned to Berlin where he tried to make ends meet by giving private le

Wolfgang Fortner

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Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, academic composition teacher and conductor. Life and career Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense contact with music. In 1927 he began his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory (organ with Karl Straube, composition with Hermann Graubner) and at University of Leipzig, (philosophy with Hans Driesch, musicology with Theodor Kroyer, and German studies with Hermann August Korff) . While still a student, two of his early compositions were publicly performed: Die vier marianischen Antiphonen at the Lower Rhineland Festival in Düsseldorf in 1928, and his First String Quartet in Königsberg in 1930 . In 1931 he completed his studies with the State Exam for a high teaching office, after he accepted a lectureship in music theory at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg. There his music was attacked as Cultural Bolshevism. In 1935 and 1936 Fortner created the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra with which he supported New Music and undertook expanded concert journeys for “armed forces support”, from Scandinavia to the Netherlands to Greece. In the same year

Wolfgang Hildemann

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Wolfgang Hildemann (June 17, 1925 — August 25, 1995 in Düsseldorf) was a German composer and music teacher who is known for the use of the twelve-tone technique. Life and education Hildemann was born on June 17, 1925, in the city of Cheb (formerly known as Eger or Egerland) which was part of the contentious German Sudetenland. Following World War Two, Hildemann studied at the music conservatories in Prague and Nürnberg. Among his professors were Fidelio Finke, Anton Nowakowski and Joseph Keilberth. Succeeding his studies in Nürnberg, Hildemann passed the examination to become a chapel master in 1952. Between 1949 and 1967, he worked as the musical instructor of the Windsbacher Knabenchor (Windsbach Boys’ Choir). From 1962 on, he taught at the Odenwaldschule in Oberhambach, a private boarding school following a concept of progressive education after World War Two. After moving to Mönchengladbach, he continued teaching music in school at the Hugo Junkers-Gymnasium. Once settled down in Mönchengladbach, Hildemann became a professor and frequent lecture in church music and composition at the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein (Rhineland). He further lead the musical branch at t

Wolfgang Lesser

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Wolfgang Lesser (31 May 1923 – 27 September 1999) was a German composer and music official of the GDR. Life and career Born in Breslau, Lesser, son of a merchant, attended the Realgymnasium in Berlin and then completed an apprenticeship as a metalworker. In 1938 he began studying music at the former Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Already in 1939 he emigrated as a Jew to London and worked in England as a varnisher and farmhand. The following year he was interned as Enemy alien on the Isle of Man. In 1942, he became a member of the Freie Deutsche Jugend and the Communist Party of Germany. Between 1943 and 1947, he was a member of the British Army. In 1947 he returned to Berlin, became a member of the SED and worked for the FDJ in various functions. In 1949 he attended the state party school of the SED. In 1951 he became a member of the Cultural Association of the GDR. From 1950 to 1954, Lesser studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Hanns Eisler and Günter Kochan. From 1954 to 1961, he worked as a composer and teacher for the State Folk Art Ensemble of the GDR. Since 1961, he has been a freelance musician. From 1964 to 1968, he was Second Secretar

Wolfgang Pasquay

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Wolfgang Pasquay (10 February 1931 – 8 April 2006) was a German classical pianist, composer and music educator. Youth Born in Cottbus, Pasquay received piano lessons as a child. From 1941 he attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, where he studied piano with August Leopolder and conducting and composition with Kurt Thomas. In 1944, at the age of 13, he was awarded the Hall Youth Prize for Composition for his Piano Variations on a Theme by Hugo Distler. In 1945, at the age of 14, he gave his first public performance as a pianist in Stuttgart. Pianist In the following three decades Pasquay devoted himself mainly to his career as a pianist. In 1950 he joined forces with Berthold Ende (violin) and Hans Hendler (violoncello) in Düsseldorf to form a piano trio, which performed the entire repertoire for this instrumentation in the following years. Numerous solo performances followed throughout Europe, including in Berlin, London, Vienna and Paris. Pasquay’s concert repertoire included the piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Bartók as well as pieces by Bach, Schubert, Debussy, Franck, Mussorgsky and other compo

Wolfgang Printz

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Wolfgang Caspar Printz (10 October 1641 – 13 October 1717), normally referred to as Wolfgang Printz (with sometimes the variation of Kaspar), was a German composer who studied theology and was appointed cantor at Promnitz, Triebel and Sorau. His Historische Beschreibung der edlen Sing- und Klingkunst…von Anfang der Welt bis auf unserer Zeit (which in English means: Historical description of the noble art of singing and instrumental music … from the beginning of the world until our time) was the first history of music written in Germany. Life Printz was the son of a forester in Oberpfalz. He had hardly any training before he enrolled in 1659 at the university of Altdorf, near Nuremberg, where he learned the fundaments of music theory from Abdias Treu. He broke the Altdorfer study time in 1661 and soon abandoned it to work as a tutor. This employment limited his ability to travel. At the age of 21 in 1662 he moved to Dresden, where he became Kapellmeister at the court of the arts-friendly Silesian magnate Count Erdmann I. He traveled with his new employer, even to Bohemian and Hungarian military camps. After the count’s death in 1664 he accepted a position as cantor at the Sorau

Wolfgang Rihm

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Wolfgang Michael Rihm (; 13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as “one of the most original and independent musical voices” there, composing over 500 works including several operas. The premiere of Rihm’s Morphonie for orchestra at the 1974 Donaueschingen Festival won him international recognition. Rihm pursued a freedom of expression, combining avant-garde techniques with emotional individuality. His chamber opera Jakob Lenz was premiered in 1977, exploring the inner conflict of a poet’s soul. The premiere of his opera Oedipus at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1987 was broadcast live and recorded as DVD. When his opera Dionysos was first performed at the Salzburg Festival in 2010, it was voted World Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt. He was commissioned to compose a work for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, and created the song cycle Reminiszenz which was premiered in 2017. Rihm was professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 1985, with students including Rebecca Saunders and Jörg Widmann. He was composer in residence for t

Wolfgang Rübsam

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Wolfgang Friedrich Rübsam (born October 16, 1946, in Gießen) is a German-American organist, pianist, composer and pedagogue. Biography After his musical training with Erich Ackermann in Fulda, Germany, Rübsam studied at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main with Helmut Walcha. Additional studies in organ followed with Marie-Claire Alain in France and with Robert T. Anderson at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He won the first prize at the International Organ Competition in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the Grand Prix de Chartres for interpretation in 1973. In 1974, he was appointed as professor of sacred music and organ at Northwestern University. In addition, he also served as University Organist at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago from 1981 until 1997. From 1997 until 2011, he was professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany.From 1998 until 2003, he was also artist in residence and university organist at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Rübsam has published more than 130 recordings, including two recordings of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach, the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Dietrich Bu

Wolfgang Schoor

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Wolfgang Schoor (18 September 1926 – 28 January 2007) was a German composer, who wrote orchestral works, song cycles and chamber music and the music for numerous children’s and documentary films and radio plays. Life The Cologne-born composer, conductor and song accompanist learned the musical craft in private lessons, at the Rheinische Musikschule Cologne, at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Studies took place with, among others, Otto A. Graef (piano), Helmut Walcha (organ/harpsichord), Walter Henker (bassoon), Kurt Thomas (choral conducting, composition) and Günter Wand (conducting) as well as consultations with Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Schoor worked as a freelance composer from 1950 1949-1952 also as a music critic for the Kölnische Rundschau, moved to Weimar in the GDR in 1957 and wrote music for numerous documentaries there. He gained national fame in particular for composing the music for the documentary film Das Jahr 1945 and the title melody of the foreign policy GDR magazine Objektiv. In addition to very numerous pieces of music for radio plays of various genres, Schoor composed song cycles, solo concertos and chamber music wor

Wolfgang von Schweinitz

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Wolfgang von Schweinitz (born 7 February 1953 in Hamburg) is a German composer of classical music and an academic teacher. Career Schweinitz studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, from 1971 to 1973 with Gernot Klussmann and from 1973 to 1975 with György Ligeti. He continued his studies at the Stanford University with John Chowning. He was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1978, at the same time as Sarah Kirsch. In 1980 he taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. His opera Patmos, based on the Apocalypse of St John, was premiered in 1990 at the second Munich Biennale. From 1994 to 1996, Schweinitz was a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt”, Weimar. He retired in 2025. Music Schweinitz’s music is often characterized by its freely expressive counterpoint exploring the distinctive melodic and harmonic networks of just intonation within a rigorously structured formal logic. Awards *1986 Schneider-Schott Music Prize *1992 Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Recordings * Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart, Harmonia Mundi Deutschland * Mass for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 21, Radio Symphonie Orcheste

Wolfram Heicking

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Wolfram Heicking (19 May 1927 – 19 August 2023) was a German composer, musicologist and professor at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. He was renowned for his extensive body of work that blended classical music with jazz and pop elements and for his influential role in music education in East Germany. Early life and education Wolfram Heicking was born and grew up in Leipzig. Later life and death Heicking later lived as a freelance composer in Kleinmachnow on the southern edge of Berlin. A supportive newspaper report of his 90th birthday noted that he remained in place as the popular chairman of the Berlin Composers’ Association, a post in which comrades continued to appreciate his open, thoughtful and undogmatic approach to current problems (genoss er auch… allseits Sympathien wegen seiner offenen, besonnenen, undogmatischen Herangehensweise an bestehende Probleme"). Evaluation As a university teacher Wolfram Heicking has taught many who later achieved success in their own right as musicians and composers. These include Arnold Fritzsch, Günther Fischer, Barbara Thalheim, Lutz Glandien, Jürgen Ecke and Ralf Petersen. His efforts to build bridges between “serious” and “ligh

Wolfram Menschick

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Wolfram Menschick (28 October 1937 – 8 December 2010) was a German Catholic church musician, composer and academic teacher. From 1969 to 2002 he was responsible for the church music at Eichstätt Cathedral, also serving the Diocese of Eichstätt as music director and organ expert. He was a bell expert, a member of a national council. From 1986 to 2000, he was a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. His compositions, including 36 masses, are frequently performed. Life and career Born in Pielenhofen, and also honouring Pope Benedict XVI, who was his friend (as was also the Pope’s elder brother, the priest and musician Georg Ratzinger). Organ planning As the organ expert of the Eichstätt diocese from 1969, he planned several instruments. He preferred Baroque organs with mechanical actions, such as his largest project, the organ built for Eichstätt Cathedral in 1975 by . Private life and death Wolfram Menschick and his wife Roswitha had six daughters, including the author and the violin maker Julia Menschick. Menschick died in Eichstätt in 2010 at age 73. The requiem was celebrated by Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke. Recordings * Veni Domine – Der Eichstätter Domchor

Xaver Scharwenka

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Theophil Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 – 8 December 1924) was a German pianist, composer and teacher of Polish descent. He was the brother of Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917), who was also a composer and teacher of music. Life and career Scharwenka was born in 1850 in Samter, Prussia (Polish: Szamotuły; until 1793 and since 1919 part of Poland). His paternal ancestors originally came from Prague, then moved to Frankfurt on the Oder in 1696 - probably for reasons of faith - and settled thereafter in Samter. His father, August Wilhelm, was a gifted master-builder but decidedly did not have an ear for music. His mother, née Golisch, was an ethnic Pole from a family of some means, who was musically inclined and early on instilled in her children a love of music. Although he began learning to play the piano by ear when he was 3, Scharwenka did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to Berlin and he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. Under Theodor Kullak, his pianistic skills developed rapidly, and he made his debut at the Singakademie in 1869. He taught at the academy until entering military service in 1873. Upon his discharge in 1874, Sc

Yekaterina Chemberdzhi

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Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (), also Katia Tchemberdji (nickname) or Jekaterina Wladimirowna Tschemberdschi (German form) (born 6 May 1960), is a Russian pianist and composer. Life and career The daughter of Vladimir Posner and Valentina Chemberdzhi and granddaughter of the composers Zara Levina and Nikolai Chemberdzhi, Katia Chemberdzhi was born in Moscow and began her study of music at age 7. In 1978 she studied composition and piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Korndorf and Yuri Kholopov. After ending her studies, Chemberdzhi took a position from 1984 to 1990 teaching at the Moscow Gnessin State Musical College. In 1990 she moved to West Berlin. She has been active in international festivals as a pianist and as a composer. Her compositions were commissioned by such festivals as Berliner Festspiele, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Tage Neuer Musik Zürich, and performed and commissioned by such soloists and ensembles as The Hilliard Ensamble, Charoun Ensemble, Sibelius Quartet, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, Singakademie zu Berlin, Münchner Kammerorchester, Boris Pergamenschikow, Natalia Gutman, Eduard Brunner, Charles Neidich etc. She has composed film music for several Russian

York Höller

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York Höller (; born 11 January 1944) is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Biography Höller was born in Leverkusen. Between 1963 and 1970 he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohr and Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer. Parallel to this, he studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Cologne. He did further musical studies at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt with Pierre Boulez, and in 1967 sat his examination in music education. Höller was active for a short time as a répétiteur at the Staatstheater Bonn. At the Electronic Music Studio of WDR in 1971–72, he “continued his studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen” or, alternatively, “was given the chance, at Stockhausen’s invitation, to realize works of his own”. In any case, the technique he developed at this time—a form of extended serialism which he calls “Gestalt composition”—bears a resemblance to the older composer’s formula composition, and in 1982 Höller dedicated his orchestral work Schwarze Halbinseln to Stockhausen. He qu

Yury Chernavsky

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Yury Alexandrovich Chernavsky (; March 17, 1947 – 29 September 2025) was a Russian producer, composer and songwriter. Chernavsky was a member of performance rights organisations such as GEMA, BMI, and RAO, and had also been recognized as an Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Education While living in Russia, he obtained professional musical education in the First Music College in Tambov city, the Rachmaninov Tambov State Academy of Music (class of violin), and the Tambov Branch of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (composition, arrangement). After relocation to the United States, he took master classes, SE-Hollywood (composer, producer, audio-movie business). He demonstrated a virtuosity in arrangement and in playing violin, saxophone, keyboards, flute and East Asian exotic instruments. Professional career Work in the USSR From 1969 to 1983, Chernavsky was fully involved in concert activities. In 1969–1973, Yury performed in jazz orchestras of Boris Rensky, Oleg Lundstrem, Leonid Utyosov, etc. In 1973–1975, he was a lead saxophone and arranger in the State Orchestra of Azerbaijan, which at that time was compiled of the best jazz stars in the Soviet Union. Since 1976, a new

Zikmund Schul

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Zikmund Schul (11 January 1916 – 2 June 1944) was a German Jewish composer. Life Schul was born in Chemnitz, Germany, into an Eastern European Jewish family, and grew up in Kassel. Only little is known about his life. He moved to Prague in 1933. In 1937 he started to study composition in Prague, where he was a pupil of Alois Hába. During his time in Prague he became a friend of Viktor Ullmann. In Prague he started also to archive a collection of synagogal-songs from the synagogue of Prague (under the direction of Salomon Lieben). Schul married Olga Stern in 1941, and both were deported to Terezin on 30 November 1941. Schul died in Theresienstadt concentration camp from tuberculosis. Worklist Literature * Initiative Hans Krása in Hamburg, Germany: Komponisten in Theresienstadt Recordings * Chassidische Tänze Op. 15 – Ensemble Alraune; Cd Novantiqua * Chassidische Tänze Op. 15 – Julia Rebekka Adler, viola Thomas Ruge, cello; Cd NEOS Music * Die Nischt-Gewesenen – Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone, Russell Ryan, piano; Bridge Records The whole music written in Concentration Camps are contained in the CD-Encyclopedia KZ MUSIK created by Francesco Lotoro References External links *Meet … Ge