Peter Ludwig Hertel (21 April 1817 – 13 June 1899) was a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

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and

ballet music Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it. The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a thea ...

. He is best known as the composer of the ballet ''

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''. He also composed the music for the Faust ballet ''Satanella oder Metamorphosen'', and "Die Abenteuer von Flick und Flock" (The Adventure of Flick and Flock), both choreographed by

Paul Taglioni A ballet master (also balletmaster, ballet mistress, ''premier maître de ballet'' or ''premier maître de ballet en chef'') is an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company. In mo ...

. Hertel was born in Berlin. He studied violin and composition under the renowned musicians of his era, Eduard Rietz,

Friedrich Schneider 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 ...

, Adolf Marx. From 1858 until his death he worked as a chapelmaster and composer at the

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. In 1860 he worked as a visiting conductor at London’s Covent Garden.

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1817 births 1899 deaths 19th-century German composers Musicians from Berlin {{Germany-music-bio-stub