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Gottlob Benedict Bierey
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 Karl Theophil Döbbelin, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann
Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann (30 November 1746, Berlin; 20 May 1796, Hanover) was a German actor, writer, and stage director. He wrote the text of the famous operatic Schauspiel mit Gesang ''Adelheit von Veltheim'', with music by Christian Gottlob Neefe (Frankfurt 1780). In 1778, he became director of the Prince Elector Archbishop of Cologne court theatre in Bonn. In 1784, he set up a theatre company, with which he toured several places in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ... and finally stayed in Hanover. Further reading * * * * * 1746 births 1796 deaths German male stage actors 18th-century German male actors German theatre directors Male actors from Berlin People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg German male writers 18th-centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Unverricht
Hubert Johannes Unverricht (4 July 1927 – 14 August 2017) was a German musicologist and a lecturer at various universities. Life Unverricht worn in Liegnitz. After the Flight and expulsion of Germans in 1946 and a short stay in the Kleinwelka camp near Bautzen, he passed his Abitur in Großenhain in 1947. He then studied musicology (music history, systematic musicology and music ethnology), German studies and philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin until 1951. In 1952, he moved to the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his studies in 1953 with the dissertation ''Hörbare Vorbilder in der Instrumentalmusik bis 1750. Untersuchungen der Vorgeschichte der Programmmusik''. After completing his doctorate, Unverricht worked at the Berlin Berlin Musical Instrument Museum and then in the foreign department of the GEMA in Berlin. From 1956 to 1962, he was a research assistant at the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne. In the winter semester of 1962/63, he moved to the Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrey Von Dommer
Arrey von Dommer (9 February 1828 – 18 February 1905) was a German music critic, librarian and music historian. His articles about musicians appear in the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''. Life Dommer was born in Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland) in 1828. He studied composition with Johann Christian Lobe and Ernst Richter in Leipzig, and afterwards was a music teacher. In 1863 he moved to Hamburg, where he was a music critic and from 1873 librarian in the city library. Dadelsen, Georg von"Dommer (von Domarus genannt von Dommer), Arrey von"''Neue Deutsche Biographie'', 1959. He published in 1865 an enlarged edition of Heinrich Christoph Koch's 1802 reference work on music, the ''Musikalische Lexikon''. Articles from Dommer's edition are included in the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''. In 1868 he published the ''Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, von den ersten Anfängen bis zum Tode Beethovens'' ("Handbook of the history of music, from the first beginnings up to the death of Beethove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Gottlieb Bürde
Samuel Gottlieb Bürde (7 December 1753 – 28 April 1831) was a German poet. Life Born in Breslau, Bürde was born the son of a church servant. In Breslau, he attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium; the headmaster there made Bürde aware of poetry. He studied law in Halle. from 1776 to 1778, he was a teacher at a school in Breslau. Later Bürde travelled through Switzerland and Italy. From 1781, he worked as a chamber secretary in his home town. In 1783, Bürde was appointed secretary of the Polish border commission and in 1795 secretary of the Silesian Ministry of Finance. Eleven years later he became director of the chamber and chancellery. Another nine years later, in 1815, he was a member of the royal court council. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthäus Stegmayer
Matthäus Stegmayer, also Matthias Stegmayer (29 April 1771 – 10 May 1820); the year of death is also given differently as 1810 ) was an Austrian composer, musician, music publisher, librettist and actor. Life and career Born in Vienna, Stegmayer was the son of a master tailor and citizen of Vienna and the father of Karl Stegmayer (1800-1862), the author of several montanistic half-timbering but also of stage plays, as well as of the conductor, choirmaster of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein and founder of the Wiener Singakademie Ferdinand Stegmayer (1801-1863), and Wilhelm Stegmayer (* 1805), in his youth a child actor, whose trace was later lost as a first lieutenant in the k.k. Austrian infantry regiment "Herzog von Wellington" No 42. Stegmayer was a member of the Wiener Sängerknaben in the Dominican Church, Vienna and attended the Akademische Gymnasium from 1783 to 1789, but following his inclination he joined the acting society of Johann Christian Kunz and in 179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singspiel
A Singspiel (; plural: ; ) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often strophic, or folk-like. Singspiel plots are generally comic or romantic in nature, and frequently include elements of magic, fantastical creatures, and comically exaggerated characterizations of good and evil. __TOC__ History Some of the first Singspiele were miracle plays in Germany, where dialogue was interspersed with singing. By the early 17th century, miracle plays had grown profane, the word "Singspiel" is found in print, and secular Singspiele were also being performed, both in translated borrowings or imitations from English and Italian songs and plays, and in original German creations. In the 18th century, some Singspiele were translations of English ballad operas. In 1736, the Prussian ambassador to England commissioned a translation of the bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Rochlitz
Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (12 February 1769 – 16 December 1842) was a German playwright, musicologist and art and music critic. His most notable work is his autobiographical account ''Tage der Gefahr'' (''Days of Danger'') about the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 — in ''Kunst und Altertum'', Goethe called it "one of the most wondrous productions ever to have been written". A Friedrich-Rochlitz-Preis for art criticism is named after him — it is awarded by the Leipzig Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kritik and was presented for the fourth time in 2009. Life Friedrich Rochlitz was born in Leipzig, where he attended the Thomasschule, and where, from 1789 to 1791, he studied theology, before working as a private tutor. In 1798 he founded the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, along with Gottfried Christoph Härtel, serving as its editor until 1818. He planned to marry the harpist Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel and so Duke Karl August made him a privy councillor of the Duchy of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Friedrich Hensler
Karl Friedrich Hensler (1 February 1759 – 24 November 1825)Karl Friedrich Hensler data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 25 January 2018. was a dramatist and theatre manager in Vienna. Life Hensler was born in in 1759, son of a ducal physician of Württemberg, and studied at the . From 1784 he lived in Vienna, where an uncle sought to obtain a diplomatic career for him. |
Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early life Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi, a native of Assisi, had taken service in the Corsican regiment of the papal forces. Felice married a Bolognese woman, Francesca Galasti, and became a grocer in the ''Via dei Cappellari''. The couple had two sons and two daughters; Pietro was the younger son. Pietro, while still a child, is said to have attracted crowds by reciting impromptu verses on a given subject. On one such occasion in 1709, two men of distinction stopped to listen: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, famous for legal and literary erudition as well as his directorship of the Arcadian Academy, and Lorenzini, a critic of some note. Gravina was attracted by the boy's poetic talent and personal charm, and made Pietro h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballenstedt
Ballenstedt is a town in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Geography It is situated at the northern rim of the Harz mountain range, about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Quedlinburg. The municipal area comprises the villages of Asmusstedt, Badeborn, Opperode, Radisleben, and Rieder. Ballenstedt is a stop on the scenic Romanesque Road. History The Saxon count Esico of Ballenstedt (c. 1000–1059/60) was mentioned in a 1030 entry in the medieval chronicles of the Annalista Saxo and in a 1036 deed issued by Emperor Conrad II. He was a son of one Count Adalbert, who held the office of a ''Vogt'' of Nienburg Abbey, and Hidda, a daughter of Margrave Odo I of the Saxon Ostmark. Esico, whose sister Uta married Margrave Eckard II of Meissen is considered the progenitor of the House of Ascania. He had a collegiate church erected in Ballenstedt, dedicated to Saints Pancras and Abundius, in the presence of Emperor Henry III in 1046. Ballenstedt church wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
