Carl (or Karl) Schlesinger (August 19, 1813 – 1871) was a cellist.
He originally played the violin.
From 1838 onwards, he worked as a solo cellist successively for the
Pesth National Theatre in
Budapest
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and the
Imperial Opera orchestra in
Vienna
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. He was a member of the
Hellmesberger Quartet
The Hellmesberger Quartet was a string quartet formed in Vienna in 1849. It was founded by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. and was the first permanent named String Quartet.
Composition
Violinist Leopold Jansa had started a string quartet in 1845. Hellme ...
, which was formed in 1849.
In 1862 he was appointed professor of cello at the
Vienna Conservatoire
The Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna ( (MUK)) in Vienna, Austria, is a university of music and the arts. It was previously (2005−2015) named (KONSuni, Konservatorium Wien University), and before that (Conservatory of Vienna). ...
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German classical cellists
1813 births
1871 deaths
19th-century German musicians
19th-century classical musicians
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