Karl Adam Bader, also known as Carl Adam Bader, was a German cathedral organist and Berlin Court Opera tenor. He was born in

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main (river), Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in ...

in 1789 and died in

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in 1870.

Biography

Bader was the son of a Bamberg organist, and his family encouraged his musical education. In 1807, he became the organist for the

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and became choirmaster there in 1809. In 1810, he debuted as a tenor at Bamberg. He worked in Munich from 1812 to 1816, and in October 1813, he married colleague Sophie Laurent. From December 1816 to July 1817, he worked at the

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Theater under directors Carl Gerber and Ringelhardt. He debuted again as a tenor on 30 May 1818 for Rossini's ''

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'' in Brunswick and remained there until 1820. He became the opera director of the Berlin Court Opera in from 1844 to 1849. For the rest of his life, he remained the music director at

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