Carl Amand Mangold

Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold ( born October 8, 1813 in Darmstadt; † August 4, 1889 in Oberstdorf ) was a German conductor and composer.

Life

Taught by his brother, the court conductor Wilhelm Friedrich Mangold, he was inducted in 1831 as a violinist in the Grand Ducal Court Orchestra Darmstadt. He attended from 1836 to 1839 the Paris Conservatory and studied with Luigi Cherubini. Mangold was then from 1839 until his death in 1889 director of the Darmstadt Music Association and from 1848 also music director of the Darmstadt court theater. He sat down to rest in 1869.

His compositions are rich in folk - orchestrated singable melodies and original. The celebrated Jenny Lind loved to wear in front of his songs. Especially Mangold song compost ions after Heinrich Heine found in Germany dissemination. His oratorio Abraham (1859 ) and his concert drama The Hermannsschlacht included in the mid-19th century, the most frequently performed stage works in Germany, where the genus " concert drama" was developed by Mangold.

Lately, the interest in Mangold's work rises again noticeable, which is not least to thank the Darmstadt Concert Choir and its founder and director Wolfgang Seeliger. For example, great romantic opera Tanhäuser was specially issued and listed for the Darmstadt Residenzfestspiele 2006 by the concert choir and student assistants Mangold. Additional performances are planned.

Works (selection)

  • FIESCO, opera (1840, not shown )
  • The Kohler girls or The tournament to Linz (H. Wilke ), romantic opera, Act 3 (1843 Darmstadt)
  • Tanhäuser ( Eduard Duller ), Opera, Act 4 (1843 - 1845 1846 Darmstadt)
  • Sleeping Beauty ( Duller ), ballet and singing with melodrama (1848 Darmstadt)
  • The fisherwoman (Goethe), Singspiel, Act 1 (1848 )
  • Rubezahl ( Duller ), opera (1848 )
  • Gudrun (CA Mangold ), grand opera, 4 acts, Op 36 (1850, 1851 Darmstadt)
  • The Cantor of spruce Hagen, comic opera, Act 2
  • Abraham, oratorio (1859 )
  • Wittekind, oratorio
  • Israel in the wilderness, oratorio
  • Elysium, Symphony Cantata
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