Carl Siegemund Schönebeck

Carl Wins mouth Beautiful Beck ( born October 26, 1758 in Lubben, † in the 19th century ) was a German cellist and composer. Most of the works of the largely forgotten composers are missing. His surviving compositions seem to original and reminiscent of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Life

Beautiful Beck should be a surgeon, but felt so attracted to the music that he got lessons from his 14 years on the town musician of Lubben according to the will of his parents. Despite long years of apprenticeship, and later in the Silesian Grünberg, Beautiful Beck learned largely self-taught several wind instruments and violin. As a cello virtuoso came after Grunberg, whose game charmed him so much that he is also taught this instrument that was entirely new to him self.

After two years, the private chapel of the Counts of Dohna took in the Silesian Kotzenau on the young cellist. 1780 Beautiful Beck became the town musician of Sorau in Lower Lusatia. To further perfecting his game, he traveled to Potsdam, where he heard the French cello virtuoso Jean -Louis Duport, and to Dresden, to make music with the also French cellist Jean- Balthasar Tricklir.

1787 Beautiful Beck moved into the chapel of the Duke of Courland in the Silesian Sagan. Four years later he entered the service of the Earl Steward to Waldenburg at Konigsberg in Prussia. There he remained for two years, until he went to Konigsberg, where he played as a cellist in the orchestra and as a church organist. Again, four years later tried Beautiful Beck and his wife as farmers Lubben - without success.

The cellist resorted to compositions and music lessons in his native city. In 1800, he joined with his own works in Leipzig.

Beautiful Beck's year of death is unknown. Ernst Ludwig Gerber's " New Dictionary of Musicians " describes him in 1814 published the fourth volume of more than a living virtuosos, while other sources mention as death in 1806.

Works

Beautiful Beck composed operettas, duets for two cellos and cello and viola, string quartets, as well as concerts for cello, for Flute, French Horn and Clarinet. Most of these works are lost.