Franz Abt

Franz Wilhelm Abt (born 22 December 1819 in a hurry castle, † March 31, 1885 in Wiesbaden ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

He received his first music lessons from his father. After graduating from the St. Thomas School, he studied theology and music in Leipzig. Contemporaries were there. Included Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

After his studies he worked as a conductor in Bernburg (Saale ), as well as working as a choral director in Zurich. Middle of the 19th century, he took a few years, the function of Head of subscription concerts of the Music Society, (AMG) in Zurich true.

1853 Abbot was appointed to the Court Theatre Braunschweig, where he worked for thirty years as Kapellmeister and devoted himself to the choir beings. So he founded a " Singing Academy ", was conductor of the Brunswick Male Choir and "General Singing Master " at the feasts of the Federal North German choral societies. In this time he composed a total of 3000 works, especially choral and piano songs.

Numerous concert tours have taken him to France, England and Russia. In 1872 he visited North America and was with his choir in many major U.S. cities concerts.

With his early sixties, he had to put 1882 because of an illness to rest. He decided to take his retirement home in Wiesbaden, Germany, and lived in the Taunus Strasse. After a short illness, Franz Abt died here on March 31, 1885.

It is reported that all the lanterns were in the streets through which led the funeral procession, lit and covered with black cloth. It was one of the biggest funerals in Wiesbaden.

His final resting place he found on the North Cemetery, where the city of Wiesbaden and the German singing societies built him a cenotaph. The grave monument bears the inscription " Dedicated by the German singing societies ". It is a short, squat pillar with a bust that was created by the Wiesbaden-based sculptor Hermann Schies.

Compared with the Staatstheater Braunschweig a monument of Karl Meier Real was built in 1891, which melted with the exception of the portrait bust in the Second World War and in 1960 redesigned by Karl Egon Paul Schiffer. The original bust is located in the State Museum of Braunschweig. There is another monument (1913 ) on the South Promenade ( Dr. Külz ring ) in a hurry castle.

Abbot was a member of the Freemasons, his Brunswick Lodge Carl for winning column, he devoted several cantatas.

In Wiesbaden, a street is named after him at the end of the Taunus Strasse. In a hurry castle there near his birthplace a Franz Abt- road as well as a listed bronze plaque (1887 ). Also Braunschweig and Munich dedicated to him a Abtstraße.

Works

Abbot is the creator of secular as well as sacred works:

Songs

  • Evening 's become darkness enfolds us (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • Pan-Germany
  • In the sky the lark rises (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • Are you close to me (text by Thomas Moore)
  • This is ugly decorated in Life ( Text: Joseph Victor von Scheffel )
  • The Kiel surge around the wild waves (Text: Carl Wilhelm Batz )
  • The summer has passed (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • You are in the beam Dress (Text: Edward Kauffer )
  • You know where (Text: Peter Cornelius )
  • It blooms the flower (Text: William Floto )
  • Farewell, my country (Text: Carl Wilhelm Batz )
  • Mowed are the fields of stubble wind blows (Text: Victor Blüthgen )
  • Johnny 'd be a rider (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • Out into the Lustgeschmetter (Text: Peter Cornelius )
  • I know a large garden (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • In the eyes of the heart (: Franz von Hess Peter text ) is
  • Cool and quiet is the night (Text: Rudolf Bunge)
  • My eternal song you're (Text: Karl Heinrich Preller )
  • With cheers the lark rises (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • Now is the loud day fades ( Ave Maria op.533 )
  • O if I were on the Neckar, o I were on the Rhine (Text: Otto Roquette )
  • Sleep well in the valley of the shadow (Text: Ida of Düringsfeld )
  • Already it begins to dawn (Text: Emanuel Geibel )
  • Serenade (Text: Rudolf Bunge)
  • Solar de sun I greet you (Text: Karl Heinrich Preller )
  • Fir Green (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • And do you want from me divorce (Text: Wilhelm Hertz)
  • Shiner under dry branches (Text: Carl Preser )
  • Passing over the dark night (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • Waldandacht (Text: Leberecht Blücher Drewes, 1816-1870 )
  • What you are to me (Text: B. Rudolph)
  • If I were a bird (Text: Georg Christian Dieffenbach )
  • How could I forget your (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Faller life )
  • St. Albans - Mass in C major, Op 66

Singspiele

  • The King's sharpshooter. Libretto by H. Lindau. composed in 1873
  • Travel acquaintances. One act Libretto by Xaver Franz Seidl. World Premiere: 1875 Offenbach
  • The main sample. Performance data is not known
  • The Seven Ravens. Fairy tale one act Libretto by Hermann Francke. Performance data is not known
  • Rubezahl. Fairy tale one act Libretto by Hermann Francke. Performance data is not known
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