Franz Hauser

Franz Hauser ( born January 12, 1794 in Krasowitz ( Moravia ), today Krasovice, community Kondrac, Okres Benešov, Czech Republic, † August 14, 1870 in Freiburg i Br ) was a singer, singing teacher and music collectors.

Life

He studied medicine at his father's request, but devoted himself after the death of the music and studied composition and singing with Johann Wenzel Tomaschek and Joseph Triebensee.

His stage debut was in 1817 in Prague as Sarastro. There, as well as the opera houses of Vienna, Leipzig and Berlin, he worked with great success. 1846 Hauser was called to Munich in order to establish the local Royal Conservatory, which he directed until 1864 as director. After his retirement in 1865 he moved to Karlsruhe and two years later to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he died on 14 August 1870.

Hauser had as a vocal coach numerous pupils, including Jenny Lind and Henrietta Sontag. He wrote a Teaching Vocal lesson for teachers and learners (Leipzig 1866). As a composer he is best known for single and multi- part songs. His correspondence with Moritz Hauptmann was published in 1871 ( letters to Franz Hauser, Leipzig, 2 volumes).

Musicological importance was Hauser mainly by its collection of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, which eventually counted among the most important of the 19th century. Most manuscripts - including 19 cantatas, sonatas for violin with obbligato piano and the English Suites in the autograph of JS Bach - 1904 were acquired by the Royal Library, others were auctioned or destroyed in 1945 in part. Remainders of the collection are in the Hessian state and university library Darmstadt.

His son Moritz Hauser (1826-1857) was, among other things as a theater director in Königsberg ( Prussia) worked, he also composed, especially songs as well as an opera. His son Joseph Hauser (1828-1903) worked as a chamber singer in Karlsruhe.