Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn ( born November 14, 1811 in Elbing, † April 30, 1886 in Berlin) was a German conductor, composer and music writer who has worked primarily in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga.

Life

Truhn is the son of Nathaniel Chamberlain Truhn and the grandfather of Selma Erdmann Jesnitzer born Bethge Truhn, and father of Clara Truhn and Anna Marie Elisabeth Truhn.

As a student of Siegfried Dehn, Carl Friedrich Zelter and Bernhard Klein in Berlin, he worked as a young man in the years 1835-37 as a theater conductor and music teacher in Gdansk. Back in Berlin, he wrote and edited for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, the Hamburger Correspondent and the arts section of the New Berlin music newspaper. In 1848 he returned to his birthplace, where he worked until 1852 as a music teacher and conductor. Intermediate term again worked as a freelancer in Berlin, he was hired by 1854-58 in Riga as vocal and theory teacher. He then settled permanently settled in Berlin. He is a composer of many songs and several stage works and was a key organizer in the field of men's choirs ( he founded such as the New Liedertafel in Berlin).

Works (selection)

And Songs for Male Choir

  • The fisherman op 1 (1832 )
  • The beautiful waitress from Bacharach, Op 13 (1836 )
  • Seraphina, Op 19 (after Heine, arbor, Eichendorff )
  • Songs, Op 21 (after Goethe )
  • The beetles boys for 4 male voices with accompaniment, Op 30 (1839 )
  • A love story in 12 songs op 64
  • The boy's death ( Uhland ) op 82
  • The fathers tomb, Op 105 (1853)
  • L' Abbandonata

Choral works

  • Mahadöh for solo voices, eight-voice choir and orchestra ( 1846)
  • The Farewell (after Uhland ) for solo voices, chorus and orchestra ( 1850)

Stage Works

  • The four-year post ( after Th grains), Singspiel in one act (1833 );
  • Trilby (after L. Schneider ), comic opera in two acts ( 1835);
  • Cleopatra, melodrama ( for Johanna Wagner, 1853)

Writings

  • About the art of singing and the teaching of art song (1872 )
  • The old Prima Donna and the music lover, Berlin 1844 ( digitized )
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