Friedrich Wilhelm Grund

Friedrich Wilhelm Grund ( born October 7, 1791 in Hamburg, † November 24, 1874 in Hamburg) was a German composer, conductor and music teacher.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Grund was born as the son of music teacher Georg Friedrich reason and Christiane Eleonore Steinert. With his father he learned to play piano, violin, cello and double bass. Also in the city Kantor Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke he was taught.

Because of a nervous suffering on his right hand, he had to end his career in 1819 as an active musician and from then on worked as a composer, conductor and music teacher. In the same year he founded together with Jacob Steinfeldt (1788-1869, also a student Schwencke ) the Society of Friends of the religious song (later the Hamburg Academy of Music ). He led the Philharmonic Society founded in 1828 as an association for the performance of winter concerts for 34 years. Reason was in 1847 one of the founders of the Hamburg Association of Musicians.

His siblings were also musicians known his sisters Christiane Sengstacke were (1783-1867, pianist and singer ) and Henriette ( pianist and singer ) and his brother Edward ( 1802-1871, Kapellmeister to Meiningen ).

Works

  • Quartet for piano, violin, viola and cello, Op 5 ( string version of Op 8)
  • Quintet for Piano Oboe, Clarinet Horn and Bassoon, Op 8 - Comp Hamburg 1816 ( Musica Aeterna publisher)
  • Violin Sonata, Op 9
  • Sonata for piano and cello or violin, Op 11
  • Grand Sonata, op 13 ( Cello Sonata )
  • Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello, Op 13
  • Grande Polonaise, Op 14
  • Large 12 Etudes, Op 21
  • Grand Divertissement, Op 23 ( Divertimento, for four-hand piano and cello or violin or flute)
  • Introduction et rondeau, Op 25 (piano)
  • Trio de salon, Op 27
  • Several cantatas occasion secular celebrations, inaugurations, anniversaries: Cantate at the inauguration of the new hamburgischen high-school, school & library building at 5th and May 7th, 1840
  • Cantate to the third Säcular - Feyer the Hamburg Johanneums on 24 May 1829
  • Cantate to the third Säcularfeier the Federal Constitution: Hamburg, on Michaelmas Day 1828
  • Cantate at the inauguration of the new exchange in Hamburg, on 2 December 1841
  • Cantata for five and zwanzigj. Office Jubilee of Rev. d. August H. Jacob Rambach, Theol. D. U. Sen. D. Hamb. Ministerii, as senior pastor at St. Michael's, on Sunday Laetare, d March 17, 1844

Swell

  • Josef Sittard: History of Music and Concert system in Hamburg. From the 14th century to the present. C. A. Rehor, Altona 1890.www.archive.org
  • The music in past and present. Barenreiter -Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH Co. KG and JB Metz Kindler Verlagsbuchhandlung and Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart.
  • Biographical data of www.operone.de, accessed on October 30, 2012
  • Raisonné of www.klassika.info, accessed on October 30, 2012
  • Lyrics at www.recmusic.org, accessed on October 30, 2012
  • History of the Hamburg Philharmonic, accessed on October 30, 2012
  • Notes and audio files from Friedrich Wilhelm Grund ( composer ) in the International Music Score Library Project
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