Hermann Berens

Johann Hermann Berens ( born April 7, 1826 in Hamburg, † May 9, 1880 in Stockholm ) was a German pianist and composer.

Berens received his first lessons from his father, Conrad (1801-1857), the local military music director, who was a renowned flutist and composer also. The summit was also the father of the violinist Adolph Berens and music publisher Ernst Berens. The latter was the father of Ferdinand Thieriot. Hermann Berens later studied for two years at Carl Gottlieb Reißiger in Dresden the composition.

After he had made ​​in 1845 with singer Marietta Alboni a concert tour through Germany, he lived in Hamburg exclusively for composing. In 1847 he went to Stockholm, where he acquired a respectable position by reason of quartet soirees.

In 1849, Berens music director in Örebro, 1860 Music at the Mindretheater in Stockholm and later orchestral conductor of the Royal Theater, and was appointed professor of composition and member of the Academy was there. He died in Stockholm on 9 May 1880.

Berens has done in all genres of composition recognition value, but especially on dramatic territory as its listed in Stockholm acclaimed operas ( Violetta ) and his three operettas ( The Midsummer Night's Dream, Lully and Quinault and Riccardo ) prove. He also wrote incidental music to Kodros.

An unusual work is his piano school care of the left hand ( Opus 89) with over 70 Etudes. It helps to today numerous piano students to approximate ambidexterity. He also left numerous sonorous solo songs and some organ works.