Julius Stern

Julius (aka Isaiah Isaac ) asterisk (* August 8, 1820 in Breslau, † 27 February 1883 in Berlin) was a German music teacher and composer of Jewish faith.

Life

Together with his sister and his parents came Stern in 1832 to Berlin and had to be able to enter as an apprentice in a silk factory, before he was accepted as an apprentice at the Music section of the Berlin Academy of Arts and was able to study composition. A scholarship of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV he studied voice in Paris was made possible. Here he was the successor of Conradin Kreutzer German singing club and learned Giacomo Meyerbeer - who also patronized him - and know Hector Berlioz.

After his return to Berlin, he sang from 1834 to 1843 in the Sing- Akademie zu Berlin and founded in 1847 its own glee club, who soon presented a serious competition for the Sing-Akademie. With this he led first works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, later the Missa Solemnis and the 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven on.

Together with Theodor Kullak and Adolf Bernhard Marx, he founded in 1850 the " school of music for voice, piano and composition." On January 20, 1852 he married eleven years younger Elisabeth Meyer ( 1831-1919 ), daughter of the Berlin businessman Izzy Meyer, whose sister Jenny Meyer ( 1834-1894 ), later a concert singer was estimated. From 1857, after the resignation of the two co-founders, the school was renamed as the Stern'sche Conservatory. The Institute was one of the most important places for training young musicians in Berlin and had to show both major teachers and students. In addition to the sole management of the conservatory star also took over the conductor's post of the choir of the synagogue of the Reform congregation in St. John street under Rabbi Samuel Holdheim.

In 1855 he founded an orchestra association, however, due to economic problems did not last long. Later, he led the Berlin Symphony Capelle until he retired in 1873 as a conductor. In the same year he joined the Society of Friends.

The grave of Julius Stern is located in the Jewish Cemetery Weissensee in field A1, Row 22

At a young age star composed a series of songs that were very popular in their time.