Karl Graedener

Karl Graedener ( born January 14, 1812 in Rostock, † June 10, 1883 in Hamburg ) was a German composer.

Graedener was 1835-1838 cellist in Helsingfors, after ten years music director of the University of Kiel. In 1851 he founded a singing school in Hamburg, which he headed until 1861. From 1862 to 1865 he taught voice and music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, then until his death at the Hamburg Conservatory.

He composed three operas, two symphonies, a piano concerto, overtures, a violin romance, chamber music, piano pieces, including several collections of miniatures (flying leaves, flying leaves, variations, Great studies and reveries, Small Impromptus ), choral works and songs.

His son Hermann Graedener became known as a composer.

Writings

• System of harmony. Grädener, Hamburg 1877.