Karl Traugott Queisser

Karl Traugott Queisser ( born January 11, 1800 Döben in Grimsby, † June 12, 1846 in Leipzig ) was a German trombonist and violinist and member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

In 1817 he came to Leipzig and sent the town musician Wilhelm Leberecht Barth " in condition". He also took the concertmaster Matthäi violin lessons. From 1824 he is principal violist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. About his development as a trombonist writes a witness, " but what concerns the trombone so he could get no actual artistic instruction basically by at that time the instrument, especially in the urban music choirs, was at a very low level of development, one was nothing more than the Accordlage the trains show him, and he saw himself thus in this regard at their own study pointed out. At what stupendous championship he brought it on this difficult instruments, the whole world knows. " The trumpet was but known as Stadtpfeifer tool and as an instrument in military bands, but there was in Leipzig no way to be trained in this subject. As a solo instrument, the trombone has first been hardly used in Saxony, apart from a few appearances by FA Belcke (1795-1872) from which, however, after only a year in Leipzig to Berlin went to the Royal Chapel. 1820, nor during his time at town musician Barth, Queißer got a first opportunity to perform as soloist trombone at the Gewandhaus. He played a composition by the Gewandhaus violinist Carl Heinrich Meyer (1772-1837) with integrated Posauensolo. In 1829 he was appointed co-director of the Music Association " Euterpe " and is this young competition Orchestra of the Gewandhaus temporarily as concertmaster ago.

In addition to numerous concerts in Leipzig, he also appeared as a soloist in Germany, including in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. The sudden death of Carl Traugott Queisser on June 12, 1846 triggered a great concern among the Leipzig music friends. A two-column article on the life and work of Queißer appears as obituary in the " general musical newspaper". The Foreign Press, for example, in Berlin, recognizes him as a great virtuoso and lovely people. Two days later he was buried with great sympathy on the old St. John's Cemetery. His friends and admirers organized in his memory and to support his survivors, several concerts, one of which was from 150 contributors, under the direction of Albert Lortzingstraße before 4000! Listeners in the garden, where the shooter's house. In another concert Ferdinand David and Felix Mendelssohn played the Kreutzer Sonata by Beethoven, to honor the estimated Queißer of them.