Adolf Eduard Marschner

Sebastian Adolf Eduard Marschner (born March 5, 1819 in Grünberg , Silesia , † September 9, 1853 in Leipzig ) was a German composer .

Life

Marschner was the nephew of the better known composer Heinrich Marschner . In 1831 he began studying law at the University of Leipzig , which he gave up after a year to devote himself entirely to music. After a private music education, Marschner worked as a singing and piano teacher in Leipzig .

In 1840 Marschner was admitted to the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms ; some time later he worked as a music master in his box.

In the field of vocal music, von Marschner published around 30 piano-accompanied solo songs and, to a lesser extent, songs for male choirs, of which the fatherland songs “And do you hear the mighty sounding”, “Gute Nacht” and “Das Königslied” gained particular popularity. He also composed some pieces for piano.

With Ludwig Richter he published two song books around 1844–47: Old and New Student Songs and Old and New Folk Songs .

literature

• Meike Tiemeyer-Schütte: The German singing system in South Australia before the outbreak of the First World War between preservation of Germanness and Anglicanization. LIT, Münster / Hamburg / London 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4601-6 .
• A. Dean-Palmer: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Second Edition 2001, p. 886.
• Otto Werner Förster: Register of the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palm trees in Leipzig. Leipzig 2004.

Web links

• Works by and about Adolf Eduard Marschner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Adolf Eduard Marschner in the International Music Score Library Project