Alfred Dörffel

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Alfred Dörffel (born January 24, 1821 in Waldenburg (Saxony) , † January 22, 1905 in Leipzig ) was a German pianist and music publisher .

Life

The son of the Princely Schönburg Chamber Councilor August Friedrich Dörffel (1788–1847) and his wife Christiane Charlotte born. Kröhne received his first music lessons from the Waldenburg organist Johann Adolf Trube. Later he took music lessons in Leipzig with Gottfried Wilhelm Fink , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann . He was the brother of Ottokar Dörffel , mayor of Glauchau at the time of the revolution in 1848/49 and later in Joinville (Brazil) .

Dörffel was an editor at the music publishers Breitkopf & Härtel and CF Peters . He was a guide through the world of music out, translated the Instrumentationslehre of Hector Berlioz and edited several volumes of the complete edition of Bach Gesellschaft . He was a recognized music critic and wrote for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the Musikalisches Wochenblatt . Dörffel founded a library for musical literature, which formed the basis for the Peters music library in Leipzig, which opened in 1894. He also worked as curator of the music department of the Leipzig City Library .

Dörffel had been a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Balduin zur Linde since 1842 and composed numerous pieces of music for the lodge, mostly to texts by Gotthard Oswald Marbach .

The University of Leipzig awarded Dörffel an honorary doctorate in 1885. Gustav Flügel dedicated his Op. 38 Three Piano Pieces (1856, Leipzig, Merseburger).

Dörffel was married to Charlotte Louise Benigna b. Trabert, together they had numerous children, whose descendants meet regularly to this day and are organized in the Kröneschen Familientag eV.

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SURNAME Dörffel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1905
Place of death Leipzig