Aloys Schmitt
Aloys Schmitt (born August 26, 1788 in Erlenbach am Main ; † July 25, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German composer , pianist and music teacher .
Life
Aloys Schmitt received his first music lessons from his father Franz Bartholomäus Schmitt , an organist. He then lived for five years in the house of the music publisher André , where he was taught by Johann Georg Vollweiler , among others . In 1824 he was appointed chamber composer in Munich and in 1850 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen .
Ferdinand Hiller , Carl Almenräder and Carl Arnold are among his students . He also taught his son Georg Alois Schmitt and his younger brother Jacob Schmitt .
family
He was married to Auguste Karoline Wohl (1802–1872). The couple had two daughters and four sons, including:
- Georg Ludwig Alois Franziscus Schmitt (born February 2, 1827 in Hanover; † October 15, 1902 in Dresden), court conductor in Schwerin ∞ Cornelia Czanyi (1851–1906), singer, daughter of the Hungarian professor Daniel von Czany (1820–1867).
- Gustav Wilhelm Carl Schmitt (born December 9, 1837 in Frankfurt am Main; † March 22, 1900 in Clevedon ), composer and conductor in New Zealand ∞ Lucy Elizabeth Reeves
- Antonia Schmitt (December 1824, † October 14, 1859), pianist ∞ Julius von Haast (1822–1887) German geologist, naturalist, emigrated to New Zealand
- August Schmitt (1830–1866)
- Franziska Josephine Schmitt (1833–1914) ∞ Dr. János Henrik Ritter von Floch-Reyhersberg (* 1824, † after 1905), Hungarian Finance Councilor, emigrated to Australia
- Adolf Schmitt, PhD chemist
literature
- Weber: Schmitt, Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 42-45.
- Horst Zänger: Alois Schmitt: A life for music , BoD
- Julius Schuberth, Small musical conversation lexicon , p.350
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Aloys Schmitt in the International Music Score Library Project
- Works by and about Aloys Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Image by Cornelia Schmitt-Czanyi
- Grave site in Frankfurt
- Carl Gustav Schmitt Encyclopedia of Newseeland
Individual evidence
- ^ Frankfurt, Institute for Urban History
- ↑ Biographical data from: Julius Drag, Hertha drag, memories, 1864–1925 , p. 359.
- ↑ according to some sources also † 1904
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitt, Aloys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erlenbach am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1866 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |