Anton Halm
Karl Anton Halm (born June 5, 1789 in Haselberg in Töschlitz-Haus Altenmarkt 11 (today Kladik-Haus Altenmarkt 102), municipality of Wies in Styria (Austria); † April 6, 1872 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and piano teacher.
Life
Halms father was an innkeeper and "Hofstaetter". From 1808 to 1811 Halm was an officer in the Imperial and Royal Army. After working as a piano teacher in Graz , where he had also received his music training, he stayed from 1813 to 1815 mainly as a house music teacher for a noble family in Hungary. In the course of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 he went to Vienna, where he met Ludwig van Beethoven and performed his works several times. In 1826 he made a four-hand piano version of the Great Fugue op. 133 by Beethoven on behalf of the Artaria publishing house , which Beethoven disliked and eventually led him to do a piano transcription himself. Halm worked in Vienna as a composer and piano teacher until his death. His students included u. a. Julius Epstein , Stephen Heller and Adolf Henselt .
Karl Anton Halm's catalog raisonné includes piano compositions and chamber music as well as a Great Mass in E flat major. He also delivered a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli (Diabelli had a total of 50 contemporary composers inspired to each a variation on one he composed waltzes; Beethoven processed this topic in its extensive 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli , Op 120th ).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Halm, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 257 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Halm Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 162.
- Blume, Friedrich (Ed.): Music in the past and present , 1st edition, 1949–1986
- Anton Halm Society Wies
- Official notices of the market town of Wies, 6th edition - August 1998
Web links
- Catalog of works on www.klassika.info
- Digital archive, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, mention of Halms in connection with the fugue for string quartet op.134
- A. Wheelock Thayer: Ludwig van Beethoven's life Volume 5, Chapter 3: The year 1826 to December, in it Halms mentioned several times
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SURNAME | Halm, Anton |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Halm, Karl Anton (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and piano teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1789 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenmarkt near Wies |
DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1872 |
Place of death | Vienna |