August Lindner (composer)

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August Lindner (also: Auguste Lindner and Roderich Auguste Lindner ; born October 28, 1820 in Dessau , † June 14, 1878 in Hanover ) was a German composer and cellist .

Life

August Lindner was born as the son of the Dessau clarinetist, violinist and composer Friedrich Lindner (* 1798; † August 1, 1846). For his musical training he received cello lessons from Karl Drechsler , and from Friedrich Schneider he learned to compose.

Lindner first studied music in his home town of Dessau before moving to the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover in April 1837 , where he became a member of the Hanoverian court orchestra . He concerted 1837-1869 Tutti Cello first under the Kapellmeister Heinrich Marschner especially in the Castle Opera House and later at the Court Theater, later the Opera House . Here Lindner also played under the Kapellmeister Bernhard Scholz and Karl Ludwig Fischer , under the concertmaster Joseph Joachim and the artistic directors Julius von Platen and Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf .

Meanwhile, Lindner had been appointed royal court and chamber musician on March 17, 1851 . From 1855 to 1866 he also played in the first so-called “Joachim Quartet” or “Joachim Quartet”: Together with August Lindner and the brothers Karl Eyertt and Gustav Eyertt, Joseph Joachim helped the chamber music to break through with the founding of this quartet Audience, to whom the musicians were introduced to almost the entire string quartet literature of the Classical and Romantic periods in matinees and soirées.

From 1869 until the year of his death in 1878, August Lindner played the first solo cello, while after the founding of the empire in the - now Prussian - province of Hanover in 1876 he was promoted to royal concertmaster .

In the last year of his life, the Hanover address book recorded the concertmaster for the year 1878 at the address Schiffgraben 24 , neighboring house. The widow of the “town musician”, however, had already moved into the apartment on the second floor of Marienstraße 26 in 1879 .

Archival material

Archival material from and about August Lindner can be found, for example

  • as an index card for the musician in the Lower Saxony State Orchestra.

Works (selection)

  • Compositions for cello with accompaniment of the pianoforte , published by Christian Bachmann , Hanover:
    • Opus 3: Fantasy on two German songs "Mein Reichtum" by Reissiger and "An Adelheid" by Karl August Krebs
    • Op. 4: L'infidèle. Elegy
    • Opus 25: Concert piece about melodies from the opera " Norma (Opera) "
    • Opus 28: Swiss scene
    • Scene and aria “How did the slumber approach me?” Transferred from Der Freischütz
  • Bagatelles, Kl 4hdg., Op.24
  • August Lindner (composer), Julius Klengel (arranger): Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in E minor, op. 34 , Brühl: Musikverlag Fr. Kistner & CFW Siegel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): Lindner, August , in this .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 181 et al .: limited preview in the Google book search
  3. ↑ Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition . Digital edition in version 3.4.2 from February 8, 2019, online
  4. ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1878, section I, 3: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and trading companies , p. 472; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) via the German Research Foundation
  5. ^ Address book ... 1879 , Dept. 1,3: Alphabetical directory ... , p. 480; Digitized version of the GWLB
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindner, Auguste; Lindner, Roderich Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist, court and chamber musician, concertmaster and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1878
Place of death Hanover