Berwald (family)

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The neumärkisch - Swedish family Berwald brought in the 18th and 19th centuries in three generations a number of important musicians and composers produced.

  • In Johann Daniel Berwald was († 1691), the town musicians in Neumarkt and his son Johann Gottfried Berwald , the (1679 *) as town musicians in Königsberg in Neumark worked, flutist followed Johann Friedrich Berwald (born March 22, 1711 Königsberg der Neumark, † June 11, 1789 in Ludwigslust ). Six of his children were also musicians of high standing.
    • Johann Gottlieb Berwald (born September 6, 1737 in Copenhagen , † 1786 in Dömitz ) was a violinist in the court orchestra in Ludwigslust .
    • Christian Friedrich Georg Berwald (* before August 16, 1740 in Hohenaspe , † February 23, 1825 in Stockholm ) studied with Franz Benda in Berlin . From 1773 to 1806 he was a violinist in the court orchestra in Stockholm.
      • Franz Adolf Berwald (born July 23, 1796 in Stockholm, † April 3, 1868 ibid), the most important representative of the family, was a violinist, composer and composition teacher.
    • Christine Sophie Louyse Berwald (* before July 24, 1746 in Hohenaspe, † after 1779 in Ludwigslust) was soprano at the court orchestra of Ludwigslust.
    • Friedrich Adolf Berwald (* 1748 in Schleswig , † after 1778 ibid) was a town musician in Schleswig.
    • Georg Johann Abraham Berwald (born June 29, 1758 in Schleswig, † January 27, 1825 in Saint Petersburg ) was the bassoonist of the court orchestra in Stockholm from 1872 to 1803, then a member of the Imperial Chapel of St. Petersburg.
    • Friedrich Carl Wilhelm Berwald (born February 28, 1776 in Ludwigslust, † September 23, 1798 ibid), a student of Johannes Matthias Sperger , worked as an oboist and bassoonist.