Carl Augustin Grenser

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Carl Augustin Grenser (born December 14, 1794 in Dresden , † May 26, 1864 in Leipzig ) was a German flautist and music historian .

Life

The eldest son of the instrument maker Karl Augustin Grenser (1756–1814) was known early on as a child prodigy. At the age of six, he and his father performed publicly as a flautist. When he was nine years old, he performed in concerts. As a teenager he played from 1806 to 1808 in the bathing season in the Teplitz spa orchestra . From 1810 to 1813 he was a member of an orchestra in Dresden. In this position he still took lessons from the then Königigl. Saxon hunting skins, later royal. Chamber musician Christian Gotthilf Steudel .

In 1814 he went to Leipzig, where he was first flautist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra until 1855 . At the same time, Grenser began to chronologically record the activities of the orchestra with which he had performed for the first time on October 24, 1814. The manuscript of his history of music, but mainly that of the large concert and theater orchestra in Leipzig, completed in 1840, is now in the City History Museum . The work, for which Grenser was still able to see lost documents, contains data and facts that go far beyond the history of music and is an important source for the city history of Leipzig.

Carl Augustin Grenser spoke almost all European languages ​​and was very well educated scientifically. In 1843 he became a teacher and inspector at the newly founded Conservatorium der Musik .

As a composer, Grenser only appeared with three duets for flute (Opus 1).

In 1815 he was accepted into the Apollo Masonic Lodge . Grenser lived in Leipzig a. a. in Stadtpfeifergäßchen (today Magazingasse), in Burgstrasse 143 and finally at Neukirchhof 5 (today Matthäikirchhof). He had two brothers who were also Gewandhaus musicians and members of the Apollo Lodge , the violinist and timpanist Friedrich August Grenser (born July 6, 1799 in Dresden; † December 10, 1861 in Leipzig) and the cellist Friedrich Wilhelm Grenser (born November 5 1805 in Dresden; † January 5, 1859 in Leipzig).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Augustin Grenser: History of Music in Leipzig 1750-1838. But mainly for the large concert and theater orchestra. (Ed. And transcribed by Otto Werner Förster), Taurus-Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-9807753-6-4
  2. ^ Otto Werner Förster; Peter König: The Masonic Lodge Apollo i. O. Leipzig. Taurus-Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810303-8-9 , p. 43

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personal data
SURNAME Grenser, Carl Augustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grenser, Carl August; Grenser, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist and music historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1864
Place of death Leipzig