Carl Binder
Carl Binder , also Karl Binder (born November 29, 1816 in Vienna , † November 5, 1860 there ) was an Austrian composer and conductor .
Life
From 1839 to 1847 Binder worked as Kapellmeister at Viennese suburban theaters , since 1840 especially for the Theater in der Josefstadt as the successor to its Kapellmeister Conradin Kreutzer . In 1847 he moved to Hamburg and Pressburg for a short time; but in 1848 he returned to his hometown, where the Theater an der Wien and the Carltheater were his favorite places of work. From 1851 to 1859 he wrote the incidental music for several pieces by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy .
When Jacques Offenbach celebrated sensational success with his first operettas in Paris, the Viennese theaters were also longing to bring them to the stage in a German-language version. They were not given in the original, but instead had Binder orchestrate them based on Offenbach's piano reductions . Binder is also the composer of the overture to Offenbach's most frequently performed operetta, Orpheus in der Unterwelt . Because the master himself had not written a prelude to it, but one was compulsory in Vienna, Binder was commissioned to write an overture based on various motifs of the work.
Binder had two sons. Like his father one of them became Kapellmeister, but he died at the age of 27. Carl's brother, Eduard Binder, worked for many years as a director and actor at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater in Berlin and at the Carltheater in Vienna.
Binder became particularly famous for setting Nestroy's Wagner parody Tannhäuser (premiered October 31, 1857 Vienna, Carltheater). Binder has also emerged as an opera and song composer ( If I were God , text by Eduard Amthor ) and a librettist.
It rests in the evangelical cemetery Vienna Matzleinsdorf (grave already abandoned). Binder was a member of the artist society “Green Island”. This financed his tombstone and had it provided with the following inscription:
In the cage,
a bird trills in a funny place a very beautiful melody; -
A rough fellow smashes the cage,
The singer falls silent - but he is free.
Works
- The bad boys at school (premiered December 10, 1847 Vienna, for the reopening of the Carltheater )
- The cozy (good-natured) devil or The story of the farmer and the farmer's wife (premiered December 20, 1851 Vienna, Carltheater)
- Kampl or The Girl with Millions and the Sewer (premiered March 30, 1852 Vienna, Carltheater)
- Secret money, secret love (premiered March 16, 1853 Vienna, Carltheater)
- Theater stories, through love, intrigue, money and stupidity (premiered February 1, 1854 Vienna, Carltheater)
- The Faithless or Seed and Harvest (later production November 4, 1854 Vienna, Carltheater)
- Wenzel Scholz and the Chinese Princess (Premiere March 28, 1856 Vienna, Carltheater)
- For free! (Premiere March 7, 1857 Vienna, Carltheater)
literature
- Oliver Láng : Carl Binder and his work at the Vienna Carl-Theater , Diss. University of Vienna (2017)
Web links
- Directory of stage works on operone
- Entry on Carl Binder in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Johann Nestroy: Tannhäuser , edited and introduced by Georg Kruse, Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, No. 4599 (antiquarian, no year), p. 6
- ^ Anton Würz : Reclam's Operetta Guide . 23rd edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-010512-9 , p. 27.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Binder, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Binder, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1860 |
| Place of death | Vienna |