Carl Blum (composer)

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Carl Blum, lithograph by Joseph Teltscher

Carl Wilhelm August Blum (* 1786 in Berlin ; † July 2, 1844 in Berlin) was a German singer, stage actor, director, librettist and composer. Blum was a student of Friedrich Adam Hiller and later Antonio Salieri and was court composer at the Royal Court Opera in Berlin. In this role he made a name for himself with instrumental music and over 70 works for the stage.

Carl Blum is also often referred to as Karl Ludwig Blum in literature.

Life

Blum first appeared as an actor in Daniel Gottlieb Quandt's Society on the Rhine in 1805 , then came to Königsberg as a singer, where he studied composition under Hiller's direction, and returned to Berlin in 1810, where his first opera Claudine von Villa Bella after Goethe's play was applauded was performed. In 1817 he performed the opera Das Rosenhütchen in Vienna , which was given 39 times in succession, and in 1820, when he returned to Berlin, he was appointed court composer at the Royal Theater there. He then stayed in Paris for two years to study theater there, and after his return led for several years partly the direction of the Royal Opera and partly the direction of the Royal City Theater .

Some of his plays appeared in collected works, such as Neue Bühnenspiele 1828, Neue Theaterspiele 1830 and Theater Volume 1 - 4 1839 - 1844.

Many of his stage works are arrangements and transcriptions by well-known French and Italian composers, Blum tried to make vaudeville popular in Germany and wrote, among many others, the pieces Mirandolina after Carlo Goldoni's Locandiera , The Two Brits after Merville ( Pierre-François Camus , 1785-1853) , I'm Remaining Single and The Loud Secret According to Carlo Gozzi .

Among other things, he wrote works for guitar and music for solo guitar, including a guitar school (op. 44 as an appendix to the same). The sometimes very high level of difficulty of the works shows him as an excellent guitarist.

For the Viennese soprano Anna Pauline Milder-Hauptmann , who meanwhile worked in Berlin, Blum composed a large vocal scene (with orchestral accompaniment) for her concert tours, which became extremely popular: This "Greeting to Switzerland", which alluded directly to one of her most popular roles , which Emmeline in Joseph Weigl's Singspiel Die Schweizer Familie and at the end turns into a yodel song based on a text by Goethe , was the model for Milder when Franz Schubert was commissioned to compose his penultimate song The Shepherd on the Rock (D 965) designed in a similar multi-part system.

Carl Blum died in Berlin in 1844 at the age of 57 or 58. He was buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • Jucunde: dramatic paperback for 1836 . Berlin: Verlag von Theod. Chr. Fr. Enslin, 1835.
  • Music: Instructions for acquiring the knowledge necessary to be able to make correct judgments about all subjects of music; Handbook for friends and lovers of this art; based on the French work of Mr. Fetis "La musique mise à la portée de tout le monde" . Berlin: Schlesinger, 1830. (Original edition by François-Joseph Fétis , Brussels 1839).
  • Chants of serious and moody content for 2 tenor and 2 bass voices ; 22nd work set to music by Carl Blum (4 pieces). Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, ca.1818.

Compositions for guitar

(Original works as well as adaptations)

  • Exercises pour la Guitare without op .; Cahier 1 - 3 . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel
  • Marche, Danse et Marmotte des Savoyards Divertissement pour la Guitare without op. Copenhagen, CC Lose
  • Divertissements progressifs pour la Guitare Cahier 1 op. 16; Cahier 2 op.17 . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, ca.1817
  • Studies for the guitar op.44 . Schlesinger's book and music store, Berlin
  • Le Bouquet Trois Nocturnes pour Flûte Violon et Guitare op. 64; N ° 1 La Rose; N ° 2 La Fleur de Lys; N ° 3 La Violette . Mainz Schott & Sons
  • Grand Potpourri brillant pour la guitare seule de l'opera La Muette de Portici op.98 . Berlin, Adolph Martin Schlesinger
  • The dancers: three rondolets for violin and flute with accompaniment of the pianoforte or the guitar; 122s work = (Le ballerine) composed by Carl Blum. N ° 1 La Villanella; N ° 2 La Cittadina; N ° 3 La Straniera . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, ca.1832.
  • Serenade pour Flute et Guitare without op. Vienna: Pietro Mechetti;
  • The Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber with accompaniment of the guitar arranged by Carl Blum without op. Berlin, Schlesinger'sche Buch- und Musikalienhandlung.
  • Der Schiffskapitän or The Unprejudiced / Vaudeville by Carl Blum: set as a trio for flute, violin and guitar; from IHC Bornhardt . Braunschweig in the Musikalisches Magazine up to date.

Stage works

Edits and transfers

  • Arias, songs and chants of the vaudeville "Canonikus Ignaz Schuster" . In one act freely based on the French. Vaudeville Dancourts , arr. by Carl Blum. Berlin, around 1818 (premiered June 5, 1818 Berlin).
  • Arias and chants from the vaudeville burlesque "The Bear and the Bassa" in 1 record. after d. French des Scribe ( Eugène Scribe ) arr. by C [arl] Blum. Berlin: around 1820 (premiered December 15, 1821 Berlin).
  • Arias and chants of the opera: “The pages of the Duke of Vendôme” in two acts. Music by Carl Blum. After the Franz. Des Dieulafoi ( Michel Dieulafoy ), arr. by Georg von Hofmann . Berlin, 1822 (premiered Jan. 12, 1820 Vienna).
  • The night walker . Singspiel in 2 acts after Scribe edit. and set to music by Carl Blum. Berlin, around 1822 (premiered June 24, 1822 in Berlin).
  • The Hermit of St. Avella . Text and Music by Carl Blum (premiered April 24, 1822 Berlin).
  • Arias and chants from the romantic opera “Libussa” . In three acts by Joseph Carl Bernard . Music by Conradin Kreutzer . Ballets by Telle ( Conrad Telle ). The music for the marches, and choirs with dance ... is by Carl Blum. Berlin, 1823.
  • Arias and chants from the Singspiel "The Marriage in the Twelfth Years" in one act after Franz. Des Scribe, edited. and with music by Carl Blum. Berlin, around 1823 (Premiere April 7, 1823 Berlin).
  • Aline, Queen of Golconda . Great ballet in 3 notes by J. Aumer ( Jean Pierre Aumer ), arranged for the Berlin stage. and staged by Mr. Hoguet ( François Michel Hoguet ), to the preserved music of Carl Blum. Berlin, around 1825.
  • Arias and chants from the Singspiel in 2 sections with dance “The most beautiful day of life” adapted from Scribe's French “Le plus beau jour de la vie” . Music by Carl Blum. Berlin, 1826.
  • Lord of me . Comedy in e. Elevators, free nd Franz. Des Delongchamps ( Pierre de Longchamps ). For d. German theater edit. v. Carl Blum. Berlin, 1828.
  • The night walker . Singspiel in 2 acts freely after Scribe edit. and composed by Carl Blum. Berlin: Enslin, 1830. (Also in New Theater Pieces 2).
  • Riquet the tuft of hair . Fairy opera in two acts freely based on Brazier's ( Nicolas Brazier ) "Riquet à la houpe" and based on the fairy tale from a thousand and one nights. Berlin: Enslin, 1830 (also in: Neue Theaterspiele, 4).
  • Chants to “Fra Diavolo or the inn in Terracina” , comic opera in three acts. Music by Auber. [Text] by Scribe. Edit to retained music by C. Blum. Weimar, 1832.
  • The loud secret . Romantic comedy in five acts freely adapted from Carlo Gozzi. by Carl Blum. In: Theater Volume 1, 1839.
  • Viscount of Létorières . Comedy in 3 record. Loosely based on Jean-François Bayard v. Carl Blum. Berlin: Schlesinger, 1844.

Original works

  • Charles the Second The Escape to France . Libretto by Carl Blum (premiered Jan. 19, 1812 Koenigsberg).
  • Arias and chants from Zoraide or The Moors in Granada . Lyrical drama in 3 acts with dance, text a. Music by Carl Blum. Berlin, 1817. Op. 65. (Premiere May 7, 1817 Berlin).
  • The ship's captain or The Unprejudiced . Libretto by Carl Blum (June 8, 1817 Berlin).
  • Fortunata . Libretto by Carl Blum (premiered June 5, 1818 Berlin).
  • Arias and chants from the comic magic opera “Das Rosenhütchen”. In three elevators. Berlin: Königsstädtisches Theater, around 1819 (premiered June 28, 1819 Vienna).
  • Gander and goslings . Vaudeville in Act 1. Music by Carl Blum. [Historical performance material from the Bavarian State Opera]. Approx. 1822, manuscripts (premiered October 25, 1822 Berlin).
  • Arias and chants for the vaudeville "An hour before the Potsdammer Thore"; in 1 act by Carl Blum. Berlin, around 1825.
  • The fisherman and the bird dealer . Berlin, 1825 (Premiere February 27, 1825 Berlin).
  • The Bramin (e) . Magic opera in act 1, based on Poirson and the fairy tale from Thousand and One Nights. and set to music by Carl Blum (after Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson ). Berlin, 1826 (premiered December 22, 1826 Berlin).
  • Aladdin the magic lamp . Berlin, 1828 (premiered July 26, 1828 in Berlin).
  • Doctor Johannes Faust, the miraculous Magus of the North . Libretto by Karl von Holtei (premiered January 10, 1829 Berlin).
  • The love in the girls' school . Berlin, 1830 (premiered April 12, 1830 in Potsdam).
  • Friedrich August in Madrid . Original play in 5 acts by Carl Blum. Leipzig: Leo, 1832.
  • Mary, Max and Michel . Comic opera in 1 act. In addition, insert by Richard Wagner , comp. August 1837. As Ms. gedr. - Berlin: M. Westphal .; E. Bote & G. Bock, 1836. Op. 133, around 1835.
  • Arias and chants from the opera buffa "Bergamo" in 2 recordings . Music and text by Carl Blum. Berlin: Bloch, 1837.
  • The ball at Ellerbrunn . Comedy based on “La fiera” by Alberto Nota, edited. by Carl Blum. Berlin: Bloch, undated (1835).
  • The mistress of Else . Drama in 5 record. From Carl Blum. Free after d. Idea d. Sheridan Knowles ( James Sheridan Knowles ) in "The Hunchback". Berlin: Bloch, 1837.
  • Text of the chants to Der Spiegel des Tausendschön . Burlesque in 1 Act v. Carl Blum. Hamburg: dr. B. Wörmer junr's. Nachf., 1842.
  • Enthusiasm for fashion . In: Theater Volume 3, 1844.
  • Education results or good and bad tone . Comedy. Berlin: Schlesinger, 1844.
  • Tempora mutantur, or: The strict gentlemen. Viscount of Létorières, or: The Art of Pleasing . Berlin: Schlesinger, 1844 (after Jean Bayard).
  • The Coats, or The Tailor in Lisbon . Comedy in 1 act. Berlin: Bloch, 1864.
  • A gentleman and a lady . Comedy in one act. Leipzig: Reclam, 1876.
  • I stay single . Comedy in 3 record. Leipzig: Reclam, 1875.
  • Lisette or Borgen makes you happy . Comedy in 1 act. Berlin: Bloch, undated

Collective works

  • Vaudevilles, for German theaters and social circles based on the French. by Carl Blum together with 2 music supplements after the French. edited by Carl Blum. 2 vols., Berlin: Duncker u. Humblot, Volume 1, 1824; Volume 2, 1826.
  • Comedy plays for German theaters, initially for the Royal Theater in Berlin . Berlin: Enslin, 1827. Microfiche edition, Munich: Saur, 1992. ISBN 3-598-50254-0 .
  • New stage plays in English, French and Italian for the German theater . Berlin: Enslin, 1828.
  • New theater games . Berlin: Enslin, 1830.
  • Dramatic works . Leipzig: Leo, 1832 (Contains: The fan)
  • Theater (also Theater-Almanach) , Volume 1, 1840 (Contains: The Mistress of Else and I Stay Single and The Ball at Ellerbrunn ).
  • Theater , Volume 2, 1841.
  • Theater , Volume 3, 1844 (Contains: enthusiasm for fashion and educational results )
  • Theater , Volume 4, 1844 (Contains: Tempora mutantur, or: The strict gentlemen and viscounts of Létorières, or: The art of pleasing )
  • Theater Volume 1–4 also published as a microfiche edition, Munich: Saur: 1994, ISBN 3-598-50254-0 .

literature

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The name Karl Ludwig Blum can be found e.g. B. in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon in the edition of 1888 ( Blum . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885-1892, p. 45), in the Tonkünstlerlexikon of Frank-Altmann (Paul Frank and Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon. For musicians and friends of music , p. 61. Regensburg 1936, 15th ed. 1983) and in the ADB (Joseph Kürschner:  Blum, Carl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 737 f.), However the wrong attribution is noted there in the modern index of the online version. Occasionally he probably called himself that too. This leads to repeated confusion with the historian Karl Ludwig Blum , also in the library catalogs .
  2. ↑ Andreas Mayer : "Gluck'sches Gestöhn" and "Welsches Larifari" Anna Milder, Franz Schubert and the German-Italian Opera War. In: Archives for Musicology . 52, 1995, pp. 171-204.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 240.

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personal data
SURNAME Blum, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Carl Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, stage actor, director, librettist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1844
Place of death Berlin