Carl Eduard Hering

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Carl Eduard Hering (born May 13, 1807 in Oschatz , Kingdom of Saxony , † November 26, 1879 in Bautzen ) was a teacher, organist and composer .

Life

Carl Eduard Hering was one of 13 children of the teacher Carl Gottlieb Hering . From 1825 to 1829 he studied philosophy in Leipzig as a student of Christian Theodor Weinlig . From 1829 to 1835 he worked as a teacher at the Blochmann Institute and Vitzthum Grammar School in Dresden. From 1837 to 1879 he was organist at the main church of St. Petri and music teacher at the rural class teachers' seminar in Bautzen.

Hering composed operas, oratorios, masses, piano pieces and songs. He was in correspondence with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and with Robert Schumann .

Carl Eduard Hering was the father of five children, one of his sons from his second marriage was the composer and lawyer Richard Hering . He is the brother of the doctor and homeopath Constantin Hering , the philologist Julius Robert Hering (1805–1828) and the writer Ewald Hering . His son was the physiologist and brain researcher Ewald Hering .

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