Carl Evers
Carl Evers (born April 8, 1819 in Hamburg , † December 31, 1875 in Vienna ) was a German composer, music dealer and pianist.
Life
At the age of six, Evers received piano lessons from Jacob Schmitt and performed publicly in Hamburg at the age of twelve. His first concert tour took him to Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and Sweden in 1834.
In 1837 he took composition lessons with Ziegler in Hanover and Krebs in Hamburg and in 1838 with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. In Paris in 1839 he came into contact with Frédéric Chopin and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , where he worked successfully as a pianist and composer.
Evers settled in Vienna in 1841 and opened a music store in Graz in 1858, but returned to Vienna in 1872 as a piano teacher.
Carl Evers composed over a hundred works, including four piano sonatas , chansons d'amour, etudes, salon pieces, dances and songs.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Evers, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 114 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Evers, Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 273.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evers, Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 273.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Evers, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, music dealer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1875 |
| Place of death | Vienna |