Carl Ferdinand Foxes
Carl Ferdinand Füchs (born February 11, 1811 in Vienna ; † January 7, 1848 there ) was an Austrian composer and violinist .
Life
Carl Ferdinand Füchs was a violin student of Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis in Prague and at the same time a composition student of Friedrich Dionys Weber . In 1832 he passed his exams there and went back to Vienna.
Here he worked as a musician (debut at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde ) and in the orchestra of the Kärntnertortheater and throughout his life as a composer and choir director of the Vienna Men's Choir Association .
Works
- Operas, songs, choirs, chamber music and concerts for violin and orchestra.
literature
- Elisabeth Anzenberger: Carl Ferdinand Füchs on the 150th year of death. In: Viennese history sheets . Vol. 53, No. 4, 1998, pp. 272-274.
- Friedrich Frick: Small biographical lexicon of violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3907-8 , p. 155.
- Andrea Harrandt: Füchs, Carl Ferdinand. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Füchs, Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 395 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foxes, Carl Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1848 |
| Place of death | Vienna |