Carl Friedrich Ebers

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Carl Friedrich Ebers (born March 25, 1770 in Cassel , † September 9, 1836 in Berlin ) was a German composer and conductor who published the world's first Viennese waltzes in print in 1806.

Life

Ebers moved to Berlin with his parents at an early age, where he was to embark on a military career. There his musical talent was discovered and after the end of his military service he devoted himself to music. He became known through various compositions (songs, operas) and music lessons. In 1799 he entered the service of Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg in Schwerin and was appointed chamber composer and vicecapellmaster .

Due to domestic imbalances and in order to support himself with his compositions, he wrote piano music, chamber music, dances and marches in the taste of the day, gave again lessons and carried out concert tours in northern Germany. From 1805 he was able to be employed as music director at smaller theaters in Pest . It was here in 1806 that he wrote his op. 19 -  6 slow and 6 Viennese waltzes , which were printed in Leipzig as orchestral parts and as an edition for piano - making it the world's first print of a Viennese waltz .

From 1814 on he became music director of the Joseph Secondaschen opera company in the Lincke'schen Bad in Dresden (succeeding E. T. A. Hoffmann ) and from 1817 such in Magdeburg. In Dresden he came into contact with Freemasonry , about which he published a comprehensive work anonymously in 1816 (Freemason year 5816).

Around 1820 he retired into private life and then lived in Leipzig, from 1822 back in Berlin, where he also died.

Works

Compositions and arrangements (selection)

  • Bella and Fernando (Opera, 1796)
  • The Hermit of Formentara (Opera, 1797)
  • The Flower Island (Opera, 1798)
  • 6 slow and 6 Viennese waltzes , op.19 (1806, printed by A. Kühnel in Leipzig , the first Viennese waltzes ever printed worldwide) - the orchestral parts are in the library of the University of Zurich
  • Fantasy for the pianoforte on melodies from the Freischütz by CM v. Weber, op. 46 (1811)
  • The Breast Needle: Dramatized Anecdote with Singing , in One Act ( ca.1831 )

Freemasonry

  • Sarsena or the perfect builder: containing the history and origin of the Masonic Order and the different opinions about what it could be in our times, what a lodge is, the manner in which it is received, opened and closed, in the first, and the Promotion in the second and third of the St. Johannes degrees, as well as the higher Schottengrad and Andrew knights . Printed by Kunz in Bamberg, 1st edition 1816, Google Books

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Linke : The first proof of a “Viennese waltz” in printed form In: Neues Leben - Mitteilungsblatt der Deutschen Johann Strauss Gesellschaft , No. 47, 2014/3, pp. 16-18, ISSN  1438-065X .
personal data
SURNAME Ebers, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music director
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Cassel
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1836
Place of death Berlin