Carl Gradener
Carl Georg Peter Grädener (born January 14, 1812 in Rostock , † June 11, 1883 in Hamburg ) was a German composer .
Life
Gradener, whose parents Hermann Heinrich and Friedrica Grädener died early, grew up with relatives in Altona and Lübeck . After graduating from the Katharineum high school in Lübeck at Easter 1831, he began to study law in Halle and Göttingen , but soon devoted himself entirely to music. As a soloist and quartet he was a cellist in Helsinki (Helsingfors) from 1835 to 1838 . He then worked for ten years as a choir and orchestra conductor , composer and theory teacher in Kiel . During this time he also worked as music director of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . When Clara Schumann wanted to perform in Kiel in March 1842 - the concert did not take place - she stayed with Gradener, as well as when she was finally able to realize the concert on April 20th. On June 20, 1843 she gave Gradener a positive report for his application for a position as music director in Arnsberg .
After he was dismissed because of his advocacy of the union of the Duchy of Schleswig with the Duchy of Holstein on the Schleswig-Holstein question , he became a private music teacher and concert organizer in Hamburg and founded a singing academy there in 1851, which he directed until 1861. From 1862 to 1865 he taught singing and music theory at the Vienna Conservatory , then from 1873 until his death at the Hamburg Conservatory. From 1867 he was president and founding member of the Hamburger Tonkünstlerverein , to which his friend Johannes Brahms belonged.
In 1841 he married Wilhelmine Sack, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. His son Hermann was also known as a composer.
Works
He composed three operas , two symphonies , a piano concerto , overtures , a violin romance, chamber music works, piano pieces, including several collections of miniatures ( Flying Leaves , Flying Leaves , Variations , Fantastic Studies and Dreams , Little Impromptus ), choral works and songs .
Gradener's compositions are described as "conservative-classicistic and North German-tart", with influences from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann .
On July 6 and 7, 2015, Gradener's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 25 - which, like other works by the composer, had been completely forgotten - was given a highly acclaimed revival.
Works (selection)
- Piano Quintet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7, dedicated to Clara Schumann (1852)
- Hebrew Chants op.15 (1852)
- Autumn sounds. 7 songs for low voice and piano op.18 (1857) ( digitized )
- Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 25 ( digitized version )
- Fliegende Blätter for piano op.27 (1856) - Autograph in the Berlin State Library ( digitized )
- Piano trio n.2 in E flat major op.35, dedicated to Johannes Brahms (approx. 1858–1859)
- Two little sonatas of a lighter style for violin and piano op.41 (1860)
- Piano quintet No. 2 in c sharp minor op.57 (1872) ( digital copy )
- Sonata for violoncello and piano op.59 (1873)
Processing (selection)
- Robert Schumann , Zigeunerleben for choir and piano op. 29, arranged for small orchestra, Rieter-Biedermann, Winterthur approx. 1861/62
Fonts
- Bach and the Hamburg Bach Society. A contribution to art criticism. Fritz Schuberth, Hamburg 1856.
- Speech held z. centenary commemoration of Ludw. v. Beethoven 's (December 17, 1870) in the Hamburg Tonkünstlervereine (after a performance of the E-flat major quartet, Op. 127). Seidel, Hamburg 1871.
- Collected essays on art, preferably music. Hugo Pohle, Hamburg 1872 ( digitized version ).
- System of harmony. Gradener, Hamburg 1877.
literature
- Emil Krause: Carl GP Grädener and his position in the art of music . In: Musikalisches Centralblatt . Vol. 2, 1882, p. 45 f . ( Digitized version ).
- Hermann Gradener : Gradener, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 500-504.
- Kurt Stephenson: Grädener, Karl Georg Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 708 ( digitized version ).
- Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller , “Mrs. Clara Schumann geb. Dedicated to Wieck by Carl GP Grädener “- On the new era of the piano quartet since Robert Schumann's opus 44 , in: Correspondenz. Notifications from the Robert Schumann Society e. V. , No. 38 of January 2016, pp. 125–141
Web links
- Works by Carl Grädener in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Carl Grädener in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 279
- ↑ Robert Schumann , Diaries , Volume 2, ed. by Gerd Nauhaus , Leipzig 1987, pp. 214 and 225
- ^ Re-performance of a Kiel symphony. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, July 7, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gradener, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graedener, Carl Georg Peter (full name); Graedener, Carl; Gradener, Karl; Gradener, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1812 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1883 |
Place of death | Hamburg |