Carl Koßmaly

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Carl Koßmaly (born July 27, 1812 in Breslau , † December 1, 1893 in Stettin ) was a German composer , conductor and music writer.

Life

Koßmaly studied from 1828 to 1830 in Berlin with Ludwig Berger , Carl Friedrich Zelter and Bernhard Klein . Afterwards he was Opera Kapellmeister in Wiesbaden , Mainz , Amsterdam (1838), Bremen (1841) and from May 15, 1841 to April 30, 1844 music director at the Princely Court Theater in Detmold . After his contract expired, he lived there as a freelancer.

From 1846 to 1849 he was Kapellmeister in Stettin . He then worked there as a music teacher and concert conductor. In 1848 he founded the Stettiner branch of the Tonkünstlerverein with Gustav Flügel , which organized concerts and lectures.

He worked at the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , founded by Robert Schumann , and published several books on music. From 1866 he was a concert and theater critic for the Ostsee-Zeitung .

Fonts

  • Silesian Tonkünstlerlexikon . Breslau 1846–1847.
    • Volume 1, Breslau 1846 ( e-copy )
  • Mozart's operas. Critical explanations . Leipzig 1848.
  • About using the musical composition explanation program . 1858.
  • About Richard Wagner . Leipzig 1873.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Koßmaly, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1893
Place of death Szczecin