Carl Ludwig Voigt
Carl Ludwig Voigt (born November 8, 1792 in Zeitz ; † February 21, 1831 in Leipzig ) was a German cellist and composer .
Career
Voigt was born in 1792 in Zeitz as the son of the Gewandhaus musician and later Thomas organist in Leipzig, Johann Georg Hermann Voigt . He attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig from 1802 to 1806 . He later received cello lessons from the respected Friedrich Dotzauer in Dresden, principal cellist of the court orchestra there. In 1809 he became a member of the Leipzig Theater Orchestra ( Gewandhausorchester ), and from 1811 an employment in church music can be proven. In 1811 he was accepted into the orchestra pension fund. From 1811 to 1830 he was first and finally second cellist there. From 1811 to 1829 he worked in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet , the orchestra's string quartet. Voigt composed a. a. Sonatas and Duos.
literature
- Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. With contributions to cultural and contemporary history by Claudius Böhm , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 64 f.
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| SURNAME | Voigt, Carl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cellist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Time |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1831 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |