Carl Schroeder (cellist)

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Carl Adolf Heinrich Friedrich Schroeder (born December 18, 1848 in Quedlinburg , † September 22, 1935 in Bremen ) was a German cellist, composer and conductor as well as court music director.

Life

He received his first musical lessons from his father, the composer of the same name Carl Schroeder (1816–1890). His mother was Charlotte Schroeder , née Vollmer . The family lived in Quedlinburg at the address Augustinern 798 . He then took cello lessons from Karl Drechsler and performed as a solo cellist in a court concert in Sondershausen at the age of 15 . A year later he got a job as second cellist in the royal court orchestra. From 1866 he was solo cellist in Saint Petersburg , Warsaw and Paris for several years . In St. Petersburg, Anton Rubinstein became his friend and companion. From 1868 to 1871 he traveled in a string quartet with his brothers Hermann and Alwin and his father through Germany, the quartet existed until 1873. In 1872 he became Kapellmeister at the Krollschen Theater in Berlin. He then went to the court theater in Braunschweig as the first cellist . In 1874 he took the same position at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , in Leipzig he also became a teacher at the Royal Conservatory . During this time, Schroeder was accepted into the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva in 1877 to the three palm trees .

In 1881 he began his career as a conductor, first as court conductor with the princely court orchestra in Sondershausen, which later became the Loh orchestra . In Sondershausen, Schroeder founded his own conservatory for music in 1883 and was appointed professor by the prince in 1885. He then worked as a conductor at the Deutsche Oper in Rotterdam .

His reputation had become so important that he was engaged by the Royal Court Opera in Berlin in 1887 . In 1888 he went to the Hamburg city theater as a conductor, and at the end of 1890 he returned to Sondershausen as court conductor and director of the now Princely Conservatory in Sondershausen. In 1907 he retired as a councilor in Sondershausen.

After 1911 he worked as head of the orchestral class at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. He received numerous awards and was made an honorary citizen of Sondershausen.

Works (selection)

  • Guide to cello lessons . A progressively arranged repertory of selected instructives, as well as solo and ensemble works for violoncello as a guide for teachers and students, artists and amateurs, edited by Carl Schröder. Leipzig, 1889.
  • Handbook of violin playing . Berlin: M. Hesse, 1922, 5th ed.
  • Handbook of conducting and tacting . Berlin: M. Hesse, 1921, 8th edition.
  • Handbook of cello playing . Berlin: M. Hesse, 1920, 3rd edition.
  • The performance of Brahms's orchestral works . Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Marschner, 1913.

Compositions (selection)

  • Six large etudes for cello with accompaniment of a second cello ad libitum by CA de Casella [César A. de Casella]. Revised for use at the Conservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig a. exactly re. by Carl Schroeder. op. 33
  • Eight Etudes without a thumb attachment for cello, op.46
  • Easy Concerto for Violoncello and Piano op.55
  • Etudes for violoncello op.57
  • The Knight of Alkantara. Ballade for violoncello with accompan. d. Pianoforte. Leipzig: Schuberth, undated

Operas

  • Aspasia , revised to Die Palikarin , (1892).
  • The ascetic, opera in one act. Text v. Wilhelm Schriefer, Leipzig: Oberdörffer, undated (1893).

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population register of the city of Quedlinburg from 1849
  2. ↑ When he left in 1886, he sold the conservatory to his successor Adolf Schultze. When he left Sondershausen in September 1890, the institute passed to the Princely Court. From then on, the management of the chapel was linked to that of the conservatory. ( The German. State newspaper for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 1890 No. 228. )
  3. ↑ See The German. 1907 No. 67 .
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroeder, Carl Adolf Heinrich Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist, composer and conductor as well as court music director
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1935
Place of death Bremen