Carl Theodor Hahn

Carl Theodor Hahn (born September 3, 1809 in Dobers , † December 21, 1864 in Berlin ) was a German organist and composer .

Life

As the last student of the Schmiedeberger organist Christian Benjamin Klein , he represented him in the last year of his life and after his death as an organist in a vacancy of one and a half years. He then went to Darmstadt to continue his training with Christian Heinrich Rinck and Gottfried Weber , but then moved to Berlin in 1828 to Carl Friedrich Zelter and Bernhard Klein .

From 1831 he worked as a singing teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium . In 1838 he went to Paris, where he took private lessons from Bordogni and Lablache and then visited Italy, Vienna and Prague . Returned to Berlin, he became an organist at the Petrikirche and finally in 1840 as a singing teacher and repetitor at the Königigl. Employed opera singing school.

Works

Hahn composed operas, cantatas, motets, songs, school chants and organ music. Many of them have appeared in print, including:

• Eight Organ Pieces for Use in Public Services, Op. 4
• The 23rd psalm. (The Lord is my Shepherd) op.8
• The 130ste Psalm (From the deep call I Lord to you) op. 11
• The lord is king. Cantata based on Psalm 97 op.12
• The 103te Psalm (Bless the Lord my soul) , Op. 15
• The 100th Psalm op.18

literature

• Carl Freiherr von Ledebur , Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present , Berlin 1861, p. 219f (digitized version )
• Michael Heinemann : Art. C. Th. Hahn. In: Schlesisches Musiklexikon. Edited by Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Augsburg 2001, p. 246.