Carl Witting

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Carl Witting (born September 8, 1823 in Jülich , † June 27, 1907 in Dresden ) was a German composer and music director .

Life

Witting taught himself to play the violin. At the age of 14 he was allowed to join the orchestra of the municipal theater in Aachen as second violinist . In 1847 he went to Paris and found a job as a tenor in the choir of the Great Opera , later as a singer in the Madeleine Church and as a musician in the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Gaîté . In Paris he was a student of Adolf Reichel and made the acquaintance of Hector Berlioz . In 1854 he won a prize advertised by the Duke of Caraman for the composition of a piano quartet .

In 1855 he left Paris again, first to Berlin , then to Hamburg , where his opera Das Jägerfest was premiered. From Lippstadt he corresponded with Theodor Fontane and asked in vain for an opera text. During this time, four of Fontane's poems were set to music. After a two-year stay in Glogau , he was appointed conductor of the symphony band in Dresden in September 1861 . There he successfully performed symphonies by Anton Rubinstein , Joachim Raff , and Franz Liszt , organized Mozart concerts and performed the recently published prelude to Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner . In 1865 he retired from this position and from then on worked as a private teacher, composing and writing musicological treatises.

Witting was married to the painter Minna Japha ( Louise Japha's sister ). The marriage produced five children, including the mathematician Alexander Witting , the singer Agnes Witting and the painter Walther Witting .

Works

  • Settings of ballads by Ludwig Uhland : Der Thürmer (1849), Der blinde König
  • Operas: The Jägerfest (around 1857), The Love Ring , The Lottery , The Prodigal Son
  • Setting of four poems by Theodor Fontane (1857): Stork and Swallow Have Come (Um You) , My Heart , The Fisherman's Girl , After the Storm
  • Choir pieces: Tragic story: It was someone who got to the heart (1890), The Roggenmuhme: Let the flower stand , The mill: The mill rattles (1891)
  • Pieces of music: Capriccio (1876), Andante alla Siciliana p. V. et Piano (1899), Sonata for piano and violoncello (1879)
  • The art of violin playing - a collection of the best works for this instrument by Corelli (1653) up to our time , 8 volumes. L. Holle, Wolfenbüttel (1860–1864)
  • Six exercise books for violin . Johann André Musikverlag, Offenbach (1864)
  • The first lessons in violin playing . Johann André Musikverlag, Offenbach (1865)
  • The Violinist's Parnassus - Collection of pieces of music from classical masterpieces for violin and pianoforte . Dresden, self-published (1866)
  • Vocal training studies for solemn and figured singing in variations of the scale, with pianoforte . Dresden, self-published (1866)
  • Dictionary of expressions used in music - German, English and French with an introduction: The elementary music theory and the Italian terms in the three languages (1887)
  • Album of 24 violin duets by old masters . Hug, Leipzig (1891)
  • Album of 24 performance pieces in all major and minor keys for pianoforte , 2 volumes. Hug, Leipzig (1891)
  • 25 etudes and caprices in all major and minor keys without thumbs for violoncello . Merseburger, Leipzig (1891)
  • Course of guitar playing . Merseburger, Leipzig (1891)
  • School for banjo with 5, 6 or 7 strings along with many practice and entertainment pieces, German and English Merseburger, Leipzig (1895)
  • A. Pochhammer: Beethoven's Symphonies - explained with musical examples by G. Erlanger, Helm, Morin, Radecke, Sittard and Witting. In addition to an introduction: Ludwig van Beethoven 's life and work with special consideration of his work as a symphonic composer . H. Bechhold, Frankfurt a. M. (1896)
  • History of violin playing . H. vom Ende, Cologne (1900)
  • 65 small violin studies . H. Seemann's successor, Leipzig (1901)
  • The old school - collection of violin duets by older masters, from Haydn to Krommer, eight self-published books

literature

  • Theodore Baker: Baker's Bibliographical Dictionary of Musicians . 7th edition. Schirmer Books, New York NY (English).
  • Hermann Mendel, August Reissmann: Musical Conversations Lexicon . tape 11 . Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1879, p. 395 ( archive.org ).
  • Adalbert von Hanstein: Carl Witting . In: Fiction supplement to fashion and home . No. 21 , 1899.
  • Friedrich Hofmeister: monthly reports . ( hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk - 1829–1900; to a list of publications).
  • Carl Witting . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 17, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 833.
  • Helga Witting (private archive): Information on the family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Music in the past and present . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1951-1952.
  2. ↑ a b Ute Beckert: Songs and chants with accompaniment of the pianoforte based on texts by Theodor Fontane - A contribution to the history of the piano-accompanied solo song. Fontane-Blätter 2004, issue 77, p. 130.
  3. ^ Theodor Fontane: works, writings and letters , edited by Walter Keitel a. a., Hanser Verlag (1988), ISBN 978-3-446-14909-0 .
  4. ^ Wolfgang Rasch: Theodor Fontane Bibliography . Walter De Gruyter, Berlin and New York (2006), ISBN 978-3-11-018456-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Witting, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witting, Carl Gottfried Peter Ludwig (full name); Witting, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music director
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Jülich
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1907
Place of death Dresden