Charles Voss
Charles Voss (born September 20, 1815 in Schmarsow in Western Pomerania ; † August 29, 1882 in Verona ; actually Karl Voss ) was a well-known pianist and composer during his lifetime .
life and work
Charles Voss received his musical training in Berlin from Greulich and Louis Berger . From 1843 to 1846 he lived in Neustrelitz , where he became known as a virtuoso pianist and composer. He then went to Berlin and worked there successfully as a music teacher. In 1850 he settled in Paris . For over 15 years he was counted among the most modern composers of his time. Initially greeted as talented and inventive, his subsequent works were increasingly labeled as trivial and shallow, until critics finally stopped mentioning him in specialist journals. Even so, he was a composer for salon musiccommercially successful. His works included numerous fantasies, potpourris and dances, which were often used in the mechanical music automatons and instruments that were fashionable at the time. Karl von Ledebur listed 205 compositions in his lexicon in 1861, later sources attribute 300 works to him.
literature
- Robert Eitner : Voss, Karl. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 352.
- Heinz-Gerhard Quadt: Adolf Pompe, Gustav Reichardt, Charles Voss - A contribution to music history in Pomerania . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania: the Demmin Colloquia 1985 - 1994 ; Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7
Documents
Letters from Charles Voss are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .
Web links
- Literature about Charles Voss in the state bibliography MV
- Charles Voss, full-length portrait
- Sheet music and audio files by Charles Voss in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voss, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voss, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmarsow , Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1882 |
| Place of death | Verona |