Eduard Bernsdorf

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Eduard Bernsdorf
Eduard Bernsdorf - K. Freedank and Judaism in Music NZfM 1850

Eduard Bernsdorf (born March 25, 1825 in Dessau , † June 27, 1901 in Leipzig ) was a German music critic, composer and pianist .

Live and act

Eduard Bernsdorf learned as a student a. a. with Friedrich Schneider in Dessau and then studied with Adolf Bernhard Marx in Berlin. After that he had a job as a music teacher in Wiesbaden, but worked most of his life in Leipzig. In 1854 Bartholf Senff brought him to work as a music writer and chief critic for the magazine Signals for the Musical World, founded in 1843 . In addition to this activity, Bernsdorf was a music teacher and composed numerous piano pieces and songs. As a music critic, he rated concerts and published his reviews in the Leipzig trade journal "Signals for the musical world". For this purpose, for example, on October 26, 1898, he attended the “Third Subscription Concert” in the hall of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, where the Dresden court opera singer Charlotte Huhn appeared as the evening's soloist. With her singing of Schubert's “Erlkönig” he paid tribute to the artist's “given dramatic momentum and the well-chosen keeping of characters” of the song.

Today, Bensdorf is known primarily in professional circles as the editor and important collaborator of the New Universal Lexicon of Music , which was published in Leipzig in 1856 and then in Offenbach in 1861.

Works (selection)

music

  • Capriccio for pianoforte. Op. 6 . Kistner, Leipzig 1853.
  • Allegro appassionato for pianoforte. Op. 8 . Kistner, Leipzig 1854.
  • Piano piece in a cheerful tone. Op. 12 . Kistner, Leipzig 1855.
  • Imagination for the pianoforte. Op. 15 . Hofmeister, Leipzig 1855.
  • A blissful moment .

Written

  • K. Freedank and Judaism in Music. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (NZfM) Vol. 33, No. 31, October 15, 1850, pp. 185–188 ( commons PDF; 588 kB).
  • New universal encyclopedia of music art for artists, art lovers and all educated people. Schäfer, Dresden (Volume 3: André, Offenbach) 1856–1865.

literature

  • A contemporary composer. In: Flying leaves for music. Truth about Tonkunst and Tonkünstler. Volume 3, Issue 1, 1857, pp. 43-46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Andraschke: MGG Volume 2, Sp. 1413 and 1414.
  2. ^ Signals for the musical world , Leipzig, Volume 57, No. 53 of October 28, 1899, p. 834
  3. ^ Rheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists. Cologne, Vol. 4, No. 174, August 31, 1853, p. 30.
  4. ^ Rheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists. Cologne, Vol. 4, No. 5, December 49, 1854, p. 385.
  5. ^ Rheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists. Cologne, Vol. 6, No. 23, June 9, 1855, p. 180.
  6. ↑ Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung. Cologne, vol. 3, no. 18, May 5, 1855, p. 143.
  7. ^ Rheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists. Cologne, Vol. 4, No. 17, April 29, 1854, pp. 132-133.
personal data
SURNAME Bernsdorf, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic, composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1901
Place of death Leipzig