Eduard Lassen
Eduard Lassen (born April 13, 1830 in Copenhagen , † January 15, 1904 in Weimar ) was a composer and conductor.
Life
The Eduard Lassens family moved to Brussels , where he received musical training at the Royal Conservatory . In 1851 he won first prize at the Belgian Prix de Rome for music with the cantata Le festin de Balthazar . This was followed by studies in Germany and Italy. After the performance of his opera Landgraf Ludwigs Brautfahrt, which was not accepted in Brussels, in Weimar in 1857, he was appointed director of court music there in 1858. After the resignation of Franz Liszt , he became court conductor in 1861 and in the same year wrote the music for the premiere of Friedrich Hebbel's drama The Nibelungs . In 1895 he retired.
In addition to operas, Lassen also wrote symphonies , overtures and songs. The latter in particular made him known.
Works
Operas:
- Le Roi Edgard , 1855, translated into German by Pasqué as Landgrave Ludwig's Bridal Journey , performance in Weimar on May 10, 1857
- Frauenlob , 1860, performance in Weimar on May 22, 1860
- Le Captif , 1865, performed in Brussels on April 24, 1865, translated into German by P. Cornelius as Der Gefangene , performed in Weimar on April 8, 1869
- Music to Goethe's Faust. Part I and II op. 57 , UA 6./7. May 1876
literature
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert : Dr. Eduard Lassen †. A necrology. Die Musik-Woche, 4 (1904), pp. 26–28.
- Bernhard Kothe: Outline of the history of music . Publisher FEC Leuckart Leipzig 1874, p. 91.
- Magda Marx-Weber: Lassen, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 673 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Lassen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in Meyers Großes Konversations Lexikon, Volume 12, Leipzig 1907, page 212
- List of stage works by Eduard Lassen based on the MGG at Operone
- Sheet music and audio files by Eduard Lassen in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Deaville, Günther Kraft : Lassen, Eduard. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- ↑ Weimar theater bill
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Let, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-Danish composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1904 |
| Place of death | Weimar |