Ernst Catenhusen
Ernst Catenhusen (born October 26, 1841 in Ratzeburg ; † May 9, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German conductor and composer who also worked in the USA.
Life
Catenhusen was the son of the Ratzeburg superintendent Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen . After graduating from the Lauenburg School of Academics , he went to the University of Göttingen to study law. Instead, however, he only heard philosophy, history, and literature.
He moved to Leipzig to devote himself entirely to music and from there to Hamburg to study with Ignaz Lachner for two and a half years . Catenhusen had his first engagement in Wesel in 1862 . From 1863 to 1865 he went to the New City Theater in Riga as second Kapellmeister and choir director , where he was also the conductor of the Liedertafel. He then worked as first conductor in succession in Lübeck , Königsberg, Chemnitz, Cologne, Hamburg (at the Thalia Theater ) and Berlin ( Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater ).
In 1881 he was engaged at the Thalia Theater in New York City , and in the following year he moved to the new Casino Theater as Kapellmeister and chief director . In 1884 he received a call as conductor of the Musikverein in Milwaukee , where in 1886 he led the great song festival of the North American Singers Association. From 1887 he worked as a singing teacher and composer in Chicago.
He later returned to Germany.
Works
- Ännchen von Tharau , romantic opera in three acts (1870, libretto by Julius Stinde , performed in Lübeck), digitized text book
- Music for plays:
- Ludwig the Iron , from rust
- Princess Snewitichen , The Pied Piper of Hameln and Frau Holle , by Karl August Görner
- Two days of young poets , by Pilzer
- Marriage of Figaro , by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais / Franz von Dingelstedt
- Overture to the Maid of Orleans
- Cantata for the celebration of the liberation battle near Leipzig
- String quartets
- Songs, choirs
literature
- Moritz Rudolph (ed.): Riga Theater and Tonkünstler Lexicon: together with the history of the Riga theater and the musical society. Riga: Kymmel 1890, p. 35
Individual evidence
- ^ According to Rudolph (Lit.) and Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography (1909); in the literature there are also 1833 (GND) and 1845 ( Handlexikon der Tonkunst , 1882, p. 73)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Catenhusen, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratzeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin |