Ernst Frank (composer)
Conrad Heinrich Ernst Frank (born February 7, 1847 in Munich ; † August 17, 1889 in Oberdöbling ) was a German composer and conductor.
Life
Frank had music lessons with Emmeran Kreutter during his high school years . He studied composition with Franz Lachner and piano with Henry Louis Stanislaus Mortier de Fontaine . In 1868 he became Kapellmeister in Würzburg, from 1869 he worked as choir conductor of the Vienna Court Opera and later also as conductor of the Singverein and the Academic Singing Association. From 1872 to 1877 he was Kapellmeister of the orchestra of the Nationaltheater Mannheim . Here he premiered Hermann Goetz 's opera The Taming of the Shrew and completed his opera Francesca da Rimini . In 1879 he succeeded Hans von Bülow at the Hanover Court Opera . In addition to piano trios, duets and choral songs, Ernst composed three operas.
Operas
- Adam de la Halle (Libretto: Salomon Hermann Mosenthal after Paul Heyse ), comic opera, 1880
- Hero (Libretto: F. Vetter after Franz Grillparzer ), Opera, 1884
- The storm (libretto: Joseph Victor Widmann based on William Shakespeare ), musical fairy tale, 1887
literature
Münster, Robert: Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Ernst Frank (= Brahms Correspondence New Series XIX), Tutzing 1995, 210 p. (With detailed biography)
Münster, Robert: Frank, Ernst (1847-1889). In: The music in the past and present (MGG); New edition, Volume 7. Kassel 2003, Sp. 12–14 (with catalog raisonné)
- List of the stage works by Ernst Frank based on the MGG at Operone
- Musical Academy of the Mannheim National Orchestra - History
- Classic - Ernst Frank
- Sheet music and audio files by Ernst Frank in the International Music Score Library Project
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| SURNAME | Frank, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frank, Conrad Heinrich Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1889 |
| Place of death | Oberdöbling |