Franz Fiedler (composer, 1852)

Franz Fiedler (born June 16, 1852 in Graz , † October 13, 1915 there ) was an Austrian composer and piano teacher.

He was the first son of Franz Fiedler (I) (1815–1876) and Auguste Theresia Amalie born in Berlin . Lissmann (1820–1880), who was a friend of Clara Schumann .

From 1870–75 he was a pupil in the harmony class of the Musikverein school, and his attempts at composition (variations for piano and overture for orchestra) were performed at student concerts. He taught at the Buwa piano school in Graz, in 1879 he applied to open his own piano school, which was approved in 1880. Wilhelm Kienzl even counted him among the most important composers of Styria in the succession of Robert Schumann's piano style. Fiedler composed piano pieces and songs.

His younger brother Albert Fiedler (1855–1939) ran the piano company Albert Fiedler & Sohn and was appointed purveyor to the court .

Works (selection)

His works include op.2 ( ballad for piano), op.4 ( ideals , seven fantasy pieces for piano, dedicated to F. v. Hausegger), op.6 ( an elegiac fantasy for piano, dedicated to Georg Gottfried Müller), op. 7 ( Stammbuchblätter . 10 small little character pieces for piano), o. Op. ( Auf Laßnitzhöhe [Waldfrieden] , an idyll for piano) and op. 5 ( A Helgoland Symphony ).

literature

• Family Fiedler: Franz (II.) In: Rudolf Flotzinger (Hrsg.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, (Volume 1), pp. 443–444.