Franz Hunten
Franz Hünten , also François Hünten (born December 26, 1792 in Koblenz , † February 22, 1878 ibid) was a German composer, pianist and guitarist.
Hünten received his first music lessons at home from his father Daniel Hünten and, trained as a piano and guitar player, performed at the age of 16. From 1819 he studied composition with Anton Reicha and piano with Louis-Barthélémy Pradher at the Conservatoire in Paris . After three years, according to Buek, he left the conservatory, lived in poor circumstances, earned his tuition by taking private music lessons by the hour and began to compose. He had his first financial success with his four-hand piano composition Fantasy Military and several other pieces. In 1835 he returned to Koblenz, lived again in Paris from 1840 to 1848, where his son Emil Hünten was born, and then returned permanently to Koblenz. His compositions achieved high editions and promoted his prosperity and reputation, they are mostly opera melodies typical of the time for the bourgeois salon music of the 19th century, including guitar compositions ( trio, op.20 for violin, viola and guitar, variations concertante ).
His most famous student was Princess Luise of Prussia . Even Charles Gounod was a boy briefly piano lessons from Hünten.
literature
- Moritz Fürstenau : Hünten, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 421 f.
- Horst Heussner: Hünten, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 742 ( digitized version ).
- Gerd Zöllner: Franz Hünten. His life and work (= contributions to Rhenish music history 34). Cologne 1959 (Diss. Cologne) DNB 455832048 .
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Franz Hünten in the International Music Score Library Project
- Entry on Franz Hünten in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Selected compositions for the pianoforte; Book 7: Op. 13 - Variations on “Just one more waltz” (approx. 1860) in the Munich digitization center
Individual evidence
- ↑ as evidenced by the church book Liebfrauen Koblenz , quoted by Gerd Zöllner: Franz Hünten. His life and work. Cologne 1959, p. 38. Due to an error in Gustav Schilling : Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences , Supplement-Band, 1842, p. 220 ( digitized in the Google book search), 1793 is often incorrectly given as the year of birth
- ↑ Fritz Buek: The guitar and its masters. Robert Lienau (Schlesinger'sche Buch- und Musikhandlung) , Berlin-Lichterfelde 1926, p. 27.
- ↑ Fritz Buek: The guitar and their masters 1926, p. 27.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hünten, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1878 |
| Place of death | Koblenz |