Friedrich August Kanne

Friedrich August Kanne (born March 8, 1778 in Delitzsch , † December 16, 1833 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and music writer of German origin.

life and work

Anna Milder in the title role of Kannes opera Orpheus (1807)

Kanne first studied medicine in Leipzig and theology in Wittenberg , before he switched to music studies, including in Dresden with Christian Ehregott Weinlig . In 1801 his cantata “An die Tonkunst” was successfully performed in Leipzig. In 1804 he moved to Vienna, where he worked as a music teacher, critic and poet, and from 1821 to 1824 also as editor of the Wiener Allgemeine Musikischen Zeitung . Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz (whose piano teacher he was) and Ludwig van Beethoven were among his supporters and friends . The last few years have been marked by poverty and alcohol abuse.

Kanne was successful several times as a composer of operas, for example with “Orpheus” (1807) and “Miranda” (1811). Probably the greatest success was the magic opera "Lindane, or Die Fee und der Haarbagschneider" , which between 1824 and 1841 saw a total of 68 performances in the theater in Leopoldstadt . In addition to operas and stage music, he composed songs and duets, a mass, two symphonies and some instrumental works. He also wrote plays and poems. He also provided a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli (who had inspired a total of 50 contemporary composers to each write a variation on a self-composed waltz; Beethoven processed the theme in his own Diabelli variations ).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kanne, Friedrich August . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 438–443 ( digitized version ).
• .pdf jug Friedrich August. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 217.
• The New Grove, 2nd edition
• Blume, Friedrich (Ed.): Music in the past and present , 1st edition, 1949–1986

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich August Kanne in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview stage works (operone.de)
• The above-ground glass cabinet, article by Gunther Martin in the magazine of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, February 2003