Friedrich Wilhelm Grund (composer)

Title page of the Sonate pour le piano forté et violoncello ou violon, oeuv. 11 , printed around 1820, dedicated to Lisette Fürst

Friedrich Wilhelm Grund (born October 7, 1791 in Hamburg ; † November 24, 1874 there ) was a German composer , conductor and music teacher .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Grund was born as the son of the music teacher Georg Friedrich Grund and Christiane Eleonore Steinert. He learned to play the piano, violin, violoncello and double bass from his father. He also received lessons from the city cantor Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke .

Due to a nervous condition in his right hand, he had to end his career as an active musician in 1819 and from then on worked as a composer, conductor and music teacher. In the same year he founded the Society of Friends of Religious Singing (the later Hamburger Singakademie ) together with Jacob Steinfeldt (1788–1869, also a pupil of Schwencke ). He led for 34 years, the 1828 Association for the performance of winter concerts founded Philharmonic Society . Grund was one of the founders of the Hamburg Tonkünstlerverein in 1847 .

His siblings were also musicians, his sisters Christiane Sengstack (1783–1867, pianist and singer) and Henriette (pianist and singer) and his brother Eduard (1802–1871, Kapellmeister zu Meiningen) became known.

Works

• Quartet for pianoforte, violin, viola and violoncello, op.5 (string version of op.8)
• Quintet for piano oboe, clarinet horn and bassoon, op.8 - Komp. Hamburg 1816 (Musica Aeterna Verlag)
• Violin Sonata, op.9
• Sonata for piano and violoncello or violin, op.11
• Grande Sonate, op.13 (cello sonata)
• Quartet for pianoforte, violin, viola and violoncello, op.13
• Grande Polonaise, op.14
• 12 Great Etudes, op.21
• Grand Divertissement, op.23 (Divertimento, for four-hand piano and violoncello or violin or flute)
• Introduction et rondeau, op.25 (piano)
• Trio de salon, op.27
• various cantatas on the occasion of secular celebrations, inaugurations, anniversaries:
  • Cantata at the inauguration of the new Hamburg high school, school u. Library building on May 5 and 7, 1840 (Text: Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil )
  • Cantata for the third Säcular-Feyer of the Hamburgisches Johanneum on May 24, 1829
  • Cantata for the third secular celebration of the Constitutional Union: Hamburg, on Michaelmas day 1828
  • Cantata at the inauguration of the new stock exchange in Hamburg on December 2nd, 1841
  • Cantata for five and twenty years Official jubilee d. Hochw. H. August Jacob Rambach , Theol. DU Sen. D. Hamb. Ministerii, as chief pastor of St. Michaelis, on Sundays Laetare, d. March 17, 1844
• various songs, also based on texts by Heinrich Heine , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Falkenstein Castle (Romantic opera in 5 acts, world premiere: November 29, 1825 in Hamburg, lost)
• Caroline Pichler (opera, not performed)
• Mathilde (Great Heroic Opera in 3 Acts)
• The resurrection and ascension of Jesus. A sacred cantata by KW Ramler set to music by Ms. W. Grund. (Oratorio, first performance: November 17, 1823 in St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg)

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• Josef Sittard: History of music and concerts in Hamburg. From the 14th century to the present . AC Rehor, Altona 1890. www.archive.org
• The music in the past and present . Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH Co. KG and JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung and Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart.
• Biographical data from www.operone.de , accessed on October 30, 2012
• Catalog raisonné from www.klassika.info , accessed on October 30, 2012
• Song texts at the LiederNet Archive , accessed on October 30, 2012
• History of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra , accessed on November 1, 2015
• Sheet music and audio files by Friedrich Wilhelm Grund (composer) in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A daughter of the Hamburg merchant Lorenz Levin Salomon Fürst , who led a legal battle for human rights from 1791 to 1802.
2. ↑ Lexicon article by the Sophie Drinker Institute ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ cf. also entries on Google Books
4. ↑ Sponsoring noble books, music: object no. 51: Wrongly forgotten Hamburg oratorio. Library of the University of Hamburg , accessed on October 30, 2012.