Georg Abraham Schneider

Georg Abraham Schneider (born April 19, 1770 in Darmstadt , † January 19, 1839 in Berlin ) was a horn player , composer and Prussian court conductor .

Life

Schneider received his training in Darmstadt's city ​​pipe . From 1787 he was horn player in the Hessen-Darmstadt court orchestra . From 1795 - with brief interruptions - he was in Prussian service.

In terms of style, Schneider is indebted to the work of Haydn and Mozart in his music . However, the horn was at the center of his work as a composer and performer . He was particularly interested in the possibilities that arose after the invention of the valve horn . His concerto for 4 horns from 1818 was probably one of the first works for valve horn at all.

In 1820 Schneider was appointed royal music director and in 1825 appointed court conductor . In 1833 he was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin . One of his students was Carl Ludwig Hellwig .

Schneider's daughter Maschinka was the future wife of the Dresden composer François Schubert .

literature

• Robert Eitner:  Schneider, Georg Abraham . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 119 f.
• Andreas Meyer-Hanno: Georg Abraham Schneider (1770-1839) and his position in the musical life of Berlin. A contribution to the music history of the Prussian capital in the first half of the 19th century (Berlin Studies in Musicology, Vol. 7). Merseburger Verlag, Berlin 1965 (plus, dissertation, FU Berlin 1956).
• Till Gerrit Waidelich: The conspirators , "composed for nothing"? Ignaz Franz Castelli's libretto adaptation of the Lysistrata , set to music by Franz Schubert and Georg Abraham Schneider . In: Schubert yearbook . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1996, pp. 41-60, ISSN  1611-6291

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Georg Abraham Schneider in the International Music Score Library Project
• GA Schneider's work at corno.de