Georg Gerson

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Georg Gerson (born October 14, 1790 in Copenhagen , † February 16, 1825 there ) was a Danish banker and composer .

family

Gerson was the son of the town broker Heyman Gerson (1765–1839), who came from Königsberg and was named Chaijm Kenigsberg before the letter of safe conduct to Copenhagen in 1789 , and the Sprinzche Esperance Melchior (1771–1797). He was born into a soon to be wealthy reform Jewish family who, like most of the Jewish residents in Copenhagen, spoke German, and had a sister, half-brother and half-sister.

Life

Georg Gerson showed business talent as a teenager in the trading class of the philanthropic Det Schouboeske Institute and was sent to Hamburg as a 15-year-old to do an apprenticeship at the trading house Fürst, Haller & Comp. to start. He was also very talented musically; Even as a child he had been taught by qualified teachers, and in 1807 his new master, Martin Joseph Haller , introduced him to amateur musicians who performed string quartets at domestic salon music evenings. During his time in Hamburg, not least because he had been a popular guest with the Fürst and Haller merchant families , he came into close contact with two virtuosos at the time, the violinist Andreas Romberg , who soon took over Gerson's training as a composer, and the cellist Bernhard Romberg (a cousin of Andreas). Andreas Romberg remained Gerson's compositional advisor for life. Gerson also studied music theory .

When he returned to Copenhagen in 1812, he joined the Hambro og Søn bank and in 1816 became a co-owner of the company. Gerson played in a Copenhagen quartet and was also an active member of several music societies, such as the Harmonic Society ( Det harmoniske Selskab ) around 1814 and the Society for the Diffusion of Music ( Selskabet for musikkens Udbredelse ) around 1820, which for a time played a major role in played on the Copenhagen music scene.

He went on several business trips to London, where he also wrote songs in English, including two to poems by Thomas Moore . After arranging an English loan to the Danish treasury, Gerson and his business partner Joseph Hambro were in 1821 by King Frederik VI. appointed “Hofråd”. On the way home from one of his business trips to London , Gerson suffered a stroke in Hamburg that paralyzed his left hand; thus ended his activity as a musician. He died of another blow in 1825 at the young age of 34, just four months after his marriage to Adelaide Nathan-David (1796-1891), a niece of his stepmother Emilie Nathan David (1777-1855).

Works

  • Concert overture in D major (1813)
  • Symphony in E flat major (1817)
  • Concert overture in E flat major (1818)
  • Violin Concerto (1821)
  • 5 string quartets
  • 1 string quintet
  • 2 Italian scenes (for orchestra)
  • Paternoster for male choir
  • numerous vocal pieces

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Mondrup (2017), p. 140
  2. ↑ see Mondrup (2017), p. 148
  3. ↑ see Mondrup (2017), p. 147
  4. ↑ see Mondrup (2017), p. 149
  5. ↑ see Mondrup (2017), p. 151
  6. ↑ First admission: Concerto Copenhagen , Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Classic production osnabrück (cpo) 777 085-2 (2005): jpc.de
  7. ↑ First admission: Concerto Copenhagen , Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Classic production osnabrück (cpo) 777 085-2 (2005): jpc.de
personal data
SURNAME Gerson, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish banker and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1825
Place of death Copenhagen