Georg Kremplsetzer

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Georg Kremplsetzer (born April 20, 1827 in Vilsbiburg ; † June 9, 1871 there ) was a German composer and musician.

Life

Plaque on Kremplsetzer's birthplace in Vilsbiburg

He was born in Vilsbiburg, Lower Bavaria, the son of a cloth manufacturer. He completed his training as a musician in Munich. There he had some initial successes. His career also includes a collaboration with Wilhelm Busch , who in the 1860s, after his first successes as a satirical draftsman and poet, also tried his hand as a librettist . Wilhelm Busch wrote three major stage works up to 1863: Love and Cruelty , a romantic opera in three acts , the fairy tale song Hansel and Gretel, and The Visiting Cousin , a form of Opera Buffa. Georg Kremplsetzer certainly provided the music for the last two works. But he may also be the composer of the romantic opera, which is listed on the theater bill as Motzhoven , an art name from Mozart and Beethoven.

Love and Cruelty was performed on February 8th in Munich, Hansel und Gretel was premiered in February 1862 in the Munich concert hall Odeon. The performance was one of the social events in Munich at the time. However, Kremplsetzer's music has not been preserved. The visiting cousin failed because this actually comic opera always had lyrical interludes that did not match the other character of the opera. Georg Kremplsetzer and Wilhelm Busch quarreled over this piece so much that Wilhelm Busch withdrew his name as an author and the opera only appeared as a musical play by Georg Kremplsetzer . After these initial successes, Georg Kremplsetzer accepted a position as Kapellmeister in the province. However, he lost this position in the war years of 1870/71. He returned sick and resigned to his family in Vilsbiburg and died there in 1871 at the age of only 44. Almost nothing of his compositions has survived. Most of the works were lost in World War II.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Eva Weissweiler : Wilhelm Busch. The laughing pessimist. A biography . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03930-6 , p. 102
  2. ↑ See also Wilhelm Busch: Munich. Today, Wednesday, February 8th, 1860. Loving faithfulness and cruelty. Romantic opera in 3 acts by Motzhoven. In: Rolf Hochhuth : Wilhelm Busch, Complete Works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. Volume 2 Whatever is popular is also allowed. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959, p. 846 (-852).
  3. ^ Eva Weissweiler: Wilhelm Busch. The laughing pessimist. A biography . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03930-6 , p. 104

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kremplsetzer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilsbiburg
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1871
Place of death Vilsbiburg