Gustav Rösler (composer)

Gustav Rösler (born September 2, 1819 in Dessau ; † February 24, 1883 there ) was a German composer and music teacher.

Rösler studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Schneider from 1835 to 1838 in Dessau . A few years later he founded a choral society, which in the following years was very well received by the Dessau audience with the performance of works from the opera literature from the time from Gluck to Wagner . A separate opera based on Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea (1852) was performed several times and is said to have been very popular, but it remained unpublished and was not continued in Rösler's work. He became known among contemporaries with a number of lied compositions, but above all for his piano reductions of around a hundred Bach cantatas and numerous oratorios, operas and orchestral works, which were published by Breitkopf & Härtel . Many of them are still an integral part of the study and practice of the musical business.

Rösler was married to the singer Louise Rust, no descendants are known.

literature

• Wilhelm Rust, Gustav Rösler † , in: Musicalisches Zentralblatt, Vol. III, No. 10, Leipzig, March 8, 1883, p. 110

Web links

• Works by and about Gustav Rösler in the catalog of the German National Library