Heinrich Mühlenbruch

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Heinrich Caspar Alexander Mühlenbruch (born October 13, 1803 in Saint Thomas ; † July 11, 1887 in Wismar ) was a German violinist, composer and music director.

Heinrich Mühlenbruch was born on October 13, 1803 as the son of the Gerdshagen manor owner Caspar Friedrich Mühlenbruch (1776-1854) on the Antilles island of Saint Thomas . In 1810 he moved with his family to Altona and took violin lessons with Louis Spohr in Kassel . Mühlenbruch was the first violinist and (allegedly) later concertmaster at the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin from 1824 to 1829 . From 1829 he worked as a chamber musician in Braunschweig . Later he and his wife Katharina Eunicke (1804–1842), a famous singer, moved to the Bremen theater . Here he was appointed the new concertmaster in 1832. On February 12, 1841, he left the Bremen Theater and succeeded Carl Christian Leberecht Schmidtgen as artistic director at the Court Theater in Schwerin . Mühlenbruch held this position until 1856, when the former conductor Georg Aloys Schmitt was appointed as his successor. Mühlenbruch returned to Wismar, where he died in 1887.

Works

  • Opera Merope at the Grand Ducal Court Theater Schwerin, 1846

Also wrote a string quartet, songs and chants

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Das Personenlexikon , p. 297
  • Klaus Blum: Music lovers and Musici. Music life in Bremen since the Enlightenment , Schneider, 1975, p. 154

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b General Musical Scoreboard . Volume 4, T. Haslinger, 1832, p. 175
  2. ^ Theodor Ent (ed.): German stage almanac . Volume 51, Berlin January 1, 1887, p. 178
personal data
SURNAME Mühlenbruch, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühlenbruch, Heinrich Caspar Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, composer and music director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Thomas
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1887
Place of death Wismar