Karl August Krebs

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Karl August Krebs (born January 16, 1804 in Nuremberg as Karl August Miedke; † May 16, 1880 in Dresden ), also Carl , also Miedtke , was a German pianist , composer , conductor and conductor .

Life

Karl August was born in Nuremberg in 1804. His parents were the actor Carl Miedke and the singer Charlotte Miedke , née Pfister, who both worked at the national theater there. In 1805 the family moved to Stuttgart, where his mother died a year later. With the consent of his father, Karl August was adopted as a child by the court singer Johann Baptist Krebs and his wife Maria Anna and subsequently took the name of his foster father. The work of the foster father at the opera and his diverse contacts in artistic circles promoted Karl August's interest in music. At the age of six he was already playing piano concertos by Mozart, Dussek and Ries, tutored by Johann Nepomuk Schelble . His compositional talent, cultivated by his adoptive father, also caused a sensation, and he was counted among the child prodigies of his time.

In 1825, at the age of 21, he went to Vienna, studied composition with Ignaz von Seyfried and improved his piano playing skills. He distinguished himself as a piano virtuoso and on April 1, 1826 became the third Kapellmeister at the Hofoperntheater . In March 1827 he followed a call as Kapellmeister at the city ​​theater in Hamburg. In 1830 he performed his opera Sylva, or die Macht des Gesangs (libretto: Georg von Hofmann ) , which had already been composed in Vienna . The opera Agnes, der Engel von Augsburg followed in 1834, which was received with applause in Dresden in 1858 and 1863.

From 1850 Karl August was married to the singer Aloyse Michalesi , who was also engaged in Dresden . Their daughter Mary Krebs (1851–1900) developed into an important pianist.

Family grave

From 1850 to 1871 he worked as court conductor at the Royal Court Theater in Dresden ; From 1871 until a few weeks before his death, he led the church music in the Catholic Court Church . In 1875 he celebrated his 25th service anniversary, on April 1st, 1876 his 50th anniversary as a conductor. He died on May 16, 1880 with his family; He found his final resting place in the family grave in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl August Krebs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name form "Karl August Krebs" can be found u. a. in the following information sources: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 2007, entry “Krebs, Karl August”; Richard Schaal, SL:  Krebs, Karl August. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access). The Karl August Krebs dataset in the catalog of the German National Library has numerous subsidiary forms, including "Carl August Krebs", "Karl August Miedke" and "Carl August Miedtke". The spelling "Miedtke" can also be found in Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 173 and in Elisabeth Friedrichs: Literary local greats 1700–1900 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1967, p. 179.
  2. ↑ Gustav Schilling, Gottfried Wilhelm Fink: Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst: Irregular passage to Morin. Volume 4. Köhler, 1837, p. 224 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon : Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Volume 2: H-Pe. KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-11763-9 , p. 846.
  4. ↑ Schwäbischer Merkur No. 16, Wednesday January 20, 1858, p. 75 ( digitized in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Krebs, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krebs, Carl August; Miedke, Karl August; Miedke, Carl August; Miedtke, Karl August; Miedtke, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, composer, conductor and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1880
Place of death Dresden