Karl Gaillard

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Karl Gaillard (born January 13, 1813 in Potsdam , † January 10, 1851 ) was a German writer and music journalist.

Life

Gaillard, who lost his father at an early age, attended grammar school in Berlin and in 1829 became an apprentice in the Berlin bookshop of Carl August Challier (1813–1871). On October 1, 1835, he and Challier founded a music and publishing company under the name CA Challier & Co. From 1844 to 1847 he was editor of the Berlin musical newspaper , which was published by Challier. There he campaigned by name for the young Richard Wagner and sent him his drama Cola Rienzi for assessment in 1844 . Wagner's opera Rienzi (1842) inspired Gaillard to write the drama of the same name. He also wrote under the abbreviation "CG" for the signals for the musical world that appear in Leipzig .

In the last years of his life he worked as a city councilor and was involved in issues relating to emigration . Gaillard died of a "chest disease" a few days before his 38th birthday.

Works

  • On Cologne Cathedral , Berlin: Challier 1843 (with cathedral songs by Philipp Kaufmann) ( digitized version )
  • Images from Circassia. Poems , Berlin: Challier 1843 ( digitized version ); 2nd edition 1845
  • Ottavio Galfagna. Tragedy , 1844
  • Thomas Aniello. Tragedy , 1845
  • Cola Rienzi. Tragedy in five acts , Leipzig: Lorck, 1846 ( digitized version )
  • On the position of the dramatic poets in Germany. German theater conditions with special regard to the Berlin Hofbühne, which is supposed to be a model stage for Germany, under the administration of Mr. etc. von Küstner together with suggestions for improvements , Berlin: A. Weinholz 1847 ( digitized version )
  • How and where Emigration and colonization in the interests of Germany and emigrants , Berlin: Carl Reimers 1849 ( digitized version )
  • Lectures held in the public. Meetings of the Berlin Association for the Centralization of German Emigration and Colonization , No. 7, The German Settlement Enterprises in South Brazil , Berlin: Office of the Association for the Centralization of German Emigration & Colonization, Berlin 1850

literature

  • Carl Freiherr von Ledebur , Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present , Berlin 1861, p. 179 ( digitized version )
  • Rochus von Liliencron , article “Gaillard”, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 8 (1878), p. 312f. ( Digitized version )
  • Franz Brümmer , Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Volume 2, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 313 ( digitized version )
  • Richard Wagner, Complete Letters , Volume 2 (1842–1849), ed. by Gertrud Strobel and Werner Wolf , Leipzig 1970
  • Robert Schumann in correspondence with the Challier publishing house in Berlin. Edited by Hrosvith Dahmen and Konrad Sziedat, in: Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with publishers in Berlin and Hamburg. Edited by Hrosvith Dahmen, Michael Heinemann , Thomas Synofzik and Konrad Sziedat (=  Schumann-Briefedition , Series III, Volume 6), Cologne 2009, pp. 69–76.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Richard Wagner, Complete Works , Volume 23, documents and texts on “Rienzi, the last of the tribunes” , Mainz 1976, pp. 88ff.
personal data
SURNAME Gaillard, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1851