Carl Gradener

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Carl Gradener
Memory of Carl Grädener on a collective grave plaque in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery at Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg

Carl Georg Peter Grädener (born January 14, 1812 in Rostock , † June 11, 1883 in Hamburg ) was a German composer .

Life

Gradener, whose parents Hermann Heinrich and Friedrica Grädener died early, grew up with relatives in Altona and Lübeck . After graduating from the Katharineum high school in Lübeck at Easter 1831, he began to study law in Halle and Göttingen , but soon devoted himself entirely to music. As a soloist and quartet he was a cellist in Helsinki (Helsingfors) from 1835 to 1838 . He then worked for ten years as a choir and orchestra conductor , composer and theory teacher in Kiel . During this time he also worked as music director of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . When Clara Schumann wanted to perform in Kiel in March 1842 - the concert did not take place - she stayed with Gradener, as well as when she was finally able to realize the concert on April 20th. On June 20, 1843 she gave Gradener a positive report for his application for a position as music director in Arnsberg .

After he was dismissed because of his advocacy of the union of the Duchy of Schleswig with the Duchy of Holstein on the Schleswig-Holstein question , he became a private music teacher and concert organizer in Hamburg and founded a singing academy there in 1851, which he directed until 1861. From 1862 to 1865 he taught singing and music theory at the Vienna Conservatory , then from 1873 until his death at the Hamburg Conservatory. From 1867 he was president and founding member of the Hamburger Tonkünstlerverein , to which his friend Johannes Brahms belonged.

In 1841 he married Wilhelmine Sack, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. His son Hermann was also known as a composer.

Works

He composed three operas , two symphonies , a piano concerto , overtures , a violin romance, chamber music works, piano pieces, including several collections of miniatures ( Flying Leaves , Flying Leaves , Variations , Fantastic Studies and Dreams , Little Impromptus ), choral works and songs .

Gradener's compositions are described as "conservative-classicistic and North German-tart", with influences from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann .

On July 6 and 7, 2015, Gradener's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 25 - which, like other works by the composer, had been completely forgotten - was given a highly acclaimed revival.

Works (selection)

  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7, dedicated to Clara Schumann (1852)
  • Hebrew Chants op.15 (1852)
  • Autumn sounds. 7 songs for low voice and piano op.18 (1857) ( digitized )
  • Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 25 ( digitized version )
  • Fliegende Blätter for piano op.27 (1856) - Autograph in the Berlin State Library ( digitized )
  • Piano trio n.2 in E flat major op.35, dedicated to Johannes Brahms (approx. 1858–1859)
  • Two little sonatas of a lighter style for violin and piano op.41 (1860)
  • Piano quintet No. 2 in c sharp minor op.57 (1872) ( digital copy )
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano op.59 (1873)

Processing (selection)

  • Robert Schumann , Zigeunerleben for choir and piano op. 29, arranged for small orchestra, Rieter-Biedermann, Winterthur approx. 1861/62

Fonts

  • Bach and the Hamburg Bach Society. A contribution to art criticism. Fritz Schuberth, Hamburg 1856.
  • Speech held z. centenary commemoration of Ludw. v. Beethoven 's (December 17, 1870) in the Hamburg Tonkünstlervereine (after a performance of the E-flat major quartet, Op. 127). Seidel, Hamburg 1871.
  • Collected essays on art, preferably music. Hugo Pohle, Hamburg 1872 ( digitized version ).
  • System of harmony. Gradener, Hamburg 1877.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 279
  2. ↑ Robert Schumann , Diaries , Volume 2, ed. by Gerd Nauhaus , Leipzig 1987, pp. 214 and 225
  3. ^ Re-performance of a Kiel symphony. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, July 7, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gradener, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graedener, Carl Georg Peter (full name); Graedener, Carl; Gradener, Karl; Gradener, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1883
Place of death Hamburg