Konstantin Decker

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Konstantin Decker (born December 20 or October 29, 1810 in Fürstenau, today a district of the municipality Boitzenburger Land in the district of Uckermark ; † January 28, 1878 in Stolp (Polish Słupsk )) was a German pianist, composer and music teacher.

He studied in Berlin with Siegfried Dehn , after which he moved to Saint Petersburg . His students there included u. a. Ingeborg Starck .

Konstantin Decker was also a composer; his opera "Isolde" was premiered in Königsberg in 1850 , then in St. Petersburg in 1852.

He also created numerous songs to texts by Ludwig Uhland , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Gottfried August Bürger and Heinrich Heine .

From 1859 he lived in Stolp. In the Stolper address book for 1864, Bergstrasse 49 is given as his place of residence and "composer" as his profession.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Schumann: Robert Schumann diaries . Рипол Классик, 1987, ISBN 978-5-88209-300-5 , p. 590.
  2. ↑ Konstantin Decker at Goethe-musik.de ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goethe-musik.de
  3. ↑ Apartment gazette for the city of Stolp (1864), p. 13. Digital copy (Digital Library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania); URL: http://www.digitale-bibliothek-mv.de/viewer/image/PPN863044093_1864/17/#topDocAnchor
personal data
SURNAME Decker, Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1810 or December 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenau, now part of the Boitzenburger Land community , Uckermark district
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1878
Place of death Stumble