Louis Grossmann

Louis Grossmann (born March 6, 1835 in Turek , † July 15, 1915 in Warsaw ) was a Polish composer, conductor and music dealer.

Louis Grossmann studied harmony in Kalisz , then counterpoint with Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen in Berlin and organ playing with Karl August Freyer in Warsaw. In 1857 he opened an instrument shop with a partner. He owned the largest inventory of instruments in the country and soon had his own instruments made. The business became the center of musical life in Warsaw. A branch was then opened in St. Petersburg . Together with other intellectuals, he founded the Warsaw Music Society in 1871. Until 1874 he was a member of the board. In the summer of 1880, Grossmann met Franz Liszt in the Thuringian spa town of Bad Liebenstein . In 1901 he became a member of the Warsaw Theater Management and the first board of directors of the Warsaw Philharmonic . Until his death in 1915 he was director of the Warsaw Opera .

Works

Stage works

Il Pescatore di Palermo ( Jan Chęciński ), Opera 3 acts (1867 Warsaw)
Duch wojewody czyli U wód (The Spirit of the Wojewoden or On the Water; WL Anczyc), Opera 3 acts (25 Oct. 1873 Warsaw)
Kornet Hamilton (WL Anczyc), Opera 2 acts (composed 1867)
Les Sabots de la marquise (librettist unknown), opera 1 act (composed 1896, lost)

Overtures

King Lear
Ukrainian overture to Anton Malczewski's poem "Maria"

Orchestral works

Piano concerto in C major

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Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon, 11th edition, edited by Alfred Einstein , Berlin 1929, Max Hesses Verlag
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 5th Edition, London 1954

Web links

List of stage works by Louis Grossmann based on the MGG at Operone
Sheet music and audio files from Louis Grossmann in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

^ Franz Liszt: Letter of July 15, 1880 . In: Michael Short (Ed.): Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress . Pendragon Press, Hillsdale 2002, ISBN 1-57647-020-2 , pp. 350 .

personal data
SURNAME	Grossmann, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Großmann, Ludwig; Grossmann, Ludwik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish composer, conductor and music dealer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Turek
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1915
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] Franz Liszt: Letter of July 15, 1880 . In: Michael Short (Ed.): Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress . Pendragon Press, Hillsdale 2002, ISBN 1-57647-020-2 , pp. 350 .