Louis locks
Louis Schlösser (born November 17, 1800 in Darmstadt ; † November 17, 1886 there ) was a German composer and concert virtuoso .
Life
As the son of a Jewish innkeeper, Schlösser was trained as a musician with the help of grand ducal scholarships, from 1822 to 1823 in Vienna with Antonio Salieri , Joseph Mayseder and Ignaz von Seyfried , then in Paris with Rodolphe Kreutzer and Jean-François Lesueur . Later he was court and chamber musician in Darmstadt and from 1858 court conductor of the Darmstadt orchestra.
He maintained lively relationships with numerous famous musicians of his time, including Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , Carl Maria von Weber , Katharina Cibbini and Hector Berlioz . He described his encounter with Beethoven in extensive memories.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) And a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 798-834.
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| SURNAME | Locks, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and concert virtuoso |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1886 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |