Moritz Fürstenau
Moritz Ignaz Ludwig Carl Franz August Fürstenau (born July 26, 1824 in Dresden , † March 27, 1889 ibid) was a German flautist and music historian.
Life
Fürstenau was the son of the composer Anton Bernhard Fürstenau , from whom he also received his first musical lessons. He made his first public appearance in 1832 at the age of eight, and since then he has made extensive concert tours.
At the request of the Saxon King Friedrich August III. Fürstenau got a permanent job in the Dresden court orchestra as a flautist in 1842 . In 1844 he advanced to the “royal”. Chamber musician ”.
In the following year Fürstenau went on a long study trip to Munich to take flute lessons from Theobald Böhm ; he had developed a special flute that Fürstenau wanted to introduce at the Dresden court. In 1852 he advanced to the position of custodian of the “royal. Music Collection ”in his hometown. As such, two years later he founded the Tonkünstler-Verein (today chamber music of the Staatskapelle Dresden ), which was supposed to devote itself to instrumental music , especially the maintenance of chamber music . The Heinrich Schütz Archive in Dresden sees itself in the tradition of its historical work.
With the singer Jenny Lind ( soprano ) Fürstenau undertook a concert tour through the Netherlands in 1855; they performed together, but also as soloists. Friedrich Tröstler and Fürstenau were the first lecturers at the newly founded private conservatory in 1856 . In addition to composition, he mostly gave flute lessons there.
After the war of 1870 , Fürstenau slowly gave up all offices and retired into private life. Except for the office of librarian of the royal music collection in Dresden, which he held until 1889. His successor was the royal music director of the Dresden court opera Carl August Riccius (1830-1893).
Moritz Fürstenau died on March 27, 1889 in Dresden.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tonkünstlerverein - Staatskapelle Dresden. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
- ↑ See Wolfram Steude : The Heinrich Schütz Archive. In: Contributions to musicology. Issue 3/1989. Published by the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR in Verlag Neue Musik Berlin, p. 207 f.
Works (selection)
- On the history of music and theater at the court of Dresden. Dresden 1862. (1979, DNB 891446761 )
literature
- Robert Eitner : Fürstenau, Moritz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 214.
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Bernhard H. Schneeberger : The Fürstenau family of musicians. Studies of life and work . Lit Verlag, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-89473-232-6 .
- Volume 1: Life and Work.
- Volume 2: Thematic bibliographical catalogs of works.
- Wilhelm Virneisel: Fürstenau, Moritz Anton Ludwig Karl Franz August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 694 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Moritz Fürstenau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Moritz Fürstenau in the German Digital Library
- Corinna Kirschstein: Fürstenau, Moritz Ignaz Ludwig Carl Franz August . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fürstenau, Moritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fürstenau, Moritz Ignaz Ludwig Carl Franz August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German flautist and music historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1889 |
| Place of death | Dresden |