Moritz Karasowski

Moritz Karasowski

Moritz Karasowski , also Moritz Karasowsky , actually Maurycy Karasowski (born September 22, 1823 in Warsaw , † April 20, 1892 in Dresden ) was a Polish cellist, composer and music writer.

Life

Karasowski took piano and cello lessons from Valentin Kratzer and became a cellist in the orchestra of the Great Opera in Warsaw in 1851. In 1858 and 1860 he went on study trips that took him to Berlin , Vienna , Dresden , Munich , Cologne and Paris . From 1862 until his death he was a member of the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden and was entitled "Royal Saxon Chamber Musician".

He published some works for violoncello and piano and also emerged as a music writer. His publications on Frédéric Chopin , with whose family he was friends, are of lasting importance .

Fonts

• Rys historyczny opery polskiej poprzedzony szczegolowym pogladom na dzieje muzyki dramatycznej powszechnej przez Maurycego Karasowskiego [ historical sketch of Polish opera, introduced by an overview of the general history of dramatic music ], Warsaw: Glücksberg, 1859
• Młodość Fryderyka Chopina [ Frédéric Chopin's youth ], Warsaw 1862 ( digitized version )
• Życie Mozarta [ Mozart's Life ], Warsaw 1868
• Friedrich Chopin. His life and his letters , 2nd edition, Dresden: Ries, New York: Schirmer, 1878 ( digitized version )

literature

• Adolph Kohut : The Dresden Court Theater in the Present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, pp. 443 f., ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski , The cello and its history , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911, p. 237.
• Hugo Riemann , Musik-Lexikon , 10th edition, edited by Alfred Einstein , Berlin 1922, p. 613.
• The Polish Biographical Dictionary , Wauconda, Illinois 1992, p. 180 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Moritz Karasowski Detailed biography on the website of the Chopin Institute (Polish)