Robert Wittmann
Robert Wittmann (* 1804 in Dresden ; † after 1891) was a German cellist and composer.
Wittmann lived in Leipzig from 1839 as a piano and composition teacher. He composed songs and chamber music as well as a concerto for two trumpets and orchestra ( "Double Variations for 2 Trumpets"), the 1851 Benjamin Bilses Christmas concert of Reichmuth and Carl Scholz was premiered, and he also wrote piano transcriptions among others, the symphonies of Beethoven , of operas ( flying The Holländer by Richard Wagner ; Die Afrikanerin and Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) and by Haydn's creation .
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- Edward H. Tarr: Theodore Hoch, the “Much Beloved Solo Cornetist of Bilse's Capelle” p. 94
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| SURNAME | Wittmann, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cellist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1891 |