Christian Theodor Weinlig (July 25, 1780 – March 7, 1842) was a German music teacher, composer, and choir conductor, active in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
and
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
.
Biography
Born in Dresden, Weinlig initially studied and then practised law until 1803. He then began musical training with his uncle
Christian Ehregott Weinlig
Christian Ehregott Weinlig (September 30, 1743 – March 14, 1813) was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.
Born in Dresden, Weinlig received his musical training at the city's Kreuzschule from Gottfried August Homilius, and fro ...
, with whom he studied for two years before travelling to
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
to study with
Stanislao Mattei
Stanislao Mattei, O.F.M. Conv. (10 February 1750, in Bologna – 17 May 1825, in Bologna), was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who was a noted composer, musicologist, and music teacher of his era.
Life
Mattei was born in Bologna, then part ...
in 1806. He was a member of the
Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna
The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna ("philharmonic academy of Bologna"; sometimes known in English as the Bologna Academy of Music) is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy.
The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an associ ...
. From 1814 to 1817, he worked as
Cantor
A cantor or chanter is a person who leads people in singing or sometimes in prayer. In formal Jewish worship, a cantor is a person who sings solo verses or passages to which the choir or congregation responds.
In Judaism, a cantor sings and lead ...
of the
Kreuzkirche
The Dresden Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany. It is the main church and seat of the ''Landesbischof'' of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, and the largest church building in the Free State o ...
in Dresden. In 1823, he became Cantor of the
Thomanerchor
The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', reside in a boarding scho ...
in Leipzig, an office he kept until his death.
Among his most well-known pupils were pianist
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...
and composer
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
; he taught Wagner at
Saint Thomas school
St. Thomas School is an independent school in Medina, an Eastside suburb of Seattle, Washington, United States.
Description
St. Thomas School provides early childhood, pre-primary, and primary education for students from 2 ½ years of age through ...
in Leipzig.
In 1877, Wagner recalled Weinlig's teaching style to
Edward Dannreuther
Edward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844, Strasbourg – 12 February 1905, Hastings) was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a pia ...
:
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1780 births
1842 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century German composers
19th-century German male musicians
German conductors (music)
German male classical composers
German male conductors (music)
German Romantic composers
Musicians from Dresden
Thomaskantors
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