Heinrich Neal (September 11, 1870 – 1940) was a German
Kapellmeister at
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
,
["History of Lowell and its people, Volume 2" By Frederick William Coburn, p.532] born to the artist
David Dalhoff Neal
David Dalhoff Neal (October 20, 1838May 2, 1915), was an American artist.
Early years
David Dalhoff Neal was born to father Stephen Bryant Neal and mother Mary (Dalhoff) Neal, on Middlesex Street, in Lowell, Massachusetts. His grandparents were ...
and Marie Ainmiller, and brother to dramatist
Maximilian Dalhoff Neal. His grandfather was the great glass painter
Max Emanuel Ainmiller.
Heinrich graduated from the Munich Conservatory in 1888, then studied orchestral instrumentation at
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 ...
from 1889 to 1890, and in
Paris
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from 1891 to 1893. He, just as his father did, had duel
citizenship
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in Germany as well as the U.S. He married
Alice Lessel on March 28, 1896, in
Dresden, Germany
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.
Heinrich was the musical composer, who directed the
Heidelberg
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Conservatory of Music, with his home address of Werder Strasse 7,
Heidelberg
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,
Germany
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.
His music includes many concert works and chamber music notably:
*"Opium" (a grad ballet)
*"Sergeant Crespo" (a comic opera)
*Hast du die Lippen mir wundgeküßt, op. 21 (Fünf Lieder) no. 5 (Text: Heinrich Heine)
*Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen, op. 21 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 (Text: Heinrich Heine)
*Mir träumte von einem Königskind, op. 21 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine)
*String Quartet no.1, op. 54 in E major
*Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772, transcribed for 2 pianos
üller Heidelberg*Invention No. 6 in E major, BWV 777, transcribed for 2 pianos
üller Heidelberg*Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779, transcribed for 2 pianos
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Heinrich died a few months before his brother
Max Neal died in the early years of the
World War II
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.
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1870 births
1940 deaths
German composers
German people of American descent