Karl Adam Bader, also known as Carl Adam Bader, was a German cathedral organist and Berlin Court Opera tenor. He was born in

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in 1789 and died in Berlin in 1870.

Biography

Bader was a son of a Bamberg organist and his family encouraged his musical education. In 1807 he became the organist for the Bamberg Cathedral and became choirmaster there in 1809. In 1810, he debuted as a tenor at Bamberg. He worked in Munich from 1812 to 1816, and in October 1813, he married colleague Sophie Laurent. From December 1816 to July 1817, he worked at the

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

Theater under directors Carl Gerber and Ringelhardt. He debuted again as a tenor on 30 May 1818 for Rossini's '' Tancredi'' in Brunswick and remained there until 1820. He became the opera director of the Berlin Court Opera in from 1844 to 1849. For the rest of his life, he remained the music director at

St. Hedwig's Cathedral St. Hedwig's Cathedral (german: St.-Hedwigs-Kathedrale) is a Catholic church on Bebelplatz in the historic centre of Berlin. Dedicated to Hedwig of Silesia, it was erected from 1747 to 1887 by order of Frederick the Great according to plans by G ...

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