Karl Friedrich Curschmann (June 21, 1805 – August 24, 1841) was a German song composer and singer.
Life
Curschmann was born in 1805, in Berlin. His talent for singing was discovered when he was at school. In 1824, having been a law student in Berlin and
Göttingen, he started to devote his life to music. He went to
Kassel
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where he studied under
Spohr
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and
Hauptmann, starting with church music. At Kassel in 1828 he wrote his first opera ''Abdul und Errinieh oder Toten''.
After four years in Kassel, Curschmann returned to Berlin. After 1837 he lived with Rose Behrend, daughter of a Danzig businessman and herself a singer, before they married and engaged heavily in the musical life of Berlin. He befriended Eduard Grell, director of the Berlin Song Academy.
Curschmann wrote 83 songs, many to the poems of
Goethe,
Schiller
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,
Heine
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and
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.
Curschmann died in
Langfuhr
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, near Danzig, in 1841.
Compositions
Books of songs
* Wiegenlied
* Die Stillen Wanderer
* Der Abend Standchen
* Der Fischer Altes Volkslied
* Jagerlied
* Au Rose der Schiffer
* Der kleine Hans
Opera
* Abdul und Errinieh oder Toten
References
External links
Karl Friedrich Curschmann in Grande Musica
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19th-century classical composers
German opera composers
Male opera composers
1805 births
1841 deaths
Musicians from Berlin
German male classical composers
19th-century German composers
19th-century German male musicians