Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (5 September 1820 – 16 February 1886) was a German composer, conductor and piano teacher.

Biography

Köhler was born in

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. He studied piano in

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Carl Maria von Bocklet Carl Maria von Bocklet (30 November 1801 – 15 July 1881) was a composer, pianist and teacher of music. Bocklet was born in Prague. He studied with Bedřich Diviš Weber and in 1821 he moved to Vienna, where he "created a great stir...throu ...

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Ignaz von Seyfried Ignaz Xaver, Ritter von Seyfried (15 August 1776 – 27 August 1841) was an Austrian musician, conductor and composer. He was born and died in Vienna. According to a statement in his handwritten memoirs he was a pupil of both Wolfgang Amadeus Mo ...

. As a conductor, he worked in Marienburg and Elbing. After that he settled in

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in 1847, after which time he concentrated on piano teaching and writings on music. Among his pupils were

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Hermann Goetz Hermann Gustav Goetz (7 December 1840 – 3 December 1876) was a German composer who spent much of his career in Switzerland. He is best known for his 1872 opera '' Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung'', based on Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shre ...

. He was a critic for the ''Hartungsche Zeitung'' from 1849 to 1886, and was a contributor to ''

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'' from 1844 until 1886. His writings were well known to

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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 also proposed the formation of the ''Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein'', with which Liszt was involved. Köhler composed three operas and a ballet, and wrote books on musical theory. He also wrote educational works for piano.Grove via Bach-cantatas
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Selected writings

* ''Die Melodie der Sprache'' (Leipzig, 1853) * ''Systematische Lehrmethode für Klavierspiel und Musik'' (Leipzig, 1857–8, 3/1888) * ''Die Gebrüder Müller und das Streichquartett'' (Leipzig, 1858) * ''Führer durch den Clavierunterricht'' (Leipzig, 1859, 9/1894) * ''Der Clavierunterricht: Studien, Erfahrungen und Ratschläge'' (Leipzig, 1860, 6/1905) * ''Leicht fassliche Harmonie- und Generalbass-Lehre'' (Königsberg, 1861, 3/1880) * ''Gesangs-Führer'' (Leipzig, 1863) * ''Die neue Richtung in der Musik'' (Leipzig, 1864) * ''Einige Betrachtungen über Sonst und Jetzt'' (Leipzig, 1867) * ''Johannes Brahms und seine Stellung in der neueren Musikgeschichte'' (Hanover, 1880) * ''Allgemeine Musiklehre'' (Leipzig, 1883) * ''Katechismus der Harmonielehre'' (Stuttgart, 1888, 2/1892) * ''Allegro Moderato (1880)

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* 1820 births 1886 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century conductors (music) 19th-century German composers German conductors (music) German male classical composers German male conductors (music) German music educators German Romantic composers Piano pedagogues Musicians from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick {{Germany-composer-stub