Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert (23 March 1811 – 7 January 1891) was a German pianist, composer, and conductor, and the father of

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and writer

Emil Taubert Emil Taubert (23 January 1844 in Berlin – 10 April 1895 in Berlin) was a German philologist, writer and librettist. He was the son of composer Wilhelm Taubert and studied philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written ...

Life

Born in

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, Taubert studied under

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(piano) and

Bernhard Klein Bernhard Joseph Klein (6 March 1793 – 9 September 1832) was a German composer. Life Klein was born in Cologne. He married Lili Parthey (1800–1829) who was the sister of Gustav Parthey (1798–1872) and the granddaughter of Friedrich Nicola ...

(composition). In 1831, he became assistant conductor and accompanist for Berlin court concerts. Between 1845 and 1848, he was music director of the

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and was also court conductor in Berlin from 1845 to 1869. From 1865, he taught music at the

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;

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was one of his pupils. His compositions include six operas,

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, four

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, concertos for piano and cello, four

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s, other orchestral, choral, and piano works, and more than 300 songs. His early compositions were praised by the composer

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sym ...

, who had also studied piano with Berger. Taubert died in Berlin. His grave is preserved in the

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"Friedhof I der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde" (Cemetery No. I of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in

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, south of Hallesches Tor.

Operas

* ''Die Kirmes'', comic opera, libretto by Eduard Devrient, 23 January 1832, Berlin, Königliches Theater * ''Die Zigeuner'', libretto by E. Devrient, 14 September 1834, Berlin, Königliches Theater * ''Marquis und Dieb'', comic opera, libretto by L Schneider, 15 February 1842, Berlin, Königliches Theater * ''Joggeli'', libretto by H. Kloster, 9 October 1953, Berlin, Königliches Theater * ''Macbeth'', libretto by F. H. Eggers, 16 November 1857, Berlin, Königliches Theater * ''Caesario, oder Was ihr wollt'', comic opera, libretto by E. Taubert, 13 November 1874, Berlin, Königliches Theater

References

* Stanley Sadie (ed.): "Taubert, Wilhelm", in: ''The

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'' (London: Macmillan, 1992),

External links

Deutschen Nationalbibliothek catalogue information about the composer, accessed 18 November 2009
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