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August Reuß
August Reuß (6 March 1871 – 18 June 1935) was a German composer. Life Reuß was born in Lesná (Znojmo District), Liliendorf, Moravia. His father ran a railway construction company, and his grandfather had worked as a teacher and organist in Würzburg, Lower Franconia. He joined his father's company after his secondary school years in Ingolstadt. Due to his father's early death, Reuß had to wait until 1899, before he could finally start studying music with Ludwig Thuille in Munich after a long period of self-taught activity. Reuß worked as Kapellmeister in Magdeburg and Augsburg, but had to interrupt due to illness. In 1909, he settled in Munich as a freelance musician. He became co-founder of the Trapp School of Music (1927), the forerunner of today's , and worked there as a teacher of composition. In 1929, he was appointed to the Akademie der Tonkünste, of which he remained a member and teacher until his death. Autobiographical notes, reports critical of culture, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Reuß (composer)
August Reuß (6 March 1871 – 18 June 1935) was a German composer. Life Reuß was born in Liliendorf, Moravia. His father ran a railway construction company, and his grandfather had worked as a teacher and organist in Würzburg, Lower Franconia. He joined his father's company after his secondary school years in Ingolstadt. Due to his father's early death, Reuß had to wait until 1899, before he could finally start studying music with Ludwig Thuille in Munich after a long period of self-taught activity. Reuß worked as Kapellmeister in Magdeburg and Augsburg, but had to interrupt due to illness. In 1909, he settled in Munich as a freelance musician. He became co-founder of the Trapp School of Music (1927), the forerunner of today's , and worked there as a teacher of composition. In 1929, he was appointed to the Akademie der Tonkünste, of which he remained a member and teacher until his death. Autobiographical notes, reports critical of culture, and a manuscript of a theory o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 Births
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German Composers
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Franz Krautwurst
Franz Xaver Krautwurst (7 August 1923 – 30 November 2015) was a German musicologist and academic teacher. Life Franz Krautwurst was born in Munich on August 7, 1923. He was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Munich from 1939 through 1942, and then was conscripted into the German military for service from 1942-1945. He pursued further studies in musicology after World War II at the University of Munich under Rudolf von Ficker and Thrasybulos Georgiades. He earned a doctorate in musicology from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1950; studying there with Rudolf Steglich. He joined the faculty of this latter school in 1950 and was awarded his habilitation there in 1956. Krautwurst was a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for twenty-four years. He left there to join the faculty at the University of Augsburg where he taught from 1980 through 1988. He founded the journal ''Augsburger Jahrbuch für Musikgeschichte'' in 1984 and in 1991 became e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Falke
Gustav Falke (11 January 1853 – 8 February 1916) was a German writer. Life Falke was born in Lübeck to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians Johannes and were his uncles, and the translator Otto Falke was his cousin. He worked in a bookstore in Hamburg from 1868, then moved to Essen, Stuttgart, and Hildburghausen. He returned to Hamburg in 1878, where he was educated in music by Emil Krause, to become a piano teacher. In 1888 he married his former piano student Anna Theen. They had two daughters and a son. Falke started to publish his works in the 1890s and was introduced into the Hamburg literary society around , , , and Detlev von Liliencron. Much of his work was impressionistic lyric poetry inspired by Liliencron, Richard Dehmel, and Paul Heyse. He also wrote conservative, "folk" pieces, following Eduard Mörike and Theodor Storm, and children's books in rhyme and prose. With the advent of World War I, he volun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (11 October 1825 – 28 November 1898) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of literary realism who is mainly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Füße im Feuer" (The Feet in the Fire). Biography Meyer was born in Zürich. His father, who died early, was a statesman and historian, while his mother was a highly cultured woman. Throughout his childhood two traits were observed that later characterized the man and the poet: he had a most scrupulous regard for neatness and cleanliness, and he lived and experienced more deeply in memory than in the immediate present. He suffered from bouts of mental illness, sometimes requiring hospitalization; his mother, similarly but more severely afflicted, killed herself. Having finished the gymnasium, he took up the study of law, but history and the humanities were of greater interest to him. He went for considerable periods to Lausanne, Geneva, Paris, and Italy, where he interested himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was an outstanding poet, writer, and literary criticism, literary critic of 19th-century German Romanticism. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of ''Lieder'' (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being Censorship in Germany, banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris. Heine's early works, such as ''Letters from Berlin'' (1826) and ''Germany. A Winter's Tale'' (1828), gained widespread attention for their poetic expression, profound exploration of love, and satirical commentary on social phenomena. As a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Evers
Franz Evers (10 July 1871 – 14 September 1947) was first a bookseller and from 1889, editor of the monthly journal ''Litterarische Blätter''. Life Evers was born in Winsen (Luhe), Winsen an der Luhe. In 1892, together with Carl Hermann Busse, G. E. Geilfus (Georg Edward), and Julius Vanselow (1868-1892), he published the anthology ''Symphonie''. He met the theosophist . Afterwards he worked as an editor of the theosophical journal ''Sphinx (Zeitschrift), Sphinx'' and was a freelance writer from 1894. He shared a studio with Fidus, who illustrated his ''Hohe Lieder''. He succeeded in placing some poems, both by Julius and Karl Vanselow (writer), Carl Vanselow, in the journal ''Sphinx'' in the 1893/1894 volumes, which published hardly any poetry before and after that. Possibly also by other members of his circle. There are three poems and a tale by Evers in volume 15 and three poems in volume 16. In volume 17 (1893), there are four prose texts and three poems. In this volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel '' Green Henry'' (German: ''Der grüne Heinrich'') and his cycle of novellas called '' Seldwyla Folks'' (''Die Leute von Seldwyla''), he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century. Early life His father was Rudolf Keller (1791–1824), a lathe-worker from Glattfelden; his mother was a woman named Elisabeth Scheuchzer (1787–1864). The couple had six children, four of whom died, meaning Keller only had his sister Regula (*1822) left. After his father died of tuberculosis, Keller's family lived in constant poverty, and, because of Keller's difficulties with his teachers, in continual disagreement with school authorities. Keller later gave a good rendering of his experiences in this period in his long novel, ''Der grüne Heinrich'' (1850–55; 2nd version, 1879). His mother seems to have brought him up in as carefree a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Dahn
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (9 February 1834 – 3 January 1912) was a German law professor and nationalist author, poet and historian. Biography Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn was born in Hamburg as the oldest son of Friedrich (1811–1889) and Constanze Dahn who were notable actors at the city's theatre. The family had both German and French roots. Dahn began his studies in law and philosophy in Munich (he had moved there with his parents in 1834), and graduated as Doctor of Laws in Berlin. After his habilitation treatise, Dahn became a lecturer of German Law in Munich in 1857. In 1863 he became senior lecturer/associate professor in Würzburg, received a professorship in Königsberg (in 1872). Dahn was married to the artist Sophie Fries (1835–1898), with whom he had a son. He tutored baroness Therese von Droste-Hülshoff, a relative of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, in poetry from 1867 and entered an illicit love affair with her, which he gave a literary treatment in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
