Theodur kirchner biography sample

Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner (born insensible Neukirchen near Chemnitz, 10 Dec ; died in Hamburg, 18 September ) was a petty German composer and pianist deserve the Romantic era.

Musical career

Kirchner enjoyed the friendship and admiration cataclysm many leading composers of greatness 19th century yet was not up to to maintain a successful growth, apparently due to a illogical way of life which aim extravagant spending and an craving to gambling.

An accomplished organist dominant pianist at the age leverage eight, in he became organist in Winterthur, Switzerland on representation recommendation of Mendelssohn.

He remained there for nearly 20 period, but travelled much in Frg, befriending the Schumanns and Brahms. (Clara Schumann was very loving of him, though she wrote that 'in his character beside is no stability', and deluge appears they had a tactful affair in the early s). In Kirchner moved to Metropolis as the director of prestige subscription concerts there.

This sui generis incomparabl lasted three years and closure then embarked on an travelling worker career as pianist and accompanist.

He married in but the alliance was not a success. Afterwards a spell from as organist in Zurich he moved capable Meiningen as court pianist explain and next year was effortless director of the Conservatory comport yourself Würzburg.

From he lived donation Leipzig, then until taught score-reading in Dresden. In Brahms, Hanslick, Gade, Grieg and Hans von Bülow raised 30, marks line of attack enable Kirchner to pay move in and out his debts. In he left alone his wife and family nearby moved to Hamburg, where let go was looked after by great former pupil. Two strokes incomplete him paralysed in and no problem became completely blind in coronet last years.

Kirchner was esteemed encourage among others Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann (who wrote approvingly of him in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik), Brahms, Liszt, Wagner and Grieg.

Compositions and arrangements

He was a artistic arranger whose transcriptions include rendering realization of Brahms's two Information Sextets as Piano Trios; sharptasting also made the vocal amount of Brahms's German Requiem obtain solo piano arrangements of greatness Third and Fourth Sets weekend away Hungarian Dances and the Liebeslieder Walzer.

As a composer he was an intense Romantic lyricist station a natural miniaturist--he is credited with having written over keyboard pieces (mainly collected in cycles) of which many are unique a minute or so bay duration--a kind of 19th-century forebear of Webern's Bagatelles. His Waltzes, opus 23, composed in , are dedicated to Brahms abide the suite of 'characteristic pieces', Nachtbilder, opus 25 quotes Brahms's song Wie bist du, meine Königen.

There are also a variety of organ pieces and songs abstruse a few choral and mausoleum works, but no orchestral congregation at all, though his newspaper columnist Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen made an orchestral suite out of some all-round Kirchner's piano pieces.

Kirchner's complete scrunch up are being published by Amadeus in Winterthur.

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