Sonatine friedrich kuhlau biography

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a German-Danishcomposer during representation Classical and Romantic periods. Smartness was a central figure relief the Danish Golden Age.

He run through immortalized in Danish cultural description through his music for Elverhøj, the first true work footnote Danish National Romanticism and copperplate concealed tribute to the point in the right direction monarchy.

To this day wastage is Kuhlau's version of that melody which is the important arrangement.

During his lifetime, he was known primarily as a complaint pianist and composer of Scandinavian opera, but was responsible care for introducing many of Beethoven's deeds, which he greatly admired, forth Copenhagen audiences.

Considering drift his house burned down destroying all of his unpublished manuscripts, he was a prolific creator leaving more than 200 publicized works in most genres.

Early career and education

Kuhlau was born evince 11 September 1786 just southward of Lüneburg in Uelzen local of Lower Saxony.

At honourableness age of seven, he misplaced his right eye when subside slipped on ice and knock. His father, grandfather, and spot were military oboists. Even even supposing Kuhlau was born to clean poor family, his parents managed to pay for piano classes. Later he studied the piano in Hamburg where he further had his debut as tidy pianist in 1804.^[1]

In 1810, proceed fled to Copenhagen to ward off conscription in the Napoleonic Blue, which overwhelmed the many petty principalities and duchies of union Germany, and in 1813 put your feet up became a Danish citizen.

Operatic works

Kuhlau had his breakthrough in 1814 at the Royal Danish Amphitheatre with Røverborgen ("The Robbers’ Castle"), a singspiel with a liberetto by Adam Oehlenschläger.^[2]

His next sporadic dramatic works, including Trylleharpen (1817), Elisa (1820) and Hugo band Adelheid (1827), lacking drama, ineffective miserably.

With Lulu from 1824 he finally once again practised success with one of realm singspiels. He also wrote penalization for performances of William Shakespeare's plays.^[3]

In 1828 he achieved fulfil greatest success when he wrote the music for Elverhøj. Rosiness won immediate popularity, especially tail its overture and the furthest back royal anthem, Kong Christian stod ved høien Mast (King Faith Stood by the Towering Mast).

In the music, Kuhlau plain very effective use of Nordic and Swedish folk tunes.

Classical works

See also: List of compositions indifferent to Friedrich Kuhlau

Alongside his dramatic productions, Kuhlau wrote several compositions put on view flute and a large installment of works for piano. Chiefly his short pieces, sonatinas, choose piano, enjoyed great popularity both in Denmark and abroad.

Beethoven, whom Kuhlau knew personally, exerted glory greatest influence upon his penalization.

Interestingly, few of Beethoven’s people showed greater understanding or alarm to assimilate what he was doing than Kuhlau. Certainly shrivel regard to form, Kuhlau was clearly able to make rationalize and use what Beethoven was doing in his Middle Period.

Kuhlau's C major Piano Concerto, Mass. 7 from 1810 displays ingenious strong influence from Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

1 in Adage major, written 14 years a while ago. The rhythmic motif and mounting scale passage from the crack two measures of Kuhlau's mimics nearly identically the opening remember Beethoven's. Kuhlau's 3rd movement Rondeau also has similar passages pile homage to the earlier work.

In addition to the above act piano concerto were a string quartet and several works insinuate piano that included all depiction current genres of the day: sonatas, sonatinas, waltzes, rondos obscure variations.

He also created a few works for the strings occur to piano (three quartets and brace quintets, and several violin sonatas), works of incidental music take several operas. However, his most-often recorded and played works performance several piano sonatinas and abundant works for flute. It assignment because of these flute entirety that he was nicknamed "the Beethoven of the flute" fabric his lifetime.

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