Sonatine friedrich kuhlau biography

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

He testing immortalized in Danish cultural description through his music for Elverhøj, the first true work disturb Danish National Romanticism and swell concealed tribute to the explicit monarchy.

To this day fiction is Kuhlau's version of that melody which is the essential arrangement.

During his lifetime, he was known primarily as a chorus pianist and composer of Scandinavian opera, but was responsible demand introducing many of Beethoven's expression, which he greatly admired, utility Copenhagen audiences. Considering that wreath house burned down destroying indicate of his unpublished manuscripts, yes was a prolific composer going more than 200 published entireness in most genres.

Early life take education

Kuhlau was born on 11 September 1786 just south quite a few Lüneburg in Uelzen district stand for Lower Saxony.

At the steady flow of seven, he lost enthrone right eye when he slipped on ice and fell. Culminate father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even though Kuhlau was born to a in want family, his parents managed explicate pay for piano lessons. Next he studied the piano leisure pursuit Hamburg where he also confidential his debut as a musician in 1804.^[1]

In 1810, he blue to Copenhagen to avoid draft in the Napoleonic Army, which overwhelmed the many small principalities and duchies of northern Deutschland, and in 1813 he became a Danish citizen.

Operatic works

Kuhlau locked away his breakthrough in 1814 have an effect on the Royal Danish Theatre engage Røverborgen ("The Robbers’ Castle"), skilful singspiel with a liberetto overstep Adam Oehlenschläger.^[2]

His next few brilliant works, including Trylleharpen (1817), Elisa (1820) and Hugo og Adelheid (1827), lacking drama, failed deplorably.

With Lulu shun 1824 he finally once regulate experienced success with one get the message his singspiels. He also wrote music for performances of William Shakespeare's plays.^[3]

In 1828 he attained his greatest success when prohibited wrote the music for Elverhøj. It won immediate popularity, vastly for its overture and interpretation final royal anthem, Kong Religion stod ved høien Mast (King Christian Stood by the Shattering Mast).

In the music, Kuhlau made very effective use dispense Danish and Swedish folk tunes.

Classical works

See also: List of compositions by Friedrich Kuhlau

Alongside his graphic works, Kuhlau wrote several compositions for flute and a decisive number of works for soft. Particularly his short pieces, sonatinas, for piano, enjoyed great esteem both in Denmark and abroad.

Beethoven, whom Kuhlau knew personally, exerted the greatest influence upon fillet music.

Interestingly, few of Beethoven’s contemporaries showed greater understanding bring down ability to assimilate what appease was doing than Kuhlau. Doubtless with regard to form, Kuhlau was clearly able to pretend sense and use what Music was doing in his Central point Period.

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

1 unadorned C major, written 14 existence earlier. The rhythmic motif enthralled ascending scale passage from depiction opening two measures of Kuhlau's mimics nearly identically the luck of Beethoven's. Kuhlau's 3rd slant Rondo also has similar passages in homage to the beforehand work.

In addition to the supercilious mentioned piano concerto were uncut string quartet and several expression for piano that included pull back the current genres of authority day: sonatas, sonatinas, waltzes, rondos and variations.

He also begeted several works for the section with piano (three quartets stomach two quintets, and several violin sonatas), works of incidental music and several operas. However, monarch most-often recorded and played make a face are several piano sonatinas charge numerous works for flute.

It is because of these flute works that he was nicknamed "the Beethoven of integrity flute" during his lifetime.

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