Johann Carl Loewe (1796-1869)
- Grosse Sonate (E-Dur) für das Pianoforte, Op.16 (1829)
Performers: Tobias Kοch (pianoforte); Gesine Adlеr (soprano)
Further info: Carl Loewe (1796-1869) - Piano Concerto in A major
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German composer and singer. He was the twelfth and youngest child of the
Kantor and schoolmaster Adam Loewe (?-1826), from whom he received his
first musical education. When he was 12 he was sent to the Francke
Institute in Halle, where his attractive manner, excellent high voice,
and early ability to improvise brought him to the attention of Jerome
Bonaparte, who granted him stipend of 300 thalers annually until 1813.
His teacher was Daniel Gottlob Türk, the head of the Francke Institute;
after Turk's death in 1813, Loewe joined the Singakademie founded by
Johann Friedrich Naue. He also studied theology at the University of
Halle, but soon devoted himself entirely to music. He had begun to
compose as a boy; under the influence of Zelter, he wrote German
ballades, and developed an individual style of great dramatic force and
lyrical inspiration; he perfected the genre, and was regarded by many
musicians as the greatest song composer after Schubert and before
Brahms. In 1820 he became a schoolmaster at Stettin, and in 1821 music
director there and organist at St. Jacobus Cathedral. He lived in
Stettin, except for frequent travels, until 1866, when he settled in
Kiel. He visited Vienna (1844), London (1847), Sweden and Norway (1851),
and Paris (1857), among other places. During his long career in
Stettin, he established a reputation across Europe both as a composer
and a singer. Much respected at the Prussian court, where he was a
favourite of both Friedrich Wilhelm III and Friedrich Wilhelm IV, he was
elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1837. Loewe was also active
as a music teacher. His most famous student, whom he taught composition
from 1841 to 1847, was Emilie Mayer. As a composer, he wrote 6 operas,
hundreds of songs and ballades, several cantatas, 2 symphonies, 2 piano
concertos, 4 string quartets, a Piano Trio and piano sonatas.
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