Friedrich Wilhelm Grund
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Friedrich Wilhelm Grund was a German composer, conductor and teacher.
He studied with his father (piano, violin, cello and contrabass) and with the Hamburg cantor Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke. In 1819, he abandoned his career as a concert virtuoso because of the nerve disease of his right hand and he started to compose and teach. In the same year, he co-founded and led Gesellschaft der Freunde des religiösen Gesangs (later Hamburger Singakademie). He also co-founded Hamburger Tonkünstlervereins.
He studied with his father (piano, violin, cello and contrabass) and with the Hamburg cantor Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke. In 1819, he abandoned his career as a concert virtuoso because of the nerve disease of his right hand and he started to compose and teach. In the same year, he co-founded and led Gesellschaft der Freunde des religiösen Gesangs (later Hamburger Singakademie). He also co-founded Hamburger Tonkünstlervereins.
List of selected works
- Op. 5 Piano quartet
- Op. 8 Quintet for piano and winds
- Op. 9 Violin sonata
- Op. 11 Sonata for piano and cello or violin
- Op. 13 Grande sonate
- Op. 13 Piano quartet
- Op. 14 Grande polonaise
- Op. 22 Songs
- Op. 23 Grand divertissement
- Op. 25 Introduction et rondeau
- Op. 27 Trio de salon
- Op. 31 Songs for two voices
- Die Burg Falkenstein (romantic opera in 5 acts, Hamburg, 1825)
- Mathilde (heroic opera in 3 acts)
- Caroline Pichler (opera, not performed)
- Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (oratorio)
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