- Source: Friedrich Wilhelm Grund
Friedrich Wilhelm Grund (1791 – 1874) was a German composer, conductor and teacher.
He was born on 7 October 1791 in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. 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 the Gesellschaft der Freunde des religiösen Gesangs (later the Hamburger Singakademie). He also co-founded the Hamburger Tonkünstlervereins.
He died 24 November 1874 in Hamburg, German Empire.
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)
6 songs after Goethe
References
Biography at operone.de
List of works by F. W. Grund
External links
Texts and translations of vocal works at the LiederNet Archive
Free scores by Friedrich Wilhelm Grund at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)