Carl Friedrich Zelter (11 December 1758 – 15 May 1832)[1] was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music. Working in his father's bricklaying business, Zelter attained mastership in that profession, and was a musical autodidact.
Zelter was born and died in Berlin. He became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe's poems. During his career, he composed about two hundred lieder, as well as cantatas, a viola concerto (performed as early as 1779)[2] and piano music.
Amongst Zelter's pupils (at different times) were Felix Mendelssohn,[3][4]Fanny Mendelssohn,[5]Giacomo Meyerbeer, Eduard Grell, Otto Nicolai, Johann Friedrich Naue, and Heinrich Dorn.[6] Felix Mendelssohn was perhaps Zelter's favorite pupil and Zelter wrote to Goethe boasting of the 12-year old's abilities. Zelter communicated his strong love of the music of J. S. Bach to Mendelssohn, one consequence of which was Mendelssohn's 1829 revival of Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Sing-Akademie under Zelter's auspices. This epochal event sparked a general re-evaluation and revival of Bach's works, which were then largely forgotten and regarded as old-fashioned and beyond resuscitation. Mendelssohn had hoped to succeed Zelter on the latter's death as leader of the Singakademie, but the post went instead to Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen.
Postage stamp (1952) from the series Men from Berlin's Past
Zelter was married to Julie Pappritz in 1796, one year after his first wife, Sophie Eleonora Flöricke, née Kappel, had died. Pappritz was a well-known singer at the Berlin Opera. Zelter is buried at the Sophienkirche in Berlin. The violinist Daniel Hope (born 1973) is a direct descendant of Zelter.
^"Mendelssohn's Musical Education, A Study and Edition of His Exercises in Composition, by R. L. Todd". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
^"This day, May 15, in Jewish history". Cleveland Jewish News.
^M.C. Rintoul: Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (2014)
References
Garratt, James (2002). Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-century Music at Google Books. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-80737-9.
Greene, David Mason (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers at Google Books. Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation. ISBN0-385-14278-1.
Grove, George; Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander, ed. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians at Google Books. MacMillan Company. Edition of 1910. Volume V.
Tillard, Françoise; Naish, Camille (translator) (1996). Fanny Mendelssohn at Google Books. Hal Leonard. ISBN0-931340-96-9.
Zelter, Carl Friedrich (1801). Karl Friedrich Christian Fasch : Mit 1 Bildn (in German). Berlin: Unger. OCLC 247485927.
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