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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Friedrich Schneider! 📯🎭 Composer: Friedrich Schneider (1786-1853) Work: Academische Ouverture in D-Dur, (1829) Performers: Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau; Markus L. Frank (conductor) Drawing: Dirk Sluyter (1790-1852) - Volksfeest ter ere van de aankomst van Willem Frederik George Lodewijk, erfprins der Nederlanden en Anna Paulowna, grootvorstin van Rusland () HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- (Johann Christian) Friedrich Schneider (Alt-Waltersdorf, 3 January 1786 - Dessau, 23 November 1853) German composer, organist, conductor and teacher. He learnt the piano from his father, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1753-1840), and then at the Zittau Gymnasium with Johann Schönfelder and Unger. In 1804 he published his first works, a set of three piano sonatas, and in the following year he entered the University of Leipzig to continue his musical studies; here he came into contact with August Eberhard Müller, Johann Gottfried Schicht and Johann Friedrich Rochlitz. In 1806 he became singing teacher at the Ratsfreischule, in 1807 organist of the Universitätskirche, in 1810 director of the Secondaschen Opera Company, in 1812 organist of the Thomaskirche, in 1816 conductor of the Singakademie, and in 1817 musical director of the city theatre. His performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto in Leipzig on 28 November 1811 is believed to have been the work’s première. In 1820 he became Hofkapellmeister at Anhalt-Dessau, where he contributed much to improve musical life: he founded a Singakademie, a schoolmasters’ choral society, a Liedertafel and a music school, which was successful for about 15 years and had a number of excellent pupils, among them Robert Franz and Robert Volkmann. Between 1820 and 1851 he directed more than 80 German music and singing festivals, most of which included a performance of one of his oratorios. He belonged to numerous musical societies and received honorary doctorates from the universities of Halle and Leipzig in 1830. The highpoint of his wide-ranging compositional activity while at Leipzig came with his oratorio Das Weltgericht, first performed on 6 March 1820 at the Gewandhaus and widely performed thereafter. As a composer, he wrote seven operas, four masses, six oratorios, 25 cantatas, 23 symphonies, seven piano concertos, sonatas for violin, flute, and cello, and a great many shorter instrumental pieces, some of them for piano, some for organ. He also left numerous solo songs and part songs. His brothers Johann Schneider (1789-1864) and Gottlieb Schneider (1797-1856) were also organists and composers. His son Theodor Schneider (1827-1909) was a cellist and conductor.
