Craig Campbell - Family Man

WEBER (Karl Maria von (18 or 19 XI 1786, Eitin, Schleswig-Holstein land - 5 VI 1826, London) - German composer, conductor, pianist, music. writer. One of the first romantic composers, creator of it. romantic opera organizer nat. musestheater. Muses V. inherited his abilities from his father, the opera bandmaster and entrepreneur, who played on many. tools. Wandering with the troupe of his father, V. from childhood related to the theater, but did not receive either a general or systematic muse. education. He took composition lessons from M. Haydn and Abbot G. Vogler, who played a particularly important role in muses. V.'s development and instilled in him a love of folklore. At age 12, V. wrote plays for fp. and the opera “The Power of Love and Wine”, at the age of 14 - the opera “The Mute Forest Girl” (post in Freiberg, Vienna, Prague, St. Petersburg). He also performed as a pianist, from the age of 17 - as a conductor. V. traveled to many cities and won the fame of a brilliant virtuoso, directed the production of his operas. From 1813, the composer lived in Prague, where until 1817 he headed the opera house. Representing a type of versatile artist, characteristic of romantics, V.combined the duties of a conductor, director, choirmaster, tutor, critic. V.'s activity took place in the conditions of nat. societies. the rise that began in Germany after the Tilsit Peace (1807).