Konstantin Decker or Decker ( him. Konstantin Decker ; December 20, 1810 , Fürstenau, now - part of the city of Boetzenburger-Land ( Brandenburg ) - January 28, 1878 , Stolp , Pomerania Province, German Empire ) - German pianist , composer and music teacher.
| Konstantin Decker him Konstantin Decker | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | December 20, 1810 |
| Place of Birth | Fürstenau, Kingdom of Prussia [1] |
| Date of death | January 28, 1878 (67 years) |
| Place of death | Stolp , Pomerania , German Empire [2] |
| A country | Germany |
| Professions | pianist , composer , music teacher |
| Instruments | piano |
| Genres | opera, song |
He studied in Berlin with Siegfried Dehn , gave concerts in Germany - so, in the 1840s, the Universal Musical Gazette reported about him as a “skillful and skillful performer” playing their own compositions and compositions of the “newest heroes of keys like Henselt ” [3] . Then he lived and worked in St. Petersburg for many years, taught (his student, in particular, was Ingeborg Stark ). In the 1850s - in Konigsberg , where in 1852 his opera “Isolde, Countess of Toulouse” was performed. Among the works of Dekker are also songs to the poems of Ludwig Uhland , Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Gottfried August Burger , Heinrich Heine . Dekker performed the piano transcription of Franz Schubert 's song "The Forest King" [4] , later repressed by Franz Liszt's version. From 1859 he lived in Stolp, where his pupil was .
Notes
- ↑ Now - part of the city of Boizenburger-Land , Brandenburg , Germany .
- ↑ Now - Slupsk , Pomerania , Poland .
- ↑ Koenigsberg, in Januar 1840 (German) // Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. - 1840. - Nr. 6. - S. 114 .
- ↑ Kunz H. 125 Jahre Bote & Bock. - Berlin; Wiesbaden: Bote & Bock, 1963. - S. 19. (it.)