Louise Reichardt was a German

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 songwriter and composer.

Biography

Louise Reichardt was born in Berlin

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. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt

Juliane Reichardt

Juliane Reichardt was a Bohemian pianist, singer and composer.-Biography:Juliane Reichardt was born in Potsdam, the youngest of the six children of violinist and composer Franz Benda , who was concert master at the court of Frederick the Great, and his first wife Carolina née Step Hein...

 (1752–1783) and Johann Friedrich Reichardt

Johann Friedrich Reichardt

Johann Friedrich Reichardt was a German composer, writer and music critic.-Early life:Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and Stadtmusiker Johann Reichardt . Johann Friedrich began his musical training, in violin, keyboard, and lute, as a child...

 (1752–1814) and granddaughter of Franz Benda

Franz Benda

Franz Benda was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great....

 (1709–1786), concert master at the court of Frederick the Great. After Juliane Reichardt died, the family moved from Berlin to Giebichenstein

Giebichenstein

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 near Halle. Louise Reichardt took music lessons from her father, and in 1800 four of her songs were published in a collection of his songs. She taught singing, and in 1809 moved to Hamberg

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 where she studied with Johann Frederich Clasing. Reichardt was active in Hamberg as a choral conductor and established a Gesangverein choral society in Hamberg. She also translated the Latin works of Hasse

Hasse

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 and Graun

Graun

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into German.

Works

Selected works include:

• Giusto Amor
• Notturno
• Vanne felice rio (Metastasio) (1806)
• Bergmannslied (Novalis)
• Heimweh (attributed to Wetzel)
• Die Blume der Blumen (Runge)
• Duettino (1802) (Brentano) (two tenors)
• From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Hier liegt ein Spielmann begraben
• Betteley der Vögel