Peter Cornelius

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Peter Cornelius

Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, writer

Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
about music, poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
and translator. He was born and died in Mainz

Mainz

Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the Germany States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was a politically important seat of the Prince-elector of Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman Empire fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine River and formed part of the northernmost frontier of th...
where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives.

Cornelius played violin

Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
and composed lied

Lied

, is a German language word, meaning literally "song"; among English speakers, however, the word is used primarily as a term for European European classical music songs, also known as art songs....
er from an early age, and began studying composition with Heinrich Esser in 1841.

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Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German

Germany

Composer

Writer

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
and translator. He was born and died in Mainz

Mainz

Violin

Lied

Peter von Cornelius

Peter von Cornelius was a Germany Painting.Cornelius was born in D?sseldorf.His father, who was inspector of the D?sseldorf gallery, died in 1799, and the young Cornelius was stimulated to extraordinary exertions....
in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
from 1844 to 1852, during which time he met prominent figures such as Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
, the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were Germans academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time ....
, Friedrich Rückert

Friedrich Rückert

Friedrich R?ckert was a Germany poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages....
and Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
. During his last few years in Berlin, Cornelius wrote music criticism for several major Berlin journals and entered into friendships with Joseph von Eichendorff, Paul Heyse and Hans von Bülow

Hans von Bülow

Hans Guido Freiherr von B?low was a German Conducting, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic music. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard Wagner....
.

Cornelius's first mature works (including the opera Der Barbier von Bagdad
Der Barbier von Bagdad

Der Barbier von Bagdad is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German language libretto by the composer, based on The Tale of the Tailor and The Barber?s Stories of his Six Brothers in A Thousand and One Nights....
) were composed during his brief stay in Weimar

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the States of Germany of Thuringia , north of the Th?ringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Leipzig....
(1852–1858). His next place of residence was Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, where he stayed for five years. It was in Vienna that Cornelius began a friendship with Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
. It was at Wagner's behest that Cornelius moved to Munich

Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
in 1864, where he finally took a wife and fathered four children.

Among many British musicians, his best known work is "The Three Kings", an epiphany 'carol' of which a version is included in the first volume of the popular Willocks and Jacques

Reginald Jacques

Thomas Reginald Jacques was an England choir and orchestral conducting. His legacy includes various choral music arrangements, but he is not primarily remembered as a composer....
compilation, Carols for Choirs

Carols for Choirs

Carols for Choirs, published by Oxford University Press, edited by Sir David Willcocks with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter, is the most widely-used source of Carol in the United Kingdom Anglican tradition, and among British choral society....
.

Despite his friendships with Wagner and Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
, Cornelius had a rocky relationship with the so-called "New German School" of composition. He did not attend the premiere of Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German language libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Stra?burg....
with von Bülow and Wagner, using the premiere of his own opera Der Cid as an excuse. His third and final operatic project, Gunlöd, based on the Norse

Nordic countries

File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
edda

Edda

The term Edda applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in medieval Iceland during the 13th century....
s, was left incomplete at his death (from diabetes).

Peter Cornelius

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