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HAUPTMANN, MORITZ (17921868) , German musical composer and writer, was born at Dresden, on the 13th of October 1792, and studied music under Scholz, Lanska, ,Grosse and Morlacchi, the rival of Weber_ Afterwards he completed his education as a violinist and composer under Spohr, and till 1820 held various appointments in private families, varying his musical occupations with mathematical and other studies bearing chiefly on acoustics and kindred subjects. For a time also Hauptmann was employed as an architect, but all other - pursuits gave place to music, and a grand tragic opera, Mat{zilde, belongs to the period just referred to. In 1822 he entered the orchestra of Cassel, again under Spohr's direction, and it was then that he first taught composition and musical theoryto such men and his first lectures, dealing with such diverse subjects as Catullus and the Nibelungenlied, indicated the twofold direction of his labours. A new chair of German language and literature being founded for his benefit, he became professor extraordinarius (1841) and then professor ordinarius (1843); and in 1842 he married Louise Hermann, the daughter of his master and col-league. But the peaceful and prosperous course opening out before him at the university of Leipzig
and at the same time the Berlin academy
David
Kiel
ordinary positions at this time chiefly consisted of motets, masses, can-member. For twenty-one years he continued to hold a prominent tatas and songs. His opera 'Valhi/de was performed at Casseltheque de l'Ecole des Charles, and the Journal des savants. From the time of his appointment to the Bibliotheque, Nationale up to the last days of his life he was engaged in 'making abstracts of all the medieval Latin writings (many anonymous
Inscriptions ,and a copy was placed in the MS. department of the Bibliotheque Nationale. Sec obituary notice read by Henri Walton at a meeting of the Academic des Inscriptions on the 12th of November 1897; and the notice by Paul Meyer prefixed to vol. xxxiii. of the Histoire litteraire de la France.End of Article: HAUPTMANN, MORITZ (17921868) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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