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LOWE, JOHANN KARL GOTTFRIED (1796-1869)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 73 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LOWE, JOHANN KARL GOTTFRIED (1796-1869) , German composer, was born at Lobejun, near
Halle
 , on the 3oth of November 1796, and was a choir-boy at Kothen from 1807 to 1809, when he went to the Franke Institute at
Halle
 , studying music with Turk. The beauty of Lowe's voice brought him under the notice of Madame de Stael, who procured him a pension from Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia; this stopped in 1813, on the flight of the king. He entered the University of Halle as a theological student, but was appointed cantor at Stettin in 182o, and director of the town music in 1821, in which year he married Julie von Jacob, who died in 1823. His second wife, Auguste Lange, was an accomplished
singer
 , and they appeared together in his oratorio performances with
great
  success. He retained his office at Stettin for 46 years, when, after a stroke of paralysis, he was somewhat summarily dismissed. He retired to Kiel, and died on the loth of April 1869. He undertook many concert tours during his
tenure
  of the post at Stettin, visiting Vienna, London, Sweden, Norway and Paris. His high soprano voice (he could sing the music of the " Queen of Night " in Die Zauberflote as a boy) had developed into a fine tenor. Lowe was a voluminous composer, and wrote five operas, of which only one, Die drei Wiinsche, was performed at Berlin in 1834, without much success; seventeen oratorios, many of them for male voices, unaccompanied, or with short instrumental interludes only; choral
ballads
 , cantatas, three
string
  quartets, a pianoforte trio; a
work
  for clarinet and piano, published posthumously; and some piano solos. But the branch of his art by which he is remembered, and in which he must be admitted to have attained perfection, is the solo ballad with pianoforte accompaniment. His treatment of long narrative poems, in a clever mixture of the dramatic and lyrical styles, was undoubtedly modelled on the
ballads
  of Zumsteeg, and has been copied by many composers since his day. His settings of the "
Erlkonig
  " (a very early example), " Archibald Douglas," " Heinrich der Vogler," "
Edward
  " and " Die Verfallene Mtihle," are particularly fine.


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