Carl August Thielo
Carl August Thielo (February 7, 1707 – December 3, 1763) was a Danish composer. Theatre entrepreneur, music teacher, organist from the Electorate of Saxony. He spent most of his life in Copenhagen from the 1720s onwards and founded the first opera house there in 1746.
Carl August Thielo
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- 1707 · Saxony.
- Died
- 1763
- Nationality
- Germany · Kingdom of Denmark
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- composer · theatre manager · writer · musician · organist
- Languages
- German · Danish
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Carl August Thielo (February 7, 1707 – December 3, 1763) was a Danish composer. Theatre entrepreneur, music teacher, organist from the Electorate of Saxony. He spent most of his life in Copenhagen from the 1720s onwards and founded the first opera house there in 1746.
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A student of Johann Gottfried Walther, he was the author of a Danish treatise, Tanker og Regler fra Grunden af om Musiken, published in 1746. Thielo was also the German court organist under Christian VI. He was the father of Caroline Thielo.
• (1744) Der andere Zuschauer in Fabeln geschrieben und herausgegeben in Copenhagen • (1746) Tanker og Regler Fra Grunden af om Musiken, For dem som vil lære Musiken til Sindets Fornøyelse Saa og for dem Som vil gjøre Fait af Claveer, General-Bassen, og Synge-Kunsten • (1747) Spøgelset med klokken: een nach-comœdie i een act for den danske skue-plads • (1747) Fruentimmer huusholdning: forrestillet udi en comoedie af tre acter, for den danske skue-plads • (1751) Første Samling af de Oder, som paa den Danske Skueplads udi Kiøbenhavn ere blevne opførte • (1753) Grund-regeln wie man, beÿ weniger information, sich selbst die fundamenta der music und des claviers, lernen kan, beschrieben, mit exempeln in noten gezeiget und verlegt von C. A. T. Erster theil • (1757) Charlotte eller forunderlige Tildragelser med Frøken von Weisensøe • (1759) Nogle korte Satyriske og Moralske Original-Syngespil • (1759) Den borgerlige Hovmesterinde eller en Samling af moralske, critiske og oeconomiske Tanker for Fruentimmerne: [1]-3. Deel • (1760) Den Grønne April • (1761) Fierde Deel af de Musicaliske Comødie-Stykker, som ere opførte paa den Kongelige Danske Skueplads i Kiøbenhavn • (1761) Vilhelmine eller den rige kone i America • (1762) Den angenemme May-Maaned
Title page of Charlotte eller forunderlige Tildragelser med Frøken von Weisensøe, 1758.
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- 1.Senelick, Laurence. National theatre in northern and eastern Europe, 1746-1900. Cambridge University Press. 18. 1991. 978-0-521-24446-6.
- 2.Aldrich, Putnam. The principal agréments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a study of musical ornamentation. Harvard University. 1942.
- 3.Marker, Frederick J. The Scandinavian theatre: a short history. Rowman and Littlefield. 1975. 9780874717761.
- 4.Neumann, Frederick. Ornamentation in baroque and post-baroque music: with special emphasis on J.S. Bach. Princeton University Press. 3. 1983. 978-0-691-02707-4.
- 5.Kosovske, Yonit Lea. Historical Harpsichord Technique: Developing La Douceur Du Toucher. Indiana University Press. 38. 11 July 2011. 978-0-253-35647-5.
- 6.Urup, Henning. Dans i Danmark: danseformerne ca. 1600 til 1950. Museum Tusculanum Press. 78. 2007. 978-87-635-0580-2.
- 7.Campbell, Oscar James. The comedies of Holberg. Harvard university press. 51–. 1914.
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