Ferdinand Pelzer
Illustration — Ferdinand Pelzer, ca. 1840 Ferdinand Pelzer (1801–1860) was a German music teacher, guitarist and composer. Ferdinand Pelzer was born in Trier.
Ferdinand Pelzer
One hundred and fifty exercises for acquiring a facility of performance on the Spanish guitar / composed and extracted from the works of the best written for that instrument and dedicated to Mrs Felix · CC0
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- 1801 · Trier.
- Nationality
- German Confederation
- Occupation
- composer · musician · guitarist
- Languages
- German
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All daughters became musicians, Catharina (1821–1895) and Giulia (1838–1938) playing and teaching guitar, Jane (1831–1846) and Annie (1833–1897) playing piano. Pelzer traveled and taught widely in England and Ireland. Between 1833 and 1835, he was a co-editor (with Felix Horetzky and Leonhard Schulz) of The Giulianiad, an early guitar journal. He wrote many short compositions and arrangements for solo guitar as well as guitar accompaniments to popular songs. Although Pelzer's music teaching has been rather neglected, research into contemporary sources suggests that his method of teaching singing was better than those of Joseph Mainzer, Bocquillon Wilhem and John Hullah. He died in London in 1860.
• Instructions for the Spanish Guitar (1833) • Music for the People, based on his Universal System of Instruction in Music (1842)
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- 1.Stewart Button. Julian Bream: The Foundations of a Musical Career. Bold Strummer Limited. 4–6. November 2005. 978-1-57784-067-1.
- 2.Sarah Clarke: An Instrument in Comparative Oblivion? Women and the Guitar in Victorian London. Ph.D. thesis, The Open University, 2021, p. 23
- 3.Button, Stuart W. Ferdinand Pelzer: An Introduction To A Neglected Achievement. Cambridge University Press.
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