Johann August Franz Burgmüller
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- Born
- 1766 · Magdeburg.
- Died
- 1824 · Düsseldorf.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · conductor · music director
- Languages
- German
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Johann August Franz Burgmüller appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a pianist, composer and “Musikdirektor” (3 May 1766 – 21 August 1824).
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Johann August Franz Burgmüller was born on 3 May 1766 in Magdeburg and died on 21 August 1824 in Düsseldorf.
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1766
Johann August Franz Burgmüller born at Magdeburg.
1824
Johann August Franz Burgmüller died at Düsseldorf.
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- 1.Magdeburg, Evangelische Superintendentur, baptismal register Domgemeinde 1656-1814, .
- 2.Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (edit.) among others: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memoirs. volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the University of the Arts Berlin. Henle, Munich 2009, , .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- K. Wachter, Actenstücke, betr. den Musicdirector Burgmüller (1812). In Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins. Jahrbuch des Düsseldorfer Geschichtsvereins, volume 4 (1889),
- Klaus Martin Kopitz, Der Düsseldorfer Komponist Norbert Burgmüller. Ein Leben zwischen Beethoven – Spohr – Mendelssohn, Kleve 1998
- Klaus Tischendorf, Was in der Dinge Lauf jetzt missklingt, tönt einst in ewigen Harmonien." Der Düsseldorfer Städtische Musikdirektor August Burgmüller als Begleiter der Sängerin Angelica Catalani. In Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins, Volume 71 (2001),
- Matthias Nagel, Stationen eines Unermüdlichen. August Burgmüller, der erste Musikdirektor des Regensburger Theaters. In Mälzels Magazin. Zeitschrift für Musikkultur in Regensburg, Jg. 7, No 4 from Oct.– to Dec. 2004, (Numerised)
- Klaus Martin Kopitz, August Burgmüller als Lehrer des Leipziger Musikästhetikers Christian Friedrich Michaelis. Eine Miszelle zur Beethoven-Biographie. In Nota Bene Norbert Burgmüller. Studien zu einem Zeitgenossen von Mendelssohn and Schumann, edited by Tobias Koch and Klaus Martin Kopitz, Dohr, Cologne 2009,
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Johann August Franz Burgmüller is recorded as composer, pianist, conductor and music director.
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