Karl Bernhard Wessely
Karl Bernhard Wessely, also Carl Bernhard Wessely (Berlin 1 September 1768 – Potsdam 11 July 1826), was a German composer. He was born to a Jewish family in Berlin associated with intellectual circles, both Jewish and Christian: his father was Naphtali Hirz Wessely. Wessely was conductor and Hofkapellmeister of Prince Henry of Prussia in Rheinsberg.
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Karl Bernhard Wessely
- Born
- 1768 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1826 · Potsdam.
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- Germany
- Occupation
- composer · conductor
- Languages
- German
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He composed, among other pieces, a cantata mourning of the death of Moses Mendelssohn, (Sulamith und Eusebia, 1786).
Born in Berlin, Wessely was a student of J. A. Schulz. He became music director at the Royal National Theater in Berlin in 1788, and became court music director in Rheinsberg in 1796. After the prince's death in 1802 he largely gave up his musical career and became a low-ranking civil servant in Berlin and later in Potsdam, where he founded a club for classical music, which he headed until his death. He was a member of the Berlin Freemason's Lodge "Friedrich Wilhelm zur gekrönten Gerechtigkeit". Wessely composed several operas, ballet and incidental music for the theatre, Lieder, funeral cantatas and string quartets. He was also active as a musicological writer and supplied journal articles, especially for the Archiv der Zeit and the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. Wessely died in Potsdam at the age of 57.
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Karl Bernhard Wessely appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a composer, conductor and Freemason (1 September 1768 – 11 July 1826). Karl Bernhard Wessely was born on 1 September 1768 in Berlin and died on 11 July 1826 in Potsdam.
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- 1.Charlton, David. Wessely, (Carl) Bernhard. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2001. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.30149.
- 2.operone.de Wessely, Carl Bernhard on operone
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- Salomon Wininger: Große Jüdische National-Biographie. Vol. VI, page 271.
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