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Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (German; Danish sometimes Frederick Kulav) (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods.
Danish composer and pianist Friedrich Kuhlau (1786 –1832) was one of the key figures of the Danish Golden Age, and his music represented Danish romanticism. Most of his compositions were either for the flute or piano and to this day, Kuhlau is primarily known among flutists and pianists.
Born to a poor family in northern Germany on September 11, 1786, Friedrich Daniel Rudolph Kuhlau showed an early aptitude for music. At age seven, his mother sent him one dark night for water from the village well; he slipped on an icy street and permanently blinded himself in the right eye.
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Kuhlau was born on 11 September 1786 just south of Lüneburg in Uelzen district of Lower Saxony. At the age of seven, he lost his right eye when he slipped on ice and fell. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even though Kuhlau was born to a poor family, his parents managed to pay for piano lessons. Later he studied the piano i...
Kuhlau had his breakthrough in 1814 at the Royal Danish Theatre with Røverborgen ("The Robbers’ Castle"), a singspiel with a liberetto by Adam Oehlenschläger. His next few dramatic works, including Trylleharpen (1817), Elisa (1820) and Hugo og Adelheid (1827), lacking drama, failed miserably. With Lulu from 1824 he finally once again experienced su...
Alongside his dramatic works, Kuhlau wrote several compositions for flute and a large number of works for piano. Particularly his short pieces, sonatinas, for piano, enjoyed great popularity both in Denmark and abroad. Beethoven, whom Kuhlau knew personally, exerted the greatest influence upon his music. Interestingly, few of Beethoven’s contempora...
List of works International Friedrich Kuhlau Society hosted on Internet ArchiveFree scores by Friedrich Kuhlau in the International Music Score Library ProjectFree scores by Friedrich Kuhlau in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age.
This photographic print (of a lithograph) of Kuhlau resembles a matte collodion photographic print of Kuhlau mounted on a gilt-edged card and a collotype of Kuhlau (both no. 210) from the collection of 500 images of flutists and composers of the flute and their biographies published by Adolph Goldberg in 1906.
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Friedrich Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer in the Golden Age. He is best remembered for his piano music, Elverhøj written in 1828. A work of Danish National Romantic history viewed as a tribute to the Monarchy, this song was used for royal wedding celebrations.
