Karl Schröder II, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German cellist, composer and conductor
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Place of Birth: Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Karl Schröder II
- Karl Schröder II (18 December 1848, Quedlinburg – 22 September 1935, Bremen) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, and son of violinist Karl Schröder. He studied as a child with his father and with Karl Drechsler in Dessau.
- He had three brothers, Carl Hermann Schroeder (1843-1909), who became a composer and violin professor in Berlin, Franz Schröder (before 1855-?) would work as a conductor in St.
- Petersburg, Russia, and the youngest brother, Alwin Schroeder (1855-1928) was a German-American cellist best known as leading cellist in the Boston Symphony.
- In his early youth Karl studied with Friedrich Kiel and was appointed to the Sondershausen Hofkapelle at the age of 14.
- He toured Europe with his family's acclaimed string quartet traveling throughout Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, and even as far as St.
- Petersburg.
- In 1872 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Kroll Oper in Berlin; late that year, the string quartet was disbanded on his appointment to the Brunswick Hofkapelle commencing in 1873.
- A year later he became solo cellist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and professor at the conservatory.
- He returned to Sondershausen in 1881, replacing Max Erdmannsdörfer as Hofkapellmeister and founding a music school; this he sold to A.
- Schultze in 1886 when he was appointed conductor of the Duitse Opera in Rotterdam.
- He held similar posts in Berlin (1887) and in Hamburg (1888), where he succeeded Joseph Sucher at the Neues Stadt Theater.
- His former music school having become a state conservatory, he returned to Sondershausen in 1890 as its director, remaining until 1909.
- In 1911 he took up his last post, as professor at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where he remained for more than a decade before retiring to Bremen.
- Schröder's compositions include symphonic works, chamber music pieces, string quartets, songs for solo instruments, two operas and an operetta.
- In addition to his compositions and educational works he produced careful editions of Classical cello pieces.
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