Ludwig Berger (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludwig Berger (composer)

German pianist and composer

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1777

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1839

Profession: composer, pianist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Carl Ludwig Heinrich Berger (18 April 1777 – 16 February 1839) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher.
He was born in Berlin, and spent his youth in Templin and Frankfurt, where he studied both flute and piano.
Later, he studied composition with J.
A.
Gürrlich in Berlin.
He became friendly with the composer Clementi, and visited him in Russia, where he stayed for eight years.
While in Russia, he married, but was widowed in less than a year.
During the Napoleonic wars, he fled to London, where his piano performances were well received.
He returned to Berlin in 1815, and lived there for the rest of his life.
A nervous disorder in his arm led to the end of his career as a piano virtuoso, and he built a reputation as a teacher, numbering Mendelssohn, Taubert, Henselt, Dorn, and August Wilhelm Bach among his more distinguished pupils.
See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Ludwig Berger. Berger wrote over 160 solo songs (for instance in 1816/17 a song-cycle "Die schöne Müllerin" based on a parlor game), as well as a piano concerto, seven piano sonatas, twenty-nine studies, and several didactic piano works. He died in Berlin in 1839.



Alternative names	Ph. Otto Runge; Otto Philipp Runge; Otto Runge; Runge; Ph. O. Runge; phil. otto runge; Philip Otto Runge
Description	German painter and poet
Date of birth/death	23 July 1777	2 December 1810
Location of birth/death	Wolgast (Vorpommern)	Hamburg
Work location	Hamburg, Dresden, Wolgast
Authority control	: Q166585 VIAF: 39426944 ISNI: 0000 0001 2100 7760 ULAN: 500014391 LCCN: n50022116 NLA: 35689499 WorldCat