Hans Sommer (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer
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Place of Birth: Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Hans Sommer (composer)
- Hans Sommer (20 July 1837 in Braunschweig (Brunswick) – 26 April 1922 in Braunschweig) was a German composer and mathematician. Hans Sommer was born Hans Friedrich August Zincke in Braunschweig in 1837.Before going into music full-time Sommer, who had studied mathematics and physics in Braunschweig and Göttingen, was also a noted mathematician.
- He served as the director of the Braunschweig University of Technology, where he taught mathematics, from 1875 to 1881.He was most successful as a composer for the theatre.
- Several of his operas used librettos based on fairy tales and were first produced at Brunswick: Der Nachtwächter (1865), Loreley (1891), Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neisse (1904), Riquet mit dem Schopf (1907) and Der Waldschratt (1912).Saint Foix, a one-act opera, was given at Munich in 1894 and Der Meermann at Weimar in 1896; Der Vetter aus Bremen (1865), Augustin (1898) and Münchhausen (1896–8) were not performed.
- His incidental music to Hans von Wolzogen's Das Schloss der Herzen (1891) was first performed in 1897 in Berlin, in concert form.
- He placed great importance on the literary quality of his librettos, and corresponded with numerous librettists and composers.
- His many songs, at one time known in England, include the cycles Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, Der wilde Jäger and Sapphos Gesänge; he also wrote orchestral works and male-voice choruses. Sommer was active in initiating the institution of composer's performance rights, and was instrumental in recruiting Richard Strauss to that cause.
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