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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber ( November 18 or December 18, 1786 - June 5, 1826) was a German composer, born at Eutin, near Lübeck. He is best known for the operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe , Oberon, King of the Fairies , Silvana , and Die drei Pintos .
There is some confusion over his birthdate: his father said he was born on December 18 and baptized on December 20, but the record of his baptism gives November 20, which suggests he was born instead on November 18.
He came from a family that had long been devoted to art. His father, (Baron) Franz Anton von Weber, a military officer in the service of the palgrave Karl Theodor, was an excellent violinist, and his mother once sang on the stage. His cousins, Josepha, Aloysia , Constanze and Sophie, daughters of Franz Anton's brother Fridolin, attained a high reputation as vocalists. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, after having been rejected by Aloysia, married Constanze, and thus became Carl Maria's cousin by marriage. Fridolin played the violin nearly as well as his brother; and the whole family displayed exceptional talent for music.
Weber suffered from ill health a great deal as a child, and suffered with congenital disease of the hip-joint. However, his family travelled a great deal in his early life, and although this did not help his health or result in a particularly good education, it did result in him becoming familiar with the stage, as he accompanied his father through his various musical posts.
Weber's father hoped to see him develop into a child prodigy, like his cousin Mozart, whose career was then approaching its end. In furtherance of this scheme, Weber was taught to sing and play the pianoPiano is a common abbreviation for pianoforte a large musical instrument with a keyboard (see keyboard instrument). Its sound is produced by strings stretched on a rigid frame. These vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers, which are activated by the almost as soon as he could speak, though he was unable to walk until he was four years old.
In 1798Events February- October Irish Rebellion of 1798 April 7 The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U. and Spain April 26 France a Michael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn ( September 14, 1737 August 10, 1806) was an Austrian composer, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. Michael Haydn was born in Rohrau, and like his brother, he was a chorister at St Stephen's in Vienna. Shortly after leaving the choir taught him for free in SalzburgThis page is for the city of Salzburg. For the surrounding state of Salzburg, see: Salzburg (state Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). The geogra. In March of that year his mother died. In April the family visited ViennaThis article is about the city and federal state in Austria. For other places or things called Vienna, see Vienna (disambiguation). Vienna ( German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine federal states Bundesland Wi, moving in the autumn to MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se. It was here that Weber's first composition, a set of six fughettas, was published, and here he also took lessons in singing and in compositionComposition deals with the bits and pieces that make up things. Structure Chemistry and physics deal with the composition of materials In computer science, a composition is a manner to form data structures with elements where the structure contains data o. Soon afterwards he began to play successfully in public, and his father urged him to write incessantly. Among the compositions of this period were a mass and an opera Die Macht der Liebe und des Weins (The Power of Love and Wine), now lost. A set of "Variations for the Pianoforte," composed a little later, was lithographed by Carl Maria himself, under the guidance of Alois Senefelder , the inventor of the process, in which both the father and the child took great interest.
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