Carl Maria von Weber
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| - | '''Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber''' (18-19 November 1786{{ndash}}4-5 June 1826) was a [[Germans|German]] [[composer]], [[conducting|conductor]], [[pianist]], [[guitarist]] and [[critic]], one of the first significant composers of the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] school. | + | '''Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber''' (18-19 November 1786 - 4-5 June 1826) was a [[German composer]], [[conducting|conductor]], [[pianist]], [[guitarist]] and [[critic]], one of the first significant composers of the [[Romantic music|Romantic]] school. |
| Weber's works, especially his operas ''[[Der Freischütz]]'', ''[[Euryanthe]]'' and ''[[Oberon (opera)|Oberon]]'' greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. He was also an innovative composer of instrumental music. His compositions for the [[clarinet]], which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet and a duo concertante, are regularly performed, while his [[piano]] music—including four sonatas, ''[[Invitation to the Dance (Weber)|Invitation to the Dance]]'', two concertos and the ''[[Konzertstück in F minor for Piano and Orchestra (Weber)|Konzertstück (Concert Piece) in F minor]]''—influenced composers such as [[Frédéric Chopin]], [[Franz Liszt]] and [[Felix Mendelssohn]]. The ''Konzertstück'' provided a new model for the one-movement concerto in several contrasting sections (such as Liszt's, who often played the work), and was acknowledged by [[Igor Stravinsky]] as the model for his ''Capriccio'' for piano and orchestra. | Weber's works, especially his operas ''[[Der Freischütz]]'', ''[[Euryanthe]]'' and ''[[Oberon (opera)|Oberon]]'' greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. He was also an innovative composer of instrumental music. His compositions for the [[clarinet]], which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet and a duo concertante, are regularly performed, while his [[piano]] music—including four sonatas, ''[[Invitation to the Dance (Weber)|Invitation to the Dance]]'', two concertos and the ''[[Konzertstück in F minor for Piano and Orchestra (Weber)|Konzertstück (Concert Piece) in F minor]]''—influenced composers such as [[Frédéric Chopin]], [[Franz Liszt]] and [[Felix Mendelssohn]]. The ''Konzertstück'' provided a new model for the one-movement concerto in several contrasting sections (such as Liszt's, who often played the work), and was acknowledged by [[Igor Stravinsky]] as the model for his ''Capriccio'' for piano and orchestra. | ||
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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18-19 November 1786 - 4-5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Weber's works, especially his operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. He was also an innovative composer of instrumental music. His compositions for the clarinet, which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet and a duo concertante, are regularly performed, while his piano music—including four sonatas, Invitation to the Dance, two concertos and the Konzertstück (Concert Piece) in F minor—influenced composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. The Konzertstück provided a new model for the one-movement concerto in several contrasting sections (such as Liszt's, who often played the work), and was acknowledged by Igor Stravinsky as the model for his Capriccio for piano and orchestra.
Weber's contribution to vocal and choral music is also significant. His body of Catholic religious music was highly popular in 19th century Germany, and he composed one of the earliest song-cycles, Die Temperamente beim Verluste der Geliebten (Four Temperaments on the Loss of a Lover).
Weber's orchestration has also been highly praised and emulated by later generations of composers - Hector Berlioz referred to him several times in his Treatise on Instrumentation while Claude Debussy remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra was obtained through the scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.
His operas influenced the work of later opera composers, especially in Germany, such as Heinrich Marschner, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Richard Wagner, as well as several nationalist 19th-century composers such as Mikhail Glinka, and homage has been paid him by 20th century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler (who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon) and Paul Hindemith (composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber).
Weber also wrote music journalism and was interested in folksong, and learned lithography to engrave his own works.
