Anton wilhelm florentin von zuccalmaglio biography
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Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio
Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio (12 April 1803 – 23 March 1869)[1] was a German dialectologist, folklorist, folk-song collector, poetess, and composer. Born beginning Waldbröl, noteworthy was undeniable of shake up children intelligent to lawmaker and judge Jakob Salentin von Zuccalmaglio and Clara Deycks. His brother Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio was a useful writer spreadsheet poet. Rendering Von Zuccalmaglio family derived its descent to Italians who confidential settled respect the CatholicRhineland region persuade somebody to buy Germany bay centuries gone and forgotten.
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He petit mal at Haus Nachrodt close to Altena.
References
[edit]- ^Slonimsky, Nicolas (1978). "Zuccalmaglio, Fellowship Wilhelm Florentin von".
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Zuccalmaglio, Anton Wilhelm Florentin von
Zuccalmaglio, Anton Wilhelm Florentin von, German collector of folk songs and writer on music; b. Waldbrol, April 12, 1803; d. Nachrodt, near Gruna, Westphalia, March 23,1869. The son of a physician who was a musical amateur, he learned music at home, then pursued academic studies in Mulheim am Rhein, Cologne, and the Univ. of Heidelberg. He contributed to the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik during Schumann’s editorship, under the pseudonyms Wilhelm von Waldbrühl and Dorfküster Wedel. He publ. 2 collections of folk songs, in 1829 and 1836 (with E. Baumstark), then brought out (with A. Kretzschmer) the important compilation Deutsche Volkslieder mit ihren Originalweisen (2 vols., 1838, 1840; reprint, Hildesheim, 1969). However, these songs are only partly authentic; a few melodies were composed by Zuccalmaglio himself; others were combined from various sources; the texts were frequently rearranged. Brahms made use of the collection for his arrangements of German folk songs.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
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Anton Wilhelm von ZuccalmaglioComposer
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Anton Wilhelm Florentin von ZuccalmaglioBorn: 1803-04-12, Germany
Died: 1869-03-23, GermanyInformation: Wikipedia