Majsang kuhlau biography
Majsång 'O, hur härligt majsol ler' (Text: Johan Heinrich.
Born near Hanover, Kuhlau settled in Denmark in as a pianist and composer, winning an important position in Danish music of the period and a reputation..
Biography of Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832)
11.09.1786
Born in Uelzen, son of an oboist
1793
Looses by accident one eye and is shortly afterwards sent to Brunswick for learning music.
He earns his money with singing in a street choir.
1802
First public concert. Shortly afterwards his first piano sonata is printed
1810
Escape to Denmark in order to outrun military services of the troops of Napoleon.
Where he became flutist of the Royal Chapel and the opera.
1818
Call as court composer in Copenhagen and year of publication of "Variations et Caprices pour la Flute"
1820
Composition of "3 Fantasias op.
38" in Vienna
02.09.1825
Visits Beethoven in Baden near Vienna
1830
During a fire in the house of Kuhlau most of his compositions are destroyed
12.03.1832
Dies in Lyngbye near Copenhagen of tubercolosis
Was called the "Beethoven of flute and was one of the inventors of danish national opera