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Carl Maria von Weber

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Learining all about music and instruments Von Weber moved around Germany changing his teachers once in a while. In 1813 he became "Kapellmeister" in Prague and in 1816 music director of the "Deutsche Oper" in Dresden. There he supported German operas instead of the Italian ones which were very popular at his time - nevertheless his masterpiece "Der Freischuetz" was played for the first time in Berlin which was known to be more liberal. Was in London for a concert when he crontracted and died because of a disease.
- IMDb mini biography by: Volker Boehm

Cousin of Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Franz Anton gave Weber a comprehensive education, which was frequently interrupted by the family's moves. In 1796, Weber continued his musical education in Hildburghausen, where he was instructed by the oboist Johann Peter Heuschkel. After moving to Salzburg in autumn 1797, Weber studied from 1798 with Michael Haydn, younger brother of the better-known Joseph Haydn, who agreed to teach Weber free of charge.
Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos (The Three Pintos) was originally given by his widow to Meyerbeer for completion; it was eventually completed by Gustav Mahler, who conducted the first performance in Leipzig on 20 January 1888.
Carl Maria von Weber was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period.
Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera).

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.

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