Friedrich Dotzauer
Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (20 January 1783 – 6 March 1860) was a German cellist and composer.
Life
Early life and career
Dotzauer was born in 1783 in
Konzertmeister of the Meiningen Court Orchestra; from 1801 Dotzauer was a member of the orchestra.[1][2][3]
He moved in 1805 to
Gewandhaus Orchestra. During this period he visited the cellist Bernhard Romberg in Berlin, who influenced his playing. With Heinrich August Matthaei, Bartolomeo Campagnoli and Johann Georg Hermann Voigt, Dotzauer was a founder of the Gewandhaus Quartet.[1][3]
Dresden
In 1811 Dotzauer was appointed cellist of the
The Flying Dutchman.[1]
He made concert tours of Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. He was a noted teacher, his students including Friedrich August Kummer and Karl Drechsler. His two sons Justus Bernhard Friedrich and Karl Louis became musicians.[1][3]
Dotzauer remained in the orchestra until retirement in 1850; he died in Dresden in 1860.[3]
Compositions
Dotzauer composed many studies and exercises for solo cello; other compositions include masses and other church music, an opera, 9 cello concertos, and chamber music including string quartets.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d "The Dresden School" (from History of the Violoncello by Lev Ginsburg (Paginiana Publications, 1983)) Archived 2009-07-12 at the Wayback Machine www.celloheaven.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Dotzauer, Justus Johann Friedrich" Neue Deutsche Biographie, volume 4 (1959).
- ^ a b c d Georg Brückner (1877), "Dotzauer, Friedrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 365–366
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