Friedrich Schneider
Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider (3 January 1786 in
Schneider studied piano first with his father Johann Gottlob Schneider (senior), and then at the Zittau Gymnasium with Schönfelder and Unger. His first published works were a set of three
Schneider composed copiously. Among his works are seven operas, four masses, six oratorios, 25 cantatas, 23 symphonies, seven piano concertos, sonatas for violin, flute, and cello, and a great many shorter instrumental pieces, some of them for piano, some for organ. He also left numerous solo songs and part songs.
A projected cycle of four oratorios, Christus das Kind (1829), Christus der Meister (1827), and Christus der Erlöser (1838) were left uncompleted as Schneider did not set the fourth part Christus der Verherrlichte.[1]
Family and pupils
Friedrich Lux and Robert Volkmann were among Schneider's pupils. His brothers Johann Gottlob Schneider (junior; 1789-1864) and Johann Gottlieb Schneider (1797-1856) were likewise organists, the former achieving great fame and notability, with artistic connections to Mendelssohn, Liszt, Schumann and many others.
Selected recordings
- Friedrich Schneider Das Weltgericht Martina Rüping, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Patrick Grahl, GewandhausChor Leipzig, Camerata Lipsiensis, Gregor Meyer 2CD 2019
- Schneider Christus das Kind (1829) Luken Ars 2022
- Schneider Christus der Meister (1827) Dorothea Brandt, Rena Kleifeld, Fabian Strotmann, Richard Logiewa Stojanovic, Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Alexander Lüken 2SACD Ars 2023
References
- ^ A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth Century Howard E. Smither · 1977 p116 ... completed oratorios of Schneider's Christus cycle - Christus das Kind ( 1829 ) , Christus der Meister ( 1827 ) , and Christus der Erlöser ( 1838 ) —is the angelic chorus , " Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe , ” which is virtually identical .
- Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, pp. 803–804.