Johann Christian Lobe

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Johann Christian Lobe (May 30, 1797 – July 27, 1881) was a German composer and music theorist.

Born in Weimar, Lobe was self-taught as a musician. In 1810, he became violinist in a Weimar church, and he composed his first musical work in 1821, the opera Wittekind. He wrote a number of others, including Die Flibustier (1830) and Die Fürstin von Granada (1833), as well as some orchestral works. In 1842 he became a professor in Weimar, and in 1846 moved to Leipzig, where he worked as a music-composition teacher and music critic. He is today best remembered for his writings on music, of which his most important work is Lehrbuch der musikalischen Komposition (Textbook on Music Composition, 1850–67). He died in Leipzig in 1881.

[edit] Selected writings

  • Lehrbuch der musikalischen Komposition (1850–67)
  • Katechismus der Musik (1853–57)
  • Fliegende Blätter für Musik (1853–57)
  • Aus dem Leben eines Musikers (1859)
  • Musikalische Briefe eines Wohlbekannten (1860)
  • Vereinfachte Harmonielehre (1861)
  • Konsonanzen und Dissonanzen (1869)
  • Katechismus der Kompositionslehre (1882)

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