Carl August Haupt
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Carl August Haupt was a German organist, organ teacher and composer.
Between 1827 and 1830, Haupt was musically trained in Berlin by August Wilhelm Bach
, Bernhard Klein
and Siegfried Dehn
and he also worked as an organist in several churches and Berlin's Parochial Church
. He gained a reputation of an outstanding organist and in 1869, he became the successor of August Wilhelm Bach as a director of the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin where he taught theory and organ-playing.
Haupt's compositions include Organ school, Organ choral book and many songs. From his compositions for organ, however, only the Great fugue in C major and two choral arrangements have been preserved. He also published organ works of his deceased friend Carl Ludwig Thiele.
His students included Otto Dienel, Edward Fisher
, Whitney Eugene Thayer
, Samuel Prowse Warren and Arnold Mendelssohn
.
Between 1827 and 1830, Haupt was musically trained in Berlin by August Wilhelm Bach
August Wilhelm Bach
August Wilhelm Bach was a German composer and organist. He is unrelated to the family of Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied with his father, Gottfried, as well as with Carl Friedrich Zelter and Ludwig Berger. In 1832, he succeeded Zelter as the director of the Royal Institute of Church Music in...
, Bernhard Klein
Bernhard Klein
Bernhard Klein was a German composer.Klein was born in Cologne. He married Lilly Parthey , who was the sister of Gustav Parthey and the granddaughter of Friedrich Nicolai...
and Siegfried Dehn
Siegfried Dehn
Siegfried Dehn was a German music theorist, editor, teacher and librarian.Born in Altona, Hamburg, Dehn was the son of a banker and learned to play the cello as a boy. Intent on becoming a diplomat, he studied law in Leipzig but also took music lessons from J.A. Dröbs...
and he also worked as an organist in several churches and Berlin's Parochial Church
Parochialkirche
The Parochialkirche is a Reformed church in the Klosterviertel neighbourhood of the Mitte borough in Berlin. The church, now a listed building, was built between 1695 and 1703, it is the oldest church in Berlin built as a Protestant place of worship. The church is now used and owned by the...
. He gained a reputation of an outstanding organist and in 1869, he became the successor of August Wilhelm Bach as a director of the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin where he taught theory and organ-playing.
Haupt's compositions include Organ school, Organ choral book and many songs. From his compositions for organ, however, only the Great fugue in C major and two choral arrangements have been preserved. He also published organ works of his deceased friend Carl Ludwig Thiele.
His students included Otto Dienel, Edward Fisher
Edward Fisher
Edward Fisher was a Canadian conductor, teacher, organist, and founder and first musical director of the Toronto Conservatory of Music....
, Whitney Eugene Thayer
Whitney Eugene Thayer
Whitney Eugene Thayer was an American organist and composer.Thayer gave his first concert just after the installation of the new organ in the Boston Music Hall in 1863...
, Samuel Prowse Warren and Arnold Mendelssohn
Arnold Mendelssohn
Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn was a German composer and music teacher.Mendelssohn was born in the then Ratibor, Province of Silesia, son of Felix Mendelssohn's second cousin Wilhelm Mendelssohn who had married in 1854 Louise Aimee Cauer...
.
Sources
- German Wikipedia article