Johann Friedrich Eduard Sobolewski (born Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

, October 1, 1804 or 1808 - died St. Louis, May 17, 1872) was a Polish-American violinist, composer, and conductor.

Sobolewski studied with Carl Friedrich Zelter

Carl Friedrich Zelter

Carl Friedrich Zelter was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music.Zelter became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe's poems...

 in Berlin

Berlin

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, and with Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

 in Dresden

Dresden

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 between 1821 and 1824. He became music director at the Königsberg Theater in 1830. He was the founder and conductor of the Philharmonische Gesellschaft, which he established in 1838, as well as the founder of the Königsberg Musikalische Akademie, established 1843. From 1847 to 1853 he led the Königsberg Theater, after which he led the theater in Bremen

Bremen

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. In 1859 he emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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, and quickly founded the city's Philharmonic Society Orchestra alongside efforts to stage opera

Opera

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s. In 1860 he moved to St. Louis and became conductor of their Philharmonic Society from 1860 to 1866. He was professor of vocal music from 1869 to his death in 1872 at the Bonham Female Seminary.

Compositions

Note:this list is incomplete.

• Imogen, Opera, 1832
• Velleda, Opera, 1835 (see Veleda
  Veleda
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• Salvator Rosa, Opera, 1848
• Der Seher von Khorassan, Opera, 1850
• Comala, Opera, 1857
• Mohega, Opera, 1859
• Lazarus, Oratorio
  Oratorio
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• Johannes der Täufer, Oratorio
• Himmel und Erde, Oratorio
• Der Retter, Oratorio
• Süd und Nord, Symphony

Writings

• Reactionary Letters, 1854
• Opera, Not Drama, 1857
• Debates About Music, 1857
• Chronicle of the newest School of Music, 1859