Brambach, Caspar Joseph

Brambach, Caspar Joseph – Tasso Konzertouvertüre für Orchester op. 30 (1874)

(b. Königswinter/Oberdollendorf, July 14, 1833 — d. Bonn, June 20, 1902)

Orchestration: 2, 2, 2, 2 – 4, 2, 3, 0 − timp., str.
Caspar Joseph Brambach has been regarded until now as a composer whose memory, apart from his contributions to the then popular male choir repertoire and an entry in the chronicle of his hometown, has been preserved as a footnote in the biography of a much more distinguished figure in history. He was the local authority to whom Friedrich Nietzsche, then a 20-year-old first-year theology student and self-taught
composer, submitted songs he had written at his new place of study in early 1865 for evaluation. Brambach recognized in them both musical talent and a lack of theoretical education of their author, and offered to remedy this by giving him lessons.2 When Nietzsche told a friend six months later that he had “absolutely no opportunity”3 to study music in Bonn, and when, in 1888, shortly before his breakdown, he wrote in a letter referring to Bonn, …

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