First name: | Bernard |
Last name: | Hopffer |
Dates: | 1840-1877 |
Category: | Quartet |
Nationality: | German |
Opus name: | Opus 4 in Es (1870) |
Publisher: | Merton |
Peculiarities: | https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Quartet%2C_Op.2_(Westrop%2C_Henry) Merton 4767; www.ourtext.co.uk/M-piano-quartets-normal.html;to order: Anglo-American Music Publishers |
Information: | Bernhard Hopffer (7 August 1840 in Berlin - 20 August 1877 at the Niederwald hunting palace near Rüdesheim), an almost forgotten composer, he studied music at the Kullak'sches Conservatorium and lived as a composer in Berlin. His last years he lived, owing to his lung illness, in various spas. He wrote symphonies, chamber music, songs among others, Lockung, op. 22 no. 1 (1872) after Joseph von Eichendorff as well as an opera, Frithjof, which was first produced in Berlin in 1871. |