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First name: Caspar J.
Last name: Brambach
Dates: 1833-1902
Category: Quartet
Nationality: German
Opus name: Opus 110 in g (1899)
Publisher: Kistner
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Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Caspar Joseph Brambach (German: Karl Joseph Brambach), born 14 July 1833 in Oberdollendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, died 20 June 1902 in Bonn, Westphalia, was a famous 19th century German musician, pedagog, composer whose reputation extended beyond Germany to America, and a renowned conductor of the leading choirs in Bonn. He was the son of organ builder, piano tuner and music teacher Franz Jacob Brambach. Brambach's mother, born Lückerath, was the daughter of the free-roving puppet master builder Lückerath. Caspar Joseph Brambach was born the same year as Johannes Brahms. The young Caspar Joseph Brambach spent his first years in his native town Oberdollendorf, where he received his first music lessons from his father, which continued after he passed in Bonn elementary and high school and at the Conservatory of Music at the City of Cologne. After that, Brambach followed his musical career as first violinist of the Bonn Opera House between 1847 and 1850, and from 1851 to 1854 he studied at the Cologne Conservatory, which promoted young composers and where he was awarded with a string quartet and various songs for the Mozart scholarship at Frankfurt Liederkranz. Later he studied there as a private pupil of Ferdinand Hiller and Carl Reinecke before he himself became a teacher in 1858. In 1861 he was appointed municipal music director in Bonn, where he led performances of classical oratorios of Bach, Haydn, Handel and other famous composers. He retired from this position in 1869 to devote himself entirely to his compositions and the musical life in Bonn. From 1862 to 1877 he conducted the Men's Choir "Concordia" and from 1861 to 1869 the Municipal Choral Society, now known as the Bonn Philharmonic Choir. On 20 June 1902 Brambach died in his home in Bonn, Wet 9th Street. His funeral was accompanied by singers from all over Germany. With great sympathy of the German minstrelsy, two years after his death a memorial designed by the architect Karl Senff was built on his grave at the cemetery in Poppelsdorfer. The relief on his donated, well elaborate tomb is signed by the Bad Honnef sculptor Charles Menser (1872-1929) and bears the inscription "Dedicated to German singers." It is now a grave of honor, located under the Cross Mountain Church and which obtained from the City of Bonn the number 278/279. In the obituaries of his time, the importance of Caspar Joseph Brambach as a musician and his work in the city of Bonn was highlighted. It was also added that he was one of the kindest and most unselfish people, no one will forget.