Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 15, 1895
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His mother (Rosina Bertz, of Weissenfels) mar- ried again with Ludwig Geyer, actor and dramatic author, and at that time engaged at the Dresden Hof-Theater, in 1815. Immediately after this marriage the family moved to Dresden, where the young Richard was edu- cated, entering the Kreuzschule under the name of Richard Geyer in De- cember, 1822, two years after his stepfather's death. About 1827 his mother took him and her other children back to Leipzig, where he entered the Nicolaischule ; but his disgust at being put into the third class, after having been in the second in Dresden, made him sulk at his studies, and devote most of his time to writing what he thought dramatic poetry. A love for music was first seriously aroused in him by hearing Beethoven symphonies at the Gewandhaus : he was then fourteen years old. He tried to study harmony by himself from Johann Bernhard Logier's " Praktischer Generalbass," but soon gave it up as a bad job. 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Bread and Pastry «@=Strictly first-class in all its appointments. (6) souled devotion and perseverance under Theodor Weinlich. A symphony in C by him was given at the Gewandhaus on Jan. 10, 1833. His professional career as a musician began in 1833, when he was en- gaged as a chorus-master at the Stadt-Theater in Wiirzburg, where his elder brother, Albert, was tenor and stage manager. Here he wrote his first opera " Die Feen " (after Gozzi's " La Donna Serpente "). Only a few ex- cerpts were ever given until the whole work was brought out after his death, at the Munich Hof-Oper, in 1888. In 1834 he went as music director to the Stadt-Theater in Magdeburg, for which he wrote his second opera, " Das Liebesverbot " (based upon Shakspere's " Measure for Meas- ure "), which came to a single disastrous performance at the close of the season of 1836. On November 24 of this year he married Wilhelmine Planer, the beautiful actress whom he had followed to Konigsberg, where he got an engagement as conductor at the Stadt-Theater. In the autumn of 1837 he accepted the position of Kapellmeister at Holtei's new theatre in Riga, where he wrote the text and the music to the first two acts of his " Rienzi " ; but his ambition flew this time at higher game than the Rigi theatre, and, from the beginning, he intended his "Rienzi" for the Aca- demie de Musique in Paris. In the spring of 1839 his two years' engage- ment with Holtei was up, and he returned to Konigsberg, but only to go on to Pillau, whence he, with his wife and a superb Newfoundland, set sail for France via London. 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