Carl Maria von Weber
- Sound
- December 18, 1786 · Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- June 5, 1826
Biography
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber's operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. Der Freischütz came to be regarded as the first German "nationalist" opera, Euryanthe developed the Leitmotif technique to an unprecedented degree, while Oberon may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest in the music of non-Western cultures. This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.
Known for
Filmography
- Klaus Florian Vogt sings Mozart, Wagner, and Strauss @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025 · Music
- Weber: Der Freischütz · Music
- Liubov Nosova conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024 · Music
- Hero of Our Time · Music
- Der Freischütz, Konzerthaus Berlin · Music
- Der Freischütz - Bayerische Staatsoper · Music
- Der Freischütz - Wiener Staatsoper · Music
- Oberon · Writer
- Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischutz · Music
- Der Freischütz · Music
- This is Opera · Music
- Concerto per il nuovo anno (Honeck) · Music
- Hunter's Bride · Self, Music
- Der Freischütz · Music
- Der Freischütz · Music
- Der Freischütz · Music
- Der Freischütz · Music
- Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet: Tribute to Nijinsky · Sound
- Carl Maria Weber: Čarostřelec · Music
- Weber: Der Freischütz · Music
- Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms · Music
- Das Orchester · Music