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Freidrich Kuhlau in the Mirror of His Flute Works.(Review)
Freidrich Kuhlau in the Mirror of His Flute Works. By Arndt Mehring. Translated by Laszlo and Doris Tikos. Edited by Jane Rausch. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology; Studies in Music, 27.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2000. [xviii, 103 p. ISBN 0-89990-091-7. $27.50.]
To most flutists, Friedrich Kuhlau is known as a composer of solos, duets, and chamber pieces for flute. To many pianists, he is known as a composer of those "little salon pieces" for piano, and indeed, more than half his compositions are for that instrument. As editor Jane Rausch notes in her introduction, Kuhlau, when compared to his contemporaries-Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Schubert-generally falls into that second tier of composers whose music has not been taken seriously by today's musicologists.
Musical tastes vary from one century to another, even from one generation to another. This book takes the reader back to the early nineteenth century, a time when Kuhlau, though today considered less than masterful, was actually quite popular. Although he had his share of financial difficulties, he was dubbed the "Beethoven of the flute" during his lifetime.
Kuhlau was born in Germany near Hamburg in 1786 and spent his first twenty-four years in that area. Unable to make a decent living there, however, he moved to Copenhagen in 1810 and remained a resident of Denmark until his death in 1832. He wrote several operas with varying degrees of success, but his opera Elverhof, with more than one thousand performances, remains one of the most successful productions of the Royal Danish Theater. Thus, in addition to his reputation as a composer of flute pieces and despite his German heritage, Kuhlau became known as one of Denmark's national composers.
Apart from the article on Kuhlau in The New Grove Diectionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001), there is little about him written in English. A biography by Carl Thrane (Friedrich Kuhlau (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1886; reprint, Buren, Netherlands: Frits Knuf, 1979]) was the springboard for further ...
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