Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 – 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera). Throughout his youth, his father, Franz Anton, relentlessly moved the family between Hamburg, Salzburg, Freiberg, Augsburg and Vienna. Consequently he studied with many teachers—his father, Johann Peter Heuschkel, Michael Haydn, Giovanni Valesi, Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, and Georg Joseph Vogler—under whose supervision he composed four operas, none of which survive complete. He had a modest output of non-operatic music, which includes two symphonies; a viola concerto; bassoon concerti; piano pieces such as Konzertstück in F minor and Invitation to the Dance; and many pieces that featured the clarinet, usually written for the virtuoso clarinetist Heinrich Baermann. His mature operas—Silvana (1810), Abu Hassan (1811), Der Freischütz (1821), Die drei Pintos (comp. 1820–21), Euryanthe (1823), Oberon (1826)—had a major impact on subsequent German composers including Marschner, Meyerbeer, and Wagner; his compositions for piano influenced those of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt. His best known work, Der Freischütz, remains among the most significant German operas. |
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Recordings (Results 51-75 of 184 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | C-26303 | 12-in. | 4/14/1922 | Oberon overture | Willem Mengelberg ; New York Philharmonic | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-26304 | 12-in. | 4/14/1922 | Oberon overture | Willem Mengelberg ; New York Philharmonic | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-26465 | 12-in. | 5/10/1922 | Der Freischütz : Overture | Rosario Bourdon ; Victor Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-26467 | 12-in. | 5/11/1922 | Der Freischütz : Overture | Josef Pasternack ; Victor Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-27352 | 12-in. | 12/27/1922 | Invitation to the waltz | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | CVE-27352 | 12-in. | 10/26/1926 | Afferderung zum Tanz | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | C-28852 | 12-in. | 10/29/1923 | Euryanthe : Overture | Rudolph Ganz ; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-28853 | 12-in. | 10/29/1923 | Euryanthe : Overture | Rudolph Ganz ; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-29622 | 10-in. | 3/5/1924 | Ländlicher Tanz | Cecilia Hansen | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | BVE-29622 | 10-in. | 10/27/1925 | Ländlicher Tanz | Cecilia Hansen | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-29776 | 10-in. | 4/7/1924 | Softly now the light of day | Trinity Mixed Quartet | Mixed vocal quartet, unaccompanied | composer | |
Victor | C-30211 | 12-in. | 5/23/1924 | Durch die Wälder | Max Bloch | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-34565 | 12-in. | 2/15/1926 | Agatha's prayer | Maria Jeritza | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-34566 | 12-in. | 2/15/1926 | Agatha's prayer | Maria Jeritza | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-36566 | 10-in. | 10/27/1926 | Invitation to the waltz | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | BVE-36567 | 10-in. | 10/27/1926 | Invitation to the waltz | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | BVE-37369 | 10-in. | 1/20/1927 | Country dance (Weber) | Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-37495 | 12-in. | 5/2/1927 | Invitation to the waltz | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CS-37495 | 12-in. | 4/19/1937 | Invitation to the waltz | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-37496 | 12-in. | 5/2/1927 | Invitation to the waltz | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CS-37496 | 12-in. | 4/19/1937 | Invitation to the waltz | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-37802 | 10-in. | 2/8/1927 | Strings | Victor Orchestra | Instructional | composer | |
Victor | BVE-42576 | 10-in. | 3/29/1928 | My Jesus, as Thou wilt! | Mark Andrews | Pipe organ solo | composer | |
Victor | BVE-51100 | 10-in. | 3/28/1929 | Jagerchor | Metropolitan Opera Chorus ; Giulio Setti | Male vocal chorus, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-57951 | 10-in. | 12/24/1929 | Larghette | Fritz Kreisler | Violin solo, with piano | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Weber, Carl Maria von," accessed April 24, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102543.
Weber, Carl Maria von. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102543.
"Weber, Carl Maria von." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 24 April 2024.
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