Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee

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♩ Swiss composers
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Born: 18 April 1786 — Luzern — Switzerland
Died: 27 August 1868 — Frankfurt — Germany
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Music

Concerto for two clarinets; Military Symphony (Third Symphony); A merry three-times-three or nine scherzi for the pianoforte; Six Songs to Poems of Ludwig Uhland; Rigilied (Rigi Song); Oratorio Zeit und Ewigkeit (Time and Eternity) and more.

Life

He studied in Vienna. In Frankfurt he gave recitals on the glass harmonica.

His biography is entitled "Lebenserinnerungen von Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee", which has been published by the Schnyder von Wartensee Foundation in Zürich in 1887.

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