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August Reissmann
1825 - 1903
Germany
August Friedrich Wilhelm [August] Reissmann [Reißmann] (14/11/1825 - 13/07/1903) a German critic and composer. Born in Frankenstein, Lower Silesia, died in Berlin, Germany. He received his first musical lessons in Mosewius, Breslau, from where he moved to Weimar (1850-52) and from there to Halle, in 1863, to Berlin and in 1880 to Leipzig. As a composer, he is credited with a large number of songs, piano pieces and chamber music, two dramatic scenes (Drusus and Lorelei), the operas Gudrun and Die Bürgermeistererin von Schorndor, an oratorio (Wittekind), etc.
Requiem
Three choral songs for SATB and piano (Op.26).
01 Im Frühling 02 Requiem 03 Maientanz Printed in Leipzig, 1871.
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