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REINECKE, CARL HEINRICH CARSTEN (1824—1910) , See also:German composer and pianist, was See also:born at See also:Altona on the 23rd of See also:June 1824; his See also:father, See also:Peter Reinecke (who was also his teacher), being an accomplished musician. At the See also:age of eleven he made his first See also:appearance as a pianist, and when scarcely eighteen he went on a successful tour through See also:Denmark and See also:Sweden. After a stay in See also:Leipzig, where he studied under Mendelssohn and under See also:Schumann, Reinecke went on tour with Konigslow and Wasielewski, Schumann's biographer, in See also:North See also:Germany and Denmark. From 1846 to 1848 Reinecke was See also:court pianist to See also:Christian VIII. of Denmark. After resigning this See also:post he went first to See also:Paris, and next to See also:Cologne, as See also:professor in the Conservatorium. From 1854 to 1859 he was See also:music director at See also:Barmen, in the latter See also:year filling this post at See also:Breslau University;in 186o he became conductor of the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus, a post which (together with that of professor at the Conserva torium) he held with See also:honour and distinction for See also:thirty-five years. He finally retired into private See also:life in 1902 and died in See also:March 1910. During this See also:time Reinecke continually made See also:concert See also:tours to See also:England and elsewhere. His See also:pianoforte playing belonged to a school now almost See also:extinct. See also:Grace and neatness were its characteristics, and at one time Reinecke was probably unrivalled as a See also:Mozart player and an accompanist. His See also:grand See also:opera See also:Konig See also:Manfred, and the comic opera Auf hohen Befehl, were at one time frequently played in Germany; and his See also:cantata Hakon fart is melodiously beautiful, as are many of his songs; while his Friedensfeier See also:overture was once quite hackneyed. By far his most valuable See also:works are those written for educational purposes.

His sonatinas, his " See also:

Kindergarten " and much that he has ably edited will keep his name alive.

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