Conrad Berg
{{Short description|French composer, writer, and piano teacher}}
Conrad Mathias Berg (25 or 27 April 1785 – 13 or 14 December 1852) was a French composer, writer on music, and piano teacher from Alsace.
Life
Berg was born in Colmar. After learning music and violin in his hometown, he spent the years 1804 and 1805 in Mannheim where he received lessons from Ferdinand Fränzl for this instrument. Although his father had intended him to be a violinist, Berg always preferred the piano. He went to Paris and entered the Conservatoire where he spent the years 1806–1807.{{Cite book|language=|author1=François-Joseph Fétis|title=Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique|publisher=Firmin-Didot|location=Paris|year=1866–1868|volume=1|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k697171/f398.item.r=%22Conrad%20Berg%22.zoom|accessdate= 26 November 2018}}. According to other sources, Berg was admitted but did not enter.{{Cite news|title=Histoire musicale : Berg|journal=Le Nouvelliste|date=14 January 1853|pages=1|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6385821m/f1.image.r=%22Conrad%20Berg}}. He moved to Strasbourg in 1808, where he taught music, and became known as a composer, writer and music critic. He concertised in Vienna (1817) and several times in Paris, the last time in 1851. In 1824, he travelled to Darmstadt to learn the teaching method of Christian Heinrich Rinck.Beer, Axel: "Berg, Conrad Matthias", in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, biographical part, volume 2 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999), cc. 1238–1239.
He has written works for piano (three concertos, sonatas, variations, ten piano trios, etc., four-handed pieces), four string quartets.
In 1832, Berg established the Société pour les artistes émérites et infirmes.
Works
- {{Cite web|language=|url=http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV035540265/ft/bsb11155110?page=5 |title=Trois grands trios pour le piano forte, violon et violoncelle : op. 20., n°8|year=1819|accessdate= 26 November 2018}}.
- {{Cite book|language=|author1=Conrad Berg|title=Aperçu historique sur l'état de la musique à Strasbourg pendant les cinquante dernières années|publisher=Vve Levrault|location=Strasbourg|year=1840|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6547578c|accessdate= 26 November 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{IMSLP|id=Berg,_Konrad-Mathias|nom=Berg, Konrad-Mathias}}
- {{in lang|de}} [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd102374813.html#adbcontent Dommer, Arrey von, "Berg, Konrad Matthias" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 2 (1875), p. 364]
- [http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100037486 Berg, Konrad Matthaus] on musicsack.com
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Category:19th-century French composers
Category:19th-century French musicians
Category:19th-century French male musicians
Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni