A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Griepenkerl, Friedrich

GRIEPENKERL, Friedrich Conrad, professor at the Carolinum College in Brunswick, born at Peine, near Hanover, in 1782; long tutor in the Fellenberg Institution at Hofwyl in the Canton of Berne; died at Brunswick, April 6, 1849. He wrote 'Lehrbuch der Æsthetik' (Brunswick 1827), in which he applied Herbart's philosophical theory to music; and was the author of the preface to the excellent edition of J. S. Bach's instrumental compositions, edited by himself and Roitsch, and published by Peters of Leipzig. This work has made his name familiar to many in England.

His son Wolfgang Robert, born May 4, 1810, at Hofwyl, studied at Brunswick and Leipzig, was also an enthusiastic amateur, and an ardent admirer of Meyerbeer's 'Huguenots' and the later works of Berlioz. He wrote 'Das Musikfest, oder die Beethovener' (1838 and 41); 'Ritter Berlioz in Braunschweig' (1843); 'Die Oper der Gegenwart' (1847); and two dramas, 'Robespierre' and 'Die Girondisten,' to which Litolff composed overtures. He died at Brunswick, Oct. 17, 1868.

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