Franz_Berwald

Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald was born in Stockholm on July 23, 1796. He was the son of a German violinist in the royal orchestra, named Christian Friedrich Georg Berwald. For the most part, Franz taught himself, but he did study music with his father and composition with J.B.E Dupuy. At the age of sixteen, Berwald was employed in the court orchestra as a violinist. During his break from the court orchestra, Franz was inspired to publish his own Musikalsk journal. The journal contained easy piano pieces and songs for the amateur market. The lack of enthusiasm in his home country for his highly original and bold style provoked Berwald to leave Sweden to try and make a career abroad. Following a tour of Norway, he spent time studying in Berlin, where his opera Estrella di Soria was performed. They were even less receptive to the radicalism of Berwald’s music than Stockholm. He almost gave up on composition in order to run a successful orthopedic institute. Franz then lived for a period in Vienna, where he began seriously composing again. He married in 1841 to Mathilde Scherer. His works berwald, opera, franz, three, sweden, success, stockholm, sinfonie, royal, piano, performed, orchestra, court, composition, works, work, violinist, vienna, time, symphonies, swedish, spent, soria, one, musical, music, lack, journal, estrella, di, career, adolf, ångermanland, years, year