Engelbert

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK

1stSeptember 1854 --- 27thSeptember 1921

Engelbert Humperdinck, a German composer born in Siegburg in 1854, he studied music under Ferdinand Hiller at Cologne and
later under Franz Lachner  and Josef Rheinberger at Munich.  In 1879 he won a Mendelssohn scholarship which enabled him to
go to Itlay, where he met Wagner and was invited to assist Wagner in the production of Parsifal at Bayreuth.

After some years of  travel he returned to Germany and settled at Frankfurt,  where he was the professor of composition at the
Hoch conservatorium,  and musical critic of the  Frankfurter Zeitung.  He had already made his mark as a composer in Germany
with his  orchestral work  Humoreske in 1880,  and the choral compositions  Des Gluck von Edenhall (1884)  and  Die Wallfahrt
mach Kevlaar (1887), when he produced the charming children's opera Hansel und Gretel (1893), and became famous through
out Europe.

In 1900  Humperdinck moved to Berlin,  where he became  head of a Meisterschule for composition.  It was while  he attended
a performance of  Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz,  in New Strelitz on the 26th Sept 1921,  that he had heart attack, and
died the next day from a second heart attack.

Humperdinch's later works, like Hansel und Gretel owed much to folk tunes, and showed a simular technical mastery, but none
of them approached it in popular success, through Konigskinder,. was well received.

© From "Encyclopaedia Britannica 1953"

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