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FERDINAND HILLER

24thOctober 1811 --- 11thMay 1885

Ferdinand Hiller (born in 1811 at Frankfurt am Main--died 1885, Cologne), German conductor and composer whose memoirs, Aus dem
Tonleben unserer  Zeit (1867-76)  From the Musical  Life of Our Time",  contain revealing sidelights  on many famous  contemporaries.

Hiller studied in Weimar under the celebrated pianist-composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel. From 1828 to 1835 he was in Paris, where
his friends  included Frédéric Chopin,  Franz Liszt,  and Hector Berlioz.  He conducted the  Gewandhaus concerts  in Leipzig  (1843-44)
conducted at Dresden in 1845, and led the Düsseldorf Orchestra, 1847-50. In 1850 he became conductor at Cologne, where he began
to organized the conservatory and was its first director.

His compositions  include operas  and large instrumental works.  His extensive writings  on music include  studies of Beethoven and a
memoir of his friend Felix Mendelssohn.

Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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