Heinze, Gustav Adolf
Heinze, Gustav Adolf
Heinze, Gustav Adolf, German conductor and composer; b. Leipzig, Oct. 1, 1820; d. Muiderberg, near Amsterdam, Feb. 20, 1904. He received his early musical education from his father, a clarinetist in the Gewandhaus Orch. in Leipzig, and joined that orch. as clarinetist at the age of 16. He then conducted at the Breslau City Theater (1844–49), where he successfully produced 2 operas: Loreley (1846) and Die Ruinen von Tharandt (1847). In 1850 he went to Amsterdam, where he founded a singing school (1862–69); he later founded a music school in Bussum (1885). He composed, besides his operas, several oratorios and other choral works. He publ. an autobiography (Amsterdam, 1905).
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