Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich

Soon after he took his own life in the early age of 33, Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich and his work begun to be understood and appreciated on the depth the fact that frustrated musician had once wished for; his tune Wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen became a well-known folk tune, and he was ultimately praised among the finest Swiss Romantics. Although he do compose many orchestral, chamber, and piano functions, his most many were parts for voice, which his choral music had been outnumbered by those for single voice. In lots of of his Lieder, like Robert Schumann, Fröhlich drew upon the text messages of J. Kerner, F. Rückert and W. Müller. Educated as an attorney, Fröhlich examined music significantly in Berlin using the composer and conductor Bernhard Klein and C.F. Zelter (among Mendelssohn’s instructors) in 1826, using the financial support of the federal government of Aarau. Despite having some of his compositions released quickly thereafter and having obtained meetings at Singakademie as well as the Aarau cantonal college and instructors’ college, insufficient reference to and approval by close musical circles pressed him toward suicide, departing his wife of four years, Ida von Klitzing, a widow in 1836. His piano music was released the following season by Walter Frey and Willi Schuh in Zurich. M. Shirai could be noticed executing Fröhlich’s Rückkehr in dir Heimat on the 1994 Capriccio saving.