Horn, August

1825-1893

German composer, who was born at Freiberg, Saxony, and spent most of his life in Leipsic. He received his education at the Leipsic Conservatory. The years between 1862 and 1868 he spent in Dresden. He became celebrated by his clever arrangements of symphonies, operas, etc., for the piano for four and eight hands, and for two pianos. He composed an opera, Die Nachbarn, which was produced in Leipsic in 1875. Among his compositions are also overtures for orchestra; piano pieces; and songs.  Horn, Charles Edward. 1786-1849.

Son of Karl Friedrich Horn, who was a teacher and organist. He was born in London in 1786 and received his early musical education from his father, and then studied singing with Rauzzini. In 1809 he appeared as a singer in English opera at the Lyceum. Later studied with Thomas Welsh, and composed several operas, a few of which met with success. He again appeared in 1814 as a singer and composer. In 1833 he introduced in America several English operas at the Park Theatre, New York. Through illness he lost his voice and took up the work of teacher and publisher and importer of music. After a ten-years' residence in America he returned to London, where he was appointed musical director of the Princess Theatre. In 1847 he was in America as conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, spent another few months in London, where he produced his oratorio, Daniel's Prediction, and then again assumed the directorship of the Handel and Hayden Society in Boston, where, in 1849, he died. During his first stay in America he produced an oratorio called The Remission of Sin; in England another oratorio, Satan, was performed by the Melophonic Society. His compositions for the theatre were numerous, among them Rich and Poor; The Devil's Bridge; The Woodman's Hut; The Wizard, etc. He also wrote a cantata, Christmas Bells; a glee; and popular songs, including Cherry Ripe, and Through the Wood, and edited a collection of Indian Melodies.