Sigismond Thalberg

(1812-1871)

"Staffa, Fingal's Cave" (1832), oil on canvas, 90.9 x 121.4 cm, of the painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, contemporary of Thalberg (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

The musician Sigismond (Fortuné François) Thalberg, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Pâquis on the 8th Jenuary 1812, the same year of the composers Dahmen, Dannström (Johan) Isidor, Grädener, Hebenstreit, Hullah, Jullien, Kazynski, Klitsch, Krug, Peri, Tauwitz. He died in Posillipo (Napoli) on the 27th April 1871

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Sigismond Thalberg

OPERE

"Florinda" was performed on the 3rd of July 1851 in Londra

"Cristina di Svezia" was performed in Vienna on the 3rd of June 1855

LIEDER

"Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen", text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

"Ich hab' im Traum geweinet", text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

"Lebe wohl" (Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden), op. 11 n. 1, text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

"Der Strom" (Berg' und Burgen schaun herunter), op. 11 n. 2, text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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