Friedrich Wilhelm Grund


Friedrich Wilhelm Grund was a German composer, conductor and teacher.
He was born on 7 October 1791 in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. He studied with his father and with the Hamburg cantor Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke. In 1819, he abandoned his career as a concert virtuoso because of the nerve disease of his right hand and he started to compose and teach. In the same year, he co-founded and led the Gesellschaft der Freunde des religiösen Gesangs. He also co-founded the Hamburger Tonkünstlervereins.
He died 24 November 1874 in Hamburg, German Empire.

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