German composer. Norbert Burgmüller was born into a musical family, where his father directed a theatre and his mother (Therese Burgmüller, nee von Zandt) was a singer and piano player/teacher. Two of his brothers were musically inclined aswell, one of them Friedrich Burgmüller also went on to become a composer.
Due to financial distress after his father's death Norbert's muscial career looked doomed. His mother was able to receive some financial aids from count Franz von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven.
During his studies in Kassel he became engaged to Sophia Roland, but in 1830 the relationship ended. That led to Norbert's spout with alcoholism, which triggert him to developed seizure. Also in 1830 he returned to Düsseldorf and moved back into his mother's. A friendship with Felix Mendelssohn developed.
Norbert's next engagement, this time to Josephine Collin, failed, too. Norbert had plans to follow his brother Friedrich to Paris. In 1836 he drowned in a public spa in the city of Achen when he had another seizure. For his funeral his friend Mendelssohn composed the Trauermarsch a-Moll op. 103.
Due to financial distress after his father's death Norbert's muscial career looked doomed. His mother was able to receive some financial aids from count Franz von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven.
During his studies in Kassel he became engaged to Sophia Roland, but in 1830 the relationship ended. That led to Norbert's spout with alcoholism, which triggert him to developed seizure. Also in 1830 he returned to Düsseldorf and moved back into his mother's. A friendship with Felix Mendelssohn developed.
Norbert's next engagement, this time to Josephine Collin, failed, too. Norbert had plans to follow his brother Friedrich to Paris. In 1836 he drowned in a public spa in the city of Achen when he had another seizure. For his funeral his friend Mendelssohn composed the Trauermarsch a-Moll op. 103.
German composer. Norbert Burgmüller was born into a musical family, where his father directed a theatre and his mother (Therese Burgmüller, nee von Zandt) was a singer and piano player/teacher. Two of his brothers were musically inclined aswell, one of them Friedrich Burgmüller also went on to become a composer.
Due to financial distress after his father's death Norbert's muscial career looked doomed. His mother was able to receive some financial aids from count Franz von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven.
During his studies in Kassel he became engaged to Sophia Roland, but in 1830 the relationship ended. That led to Norbert's spout with alcoholism, which triggert him to developed seizure. Also in 1830 he returned to Düsseldorf and moved back into his mother's. A friendship with Felix Mendelssohn developed.
Norbert's next engagement, this time to Josephine Collin, failed, too. Norbert had plans to follow his brother Friedrich to Paris. In 1836 he drowned in a public spa in the city of Achen when he had another seizure. For his funeral his friend Mendelssohn composed the Trauermarsch a-Moll op. 103.
Due to financial distress after his father's death Norbert's muscial career looked doomed. His mother was able to receive some financial aids from count Franz von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven.
During his studies in Kassel he became engaged to Sophia Roland, but in 1830 the relationship ended. That led to Norbert's spout with alcoholism, which triggert him to developed seizure. Also in 1830 he returned to Düsseldorf and moved back into his mother's. A friendship with Felix Mendelssohn developed.
Norbert's next engagement, this time to Josephine Collin, failed, too. Norbert had plans to follow his brother Friedrich to Paris. In 1836 he drowned in a public spa in the city of Achen when he had another seizure. For his funeral his friend Mendelssohn composed the Trauermarsch a-Moll op. 103.
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