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FREDERICK HENRY HIMMEL (1765-1814)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 476 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDERICK See also:HENRY See also:HIMMEL (1765-1814)  , See also:German composer, was See also:born on the loth of See also:November 1765 at Treuenbrietzen in See also:Brandenburg, . See also:Prussia, and originally studied See also:theology at See also:Halle . During a temporary stay at See also:Potsdam he had an opportunity of showing his self-acquired skill as a pianist before See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William II., who thereupon made him a yearly See also:allowance to enable him to See also:complete his musical studies . This he did under See also:Naumann, a German composer of the See also:Italian school, and the See also:style of that school See also:Himmel himself adopted in his serious operas . The first of these, a See also:pastoral See also:opera, Il Primo Naviigatore, was produced at See also:Venice in 1794 with See also:great success . In 1792 he went to See also:Berlin, where his See also:oratorio Isaaco was produced, in consequence of which he was made See also:court Kapellmeister to the king of Prussia, and in that capacity wrote a great See also:deal of See also:official See also:music, including cantatas, and a See also:coronation Te Deum . His Italian operas, successively composed for See also:Stockholm, St See also:Peters-See also:burg and Berlin, were all received with great favour in their See also:day . Of much greater importance than these is an operetta to German words by See also:Kotzebue, called Fanchox, an admirable specimen of the See also:primitive See also:form of the musical See also:drama known in See also:Germany as the Sings See also:pie !. Himmel's See also:gift of See also:writing genuine See also:simple See also:melody is also observable in his songs, amongst which one called " To See also:Alexis " is the best . He died in Berlin on the 8th of See also:June 1814 .

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