Berthold Damcke

Berthold Damcke (6 February 1812 – 15 February 1875) was a German composer, pianist, conductor, music educator, music critic and newspaper correspondent.

Life Damcke was born in the so-called "French period" in Hannover. He first studied theology and later music in Frankfurt as a pupil of Aloys Schmitt as well as Ferdinand Ries. However, he continued to study the piano and organ, also composing his first choral works.

In 1845, Damcke went to St. Petersburg as a piano teacher, where he also developed a rich activity as a sensitive music critic and wrote extensive articles for the German-language St. Petersburgische Zeitung. In 1855, he moved to Brussels. who conceptually developed the complete edition of Christoph Willibald Gluck's works, suggested by Berlioz, and presented its first three volumes, on which Damcke collaborated.

Damcke died in Paris at age 63 and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.