About Gustav Kastropp
Lived 1844 – 1925 (aged 81). Gustav Kastropp was a poet, librettist, pedagogue, violinist, playwright and music teacher.
Gustav Kastropp (30 August 1844 – 11 September 1925) was a German poet, librettist and musician. Kastropp's texts were used by composers such as Georg Schumann, Eugen d'Albert and Bernhard Stavenhagen.
Biography Kastropp was born in Salmünster, Hesse. He went to Gymnasium in Göttingen and just like his father he worked as a pharmacist. He studied music at the conservatories in Stuttgart, Göttingen and Sondershausen. From 1874 to 1877 he taught literature at the Großherzogliche Orchesterschule in Weimar.
He died in Hildesheim, Germany.
Works König Elfs Lieder (1875) Helene (1875) Suleika (1876) Gnomenmärchen (1877) Dornröschen (1877) Das vierblättrige Kleebatt (1879), with Richard Roltsch Kain (1880) Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1880) Agamemnon (1890) Gunhild (1891) Phantasien und Märchen (1891) Gernot (1896), libretto for an opera by Eugen d'Albert Der Improvisator (1902), libretto for an opera by Eugen d'Albert
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German poet (1844–1925)
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Gustav Kastropp was born on 30 August 1844 in Salmünster.
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Gustav Kastropp died on 11 September 1925 in Hildesheim.
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Gustav Kastropp was a poet, librettist, pedagogue, violinist, playwright and music teacher.
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