March 5 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (The Musical Birthday Series, 7th Annual Cycle)

Previous entries for March 5th  can be founded here: Heitor Villa Lobos (2019), Heitor Villa-Lobos (2020), Andy Gibb (2021), Barry Tuckwell; Philip Farkas; Arthur Foote (2022). William Shield (2023), and Elaine Paige (2024)

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Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (5 March 1774 – 8 October 1842) was a Danish composer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nine Lives

Weyse’s "Katte-Cavatine" opens the "Cat's Duet" or "Duetto buffo di due gatti” usually attributed to Rossini.  -  adapted from Wikipedia s.v. “Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse” and “Duetto buffo di due gatti“

C. E. F. Weyse has one famous tune, —

   We hear it with some regularity;

And here’s to the hope that his authorship soon

   Will be linked to that feline hilarity.

Alas! The historical record is strewn

   With persons misplaced by posterity.

 

 

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