Tauwitz, Eduard 1812 - 1894

Eduard Tauwitz (* January 21, 1812 in Glatz, province of Silesia, Prussia; † July 26, 1894 in Prague, Austria-Hungary) was a German composer, bandmaster, conductor and music director. Active in composition as a schoolboy in his native village (the opera "Valeska"), Tauwitz first studied law at the University of Breslau. Because of his musical talent he soon gave up his studies and turned to music. His teachers were the cathedral organist Franz Wolf and the music director Johann Theodor Mosewius. The artist's stations were Breslau (music director at the city theater, from 1835 director of the Academic Music Society), Wilna (Kapellmeister from 1837), Riga (from 1840 in the same position) and again Breslau (conductor at the opera house from 1847), before he was appointed music director at the Estates Theater in Prague in 1850; there he founded the 'Männergesangsverein Tauwitz' named after him. He died in Prague on July 27, 1894.
The compositional output of Eduard Tauwitz includes four operas, orchestral works, music for plays, ballet music and, above all, music for male choirs.