Gänschals, Carl 12/21/1847 - 01/28/1906

The salon composer Johann Friedrich Theodor Gänsehals who was born in 1847 in Stolberg in the Harz mountains appeared for the publication of his numerous compositions (several hundred operas with various publishers) using the pseudonyms Carl Gänschals, Theodor Espen and Elise Zernikow. Little information is available about his life. Most of his works were published under the name Carl Gänschals by F. Portius in Leipzig. Under the pseudonym Theodor Espen, 65 of his works were published by the publishing house Ernst Eulenburg in Leipzig.