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- Weber was arrested and charged with embezzlement and bribery. As he could disprove the allegations, the case was brought under civil law to avoid compromising the de facto manipulator, the brother of the king. Weber agreed to pay the costs (the last payment was made in 1816) and was banished from Württemberg together with his father.
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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (c. 18 November 1786 – 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera). [1]
Carl Maria von Weber was a German composer and opera director during the transition from Classical to Romantic music, noted especially for his operas Der Freischütz (1821; The Freeshooter, or, more colloquially, The Magic Marksman), Euryanthe (1823), and Oberon (1826).
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Nevertheless, Weber remained active as a composer and he and his father were eventually banished from Württemberg. After such a sour turn of event, Weber met with a streak of success. In 1813, he was director of the Opera in Prague, later moved to Berlin in 1816, and in 1817 became director of the prestigious Opera in Dresden.
Weber agreed to pay the costs (the last payment was made in 1816) and was banished from Württemberg together with his father. As a sobering side effect, Weber started to keep a diary to list his expenses and correspondence, and make occasional comments on special events.
Jan 6, 2015 · After a summary trial, Carl and his father were banished from Württemberg. Nevertheless, Carl remained prolific as a composer during this period, writing a quantity of religious music, mainly for the Catholic mass.
There his father embezzled huge sums and Carl himself fell heavily into debt; they were both imprisoned and then banished. At the time of writing tonight's Duo, Carl was Director of the Opera in Prague.
To shield him, Karl Maria took the disgrace upon himself, and both were banished. He went to Mannheim and Darmstadt and completed his comic opera Abu Hassan (1810), Weber had no important appointment until 1813, when he was called to Prague as conductor of the Landständisches Theatre.
