A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kupsch, Karl

by George Grove

KUPSCH, Karl Gustav, demands a few lines as having been for a short time Schumann's instructor in the theory of music^[1]—apparently in the latter part of 1830, after his accident to his finger. Kupsch was an average German Kapellmeister, born in Berlin, lived and worked there and in Leipzig and Dresden as teacher composer and conductor, till 1838, when he settled in Rotterdam as Director of the Singing Academy, and one of the committee of the 'Eruditio musica' Society. In 1845 h returned to Germany, became Director of the Theatre at Freiburg im Breisgau, and at Naumburg, where he died July 30, 1846.

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1. Wasiellwsky, p. 97.