Carl Guhr
His father was Carl Christoph Guhr, a cantor at the Protestant Gnadenkirche, Militsch (now Polish Milicz), approx.
Until 1810, the count maintained a small castle chapel with well-paid musicians, including his father Carl Christoph Guhr.
In 1811, this chapel developed into the first concert society in Silesia, which was led by his younger brother Friedrich Heinrich Florian Guhr (17 April 1791 – 1841).
From the composers and church musicians Josef Schnabel (1767–1831) and later Friedrich Wilhelm Berner (1780–1827) in nearby Breslau he got further education.
Joseph Reuter took over the theatre management to the delight of the Nuremberg people and in 1808, he gave Guhr the position of a music director.
William I was still considered one of the richest German princes of his time, and with the help of the Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild, he succeeded in saving this fortune beyond the Napoleonic era.
Louis Spohr had been Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Guhr's predecessor as Kapellmeister in Frankfurt from winter 1817 to September 1819.
Spohr left this position to undertake a glorious major concert tour as well as extensive art trips to Belgium and Paris.
Bizarrely, Louis Spohr was appointed general music director in Kassel in 1822, now under the reign of Elector Wilhelm II, as Guhr's successor.
He possessed, among other things, an extraordinary ability to read scores, a fine musical ear and a rarely well-developed memory.
His conducting style seems to have been legendary from early on ("safe, strict and despotic conductor" (R. Wagner)), and he was also very well known as a violin and piano virtuoso in his day.
He composed, among other things, operas, instrumental works and sacred music that are forgotten today, as well as masses and symphonies (well developed in contrapuntal technique).
[4] Guhr lived far from Frankfurt in the city of Bockenheim, which at that time belonged to the Electoral Hesse region.
Today it is located on the grounds of the Greek Orthodox parish "Prophet Elias" at the old cemetery wall.
