An die Natur op. 12

Frantisek Jan Škroup also when called in the literature Franz Škroup and Franz Johann Skraup was born in Osice at Hradec Králové on June 3rd, 1801. The son of the cantor Dominik Škroup (which composed a concert for horn in B major) was musically trained by his father. With eight years appeared for the first time publicly as a flautist. After the visit of the secondary school in Hradec Kralove he studied law in Prague as of 1819. He financed the studies by musical lessons and as composer and singer in the Prague Ständetheater. He was employed there as Korrepetitor as of 1823. Škroup committed himself increasingly in the amateur theatre and 1823 founded the first Bohemian victim union with other patriots which listed Czech operas in Prague for the first time. The popular opera became the Swiss family of the Austrian composer Josef Weigl played on December 23rd, 1823 in the Ständetheater whom the philosophy student and poet Simeon Karel Machácek had into Czech translated. The opera was listed by amateur actors and encouraged Škroup to compose the first Czech opera Dráteník; The successful premiere took place in the Ständetheater on February 2nd, 1826. Spurred on by this success Škroup wrote the music for Oldrich a Bo ž to the operas Ena and Libusin snatek. These works arrived, however, with the audience no longer so well. 1827 became, where Škroup to the second conductor of Ständetheaters appointed it the musical line took aös 1. conductors ten years later. It executed this function another twenty years. Immortality provided it with the music for Josef Kajetán Tyl Fidlovačka aneb ¸ádný hněv a ¸ádná rvačka.

At the premiere on December 21st, 1834 the song of the blind beggar Mares sounded the first time: this was chosen the Czech hymn later " Kde domov muj? " ,. Frantisek Skroup was an outstanding conductor. It staged numerous classic operas and composed preludes as well as incidental music to theatre and desire pills. It was active also as a choirmaster at the synagogue from 1836 to 1845. After thirty years' activity it became dismissed and retired, there 1857 of the theatre management its works some were successful. In addition, it came to discussions with director then, Stögr. Since Skroup found no more employment in Prague, at first it founded a singing school, 1860 accepted, however, the job of the conductor from an economic need at the German opera in Rotterdam. Two years later it died there on February 7th, 1862 and was buried on the Protestant cemetery there.

An die Natur op.12 for Voice, Horn (or Cello) and Piano

The song " An die Natur " op.12 composed ca. 1840

The first print is by the publishing house Schott 1841 as "2.te Folge der Lieder-Sammlung mit Piano-Forte Begleitung N°.41" .