Linger, Carl (1810-1862)

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Linger, Carl
Linger, Carl Ferdinand August (1810-1862)
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composer; music teacher; pianist; conductor; farmer; music conductor
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LINGER, CARL FERDINAND AUGUST (1810-1862), musician and composer, was born on 15 March 1810 at Berlin, son of an engraver. His parents encouraged him to study music under notable teachers and he started his composing career with six sacred songs dedicated to the princess of Prussia. After visiting music schools in Italy, he won repute for composing operas, masses, symphonies, cantatas and other musical works. In the unsettled conditions of 1848 a Berlin Migration Society was formed by Richard Schomburgk and others. With a party of intellectual Germans, Linger and his wife Wilhelmine sailed from Hamburg in the Princess Luise and arrived at Port Adelaide on 7 August 1849; a daughter was born on the voyage.

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Carl Linger played a significant part in establishing large-scale concert performances in Adelaide. He grew up in Berlin, studying at the Berlin University and the Institute for Church Music. Although his early compositions first attracted attention in his home city, it was perhaps due to the 1848 revolutions in Germany that he departed. He arrived in Australia in 1849 on the ship Princess Louise with his wife and baby daughter, who had been born on the voyage. Initially unable to find musical employment, he bought eighty acres of farming land near Adelaide. After falling into debt he went to Adelaide and found work tuning pianos and copying music, and began to establish himself among aristocratic Adelaide families as a music teacher. Linger became the conductor of several large choirs in Adelaide in the mid-1850s. From 1855 he conducted the Adelaide Choral Society (Adelaide Harmonic Society from 1859). He became the conductor of the new Adelaider Liedertafel in 1856, a position he held until his death. He conducted the first large-scale choral/orchestral concert in Adelaide with a performance of Handel's Messiah commemorating the centenary of the composer's death in 1859. He thereby helped to initiate in Adelaide the great Victorian Messiah tradition that was developing in many cities of the British empire. Linger's most successful composition, Song of Australia, was composed for a competition run by the Gawler Institute in 1859. Based on a patriotic text by Mrs Caroline Carleton, the song was adopted as an unofficial anthem for South Australia and became so popular that the colonial government decreed in 1880 that it should be sung in all South Australian schools. Linger also wrote numerous orchestral and choral works, songs, and two operas. Much of his choir music is based on sacred texts, and was influenced in part by the contemporaneous Palestrina revival flourishing in Berlin.

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  1. The song of Australia / words by C.J. Carleton ; music by Carl Linger
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1859-1986 ]
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    The song of Australia / words by C.J. Carleton ; music by Carl Linger
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  2. Sechs Zwischenspiele / Carl Linger
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Sound : 1980 ]
    At LaTrobe Uni Melb
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  3. Vater unser : The Lord's prayer, 1846 / Carl Linger ; edited [by] Richard Divall
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1970-1979 ]
    Languages: No linguistic content, English
    At 5 libraries
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  4. Gavotte : arr. for small orchestra / C. Linger; arr. Paul Paviour
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1990 ]
    At UoN Library
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  5. Song of Australia : S.S.A. / arr. by Ronald Hanmer
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1984 ]
    At 2 libraries
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  6. Vater unser / Carl Linger
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1846 ]
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    At National Library
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  7. Sechs zwischenspiele = Six interludes / Carl Linger. The debutante / William G. James. Village fair /Mirriam [sic] Hyde
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Sound : 1970-1980 ]
    At 8 libraries
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  8. O Lord who is as three : for choir & orchestra / by Carl Linger ; edited [by] Richard Divall
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1970-1979 ]
    At 2 libraries
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  9. Vier Gedichte in Musik gesetzt : Four poems set to music : fur eine Sopran oder Tenorstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte / von Geibel, Kletke, Platen, Trutz ; von Carl Linger
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Printed music : 1800 ]
    Languages: German, English
    At National Library
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  10. The song of Australia / words by Mrs. C. J. Carleton
    Linger, Carl, 1810-1862
    [ Book : 1877 ]
    At National Library
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  1. [Biographical cuttings on Carl Linger, composer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
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  2. Carl Ferdinand August Linger
    Kodak Limited, photographer
    [ Photograph : 1860 ]
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    Carl Ferdinand August Linger
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  3. Our great patriotic song : the "Song of Australia" : with information on Caroline J. Carleton (who wrote the words) and Carl August Ferdinand Linger (who composed the music) / researched and compiled by Ronald A. V. Wallace; edited by Harold Tidemann
    Wallace, Ronald A. V
    [ Book : 1999 ]
    At 3 libraries
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  4. Carl Linger memorial service : Adelaider Liedertafel 1858 jubilee celebrations
    Adelaider Liedertafel
    [ Book : 1978 ]
    At State Library S Aust
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  5. The "Song of Australia" : proclamation as national song / speech by H. Basedow, M.P. in the House of Assembly, Wednesday, September 4, 1929
    Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933
    [ Book : 1929 ]
    At 3 libraries
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  6. A history of music in South Australia before 1900 / M. Krips
    Krips, M J
    [ Thesis : 1973 ]
    At 3 libraries
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  7. Concordia : fantasia for pianoforte on the 'Song of Australia' and 'God save the Queen' / by W.B. Chinner
    Chinner, W. B
    [ Printed music : 1878 ]
    Languages: No linguistic content
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    At National Library
    Concordia : fantasia for pianoforte on the 'Song of Australia' and 'God save the Queen' / by W.B. Chinner
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  8. Interview with Evelyn Wichmann and Nora Haenel / Interviewer: Rob Linn
    Wichmann, Evelyn, 1907-1991
    [ Sound : 1991 ]
    At State Library S Aust
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  2. The Carl Linger Ensemble: 10th Anniversary (Radio program) Interviewer: Glen Quick
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  3. Four Motets / Carl Linger. A young girl / Malcolm Williamson. Psalm 23 / arr. Albert Harrison. Psalm 3 / arr. Mirrie Hill. Adoremus / Malcolm Williamson
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    [ Sound : 1975 ]
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  4. The song of Australia / words by C.J.Carleton ; music by Carl Linger ; harmonised and arranged for choral use or for unisonsinging by E.Harold Davies
    [ Printed music : 1934-1995 ]
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  1. A daring new flying machine; amid industry turbulence, TWA and Texas Air form the no. 2 U.S. airline
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  2. Visions beyond the flood: a Mississippi River town tries a different kind of planning as it moves to higher ground. (Valmeyer, Illinois)
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  3. West Coast/Northwest. (foodservice industry) (1992 Forecast & Trends)
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  1. Abraham Lincoln
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  2. Vår försummade Bellman : närläsning av ett urval epistlar, sånger, dikter / Bengt-Olov Linger
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  1. Carl Linger Memorial.
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    ... ,Carl Linger AUSTRALIAN." To the Editor : Sir,-The ir, - The appeal being made through 'The Advertiser' for funds to erect -a memorial to the late Herr Carl Linger is worthy of local support. Herr ... be said to have begun with Herr Linger, as he fostered all that was best and artistic in music when ... 104 words
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  3. The late Herr Carl Linger.
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  1. Remembering Carl Linger: farmer and composer
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  3. History shows betting crises linger: Former official Carl Bennett recalls 1954 Pistons scandal
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