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Friedrich von Flotow is a German composer born on 27 April 1812 to Teutendorf (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) and died on 24 January 1883 to Darmstadt (Hesse).
It is best known for its opera Martha (1847), popular in the late XIXand century and early XXand century, but little played thereafter.
Flotow was born in Teutendorf, now a commune of Sanitz in the Land of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and theborough of Rostock, in an aristocratic family. He studied at Conservatoire de Paris and is influenced byAuber, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Halévy, Gounod and later and Offenbach. These influences are reflected in his operas, where features of thecomic opera French.
He completed his first opera in 1835, Peter and Catherine, but its notoriety asserts itself with The Shipwreck of the Medusa (1839), based on the episode staged in the famous table of Théodore Géricault. Her romantic opera in three acts Alessandro Stradella (1844) is recognized as one of Flotow's most completed works. Martha, or Der Markt van Richmond brings him glory. This comic opera was created in Vienna, at Theatre at the Carinthian Gate November 25, 1847.
Between 1856 and 1863, Flotow was intendant of the court theatre of Schwerin. He spent his final years in Paris and Vienna and had the satisfaction of seeing his operas staged in St. Petersburg and Turin.
Flotow dies at Darmstadt, at the age of 70.