August Gottfried Ritter
1811 — 1885
August Gottfried Ritter was a German romantic composer and organist.
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August Gottfried Ritter was a German organist and royal music director in Magdeburg, known for his compositions for the organ, which include sonatas, preludes, and a Conzert-Phantasie with male chorus, alongside numerous other works for the instrument, choruses for male and mixed voices, and sacred songs, according to Riemann’s Musik-Lexikon (1887). He was also a significant teacher, having instructed Rudolf Palme, who later became organist of the Church of the Holy Ghost at Magdeburg. Furthermore, Ritter was the early musical trainer of Karl Martin Reinthaler, who would go on to study theology before devoting himself entirely to music and becoming a conductor of the Private Concerts at Bremen, as noted in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1922). His influence extended to the education of other notable musicians, including the celebrated bassoonist Georges-Frédéric Brandt, who perfected his talent under Ritter’s guidance as a court musician in Berlin, as detailed in Fétis’s Biographie universelle des musiciens (1883).