Joseph Leopold Röckel

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Joseph Leopold Röckel, who also wrote under the pen-name Edward Dorn, was a prolific composer and musical editor. His works included operas such as the comic Ein Tag in Russland (Berlin, 1857) and Der Botenläufer von Pirna (Berlin, 1865), an operetta, Gewitter bei Sonnenschein (Dresden, 1865), and the ballet Amors Macht (Leipzig, 1830), according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). He also composed a Missa pro defunctis (Berlin, 1851), cantatas, symphonies, and orchestral pieces, including “Siegesfestklänge” (1866), alongside piano music and “many popular favorites” among his songs. Beyond composition, Röckel served as musical editor for the “Berliner Post” and contributed to the “Neue Berliner Musikzeitung.” He published an autobiography, “Aus meinem Leben,” in six parts between 1870 and 1879, and a pamphlet titled “Ostracismus, ein Gericht Scherben.” His son, Alexander Julius Paul Dorn, a pianist, was taught by his father and later became a “Royal Prof.” of piano in Berlin, as noted in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905).