The concert of the Philadelphia Musical Fund
Society on April 29, 1829 featured a guest appearance by
Boston’s Mr. Widtl in a Horn Solo by Düring.
[Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, Scrapbook.
See also Jeffery L. Snedeker, 1997, p. 164ff, T
he composer is possibly Heinrich Vollrath Düring
(1752-1791), stepfather and first teacher of
composer Friedrich Witt (1770-1836), but more probably
Witt’s half brother, Johann Georg Heinrich Düring,
who was also an accomplished composer. At his death he
was noted as a musician of the highest merit
(“hochverdienter Musiker”) in Frankfurt am Main.
See Ernst Häußinger, “Der Komponist Friedrich Witt aus
Niederstetten”, Württembergisch Franken. Jahrbuch des
Historischen Vereins für Württembergisch Franken. Band
57. Schwäbisch Hall, 1973, S. 137-142,
http://www.guenther-emig.de/witt/haeussinger.html]
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