Background
Curschmann was born in 1805, in Berlin.
Curschmann was born in 1805, in Berlin.
He went to Kassel where he studied under Spohr and Hauptmann, starting with church music
His talent for singing was discovered when he was at school. In 1824, having been a law student in Berlin and Göttingen, he started to devote his life to music At Kassel in 1828 he wrote his first opera.
After four years in Kassel, Curschmann returned to Berlin.
He befriended Eduard Grell, director of the Berlin Song Academy. Curschmann wrote 83 songs, many to the poems of Goethe, Schiller, Heine and Rückert.
Curschmann died in Langfuhr, near Danzig, in 1841.