Franz Ries [SEP] place of death
Franz Ries
Franz Ries (Berlin, 7 April 1846 – Naumburg, 20 January 1932) was a Romantic German violinist and composer, son of Hubert Ries. He studied at the Paris Conservatory. He also worked in the publishing business.
Career.
His talent formed under the direction of his father and in the Paris Conservatory under the violinist Joseph Massart, but after a short, brilliant career, he abandoned it suffering under a nerve problem, and settled in Dresden as a music retailer in 1875, where he
he announced to his friend Franz Wegeler that he had completed several numbers: "My wife, who prefers only Mozart's and Beethoven's opera to all the others, claims she is wholly delighted with it."
While Ries was working on "Die Räuberbraut", he learned about Beethoven's death. Ries took Beethoven's death quite hard. Ries said to his brother Joseph, "I cannot tell you how sorry it makes me feel," "I would so gladly have seen him again."