Bernhard Scholz
Bernhard Scholz was a German conductor, composer, pianist, and music teacher. He was born in Mainz on March 30, 1835, and died in Munich on December 26, 1916.
As a young man, Scholz studied printing in Paris, following a family tradition. His interest in music led him to study piano with Ernst Pauer in Mainz and, in Berlin in 1855–1856, composition theory and counterpoint with Siegfried Dehn. He began a career as a pianist in 1855 and went to Milan in 1856 to study singing.
After returning to Germany, he became professor of counterpoint at the Munich Conservatory, where he remained until 1858. He then worked as a music director in Zurich and, from 1859 to 1865, at the royal chapel and local theater in Hanover. His opera Carlo Rosa was presented in Nuremberg. From 1870 he lived in Berlin.
Scholz directed the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt from 1883 to 1908 and also taught at the Stern and Theodore Kullak conservatories. His works were widely popular in Germany during the 1870s. They include several operas, oratorios, church music, music for choir and orchestra, two symphonies, and a piano concerto. His operas include Ziethen's Hussars (1869), Morgiane (1870), Golo (1875), The Trumpeter of Säckingen (1877), The Noble Hosts (1883), Ingo (1898), Year 1757 (1903), and Mirandolina (1907). After Dehn's death, Scholz published his treatise The Theory of Counterpoint, Canon, and Fugue in 1858.