Taubert, (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm (1811–1891)

German composer, conductor, and pianist. A pupil of Ludwig Berger for piano and of Klein for composition, he was a student at Berlin University. He became Prussian court pianist, conductor of the Royal Opera in 1841, and court music director in 1845.

Works operas Die Kirmess (1832), Der Zigeuner (1834), Marquis und Dieb (1842), Joggeli, Macbeth (after Shakespeare) and Cesario (on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 1874); incidental music to Medea (Euripides), The Tempest (Shakespeare), and other plays; three psalms and other church music; four cantatas; four symphonies; three string quartets; c. 300 songs including Kinderlieder; duets, and part-songs.