Emmanuel Berger

Emmanuel Berger (1800-1848) was a Brunanter pianist and writer of the romantic age. Berger started out as a pianist in the 1820s and composed his most famous work in 1834, ''Piano-Concerto Nr. 4'' (Wolf Castle). In 1836 he wrote the novel Wolf Castle, the story of a duke who transforms himself into a wolf and terrorizes his village.

Berger lived rather prosperously in Koningstad. He was married in 1827 to Barbara Walmer and had one son, but she died in 1832. In 1839 he remarried to Cristine van Holt. Berger died in 1848. Since then, he has become more famous for his writing than his music. Berger has been commemorated in a stamp in 1961.