A capable composer and violinist who entered the Prague Conservatory, under the patronage of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, at the age of ten. He graduated with honor and joined the theatre orchestra under the direction of Carl Maria von Weber. He left Prague in 1821 for a tour of his own compositions and performed in Germany, Switzerland, and Holland. He served as the conductor of the orchestra at Donaueschingen in 1822. After revolution destroyed the fabric of the city and burned the theatre to the ground (1848), and Kalliwoda unable to reestablish the orchestra, was offered jobs in Leipzig, Cologne, Mannheim and Dessau and later was made an honorary member of the music societies in Prague, Germany, Austria, Hollnad, Switzerland and Sweden. While in Donaueschingen he was able to perform some of his own works, including the opera "Prinzessin Christine von Wolfenburg," with the leading virtuosos of his time, such as Liszt, the Schumanns, Thalberg and Dreyshcok. Kalliwoda was a prolific composer and wrote a part of the established German repertoire (1825-50). His choral piece "Das Deutsche Lied" was regularly performed until the 1930s. His early contrapuntally sound overtures and symphonies gave way to routine sweetened lyricism with popular and fashionable appeal. ~ Keith Johnson, Rovi