ZELTER, CarlFriedrich, Director of the Berlin Singakademie, and founder of the Liedertafeln now so general throughout Germany, was born at Berlin, . His father, who was a mason, embodied in a series of maxims his lofty ideal of the mason's prerogatives. Carl's mother taught him pretty Bible sayings and severe modesty
; his father, more intent on building houses in Germany than castles in Spain, declared that handicraft ranks before everything; the handicraftsman is the true citizen;...