Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt

After the German Campaign of 1813, Opelt became employed in the Municipality of Dresden as a tax auditor, and a few years later he was appointed as tax collector in Radeberg. In 1824 he became the county tax collector for Wurzen, and eight years later he was appointed as county tax collector to Plauen. The peak of Opelt's tax-auditing career was in 1839, during which he became a high-ranking member of the county council in Dresden.

In 1847, Opelt became the Second Director of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company in Leipzig. The following year, he became a privy financial adviser to the royal treasury in Dresden. In the spring of 1863, he resigned from all his posts and retired into private life.

Opelt died at the age of 69 years on September 22, 1863 in Dresden.

As an author:

• Über die Natur der Musik. Plauen 1834.
• Allgemeine Theorie der Musik auf dem Rhythmus der Klangwellenpulse und durch neue Versinnlichungsmittel erläutert. Leipzig 1852.

As a translator:

• Louis-Benjamin Francoeur: Elementar-Lehrbuch der Mechanik. Arnold, Dresden 1825.

• François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciennes, Band 6. Paris 1864, p. 371.