 He briefly studied orchestration with Mendelssohn to be properly trained as musician.He worked at the city theater in Gdansk as conductor and music teacher in the years 1835-37 and back in Berlin, he became one of the chief contributors to Schumann's paper, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Hamburger Correspondenten and the feature pages of the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung.In 1840 Friedrich lived in Königsberg, Prussia, and there held great performances of his own and others musicians' compositions.