Christoph Nichelmann
Christoph Nichelmann ( born August 13, 1717 Treuenbrietzen; † July 20, 1762 in Berlin) was a German composer.
Life
On the advice of a relative Nichelmann entered 1730 in the St. Thomas School at Leipzig, where he learned to play the piano and composition with Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Because of his interest in opera in 1733 he went to Hamburg to meet there the theatrical music, as well as the French and Italian styles. Nichelmann was a student of Reinhard Keiser, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Mattheson. At times, he worked as a private secretary for musicians and noble families.
1739 moved Nichelmann to Berlin, where he continued his studies with Johann Joachim Quantz and Carl Heinrich Graun. In 1742, he initially decided to travel to England and France, but then went to Hamburg two years later. A service of Frederick II brought him back to Berlin, where he became in 1744 the second harpsichord at the Royal Chapel and had to accompany the king in the flute. He retained this position until 1756th From then on he had miserably private tutoring feed. Nichelmann last year were hampered by the Seven Years' War.
Work
Nichelmann traditional compositions fall within the period of 1737-1759, thus changing into a period of musical styles. Best known are his three-movement ( fast-slow - fast), polyphonic held piano concerts. He also wrote 18 concertos, an overture, three symphonies, choral works and other piano pieces. The 22 songs are early examples of the Berlin school songs. Il sogno di Scipione Nichelmann Serenade gained a certain reputation in the 18th century.
Nichelmann highly regarded treatise on the melody, by its very nature both as according to their properties (1755 ) was a theorist under the pseudonym Caspar conceit enemy (possibly Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) criticized.