Friedrich Fleischmann
Joseph and Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann ( born July 19, 1766 Marktheidenfeld, † November 30, 1798 in Meiningen, Germany ) was a German composer.
Life
Friedrich Fleischmann was born the 10th child of the local schoolmaster Johann Friedrich Michael Fleischmann and his wife Eva Maria in Marktheidenfeld. His father came as a composer in appearance and he promoted the musical inclinations of his son, so this was eight years as a piano player appeared in public and began to compose quite early. The forces acting within Marktheidenfeld composers and musicians, Fathers Francis Xavier Bitthäuser and Peter Dornbusch from the Augustinian Canons Triefenstein and Peregrin Pögl from the Benedictine Abbey Neustadt, were beside the father his first teacher, from the local school, he moved at the age of eleven years to the High School in Mannheim, where he was taught by Ignaz Holzbauer and Abbé Vogler. Since 1782, he studied at the University of Würzburg, where he in 1783 Dr. phil. doctorate and then studied law. In the short term it was 1786/87 princely Thurn and Taxis government of President Welden in Regensburg worked as private secretary and tutor at. During this time he was on many trips in Southern Germany go. 1787/88 he lived in Hopferstadt at Ochsenfurt, where his brother, the priest Boniface ( Thurecht ) Fleischmann served as pastor since 1786 and where his parents had moved in 1786. Recommended, not least through his musical work, he joined in 1789 as " Cabinets - Secretaire " in the service of Duke George I of Saxe- Meiningen. At the request of the Duke, he changed his first name to John in. As a civil servant he took as was customary at the religious affiliation of the Duke. In 1792 he married Johanna Christiane in Themar Louise Schultes ( 1771-1856 ), a daughter from the first marriage of Johann Adolf von Schultes ). The couple Fleischmann had four children, three daughters ( Fanni, and Carolina Wilhelmina) and a son ( William Thurecht.
Besides his work as Cabinet Secretary Friedrich Fleischmann worked in the royal court orchestra as a musician and as a composer and music theorist next. All too soon, he died on November 30, 1798 in Meiningen, at the age of 32 years.
Works
His compositions were mainly published in the music publishing André in Offenbach. About his compositions Fleischmann are even on 29 June 1796 in a letter to his publisher information:
" What I have written up on my 24tes age, everything was cashiered as useless and error- full of me. Now only caught my products to grammaticalisch to Being properly, and only now I took the courage to appear with them before the public. From this period on, I have several orchestral symphonies, Conzerte, sonatas and Parthia for wind instruments set that are only initially known to the local audience, even some operas by Mozart for Wind Instruments arranged in eight parts. "
In 1796 he wrote the musical comedy The Haunted Island. In research, it is now considered very likely that the lullaby "Sleep my little prince fall asleep ," which has been attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( KV 350 ) or the Berlin physician Bernhard Flies, actually Fleischmann comes ( studies of E. Goretzki ):
" Fleischmann set to music according to recent research, the first to the famous, originally attributed to Mozart, Lullaby ' Sleep, my little prince, fall asleep '. The first clock is identical to the Flies'schen version, the further course has similarities, so that you may view Fleischmann as the creator of the original version. "
List of Works
- Air Variations for Piano in B flat major, 1787
- Salve Regina, 1790
- Opus 1 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major, 1794
- Opus 2 Sonata for Piano Four Hands in G major, 1795
- Opus 3 Concerto for piano and orchestra (or organ) in D minor, 1796
- Opus 4 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Major, 1797 ( in celebration of Peace)
- Opus 5 Symphony in A major (published 1800)
- Opus 6 Symphony in D major (published 1807)
- Opus 7 Overture to "ghost island " (published 1807)
- Singspiel " Haunted Island ", 1798
- Partita No. 3 for Clarinet and Bassoon and 2 Horns in F major
- # 4 Quartet for clarinet and bassoon and 2 horns in B flat major
- # 5 Quartet for Clarinet and Bassoon and 2 Horns S Major
- # 6 Quartet for Clarinet and Bassoon and 2 Horns
- Parthia - Symphony in B flat major
Songs:
- Some songs written by the Princess of Neuwied melodies by Friedrich Fleischmann ( Maria, prompt, Emma of Hold Mountain, The Previous, In the grave silence, on the guitar, experiences ), published in 1798
- Lullaby from F.W. Gotter "Ester ", published in 1796 and 1800
Only after his death appeared in 1799, the music-theoretical treatise: How Being must procure a piece of music to be called good? - What is required for a perfect composer. In: General Musical newspaper. Nos. 14 and 15, 1799
Descendants
Friedrich Fleischmann had a son Thurecht W. Fleischmann ( 1794-1886 ). His son, Alexander Fleischmann (1826-1891) translated the novel " Looking Backward " by Edward Bellamy " A review from 2000 to 1887 ," Wiegand, Leipzig, 1890, the experienced seven editions within a year. Thurecht Fleischmann 1820 Antoinette married Sophie von Schultes ( 1798-1883 ), one daughter from the marriage of Johann Adolf von Schultes with Friederike von Imhoff, " the blonde " called ( 1768-1811 ). The latter is a cousin of Amalie von Imhoff.
B. A. Johanna Müller ( artist name: Müller- Coburg, 1860-1947 ), daughter of Alexander Fleischmann, was a writer, painter and translator; it has left many landscape paintings with motifs from Baltic Sea, Berlin and Coburg. She painted, inter alia, also in Ahrenshoop.
Swell
- Thurecht Fleischmann: Biography. Some particulars of the life of the deceased on the 30th November 1798 Cabinet - Sekretairs Friedrich Fleischmann, in Meiningen. In: General Musical newspaper. No. 27, 1799, Sp 421
- Genealogy of Elfriede Goretzki ( ), Bielefeld
- Collection Fleischmann in the city archives Marktheidenfeld documents the life and work of Friedrich Fleischmann; Documentation of Elfriede Goretzki
- Notes of the small list of works owned by Ernst Gaidzik, Bielefeld