Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht

Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht ( baptized April 8, 1722 in Ulm, † August 11 1794 in Ansbach ) was a German composer, flutist, violinist and conductor.

Life

Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht - only his baptismal date is known - came from a family emerged from the several generations of musicians. His father Johann Kleinknecht (1676-1751) was since 1712 Vice - organist at the Minster and the brothers Johann Wolfgang ( 1715-1786 ) and Johann Stephan (* 1731) had, like Jacob Frederick himself, as a musician at the court of Bayreuth and Ansbach. A son Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, Christian Ludwig Kleinknecht, continued the tradition of musicians.

In 1737 he obtained a position as a court musician of the Chapel of the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt to (for which he temporarily converted to Catholicism ) in 1743 (now Protestant again) flutist of the Bayreuth court chapel, where already his brother Johann Wolfgang worked as concertmaster and was. In 1747 he moved to the violin. 1748 published his first compositions Jacob Frederick (6 flute sonatas ) in print, even if it was only mentioned in 1763 as " Hofcompositeur ". In 1764 he rose to become music director of the court orchestra. In 1769 he moved with the laying of the court orchestra to Ansbach, where he was born in 1794 as " Royal Prussian Kapellmeister " to the grave.

Work

Kleinknecht wrote mainly chamber music ( solo sonatas and trio sonatas ) and concertante works and several symphonies. Are known more than 100 chamber works. Stylistically, Kleinknecht music moves in the transition region between the Baroque and classical music.

Parts of the musical legacy of Kleinknecht, of which no more autograph is obtained must be considered as lost. Votes copies are, inter alia, to the Bavarian State Library, the Germanic National Museum, the Baden State Library, and the City Archives Bayreuth. In addition, there are original prints from some of the works from the 18th and early 19th century. Approx. 60 flute trios and sonatas found on prints of publishers in Paris, London and Nuremberg widespread. Sporadic reissues appeared only from the last third of the 20th century.