Joachim Nicolas Eggert
Joachim Nicolas Eggert ( born February 22, 1779 Gingst on Rügen, at that time belonging to Swedish Pomerania, † April 14, 1813 in Thomestorp, Östergötland, Sweden) was a Swedish composer and conductor.
Eggert's ancestors were 1773/1174 released under Johann Gottlieb Picht from serfdom; his parents were a shoemaker, Johann Hindrich Eggert and his wife Maria Barbara Schinkel. As early as 1791, he was awarded by the organist Johann Friedrich Dammas lessons in violin and the piano and the harp. In Stralsund he sat from 1794 to 1800 his training in violin and composition with Friedrich Gregor Kahlow continued. The joined in 1800-1802 studies of music theory with Charles Louis Maucourt, Ferdinand Fischer and Friedrich Gottlieb Fleischer in Braunschweig and Göttingen in 1802 by Johann Nikolaus Forkel.
In 1802 he received his first appointment as Kapellmeister at the court theater in Schwerin, in the same year he left the court and went for almost a year back to Gingst. Mid- 1803, he was a violinist member of the Royal Court Orchestra in Sweden. First commissions followed. In 1807 he was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music; on 14 May the same year he made his debut as a conductor in a concert of his own compositions. In the years 1808-1812 he served as Kapellmeister at the Royal Court Orchestra. He died in 1813 at the age of 34 years of tuberculosis.
His compositional work consists mainly of instrumental works such as operas, cantatas, musical dramas and symphonies. In addition, he composed numerous commissioned works for the orchestra of the Swedish court. He introduced elements of Viennese classicism in the musical culture of Sweden. During his tenure as Kapellmeister he first took on the works of Beethoven in the concert repertoire of a Swedish orchestra. He also came to prominence as conductor of the first performances of Haydn's " The Seasons" and Mozart's "Magic Flute" in Sweden a name.
Works (selection)
Operas
- Svante Sture och Marta Leijonhufvud
Symphonies
- Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
- Symphony No. 2 in C Major
- Symphony No. 3 in E flat major
- Symphony No. 4 " Skjöldebrand " in G Minor
- Symphony No. 5 D Minor ( Unfinished)