Johann Gottlieb Naumann

Johann Gottlieb Naumann ( born April 17, 1741 bubble joke, † October 23, 1801 in Dresden ) was a German composer, conductor and conductor of classical music.

Life

Johann Gottlieb Naumann was the eldest son of the cottager and Landesaccise - Einnehmers Johann Georg Naumann and his wife Anna Rosina, nee Ebert. The musical basis was Johann Gottlieb Naumann by a teacher at the rural school in Loschwitz, who taught him piano and organ. At the age of 13 he took up a short apprenticeship as a locksmith after its termination, he became a student at one of the three Dresden Latin schools and was able to continue his musical education. Whether it has acted as the cross- school and whether Naumann enjoyed teaching at Gottfried August Homilius is uncertain. In 1757 the Swedish violinist Anders Wesström took him on a trip to Italy.

From 1759 to 1763 Naumann took lessons with Giuseppe Tartini in Padua, with Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, and with Johann Adolf Hasse in Venice. During this period he created his first compositions. For Carnival 1763, he brought his first opera Il tesoro insidiato at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice to the performance. In the same year he left Italy and returned to Dresden.

On August 1, In 1764 he was awarded on the recommendation of hatred and Giovanni Battista Ferrandinis a job as a " Kirchencompositeur " at the Dresden court. The following year he undertook along with his younger colleague Joseph Schuster and Franz Seydelmann a second trip to Italy to carry out further studies. In the spring of 1768, he wrote his first for Palermo Italian Easter oratorio La passione di Gesù Cristo and was admitted to the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna. In the same year he was called back to Dresden, as he. For the upcoming wedding of the young Elector Friedrich August III should compose the opera La Clemenza di Tito. Another trip took him from 1772 to 1774 over Munich again to Italy, where he wrote five operas for Venice and Padua. After success as an opera composer in Italy and the rejection of a call to Berlin in 1776 he became Kapellmeister in Dresden. In 1777, an invitation to the Swedish court of King Gustav III took place. , Where he worked on the plans for the Royal Swedish Opera, and the local court orchestra ( Kungliga Hovkapellet ) reformed. The resulting opera Gustav Vasa in 1786 was very successful in Sweden and was for decades as Swedish National Opera. In the same year received Naumann in Dresden a very favorable contract for life.

As a guest conductor and opera composer, he was also active in Copenhagen ( 1785-86 ) and Berlin ( 1788-89 ). After spending time in Berlin, he returned to Dresden. In 1792 he married Catherine of Grodtschilling, the daughter of a Danish vice-admiral. The marriage produced four children. At the same time he began, due to increasing deafness and other diseases, to retire from the operatic stage. He died in 1801.

Work

Johann Gottlieb Naumann was a prolific composer. The number of his compositions in the hundreds. He wrote primarily operas, oratorios, Latin and German sacred music, songs and chamber music. In life, highly valued, he fell after his death largely forgotten. Only in the 20th century witnessed a renaissance of his works.

Johann Gottlieb Naumann is one of the last representatives of the Italian opera in Germany. Naumann was in the period after Hasse, who worked at the court of Saxony until 1763, the most important musical personality of Dresden, where his Latin church music was performed until the 1930s into an unbroken tradition. In Sweden and Denmark, he is regarded as a reformer of the local music scene and there is much better known than in Germany.

Johann Gottlieb Naumann is the father of the mineralogist Carl Friedrich Naumann and the physician Moritz Naumann and the grandfather of the composer and music writer Emil Naumann.

In the following selection of his works give annual figures in parentheses to the year of completion; complete data, including location, the date of the premiere. A year number preceded by "ed " without the parentheses indicates the year of first publication.

Stage Works

  • Il tesoro insidiato, Intermezzo, 2 parts ( December 28, 1762, Venice)
  • Li creduti spiriti, dramma giocoso, 3 acts ( February 18, 1764, Venice)
  • L' Achille in Sciro, dramma per musica, Act 3 ( September 5, 1767, Palermo)
  • Alessandro nelle Indie, dramma per musica, 3 acts ( not listed; 1768 composed for Venice)
  • La Clemenza di Tito, dramma per musica, Act 3 (February 1, 1769, Dresden)
  • Il Vilano geloso, dramma giocoso, 3 acts ( November 20, 1770, Dresden)
  • Solimano, dramma per musica, Act 3 (Carnival 1773, Venice)
  • L' isola disabitata, azione per musica, 2 parts ( in February 1773, Venice)
  • Armida, dramma per musica, Act 3 (June 13, 1773 Padua )
  • La villanella incostante, dramma giocoso, 3 acts (Fall 1773, Venice) again shown as Le nozze disturbate ( November 16, 1774, Dresden)
  • With nachkomponiertem first act of Naumann ( February 1793, Berlin)

Vocal music

Latin Church Music

  • Measure: The traditional count of 21 settings of the Mass is concluded, according to recent research ( Bemmann 2008), a construct of the 19th century. Usually Naumann sat for the performances in the Dresden Hofkirche the five movements from his Ordinary of the Mass stock of individual measurement sets over and over again together. After Bemmann (2008) can, however, reconstruct Measure 8, which were always listed as closed cycles; It involves the following works (old numbering in brackets): Messe 1 (No. 1) in D minor ( 1767)
  • Fair 2 (No. 5) in F major (1774 )
  • Messe 3 (No. 14) A major ( 1782 )
  • Fair 4 (No. 16) in D minor (1786 )
  • Fair 5 (No. 17) A minor (1791 )
  • Fair 6 (No. 18) in D minor (1794 )
  • Fair 7 (No. 19) A flat major (1791 )
  • Fair 8 (No. 20) A major ( first version of the Kyrie, Gloria and Credo: 1774-79; final version as a cycle: 1798)

Italian oratorio

  • La passione di Gesù Cristo ( two settings: 1767 and 1787)
  • Isacco, figura del Redentore ( 1772)
  • Sant Elena al Calvario (1775 )
  • Il Giuseppe riconosciuto (1777 )
  • Il ritorno del figliolo prodigo ( 1785 )
  • La morte d' Abel (1790)
  • Davide in Terebinto (1794 )
  • I pellegrini al di Nostro Signore sepolcro (1798 )
  • La Bethulia Liberata (?)
  • Joseph de ses frères reconnu (? For Paris)

German church music

  • The 96th Psalm (1779 )
  • Time and Eternity (1783 )
  • Our brothers ( 1785 )
  • The 103rd Psalm (1790)
  • The ways of God (1794 )
  • The 111th Psalm (1796 )
  • " To earth convert Monde " with Our Father (1799? ), Ed 1823

Secular vocal music

  • Approx. 20 secular cantatas
  • Several duets, trios and canons
  • Frey Maurer songs with new melodies, ed 1775; Another Masonic songs
  • Collection of songs to sing at the piano, ed 1784; more songs collections similar content
  • Ariettas and canzonettas
  • The ideals of Schiller and Naumann not for many, ed 1797
  • Cantatina to the art of music, ed 1799

Instrumental Music (Selection)

  • Concerto for harpsichord / piano, two violins, two oboes, two horns, viola da gamba and bass, ed 1793
  • Quartets for harpsichord or piano with flute or violin, viola and bass
  • Trios for harpsichord or piano, violin and bass; for Two Violins and Viola; for two violins and cello; for two violins and bass
  • Duos for 2 Violins; for Violin and Harpsichord
  • Sonatinas for harpsichord with wind accompaniment
  • 2 collections of 6 Sonatas for glass harmonica, ed in 1785 and 1790
  • 6 Divertimenti for 2 Violins and Viola
  • 2 Trios for 2 Violins and Violoncello ( Autograph )
  • Some Sonatas and Sonatinas for Piano

Discount

The composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann's estate comprises approximately 500 catalog numbers with about 140 music autographs, manuscript copies and printing, and is kept in the Music Department of the SLUB Dresden.

Signature: Mus.3480 ...

Honors

Founded in 1995, Johann Gottlieb Naumann company has set itself the goal of developing the extensive heritage of Naumann and work up.

The place Blasewitz (1921 amalgamated with Dresden) has named (now between Schiller Square and Barteldesplatz; then also today Goetheallee comprehensively to the confluence Prellerstraße ) to him the Naumannstraße. At the site of his last residential house, on the current south-western forecourt of the shopping arcade near the Schiller Schiller gallery space, a memorial stele is erected. The 63 primary school in Dresden bubble joke wears Naumann's name and in the foyer has a devoted his plaque. Another plaque commemorates since 1902 (now copy) on the facade of the former Blasewitzer Town Hall at him. This was designed by Kurt thistle. In Seifersdorfer valley there is a monument in his honor with the inscription " The Singer of Tales - Naumann ".

Memorial pillar at the place of Naumann's former residence.

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