Johann Nepomuk Schelble

Johann Nepomuk Schelble ( born May 16, 1789 in Huefingen; † August 6, 1837 ) was a German conductor, singer and teacher.

Life

Schelble has been promoted music in his hometown during his high school years. He should have received in Darmstadt further musical training.

At age 19, he got a job as an opera singer in Stuttgart. He sang six years here until 1814, when tenor. By the way he taught from 1812 at the city's Royal Institute of Music. From 1813 he has sung and toured Austria and Prussia; he had a long involvement in Vienna, Bratislava and Berlin. Here he began composing and arranging smaller plants.

1816 appointed one Schelble as a conductor at the Academy of Music in Frankfurt am Main; Here he was also a member of a Masonic Lodge. In 1819 he resigned almost all the offices and was then only for the choir, which he had previously founded a year worked. This was of Schelble 1821 in " Cäcilienverein " (now St. Cecilia Choir) renamed. Since that time, he created almost exclusively compositions, which were geared to his choir. The premiere they came by Schelbles choir.

For several years now, the library of the Society of St Cecilia permanent loan in the music and theater department of the University Library in Frankfurt am Main. It is run there and interested parties can use this also.

With the quote " ... He saw the composing of the formation of his own musical sensibility and taste ... " characterizes Franz Xaver Gleichauf his teacher Schelble very apt. According to Carl Friedrich Zelter and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Schelble was also instrumental to the re- discoverers and promoters of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and was a pioneer in the creation of the Bach Society.

At the age of 48 years Johann Nepomuk Schelble died on August 6, 1837 in his hometown of Huefingen at Donaueschingen.

Works

  • " Eternal Rest " prayer for the dead. - Bonn, Simrock 1823.
  • Count Adalbert, opera
  • German trade fair
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