Joseph Abenheim

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Joseph Abenheim (born November 21, 1804 in Worms-Abenheim , † January 18, 1891 in Stuttgart ) was a composer, violinist and conductor. In the VIAF , 1807 is mentioned as the year of birth.

Life

Joseph Abenheim's parents were Heinrich Herz Abenheim and Theresa Teichel. He received his first piano and violin lessons in Worms with music director Christoph Winkelmeier (born January 3, 1787 in Weissenburg in Bavaria; † January 3, 1831 in Worms) and in Darmstadt with Louis Schlösser . In his early youth he played as a violinist in the orchestra of the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. The concertmaster there, Michael Frey, taught him the violin, composition and basso continuo. In 1825 he became a member of the royal court orchestra of Wilhelm I in Stuttgart. He received violin lessons from Franz Xaver Pecháček . From 1825 to 1832, seven appearances as a soloist at the subscription concerts in Stuttgart are documented. For the first time he performed on March 22, 1825 Adagio and Rondo by Pierre Crémont . On March 26, 1826, he and his teacher played a duet concertant composed by Pecháček himself. From 1827 to 1859, woodwind concerts and overtures from his pen were performed eight times in this context. Abenheim was used both at court and in the theater. In 1828 he traveled to Paris to study with Anton Reicha . To take lessons. Back in Stuttgart he often represented the concert masters Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner and Bernhard Molique . He directed so-called vaudeville performances, which were given by the royal family and the nobility, and was responsible for the music of the ballet performances. In 1854 he became the official court music director. In 1871 he was retired.

Abenheim taught violin, piano, figured bass and composition. Siegmund Lebert was one of his students .

On August 26, 1835, he married Isabella "Bela" Auerbacher (* July 21, 1810 in Nordstetten ; † June 14, 1860 in Stuttgart). They had a daughter Rosalie Abenheim (* December 5, 1835 in Stuttgart; † November 29, 1838) and a son Emil Abenheim (* 1839; † 1917)

Work (selection)

The following works are mentioned in the literature:

Works with opus number

Opus 2

  • Six songs with piano accompaniment op. 2. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig

Opus 3

Six songs with piano accompaniment op. 3. Mechetti, Vienna.

  • I Spring arbor : Incipit: The gentle air has awakened. Text: Ludwig Uhland .
  • II memory. Incipit: silent in the silence of the evening . Text: Theodor Körner .
  • III song: As from flower to flower . Text: Clodius
  • IV Swiss song : Incipit: Uf'm Bergli bin i g'saß.Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • V consolation in tears: Incipit: How come you are so sad . Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • VI Name, picture and song : Incipit: Three journeymen are pulling into the distance. Text: A.Grün dem / Miss Marie von Hügel / Court Lady to Her Majesty the Queen of Würtemberg / respectfully / dedicated. Vienna, Mechetti

Opus 5

Six songs with piano accompaniment op.5.

  • I bird my messenger. Incipit: Birds fly away, birds come back. Text by Johann Gabriel Seidl . (In: Album for Vocal. OCLC 887484665. )
  • II farewell . Incipit: I loved you, and oh, I have to renounce. Text: Ernst Schulze I
  • V The flowers. Lullaby . Incipit: I complain to you, you flowers
  • V song of consolation. Incipit: What are you grieving for? Text: August Mahlmann
  • VI Your picture Incipit: When I'm lying in the warehouse Text: Heinrich Heine OCLC 165529835 Göpel, Stuttgart

Opus 6

  • I heaven on earth. Incipit: Shines so gently from a clear source . Text: Friedrich Graf von Zeppelin
  • III Alone. Incipit: When everything was quiet at night. Text: Johann Gabriel Seid
  • IV love song. Incipit: The moon is beautiful, which waves lonely at night . Text: Feodor Löwe. OCLC 165529829
  • VI melancholy. Incipit: My lyre painfully plaintive Text: Elise Reinhart

Opus 8

  • Two Nocturnes, Op. 8; published in Stuttgart by Hallberger. I in G minor. II As

Opus 9

  • Theka's singing: from Schiller ’s Wallenstein , with free Italian reproduction of the text. Set to music / and sincerely dedicated to Fraulein Pauline Marx / by / Joseph Abenheim. op. 9 OCLC 920019908

Opus 10

  • Singing for the play Der liebe Zauber op. 10. published in Stuttgart by Kunz. I change of the moon commands the sea. for mezzo-soprano or baritone with piano or harp.

Opus 11

  • I someone asks me what is love. Text: Walther von der Vogelweide Dedicated to Fraulein Emily Milbourne on the patriotic play: Duke Ulrich von Adolf von Seubert
  • II Romance: For love, for honor. Romance from the patriotic play: "Duke Ulrich" by Adolf von Seubert. Dedicated to Miss Marie Pfeiffer. Text: Adolf von Seubert . Stuttgart, Göpel

Opus 72 (?!)

Opus number 72 only mentioned in Hofmann's musical monthly report, (assumption of printing error. Possibly op. 7 or op. 2)

Six Goethe songs for mezzo-soprano (or baritone) and pianoforte op. 72. Ebner , Stuttgart.

  • I near the beloved. Incipit: I think yours.
  • II First loss. Incipit: Oh, who brings the nice days.
  • III mignon. Incipit: Don't tell me to talk.
  • IV Hunter's Evening Song. Incipit: In the field I creep quietly and wildly.
  • V The Brittle. Incipit: On the purest spring morning.
  • VI Early spring. Incipit: Days of Bliss, are you coming so soon

Works without an opus number

Choral works

  • Eternal, God of the Worlds; Cantata for choir and orchestra. Text: Psalm 89, 9-10 in the translation by Moses Mendelssohn . The cantata was composed in the 1820s for the Protestant court services.
  • Song in the distance. for male choir. Incipit: Lonely, no, I'm not. Published in: Beethoven album: a memorial book of grateful love and admiration for the great dead. Published by Gustav Schilling. Stuttgart: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung, 1846 OCLC 16449312
  • Goodbye . Incipit: Whether we meet again . for male choir

Songs with orchestral accompaniment

  • Longing . Incipit: Do you know the pain of longing. Text: Theodor Körner . Composed in November 1924 for bass and orchestra

Songs with piano accompaniment

  • From that little village over there.
  • The German Rhine or the Rhine Song , for voice and piano, text: Nikolaus Becker . Stuttgart, Schmitz, 1840 OCLC 865108042
  • Ceremonial poem for King Wilhelm's anniversary, 1841
  • Der Württemberger und seine Treue , two songs with piano accompaniment; published in Stuttgart by Zumsteg
  • You are my everything Incipit: You well know that you are my everything. Text: Johann Georg Fischer
  • Greetings to the distance. For a mezzo-soprano or baritone part. Text: Carl Schönhardt. Stuttgart June 15, 1887
  • Into the distance for a singing voice with pianoforte. Text: Hermann Kletke . Artist. Inst., Karlsruhe. 1839. OCLC 165529826
  • Romance: for a voice with pianoforte. Artist. Inst., Karlsruhe. 1839. OCLC 165529833
  • Six songs for mezzo-soprano (or baritone) and pianoforte. Ebner, Stuttgart. I now at home with the woman again. II Fly up, fly up, Frau Schwalbe mine. III Blissfully quietly absorbed in yourself IV Morning greeting in winter: What wakes me from my slumber. V love song: O do not investigate grief. VI I am winter, I am night
  • Drinking song: Incipit: A sober man, a poor man. Stuttgart, Ebner
  • During the war. Incipit: You gently sleep the little ones. Text: Theodor Souchay . for mezzo-soprano or baritone. Mr Schütky on his name day today as a friendly reminder from the composer. Stuttgart 19 th March 1879.
  • Goodbye Incipit: Whether we will meet again no human eye. the master singer Mr. Joseph Schütky on his name day today as a friendly reminder from the composer. Stuttgart March 19, 1886. for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano
  •  Lullaby: Incipit: All quiet in sweet peace

Piano works

  • Album sheet . In: Das Pianoforte: Selected collection of older a. newer original compositions. Hallberger, Stuttgart OCLC 488187103
  • Barefoot while dancing Polka. Ebner, Stuttgart
  • Songs without words, published in Stuttgart by Hallberger.
  • Polonaise, published in Karlsruhe by Kreuzbauer
  • Quodlibet of popular operas & folk melodies: performed at a festival of the Stuttgart Riding Club; for pianoforte. OCLC 775100041

Music for the stage

  • Incidental music for Hariadan or The Siege of Reggio , heroic drama in three acts by Karl Courtin ; Overture, intermediate acts and the music belonging to the plot. Performed in Stuttgart June 24, 1842. Gollmick describes it as valuable in the Handlexikon der Tonkunst. VII March. IX Enter Acte
  • La fiole de Cagliostro. Vaudeville in one act. First performance November 18, 1841. Second performance: August 26, 1864 HB XVII 32
  • Educational Results or Good and Bad Tones. Comedy in 2 acts. Based on an operetta by Carl Blum's Decomberousse . The music by Joseph Abenheim belonging to the plot, first performed on August 16, 1843
  • Duke Ulrich; Historical play with singing in three sections and five acts based on Wilhelm Hauff's " Lichtenstein" by Adolf von Seubert. Overture and the music by Joseph Abenheim belonging to the plot. First performed January 12, 1849
  • Saul. Drama in five acts by Johann Georg Fischer . The choirs that appear are composed by Joseph Abenheim. First performed February 28, 1862.
  • The Anna-Lise. Play in five acts. The music by Joseph Abenheim connected to the plot. from June 26, 1869
  • King and pawn. Play in three acts. after Lope de Vega . German version by Friedrich Halm. Song with horn and harp accompaniment in Act II by Joseph Abenheim.
  • The love of Don Diaz Arias after Pedro Calderón de la Barca by Wolfgang Adolf Gerle. Overture, intermediate acts and the music belonging to the plot by Joseph Abenheim
  • Song of Desdemona in " Othello " by William Shakespeare . At the performances of the Stuttgart Hofbühne, this song was sung without accompaniment by non-musical actresses, hence the necessary simplicity of the singing voice
  • Ballet music
  • Overtures
  • Entr'actes
  • Father noster
Comédie-Vaudevilles (selection)

Abenheim was responsible for the music for the performance of the following pieces, both for the composition and for the performance itself. Members of the court performed them in the private theater of the King of Württemberg.

  • Music for Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Desaugiers' Le Diner de Madelon
  • Music to Laurencin's Ma Femme et mon parapluie. First performed January 10, 1869
  • Music to Eugene Scribes L'Auberge ou Les brigand sans le savoir . First performance on November 24, 1838
  • Music to Eugene Scribe's Le Mariage de Raison [The Marriage of Reason]
  • Music for Eugene Scribe's L'Oncle d'Amerique [The Uncle from America] First performance on April 15, 1841
  • Music for Eugene Scribes Une chaumière et son coeur First performance on May 25, 1841

Works for woodwind instruments and orchestra

On March 13, 1827, April 3, 1832 and December 25, 1833, a concertino for the oboe was performed at the subscription concerts in Stuttgart . On March 29, 1859 a concertino for oboe is performed again. In the program, the sentence names Adagio and Rondo are mentioned. The composer's name is always Abenheim . Joseph Abenheim was a well-known musician in Stuttgart at the time.

The Coburg Regional Library has two sheet music editions of works for oboe and orchestra. The composer's name is Abenheim. The first name Joseph was added on suspicion.

  • Introduction and Rondo for oboe and orchestra in F major OCLC 634988816
  • Concertino for oboe oboe and orchestra in F major OCLC 634011192
  • Concertino for flute and orchestra, performed at the subscription concerts in Stuttgart on March 18, 1828, with the note newly composed . Here, too, the composer's name is Abenheim. Performed again on December 6, 1831.

reception

Hector Berlioz writes about Joseph Abenheim: Abenheim was an excellent artist in every respect, from whom I heard a very well orchestrated cantata of melodically expressive style and pure harmony.

In the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung on April 2, 1851, a song without words by Abenheim was rated as undemanding, with a beautiful melody and easy to perform.

literature

  • Abenheim (Joseph): In : Jüdisches Athenaeum: Gallery of famous men of Jewish origin and belief, from the last half of the 18th to the end of the first half of the 19th century . Ver.-Comptoir, Grimma u. a., 1851
  • Abenheim, Joseph. In: Eduard Bernsdorf, Julius Schladebach. New Universal Lexicon of Music, Volume 1. R.Schaefer, 1856
  • Abenheim, Joseph. In: Karl Gollmick, Handlexikon der Musik. J. André, 1857
  • Abenheim, Jos .. In: Musical s Conversations-Lexikon, an Encyclopedia of All Musical Sciences: for Educated of All Classes . Volume 1 A - Biel; Heimann, 1870
  • Abenheim, Joseph. In: Oscar Paul: Handlexikon der Tonkunst. H. Schmidt, 1873
  • Abenheim, Joseph. In: François-Joseph Fétis, Arthur Pougin: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique par FJ Fétis: supplément et complémen. H. Fournier, 1860
  • Abenheim, Joseph. In: John Denison Champlin, William Foster Apthorp: Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians , Volume 1, 1st edition New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888
  • Dr. Adolph Kohaut: Joseph Abenheim . In: Famous Israelite Men and Women in Human Cultural History . Volume 1. 1901
  • William Milwitzky: Joseph Abenheim. In: Jewish Encyclopedia. 1906

Web links

grades

BSB Bavarian State Library

Internet Archive

MDZ Munich digitization center

Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Hohenlohe Central Archive, Neuenstein

Others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph, 1807-1891. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Josef M. Wagner: The Württemberg court orchestra in the 19th century: Investigations into employment practice . In: Studies in Musicology . tape 8 . Kovac, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8300-2192-6 .
  3. ↑ a b Documentation of the Jewish part of the Hoppenlau cemetery in Stuttgart. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ Carl Ferdinand Becker: The Tonkünstler of the nineteenth century: a calendar manual on art history . Kössling, 1849, p. 4 ( google.de ).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Abenheim, Jos. In: Hermann Mendel (ed.): Musical Conversations Lexicon: an encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences: for educated people of all classes. A - Biel . tape 1 . Heimberg, 1870 ( google.com ).
  6. ↑ a b c d Abenheim (Joseph) . In: Jewish Athenaeum: Gallery of Famous Men of Jewish Origin and Belief, from the last half of the 18th to the end of the first half of the 19th century . Grimma et al. a. 1851 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  7. ↑ a b c subscription concerts. (PDF) Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b c ABENHEIM, JOSEPH - JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  9. ^ The manuscripts of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-447-04241-3 .
  10. ↑ a b Heidy Zimmermann: Musikwelten - Lebenswelten: Jewish identity search in German music culture . In: Beatrix Borchard (Ed.): Jüdische Moderne . tape 9 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20254-5 , pp. 236 f .
  11. ↑ Isabella Bela Auerbacher Abenheim. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b Abenheim, Joseph . In: John Denison Champlin, William Foster Apthorp (Eds.): Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians . 1st edition. tape 1 . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, p. 1888 (English, imslp.info [PDF]).
  13. ↑ a b Dr. Adolph Kohut: Joseph Abenheim . In: Famous Israelite Men and Women in Human Cultural History . tape 1 , 1901 (Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind, Volume 1, Source: http://www.lexikus.de/bibliothek/beruehmte-maenner-und-frauen-israels ).
  14. ↑ a b Abenheim, Joseph . In: François-Joseph Fétis, Arthur Pougin (ed.): Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique par FJ Fétis: supplément et complément . H. Fournier, 1876 (French, google.de ).
  15. ^ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1833 (Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report).
  16. ^ Thomas Fricke: Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein - inventory La 170: music (addendum) - documents - selection. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Song of Consolation . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph: When I'm lying in the camp (1839) - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  22. ^ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . In: Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . September, October 1847. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1847 ( onb.ac.at ).
  23. ^ Susan Youens: Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder . Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-77862-6 , pp. 309 f . (English).
  24. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  25. ↑ MDZ reader | Band | Love song / Abenheim, Joseph. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  28. ^ Joseph Abenheim: Theklas Gesang . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  29. ^ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . In: Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . July 1843. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1843 ( onb.ac.at ).
  30. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Herzog Ulrich: InsertsInserts . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  32. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  33. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Herzog Ulrich: InsertsInserts . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  34. ^ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . December 1852. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1852 (Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report).
  35. ↑ a b Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . August 1878. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1878 ( onb.ac.at ).
  36. ↑ HB XVII 700 Joseph Abenheim (1804.1891): Ewiger, der Weltten Gott . In: Codices musici. 3. (HB XVII 481-946) . tape 6 , part 3. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-447-04757-9 .
  37. ↑ Daniel Jütte: How “Höfisch” was the bourgeoisisation of the German Jews? On the importance of court music and court theaters in German-Jewish history . In: History and Society . tape 36 , no. 1 . Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 2010, ISSN  0340-613X , p. 5-36 .
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  39. ↑ Abenheim, Joseph - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  40. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Goodbye . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  41. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Longing . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  42. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: From that little village over there . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  43. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: You are my everything . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  44. ^ Joseph Abenheim: Greetings in the distance . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  45. ↑ MDZ reader | Band | Into the distance / Abenheim, Joseph. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  46. ↑ MDZ reader | Band | Romance / Abenheim, Joseph. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  47. ^ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . March 1877. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1877 ( onb.ac.at ).
  48. ^ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report . June 1884. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1884 ( onb.ac.at ).
  49. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: During the war . Stuttgart ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  50. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Goodbye . Stuttgart ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  51. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Lullaby . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  52. ↑ http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-buch?apm=0&aid=1000001&bd=0001858&teil=0203&seite=00000168&zoom=1 . November 1858. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1858 ( onb.ac.at ).
  53. ↑ a b c d e f g Ingeborg Krekler: Catalog of handwritten theater books of the former Württembergischen court theater: . Ed .: Ingeborg Krekler. tape 1 . Otto Harrassowitz, 1979, ISBN 978-3-447-02018-3 .
  54. ↑ a b Joseph Abenheim: Music for the drama Hariadan . In: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.
  55. ^ A b Karl Gollmick: Abenheim, Joseph . In: Handlexikon der Tonkunst . J.André, 1857 ( google.de ).
  56. ↑ HB XVII 32 Joseph Abenheim (1804-1891): Music for Vaudevilles . In: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-447-04241-3 .
  57. ↑ Joseph Abenheim: Song of Desdemona . ( rism.info [accessed March 1, 2017]).
  58. ^ Codices musici. 3. (HB XVII 481-946), Volume 6, Part 3 . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-447-04757-9 .
  59. ↑ Society for Music History in Baden-Wuerttemberg (ed.): Music in Baden-Wuerttemberg, . tape 10 . Verlag JB Metzler, 2003, p. 61 .
  60. ↑ Pianoforte music . In: Gustav Bock (Ed.): Neue Berliner Musikzeitung . tape 5 , no. 14 . Ludwig, Berlin 1851, p. 105 .
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personal data
SURNAME Abenheim, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms-Abenheim
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1891
Place of death Stuttgart