Adam Falckenhagen

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Adam Falckenhagen

Adam Falckenhagen (born April 26, 1697 Großdalzig near Leipzig ; † October 6, 1754 in Bayreuth ) was a German composer, lutenist and theorbist of the Baroque .

origin

The grandfather, Johannes Falckenhagen, was a pastor in Knauthain , about 10 kilometers south of Leipzig, where he was transferred from Krummhermersdorf in 1665 . The mother, Eva b. Sachs, was the daughter of the sexton from Delitzsch, Großdalzig community. Adam's father, Johann Christian Falckenhagen, was a teacher in Großdalzig. At the age of nine, a pastor in Knauthain, Gottlob Erlemann, took over his training in "Literis and Musici, especially on the piano and later on the lute". He was married to Christine Magdalena Falckenhagen and Adam Falckenhagen's uncle. In Knauthain Adam Falckenhagen made the acquaintance of the barely older Johann Christian Weyrauch (1694–1771), who later became a student of Johann Sebastian Bach . Tabulatures with Bach's lute works have been handed down from Weihrauch .

Employment relationships

In 1713 and 1715 Falckenhagen appeared in the Großdalziger church book as a godfather, the second time as "Music [us] and valet of the young gentleman von Dieskau", so that it can be assumed that this was his first employment relationship, which he was in Merseburg where the Dieskaus held high court posts. With the chamber lute player Johann Jakob Graf employed there, he could have perfected himself in playing the lute.

Adam Falckenhagen married the Weißenfels singer Johanna Ämilia (Emilia) Kegel, a daughter of the Reussgräflichen Gera court conductor Emanuel Kegel (the teacher of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel ). In 1724 a daughter was born to him in Gera (baptized on December 25, 1724), who was later married as Johanna Redlich to a Bayreuth court official. Both spouses were employed as court musicians in Weißenfels when a second daughter was born to them in 1726. In 1728 Adam Falckenhagen left his position at the Weißenfelder Hof for reasons unknown so far and moved to Weimar . He didn't stay there long either. In 1732 the couple was in the musical service in Bayreuth at the court of Georg Friedrich Karl . His daughter-in-law Wilhelmine , the sister of the then Crown Prince and later King of Prussia Friedrich II. , Was herself a lutenist who u. a. had received lessons from Sylvius Leopold Weiss . Presumably the bass coach she wanted to send to Dresden so that he could hear Sylvius Leopold Weiss play was Falckenhagen. In 1734 another musician from the Weimar court, the former concertmaster Johann Pfeiffer, was hired as Kapellmeister at the Bayreuth court.

The Principality of Bayreuth developed under the government of her husband, Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (from 1736), as a focal point for court music. Johann Pfeiffer had been Kapellmeister since 1734. Adam Falckenhagen was confirmed by the margrave as a "virtuosissimo on the lute in rank after the Kapellmeister".

Johanna Ämilia died on March 3, 1734. In 1740, Falckenhagen married the widow of a court official, Charlotte Eberhardine Hofmann, née Mayer. In 1742 the son Adam was born. The mother died at birth on May 17, 1742.

In 1738 the young Bernhard Joachim Hagen was handed over to Pfeiffer for training by the margravine. Although he was employed as a violinist, he later proved to be an excellent lute player. However, it cannot be proven whether he received lessons from Falckenhagen.

Falckenhagen presumably gave up his position as court musician in 1743, as he was last mentioned in the Hochfürstlich-Brandenburgisch-Culmbachischen address and writing calendar in the year 1744 (the calendar always refers to the year before).

On September 12, 1752, Falckenhagen's daughter Johanna married the court official Redlich. Adam Falckenhagen died on October 6, 1754 and was buried on October 9 in the St. Johannis cemetery in Bayreuth.

The first printed mention of Falckenhagen took place in 1732 in the musical lexicon of Johann Gottfried Walther . Falckenhagen's work is now part of the standard repertoire of lutenists and guitarists and is available on numerous recordings (LP / CD).

plant

In addition to solo works for the lute (sonatas, partitas, chorale works, fugues), chamber music is also known and partially preserved (trios for lute, harpsichord and bass, concertos for violin or oboe, lute and bass, concerts for string quartet and lute). The complete work was published by Joachim Domning at the Trekel music publisher as a facsimile in three volumes.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adam Falckenhagen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Court musicians directory Weissenfels. In: Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul, Janice B. Stockigt (Eds.): Music at German Courts, 1715-1760. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-84383-598-1 , p. 251 (Adam as lutenist), p. 254 (Johanna Ämilia as soprano).
  2. ↑ Music at German Courts, 1715-1760. 2011, p. 410 and 411.
personal data
SURNAME Falckenhagen, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkenhagen Adam; Falkenhagen, Adamo; Falckenhagen, Adamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Großdalzig near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1754
Place of death Bayreuth