Adam Moralt

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Johann Adam Carolus Moralt , occasionally also Muralt or Muralter , (* August 1748 in Mannheim ; † November 2, 1811 in Munich ) is the progenitor of the Munich artist family Moralt .

Life

Moralt was the son of court musician Adam Moralt and was baptized on August 3, 1748. After receiving his first artistic lessons from his father, he began his musical career at the Mannheim court , where over the years he was promoted to the position of electoral court calculator and so became his father's successor.

At the age of 22, Moralt married Maria Anna Cramer, a daughter of the flautist and court musician Johann Jacob Cramer, on January 9, 1770 . He had eight children with her, five of whom were born in Mannheim and Schwetzingen and the younger ones in Munich. Through this marriage, Moralt became related to the Cramer family of musicians in London .

When the Mannheim court orchestra moved to the court in Munich in 1778 with "... the better and more useful subjects ...", Moralt was also among the elect. However, his wife Maria Anna seems to have stayed in Mannheim for a few months, as she gave birth to a girl there in 1779. The housekeeping of the orchestra members changed between Mannheim and Schwetzingen, as the court orchestra had to play in Mannheim in winter and in Schwetzingen Castle in the summer months.

At the age of 51 Maria Anna Moralt died on October 1st, 1794, leaving seven boys and a daughter. The usual half year of mourning was not quite over when Moralt married for the second time and was married to Maria Walburga Sacherbacher, the daughter of a school teacher from Feldmoching, on February 15, 1795 in the Cathedral of Our Lady . He had asked the bourgeois master boxer Georg Gernet and the electoral court timpanist Joseph Kramer , the brother of his first wife, to be witnesses . With his former wife, Moralt had six children, one of whom died in childhood. When lists of houses were drawn up in Munich in 1811, it was noted that “has eleven children alive, seven of whom are still unsupervised” .

The Palatinate Court and State Calendar mentions the court orchestra member Adam Moralt, who performed his service together with the two members Johann Rebecke and Joachim Penkmayr , from 1789 only with Penkmayr alone. An excerpt from the staff list of the court servants shows that Moralt received an annual salary of 433 guilders and also had some other additional income. By electoral decree of 11 Hornung (February) 1779, he was given the delivery of the strings required for court music, for which he was awarded 200 guilders annually as a lump sum, payable in monthly installments. It was this delivery of strings that prompted him to apply to the electoral court music director, Count Clemens August von Törring-Seefeld .

The electoral court and national theater commissioner was evidently a sensible man and passed on Moralt's request to the elector with the recommendation to increase the compensation of the calculator for the supply of strings from 25 guilders per month to 50 guilders, since, as he writes, “dermalen where, due to known circumstances, nothing but singing and dancing games can be presented at the electoral court theater, the consumption of the strings is much higher than in normal times, and the price of the strings, which are only available in Italy, has also increased noticeably " . With which Commissar Joseph Maria Babo described the fact that he personally disliked the ballets that had to be given continuously for the French occupation. The elector, however, was thrifty and returned the request for an exact report, "by how much the string consumption had increased compared to other years, so that the same (moral) replacement of the strings that had to be delivered should be made" .

A note has been received from 1806 according to which the two Kalkanten received a new coat from the court music director every four years. Presumably these were royal blue uniform coats, just as the court musicians wore their uniforms on duty. It must have been nice and good coats, because the pair cost 87 guilders 36 kreuzers, a lot of money for the time. At this time, as the budget of the court music director shows, the salary of the Kalkanten was 480 guilders a year.

Adam Moralt died on November 2, 1811 at around 9 o'clock in the evening after suffering a stroke six months ago and after the efforts of Dr. Orff could no longer save him. Widow Maria Walburga survived Adam Moralt by almost 15 years. She died on January 19, 1826 and was buried on January 22nd.

family

Moralt and his wife Maria Anna Kramer had at least eight children:

His son-in-law was the opera singer Julius Pellegrini (1806–1858), his daughter-in-law Sophia Corri (1775–1847) and his grandson the violinist Alfred Pellegrini (1887–1962).

literature

  • Albert Aschl : Morality  : Life pictures of a family. - s. l. : Private doctor, 1960

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personal data
SURNAME Moralt, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moralt, Johann Adam Carolus (full name); Muralt; Muralter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1811
Place of death Munich