Albert Jacob Steinfeldt

Albert Jacob Steinfeldt (first name also: Jakob , last name also: Steinfeld ; * June 4, 1741 in Hamburg ; † July 16, 1815 in Bergedorf ) was a German pianist , organist and composer .

Catherine's Church in Arkhangelsk

Organist House ( Hasse House ) in Bergedorf

Life

Albert Jacob Steinfeldt worked from 1765 to 1768 as organist at the Lutheran Katharinenkirche in Archangelsk , after a year in Saint Petersburg he returned to Hamburg in 1770. There he was elected organist at the Church of St. Petri and Pauli in Bergedorf in 1776 as the successor to the late Johann Peter Hasse, the younger brother of Johann Adolph Hasse . His son Jacob Steinfeldt (also a musician) was together with Friedrich Wilhelm Grund founder of the Hamburger Singakademie .

The organist at the Hamburg Cathedral and the main church Sankt Katharinen , Amandus Eberhard Rodatz , is one of Steinfeldt's students.

Works

Only a few of Steinfeldt's 50 or so compositions have been published. The following are handed down:

• Six Flute Sonatas with Continuo, Op. 1. 1784
• Six flute solos, op.10.1784
• Three sonatinas for the piano. Lübeck 1788
• Three sonatas for the piano. Lübeck 1788
• Collection of moral odes and songs to sing with the piano. 1788
• A little song of love by the worthy bride and groom Mr. Behls and Demoiselle Illert, sung to the tune on their wedding anniversary: ​​Let us wind wreaths, set to music by Mr. Steinfeld. Hamburg, June 5, 1794
• Duos for flutes, op.4. Hamburg 1797
• Six rondos faciles p. le Clav., op.5. Hamburg 1797
• Twelve songs with andante and variations á quatre mains. Hamburg 1797
• Six Quartets for two clarinets and two horns, op. 20, 1802

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• August Gathy: Musical Conversations Lexicon: Encyclopedia of the entire music science for artists, art lovers and the educated . Niemeyer, 1840, p. 442 ( online ).
• Ernst Ludwig Gerber: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkunstler, which provides news of the life and works of musical writers, famous composers, singers, masters of instruments, artful amateurs, music publishers, also organ and instrument makers, older and more recent times, from all Nations contains . tape 4 (S - Z). Leipzig 1814, p. 265 ( online ).
• Tom Moore: The Flute Sonatas of Albert Jacob Steinfeld. Retrieved February 8, 2016 . 
• List of printed music from the Noer Collection (1701 - 1830). Music collection of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library, accessed on October 30, 2012 . 
• 6 Solos for Flöyten af ​​Steinfeldt. Europeana, accessed October 30, 2012 .