Aloys Fuchs

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Aloys Fuchs

Aloys Anton Fuchs (born June 22, 1799 in Raase , Moravian Silesia , † March 20, 1853 in Vienna ) was a Moravian-Austrian court war council official , court orchestra singer as well as music researcher and music collector.

Life

Fuchs was married to Antonia Huber (1812-1891). He left four sons to his widow: Ludwig (1836–1906), Johann Nepomuk (1838–1882), Josef (1843–1912) and Karl Leopold (1847–1874). The same source informs about two other children, a boy at the age of 5 years (+ January 1842) and a daughter (June 1842). - These are the pre-deceased son Rudolf Wolfgang Joseph Fuchs (1837–1842) and the pre-deceased daughter Josepha Leopoldine Fuchs (1841–1842). He received essential musical training until 1811 from his father Philipp Fuchs, teacher in Raase, (1765 in Braunsdorf / Silesia - 1825 Raase), then in the Minorite monastery in Opava . As he himself reports, in 1811 he participated in a performance of Beethoven's C major Mass op. 86, which Beethoven himself conducted.

Already in 1816 the age of 17 he went to the University of Vienna and studied to 1819 Philosophy , from 1819 to 1823 law . As a civil servant in the Court War Council, he was among other things an employee of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter . In 1835 Fuchs advanced to the position of " kk Hofkriegs-Concepts adjunct ".

In 1820 he began to build up his music library and was in close contact with other autograph collectors such as Franz Hauser , who came from Bohemia , Raphael Georg Kiesewetter or Georg Poelchau , as well as Carl Ferdinand Becker in Leipzig .

From 1829 Aloys Fuchs worked on the board and as a member of the library and archive committee of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and devoted himself more and more to his passion, music. In this way he came into contact with well-known personalities, such as Leopold von Sonnleithner , Franz Schubert's sponsor . In 1836 the Imperial Court Orchestra engaged him as a singer. He worked on the editorial staff of the Allgemeine Wiener Musikzeitung from August Schmidt (musician) from 1843 to 1848. He lived in Vienna 6, In the Laimgrube No. 184 until around 1845 and finally in Vienna 2, Obere Augartenstraße No. 170.

Fuchs' collection of music and autographs includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Händel , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Josef Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven and others, as well as catalogs of works. Among his contemporaries, he was considered the greatest expert in musical manuscripts. Certificates of authenticity from him for Mozart autographs are still relevant today. After Fuchs' death, a large part of his collection ended up in the Royal Library in Berlin in 1879 , while another part was acquired by the library of the Austrian Benedictine Abbey in Göttweig in 1853 . This brought not only the library and the handwritten estate of the Viennese music scholar Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773–1850), but also an extensive collection of valuable music prints and manuscripts from the 17th to 19th centuries to Göttweig . In addition to his passion for collecting, he wrote numerous works on music.

After his death, the collection was sold by his widow, as she could not provide for herself and her four teenage sons with her meager widower's pension.

Honorary memberships

1843 Honorary membership of the Dom-Musikverein and the Mozarteum in Salzburg (see Wiener Allgemeine Musikzeitung of February 23, 1843, page 96).

1844 Awarded the diploma of honorary membership of the Prague Society of Friends of Church Music (see Wiener Allgemeine Musikzeitung of March 9, 1844, page 120)

1845 Awarded the diploma as honorary member of the Accademia e Congregazione di Sta. Cecilia in Rome (see Wiener Allgemeine Musikzeitung of May 29, 1845, page 256).

1847 Awarded the diploma of a corresponding member of the Dutch Institute for the Promotion of Music in Rotterdam and an honorary member of the Carlsbad Musikverein (see Wiener Allgemeine Musikzeitung of March 2, 1847, page 108).

Works

• Alphabetical catalog of the portraits of sound artists in my collection . Handwritten catalog by Aloys Fuchs from 1837.
• Richard Schaal (Hrsg.): Thematic index of all compositions by Joseph Haydn: compiled by Alois Fuchs in 1839 . Verlag Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1968.

literature

• Raphael Georg Kiesewetter , autograph collection of the composers of older and more recent times of Mr. Aloys Fuchs in Vienna. In: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , vol. 34, no. 45 of November 7, 1832, pp. 743–747 ( digitized version )
• Eduard Hanslick , letters from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to Aloys Fuchs . In: Deutsche Rundschau , Volume 57 (1888), pp. 65–85 ( digitized version )
• Hans Schmid:  Fuchs, Aloys. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 677 ( digitized version ).
• Göttweig Abbey (Ed.): The library of Aloys Fuchs: Directory of the writings on music from the estate . Kassel-Basel 1962.
• Richard Schaal: Sources and research on the Viennese music collection of Aloys Fuchs . Ed .: Commission for Music Research. 251st Volume, First Treatise, No. 5 . Böhlau in commission, Graz 1966.
• Heribert Sturm: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-486-44661-4 .
• Richard Schaal: The Tonkunstler portraits from Aloys Fuchs' Viennese music collection . Heinrichshofen-Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1970, ISBN 978-3-7959-0017-5 .
• R. Schaal in MGG IV ( Music in Past and Present ), Sp 1074-76
• Richard Schaal, sources and research on the Viennese music collection by Aloys Fuchs (publications by the Commission for Music Research). Vienna 1966.
• Richard Schaal, sources for the Aloys Fuchs music collection, in Die Musikforschung 16/1 (1963), 67–72.
• Richard Schaal, On the Aloys Fuchs Music Collection, in Die Musikforschung 15/1 (1962), 49–52.
• Richard Schaal, the correspondent of the Viennese music researcher Aloys Fuchs. Evidence of the reservation of correspondence from the years 1820–1852 ", in Mozart Jahrbuch 1989/90, pp. 159–217.
• Torsten Fuchs: Moravian contemporaries of Franz Schubert in the Vienna area . Ed .: Sborník Prací Filozofické Fakulty Brněnské Univerzity Studia Minora Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis H 35. Regensburg 2000.
• Ingrid Fuchs: Aloys Fuchs (1799–1853): A Private Collector as a Public Institution . In: Colloque “Collectionner la musique: histoires d'une passion” . Royaumont 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-53629-3 .
• Till Reininghaus: The Viennese music collector Aloys Fuchs in a contemporary context . In: "Sacrae Musices Cultor et Propagator". International conference on the 150th anniversary of the death of the music collector, composer and arranger Fortunato Santini, conference report Münster 14. – 16. September 2011, ed. by Peter Schmitz and Andrea Ammendola . Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-89688-494-7 , pp. 105-135 .
• Till Reininghaus: Between Vienna and Berlin: The music collection of Aloys Fuchs and Georg Poelchau as reflected in their correspondence . In: Watermarks - Schreiber - Provenances. New methods of researching and developing cultural assets in the digital age: Between Scientific Special Discipline and Catalog Enrichment, ed. by Wolfgang Eckardt u. a. (= Journal for Libraries and Bibliography, special volumes, special volume 118) . Frankfurt a. M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-465-04257-0 , pp. 27-45 .
• Till Reininghaus: The Dommusikverein and Morzateum in Salzburg and the Mozart family The history of a musical institution in the years 1841 to 1860 against the background of Mozart's care and the Mozartiana collections, 2018 . ISBN 978-3-89948-315-4 . , Pp. 6–8, 79f., 183f., 167–169, chap. IV, VI-VII, 641-644, 657-672.
• Martina Rebmann, "... To have a spiritual conversation with you ..." The Viennese autograph collector Aloys Fuchs and the Berlin music collection in the 19th century. In: library magazine. Announcements from the state libraries in Berlin and Munich , 2/2016, pp. 26–32
• H. Federhofer, in Mozart Yearbook, 1950, p. 114
• Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel, Aloys Fuchs as a collector of Bach works, in the Bach yearbook, 1960
• Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel, Die Bibliothek des Aloys Fuchs, in: Wilfried Brennecke (Ed.) / Hans Haase (Ed.), Hans Albrecht in Memoriam. Commemorative publication with contributions from friends and students. Kassel – Basel 1962, 207–224.
• Friedrich [Wilhelm] Riedel, On the division of Aloys Fuchs' music collection, in Die Musikforschung 15/4 (1962), 374–379.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel, To the library of Aloys Fuchs. Additions and corrections, in Die Musikforschung 16/3 –Basel (1963), 270–275.
• G. Schilling, Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst III, 1836, p. 74 f.
• FS Gaßner, Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst, 1847, p. 311
• CV Wurzbach, Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire IV
• H. Mendel, Musikalisches Conversationslexikon IV, 1874, p. 75
• CF Pohl, in Crove
• Othmar Wessely , in The New Crove, Vol 9
• Andrea Harrandt, Art. "Fuchs Aloys Anton" in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, ( http://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_F/Fuchs_Aloys.xml ); with further references.

Web links

• Literature by Aloys Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Schaal: Sources and research on the Viennese music collection of Aloys Fuchs. Publications of the Commission for Music Research. Ed .: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. 251st Volume, First Treatise, No. 5 . Böhlau in commission, Graz 1966, p. 16 .
2. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 287f.
3. ↑ Torsten Fuchs: Moravian contemporaries of Franz Schubert in the Vienna environment . Sborník Prací Filozofické Fakulty Brněnské Univerzity Studia Minora Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis H 35, Regensburg 2000.
4. ↑ Allgemeine Musikalischer Anzeiger No. 7, February 14, 1839, page 52
5. ^ Otto Biba : Encounters with a contemporary . In: Journal of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna . February 2006 ( online ).
6. ^ Music department with Mendelssohn archive, bequests and collections. In: Berlin State Library. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010 ; Retrieved March 14, 2010 .  
7. ^ Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Göttweig Abbey. Retrieved June 7, 2014 .  
8. ↑ This manuscript is kept in the Prussian State Library in Berlin.