Ambrosius Kühnel

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Ambrosius Kühnel (* 1771 in Lobendau near Liegnitz , Silesia , † August 19, 1813 in Leipzig ) was a German organist and publisher .

Life

Kühnel was initially the organist of the Roman Catholic court orchestra in Leipzig. It was located on the Pleißenburg  , which had belonged to the Elector of Saxony (Catholic since 1697) - in the ground floor vaults of the tower house.

In 1800 he founded the Bureau de Musique publishing house with Franz Anton Hoffmeister . After Hoffmeister had left the publishing house at the beginning of 1805 in order to devote himself more to his compositional work, Kühnel continued to lead him on his own. Employees of the publishing house were Carl Friedrich Whistling and Friedrich Hofmeister , who later went into business for themselves. In addition, Kühnel employed a Viennese agent named Leopold Schweizer around 1808.

The publisher's focus was on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and the Viennese Classic, which comprised more than a quarter of the total production. To Ludwig van Beethoven Kühnel wrote on April 12, 1806 proud, "that I devoted by more elegance and accuracy than others."

The publication of Ernst Ludwig Gerber's 4-volume New Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler , the completion of which he did not live to see, is considered a special achievement . After returning from a spa stay in Karlsbad, he died “in the 43rd year of his active life” of a “ sticky river ”. The Leipzig music critic Friedrich Rochlitz wrote in his Nekrolog about Kühnel:

“He was a thorough musician, understood all the common instruments, and was an excellent quartet player, especially as a cellist. This knowledge and skills of his also had a beneficial influence on his publishing business. The originals he published were very seldom entirely without content, and often of great importance; what he followed up, almost always very well chosen: both but always outwardly beneficially equipped and excellently correct - as what he himself devoted the greatest diligence to. It is enough for him that he not infrequently took on the editing of extensive works that could bring significant advantages to art itself, but not to it - as he was well aware; such as B. the Samml. Sebast. Bach's works, Gerber's New Tonkünstlerlexikon a. like m. "

After his death, the widow Francisca Maria Theresia Dominica Kühnel b. Luschner continued the publishing house. In 1814 it was taken over by Carl Friedrich Peters .

Works

As a composer Kühnel only emerged with twelve organ trios.

literature

  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister resigns. Ambrosius Kühnel becomes the sole owner , business circular, Leipzig, January 2, 1805
  • Ernst Ludwig Gerber, New Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler , Volume 3 (K – R), Leipzig 1813, Sp. 141–143 ( digitized version )
  • General German Biography , Volume 17 (1883), p. 353 ( online )
  • The Forkel- Hoffmeister & Kühnel correspondence: A document of the early 19th century Bach revival. The letters of Johann Nicolaus Forkel to the Bureau de Musique of Hoffmeister & Kühnel (the predecessor of CF Peters) , transcribed by Joseph Braunstein, transl. and annot. by Arthur Mendel. The letters of the Bureau de Musique of Hoffmeister & Kühnel to Johann Nicolaus Forkel , transcribed and annotated. by Karen Lehmann, transl. by George B. Stauffer, New York, London, Frankfurt am Main: Peters, 1990; ISBN 0-938856-04-9
  • Axel Beer , Beethoven and the Leipzig Bureau de Musique by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel (1800 to 1803) , in: Festschrift Klaus Hortschansky for his 60th birthday , Tutzing: Schneider, 1995, pp. 339–350
  • Kurt Dorfmüller, Norbert Gertsch and Julia Ronge (eds.), Ludwig van Beethoven. Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné , 2 volumes, Munich 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , Volume 1, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996, pp. 282f.
  2. ↑ Ernst Ludwig Gerber, New Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler , Volume 4, Leipzig 1814, Sp. 807 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung , vol. 15 (1813), No. 35 of September 1, 1813, col. 584 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ record at the German National Library DNB 1107302846

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personal data
SURNAME Kühnel, Ambrosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobendau near Liegnitz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1813
Place of death Leipzig