Anton Bemetzrieder

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Antoine Bemetzrieder, as a copper engraving by Daniel Orme (1766 to around 1832) from 1796.

Anton Bemetzrieder also Antoine Bemetzrieder (born March 26, 1739 in Dauendorf , Alsace , † 1817 in London ) was a French music theorist , composer , music teacher and author .

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He received his first school and musical training in a Benedictine monastery, Ordre de Saint-Benoît . He studied in Strasbourg and received his doctorate in 1760 in philosophy and in 1762 in the jurisprudence . In 1766, Bemetzrieder moved to Paris and began studying music. Later he also gave music lessons.

He was hired by Denis Diderot in November 1769 to teach his daughter Marie-Angélique Diderot (1753 to 1824) the harpsichord. In addition, she found entry as one of three main characters in his musical textbook, the Leçons de Clavecin, et Principes d'Harmonie from 1771. His theory on harmony and basso continuo was based on considerations on acoustics and mathematics and on the work of Jean-Philippe Rameau .

His first book on harpsichord lessons and the principles of harmony was a great success. Diderot also met with Charles Burney and this probably also with Bemetzrieder, who wanted to use his work for his daughter's harpsichord lessons.

The examination of Diderot probably gave the educational work its interactive form. Bemetzrieder published other educational works until he retired from active musical life in London in 1781. His traces in England are lost in his last years.

Works

  • Leçons de clavecin et principes d′harmonie. Chez Bluet, Paris 1771. Avec une large collaboration de Denis Diderot ( digitized in the Google book search). Facsimile edition by Phénix éditions 2001, ISBN 2-7458-0856-7 .
  • New essai sur l'harmonie, suite du Traité de musique. Paris 1779 ( digitized in the Google book search). New edition: Kessinger Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-160-21448-3 .
  • Lettre (...) à M. le baron de S *** concernant les dièzes et les bémols. Paris 1773.
  • The art of modulating illustrated in one grand lesson and two preludes for the pianoforte, harpsichord or organ. T. Skillern, London 1796.
  • Humble petition of Sophia, Frances, & Louisa B *** to the Honorable Chiefs of the three musical armies who guard the vineyard in England with the answer. London 1786.
  • Précis d'une nouvelle méthode de musique. London 1782.
  • Opera 7ma (sic) being a specimen of composition useful to the performer and singer and very curious for a composer. 1790.
  • Twelve lessons for the piano forte. 1802.
  • The Abcd of music: a lesson for the organ, harpsichord or piano-forte. London 1787.

literature

  • Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars of the Christian era up to the middle of the 19th century. Volume 1. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1900, pp. 429-430 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • François-Joseph Fétis : Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Volume 1, 2nd edition. Didot, Paris 1860, pp. 330-332 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Athina Fytika: A Historical Overview of the Philosophy Behind Keyboard Fingering Instruction from the Sixteenth Century to the Presentmore. 2004, p. 36 ( online ).
  • C. Gessele: The institutionalization of music theory in France: 1764-1802. Princeton University, 1989, pp. 78-89 and 95-108.
  • Jean Gribenski: On the subject of the Leçons de clavecin (1771): Diderot et Bemetzrieder. In: Revue de musicologie. 1980 (Vol. LXVI), pp. 125-178.
  • Jean Gribenski:  Bemetzrieder, Anton. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 , Sp. 1042-1044 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Alexandre Jovicevich: A forgotten Text by Diderot: a review of the Traité de Musique by Antoine Bemetzrieder. In: French Review. 1927, vol. XLVI, pp. 271-277.
  • G. Poitry: Les Leçons de clavecin et principes d'harmonie: un ouvrage à plusieurs mains. In: Diderot, les beaux-arts et la musique. Aix-en-Provence, 1986, pp. 209-220.
  • C. Verba: Music and the French Enlightenment: Reconstruction of a dialogue 1750-1764. Oxford 1993, pp. 101-111 and 147-152.

Web links

Wikisource: Anton Bemetzrieder  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. after Cynthia M. Gessele, Jean Gribenski:  Bemetzrieder, Anton. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required) .: after 1808.
  2. ^ Hugo Riemann : Dictionary of music. Augener & Co., London undated [1896], p. 71 ( online ( Memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 36.12 MB)
  3. ^ Anton Bemetzrieder. Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  4. A. Jay, E. Jouy, Antoine-Vincent Arnault: Biographie nouvelle des contemporains, ou dictionnaire historique et raisonné de tous les hommes qui, depuis la Révolution française, ont acquis de la célébrité par leurs actions, leurs écrtis, leurs ereurs ou leurs crimes, soit en France, soit dans les pays étrangers. Volume 2: B – BEZ. Librairie historique, Paris 1821, p. 337.
  5. ^ Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746 to 1825). Women musicians of the eighteenth century. Deborah Hayes September 2010, online ( Memento from August 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Diderot, (Marie-) Angélique, married Vandeul. Sophie Drinker Institute, online ( Memento from February 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Leçons de Clavecin, et Principes d'Harmonie
  8. Philip Nicholas Furbank: Diderot. A critical biography. Secker & Warburg, London 1992, ISBN 0-436-16853-7 , p. 344.