Anton Joseph Hampel

Anton Joseph Hampel (* around 1710 in Prague ; † March 30, 1771 Dresden ) was a German horn player and composer .

Life

Anton Joseph Hampel came from Bohemia. His name is also mentioned in the sources as Hampl, Hampla and Humple. The information about the year of his birth fluctuates between 1700 and 1711. In 1737 he was employed as 2nd horn player in the court orchestra in Dresden (today the Saxon State Orchestra ). From 1757 to 1766 he played 1st horn and then moved back to 2nd position.

Hampel was, among other things, the teacher of Giovanni Punto . His horn school and his technique of plugging and muffling notes on the horn decisively shaped the playing technique of his time. He worked together with the Dresden instrument maker Johann Werner and according to his idea Werner is said to have inserted an invention train into the valveless natural horn for the first time (see French horn ). Few of Hampel's compositions have survived. Concerts for horn, études and chamber music with horn have been handed down. His horn school was revised and expanded a few years later by Giovanni Punto. His brother Johann Adam Hampel also played as a violist in the Dresden court orchestra from 1737. A Johann Michael Hampel (1732–1793), apparently Hampel's son, was named as a horn player in Dresden from 1769 to May 1793 (first as 3rd horn, from 1772 as 2nd horn).

Works (selection)

• Anton Joseph Hampel: Trios for 3 horns, ed. by Robert Ostermeyer
• Anton Joseph Hampel: Concerto in D major for horn, 2 violins, viola & basso

literature

• Robert Eitner :  Hampel, Anton Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 494 f.
• Hans Kunitz: The horn. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1956.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia .
• Andreas Schreiber: From the electoral cantorey to the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden. 2003.

Web links

• Works by Anton Joseph Hampel in the catalog of the German National Library