August Christian Andreas Abel

August Christian Andreas Abel (born August 2, 1751 in Braunschweig , † August 3, 1834 in Ludwigslust ) was a German violinist and court musician.

Life

August Christian Andreas Abel came from a family of musicians and painters. He was a son of the concert master Leopold August Abel and his wife Benigna Charlotte, nee. Retzeln and nephew of the musician Carl Friedrich Abel and the painters Ernst August Abel and Ernst Heinrich Abel . His older brother was Wilhelm Anton Christian Abel (1749–1795).

Leopold August Abel : Ludwigslust Court Chapel (1770)

In 1769 he was accepted into the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel with his father and brother . In the same year the court orchestra moved to Ludwigslust . While the father was first violinist, the two brothers played second violin. Like other family members, he had a talent and education in painting. He made portraits of some court orchestra members and miniature portraits of the ducal family.

He had been married to Johanna Sophia Fridrica, born 19 years his junior, since 1793. Hein (t) z (1770-1824). In 1807 the couple had seven children. The couple's two sons, Friedrich Ludwig Abel and Johann Leopold Abel (1795–1871) received violin and piano lessons from their father from early childhood. He went with both of them on a financially unsuccessful concert tour through northern Germany. In 1821 he was retired.

literature

Clemens Meyer : History of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court orchestra . Verlag Ludwig Davids, Schwerin 1913 ( digitized version , HathiTrust ), esp.p. 135f

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 15 .

Web links

Literature about August Christian Andreas Abel in the state bibliography MV
August Christian Andreas Abel in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

^ Sterling E. Murray: The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister. The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti. (Eastman Studies in Music Series) Boydell & Brewer 2014. ISBN 978-1-58046-467-3 , pp. 169-171
^ Charles W. Hughes: Frederic L. Abel . In: American Hymns old and new . Columbia University Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-231-05148-4 , pp. 289 f . (English, archive.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Abel, August Christian Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist and court musician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 1834
Place of death	Ludwigslust

[1] Sterling E. Murray: The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister. The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti. (Eastman Studies in Music Series) Boydell & Brewer 2014. ISBN 978-1-58046-467-3 , pp. 169-171

[:2-2] Charles W. Hughes: Frederic L. Abel . In: American Hymns old and new . Columbia University Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-231-05148-4 , pp. 289 f . (English, archive.org ).