August Gathy
François Servais Auguste Gathy (born May 14, 1800 in Liège , † April 8, 1858 in Paris ) was a Belgian music writer and translator.
Life
As a child, Gathy fell off a swing. As a result, he later suffered from a crooked spine and remained short in stature. The deformity also limited his career choice.
In 1821 Gathy went to Hamburg and became an accountant in the Hoffmann & Campe bookstore. He also associated with Julius Campe privately. In 1825 he got to know Heinrich Heine through him , whom he admired all his life.
From 1828 to 1830 he studied music with Friedrich Schneider in Dessau . He then lived again in Hamburg, where he published a magazine called Musikalisches Conversations-Blatt in 1835 . From 1841 he worked as a music teacher in Paris.
He wrote for numerous music magazines, in particular for Robert Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , with which he also conducted intensive correspondence from 1835 to 1853.
Works
- The irony of life, in casual notebooks by casual people. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1830
- Letters from Paris, written by a German eyewitness to his friend in Germany during the great people's week in July 1830. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1831
- Musical conversation sheet. Dedicated to music lovers and artists , Hamburg-Leipzig: Schuberth & Niemeyer 1835
- Cavalcada, a sketch from the life and doings of the Guerra art equestrian society. Edited by AG, co-author. the irony of life , Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1838
- Memories of the first North German Music Festival in Lübeck. Dedicated to the participating art lovers. Hamburg: Niemeyer 1840 ( digitized version )
- Musical conversation lexicon. Encyclopedia of the entire music science for artists, art lovers and the educated. Hamburg: Niemeyer 1835; 2nd edition 1840 ( digitized version )
- Musical walks through Germany. In letters from H. Berlioz. From the French by A. Gathy. Hamburg: Niemeyer 1844
- Gondolierlied , in: Beethoven album. A memorial book of grateful love and adoration for the great dead , ed. by Gustav Schilling , Stuttgart: Hallberger 1846, p. 294 ( digitized version )
literature
- Ludwig Bischoff , August Gathy (Nekrolog) , in: Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung. Vol. 6, No. 16 of April 17, 1858, pp. 125f. ( Digitized version )
- Stephen Heller , August Gathy , in: Signals for the musical world , vol. 6, no. 22 of April 29, 1858, pp. 198f. ( Digitized version )
- Denkstein für Gathy , in: Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung. Vol. 6, No. 18 from May 1, 1858, p. 144 ( digitized version )
- About Gathy's last days , in: Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung. Vol. 6, No. 20 of May 15, 1858, p. 157 ( digitized version )
- Hugo Riemanns Musik-Lexikon , 10th edition, edited by Alfred Einstein , Berlin 1922, p. 407f.
- Renate Federhofer-Königs , Der Davidsbündler August Gathy (1800–1858) , Tutzing 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ First names according to the birth certificate in Liège ( digitized version )
- ↑ Federhofer-Königs (2006), p. 140
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gathy, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gathy, Franz Servais August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian music writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1858 |
| Place of death | Paris |