Barthold enemy

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Barthold Feind (* 1678 in Hamburg ; † October 14, 1721 ibid) was a German poet of opera texts , satires and literary feuds.

Life

Feind attended the Johanneum grammar school in Hamburg . From 1699 he studied law at the University of Wittenberg and wrote his first surviving occasional poems during this time , including one on Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch, who taught in Wittenberg .

Feind finished his studies in Halle in 1702 with the completion of a licentiate in law. When he returned to Hamburg, he and his legal colleague Christian Heinrich Postel soon found a connection to the opera on Gänsemarkt , the central location of the ongoing poetic debates. In 1705/1706 he shared the apartment with Christian Friedrich Hunold , the relationship soon turned into rivalry and enmity.

His political position in favor of Sweden in the Northern War (1700-1721) resulted in enemy 1717 a year captivity in Denmark. In 1719 he can be traced back to Hamburg, he died after an accident on the night of October 14th to 15th, 1721 in Hamburg.

His German poems and libretti for the Hamburg Opera became important in a self-confident, extensive edition of works from 1708, which also contains Feind's "Gedancken von der Opera", alongside Elmenhorst's Dramatologia, the most important contemporary text on the theory of baroque opera in German.

Works (selection)

  • The Confused House Jacob, Or The Face of the Punished Rebellion (Hamburg 1703).
  • Il genio d'Holsatia. Introduzione al fuoco arteficiale, rappresentato nel Teatro d'Amburgo (1706).
  • Masagniello furioso . Drama musicale, […] The Neapolitan Fishermen's Outrage, musical spectacle (1706). Music: Reinhard Keizer , reissued in 1709 and 1727.
  • The most serene Secretarius or Almira, Queen in Castile, in a singing game (Hamburg 1706). Music: Reinhard Keizer .
  • Bellerophon, or: The wagon star transformed into the Prussian crown in an operetta (Hamburg 1708). Music: Christoph Graupner .
  • German poems: consisting of musical shows, praise-congratulatory and moral poems, serious and jocular memorabilia and grave scripts, satyrs, cantatas and all kinds of genres, including a preface about the temperament and disposition of a poet and thoughts from the opera ... First Theil , ed. W. Gordon Marigold, Bern: Peter Lang 1989 (Ndr. D. Ed. Stade 1708).
  • The case of the great judge in Israel, Simson or: the cooled love revenge of Debora, musical mourning game (Hamburg: Spiering, 1709). Music: Christoph Graupner.
  • Desiderius, King of the Longobards, musical drama . (1709).
  • Julius Caesar, exalted by the fall of the great Pompey. In a singing game (Hamburg: Spiering, 1710). Music: Reinhard Keizer.
  • Antiochus and Stratonica : l'amore ammalato; the sick love; musical drama (Hamburg: Greflinger, 1711). Music: Christoph Graupner.
  • The incomparable Dutch poet Jacob Cats ... Meaningful works and poems, translated from Dutch . 4 parts (Hamburg: Thomas von Wierings Erben and Franckfurt and Leipzig: Zacharias Hertel, 1710-12).
  • Rinaldo , musical show play, at the great Hamburg Theater (Hamburg: Friderich Conrad Greflinger, 1715 and others). Music: Georg Friedrich Handel .
  • The Roman April Festival. Musical pleasure and tantz game, to general testimony of joy about the… Geburth Sr.… Majestaet Caroli VI. first drilled… Leopoldi I. (Hamburg: Greflinger, 1716). Music Reinhard Keizer.
  • The immortalized and triumphant Ertz-Hauß Austria, on the fee festival Caroli VI., Celebrated in a serenata (Hamburg: Friedrich-Conrad Greflinger, 1716). Music: Reinhard Keizer.

Literature (selection)

List of works and references

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Statements on this in Benjamin Wedel's biography Hunold (1731)
  2. ^ Reprinted in 1989
personal data
SURNAME Enemy, Barthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of opera texts and satires
DATE OF BIRTH 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1721
Place of death Hamburg