Bendix Friedrich Zinck (organist)

Bendix Friedrich Zinck (born June 21, 1715 ; baptized June 24, 1715 in Schwabstedt , Duchy of Schleswig , † March 28, 1799 in Schleswig ) was a Schleswig-Holstein town musician, organist and composer.

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Bendix Friedrich Zinck came from a family of musicians living in Schleswig-Holstein. He was the son of the musician, organist and church clerk Ægidius Bendix Zinck (1680-1719) and his wife Christina. His uncle Heinrich Zinck worked as a garrison organist in Tönning and at the end of his life as an organist in Wilster . He had a brother named Joachim Heinrich Zinck, who worked as a businessman and musician in Plön .

Zinck initially worked as a lackey for the governor Margrave Friedrich Ernst von Brandenburg-Kulmbach at Gottorf Castle and was appointed town musician of Husum in 1742 . In 1746 he applied unsuccessfully for the vacant position of the council musician of Flensburg . From 1771 he worked as an organist in the Schleswig Cathedral . From 1772 to 1777 he also took over the post of town musician there on an interim basis.

During his time in Husum, Zinck made no significant musical appearances, also because he was only allowed to perform in the Vogtei Schwabstedt. As an organist in Schleswig, he was paid significantly better than other organists at 500 Marks per year and was able to develop musically. There he published flute duets and in 1785 a chorale book without naming his name, the concept of which he wrote down in 1775. He also owned an extensive collection of self-written music books, which included odes, piano and organ works. Some of these are kept in the Royal Library in Copenhagen ; 17 works were published in 2001 as the Husum organ book . In the field of organ compositions he was one of the well-known church musicians of the late 18th century.

In 1785 he published a melody book for the then new Cramer hymn book .

family

On April 6, 1742 Zinck married Margaretha Krüger (* March 9, 1719 - November 1, 1750), whose father Friedrich Krüger was a Flensburg town musician. On September 14, 1751, Zinck married Gertrud Krüger (born June 15, 1715 in Flensburg; † March 30, 1793). She was his first wife's sister.

Zinck's first marriage had three sons and three daughters, including the composer Bendix Friedrich Zinck and the musician Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck . The daughter Johanna Sophia Justina (born March 30, 1803) married Nicolaus Christian Bugislaus (1755–1837) on March 14, 1795 in his second marriage, who was the organist at Gottorf Castle and received 250 marks a year in Luebisch.

Works

• Short duets for all kinds of instruments, especially for two flute traverses, or small solos, with the accompanying figured bass, also for arbitrary instruments or as small piano pieces with an appendix by Bendix Friederich Zink, city musician in Husum. 1771

Digitized , Danish Royal Library

• Complete collection of the melodies for the chants of the new general Schleswig-Holstein hymnal. 1785
• Konrad Küster (ed.): The Husum organ book from 1758: Preludes, fugues and concerts for the organ with pedal; Collection Bendix Friedrich Zinck with works from the old country, the country Kehdingen and Schleswig-Holstein. Stuttgart: Carus 2001

literature

• Uwe Haensel: Zinck, Bendix Friedrich. in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pages 287-288.