Bernhard Anselm Weber
Bernhard Anselm Weber (born April 17 or 18, 1764 in Mannheim ; † March 23, 1821 in Berlin ) was a German composer and music director .
Life
Weber studied in Munich with Georg Joseph Vogler and received his first position as theater music director in Hanover in 1787 with Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann's troupe . In 1792 he went to Berlin, where he worked until his death. On the royal theaters there - both the opera house and the national theater - he was first known for his productions of Gluck's operas , but then also for his own stage works, including numerous operas and plays, such as the world premiere of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell . He also composed melodramas on behalf of and for August Wilhelm Iffland .
Bernhard Anselm Weber died in Berlin in 1821 at the age of almost 57. He was buried in the Catholic St. Hedwig cemetery on Chausseestrasse . The tomb was lost when the cemetery was leveled in 1902 at the latest.
Works (premiered in Berlin unless otherwise noted)
Scenic vocal works (selection)
- Epilogue to the celebration of the birthday of the King of Great Britain (June 4, 1790 Hanover)
- The Sacrifice of Loyalty ( Karl Alexander Herklots ), musical drama (November 9, 1793)
- Parental Joy (Karl Alexander Herklots), allegorical prelude (December 24, 1793)
- The Peace Celebration (Karl Alexander Herklots), lyrical prelude (May 10, 1795)
- The theater principal (Karl Alexander Herklots), lyrical farce (April 15, 1796)
- Mudarra (Karl Alexander Herklots), heroic Singspiel (March 10, 1800)
- Hero (Karl Alexander Herklots), lyrical monodrama (4th August 1800 Breslau )
- The Celebration of the Century ( Johann Gottlieb Rhode ), Prelude (January 1, 1801)
- Sulmalle (Karl Alexander Herklots), lyrical duodrama (January 1, 1802)
- The bet (after M. Guillet), Singspiel (January 21, 1805)
- The Cossack and the Volunteer ( August von Kotzebue ), Liederspiel (November 27, 1813)
- Prologue for the arrival of Her Majesty Elisabeth Alexiewna Empress of all Reussen (January 23, 1814)
- The Hundred Year Oaks or The Year 1814 (Kotzebue), Prelude (October 1, 1814)
- Awakening of Epimenides ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), Festival (March 30, 1815)
- Ifflands Monument (Karl Alexander Herklots), Prelude (April 20, 1815)
- Des Epimenides judgment ( Karl von Levetzow ), Festival (July 16, 1815)
- Sappho ( Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz ), monodrama (April 3, 1816)
Ballet music
- Arlequin under the protection of sorcery ( Étienne Lauchery ), ballet (January 19, 1807)
- Arlequin's Birth (Etienne Lauchery), pantomime (August 12, 1808)
- The Return of the Father, pantomime prologue (December 23, 1809)
Drama music
- Ignez de Castro ( Count Julius von Soden ), Tragedy (May 27, 1789 Hanover)
- Johann von Schwaben ( August Gottlieb Meißner ), Tragedy (October 1, 1789 Hanover)
- Menöceus or The Rescue of Thebe ( Friedrich Bouterweck ), tragedy (December 23, 1789 Hanover)
- The Hermit on Formentera (Kotzebue), play (January 15, 1790 Hanover)
- Ataliba, the father of his people (Kotzebue), tragedy (September 25, 1794 Hanover)
- Lanassa ( Karl Martin Plümicke ), Tragedy (April 4, 1797)
- Wallenstein's Death ( Friedrich Schiller ), Tragedy (May 17, 1799)
- The Maid of Orleans (Schiller), romantic tragedy (November 23, 1801)
- Wilhelm Tell (Schiller) , Play (July 4, 1804)
- The Consecration of Power ( Zacharias Werner ), Knight Play (June 11, 1806)
- The Sons of Thales (Zacharias Werner), Order Painting (March 10, 1807)
- The Greek (Christian Friedrich Voss), Comedy (May 4, 1807)
- Deodata (Kotzebue), Heroic Play (March 10, 1810)
- The Hussites before Naumburg (Kotzebue), Patriotic Drama (November 15, 1811)
- The Flower on the Ganges (Christian Friedrich Voss), romantic comedy (August 26, 1812)
- Farewell to Home or The Heroes' Graves at Großbeeren (Karl von Levetzow), play with singing (23 August 1815)
- Hermann and Thusnelda (Kotzebue), Play (March 29, 1819)
Numerous other instrumental and vocal works, including the orchestral-accompanied Schiller melodrama Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer for Iffland , which was arranged by Carl Loewe in a fully composed version with piano accompaniment in 1829 .
literature
- Hans Fischer: Bernhard Anselm Weber (1764-1821) . Diss. Mach. Berlin 1923.
- Karim Hassan: Bernhard Anselm Weber (1764-1821). A musician for the theater . European University Theses, Series 36: Musicology Volume 172, Frankfurt / M. 1997.
- Robert Eitner : Weber, Bernhard Anselm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 285 f.
- Till Gerrit Waidelich: BA Weber's melodrama “Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer” and its compositional appropriation by Carl Loewe in contemporary reception . In: Michael Kube, Werner Aderhold, Walburga Litschauer (Ed.): Schubert and the Biedermeier. Contributions to the music of the early 19th century. Festschrift for Walther Dürr 's 70th birthday . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1523-9 , pp. 185–207.
Documents
Letters from Bernhard Anselm Weber are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .
Web links
- Works by and about Bernhard Anselm Weber in the German Digital Library
- Edited letters from and to Bernhard Anselm Weber in the web service correspSearch of the BBAW
- Letters from and to Bernhard Anselm Weber in August Wilhelm Iffland's dramaturgical and administrative archive. Digital edition
- Opera works and manuscripts by Bernhard Anselm Weber in the DFG opera project
- List of stage works by Bernhard Anselm Weber based on the MGG at Operone
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 111.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weber, Bernhard Anselm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and music director |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1764 or April 18, 1764 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1821 |
Place of death | Berlin |