Bernhard Anselm Weber

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 111.
personal data
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