Bernhard Hupfeld

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Bernhard Hupfeld , also Houpfeld and Huppfeld (born February 24, 1717 in Kassel , † January 22, 1796 in Marburg ) was a German composer and concertmaster .

Life

Bernhard Hupfeld was born in Kassel as the son of a court servant, most recently a court tailor, of Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel ; his father died when he was nine years old. After his mother had trained him to sing, Hupfeld was accepted into the Princely Court Chapel in Kassel as a "Kapellknabe" in 1729 after an examination by the court conductor Fortunato Chelleri . There he received four years of training as a violinist from the Swedish musician Johan Agrell , who was then the “court musician” of Prince Maximilian von Hessen-Kassel and later became “Director Chori Musici” of the Free and Imperial City of Nuremberg . From 1734 to 1736 Hupfeld was traveling with a Swedish count named Horn in Vienna with visits to Hungary. After returning to Kassel, he studied composition with Agrell.

He received his first significant job in 1737 as music director with the Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein in Berleburg . In 1740 he left Berleburg and became Kapellmeister with the Imperial Regiment Fürst Waldeck , where he conducted a "gang" of twelve Hautboists , for whom he also wrote compositions. He led a troop from Arolsen to the regiment in the Principality of Waldeck in Hungary, accompanied a released Turkish prisoner to Turkey and took part in eight military campaigns in Bohemia, Bavaria, Saxony, Brabant, Holland and the Rhine. After the end of the Austrian War of Succession in 1748, Hupfeld was retired from the Imperial Regiments in 1749 due to the dissolution of the music bands. With the consent of his prince, Hupfeld went to Italy to receive further training in violin playing and composition.

After his return to Arolsen in 1751, Hupfeld became director of the Princely Waldeck Chapel; In 1753 he moved to the court of Count zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg as concertmaster and music director. When his services there had to be cut in 1775, Hupfeld applied at the University of Marburg for the vacant position of "University Musicus", which he received on December 19; at the same time he retained the title of - now landgrave - concert master. One of his students at the university was Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth .

Marriage and offspring

Bernhard Hupfeld had been married since 1750. His wife Elisabeth was born Dausch (also: Dauschin) from Jungbunzlau in Bohemia. He had eleven children with her, ten of whom lived longer. The theologian and orientalist Hermann Hupfeld is a grandson.

Works

Few of Bernhard Hupfeld's compositional work as attested to have appeared in print, but numerous compositions have been handwritten in various archives.

The following have appeared in print:

  • Six aisés Solos pour le Violon & Basse continue. Op. 1. JJ Hummel, Amsterdam
  • Six aisés Trios pour deux Violons & Basse. Op. 2. JJ Hummel, Amsterdam
  • Six Sinfonies a 2 Violons, Taille & Basse, 2 Hautbois & 2 Cors ad libitum. Op. 3. JJ Hummel, Amsterdam
  • Concerto a Flauto conc. 2 violini, viola & basso, 2 corni. JJ Hummel, Amsterdam
  • Three piano sonatas in the oeuvres melées . Hafner, Nuremberg

literature

  • Magazine of music . Edited by Carl Friedrich Cramer. 1st year, 2nd half. Hamburg 1783, pp. 759-764.
  • Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Music. 3rd volume. Stuttgart 1840, p. 652.
  • Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis . Edit v. Franz Gundlach. Marburg 1927, p. 531.
  • Hans Engel: The music care of the Philipps University of Marburg since 1527. Marburg: Elwert 1957.
  • Johannes Beulertz: Music at the court of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , dissertation, University of Dortmund 2001.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ See, for example, the compilation in Renate Schusky: Die Fürstlich zu Bentheim-Tecklenburgische Bibliothek in Rheda . Heidelberg: Winter 1984 (Contributions to the History of Literature and Art of the 18th Century 9), p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Hupfeld, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houpfeld, Bernhard; Huppfeld, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1796
Place of death Marburg