Bodo Albrecht von Stockhausen

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Bodo Albrecht Freiherr von Stockhausen (born March 30, 1810 in Göttingen , † December 29, 1885 in Gmunden ) was a German diplomat and music lover.

Life

Stockhausen comes from the Lower Saxon noble family Stockhausen . He enjoyed a musical education and is said to have played the piano very well in particular. He completed his studies at the universities of Göttingen , Heidelberg and Bonn . He then entered the Hanoverian service and went to Berlin as legation secretary.

From 1835 he was named as attaché to the registry of JG Cleeve at the royal Hanoverian embassy to Paris , which was headed from 1835 to 1841 by Count Adolf von Kielmannsegg (1796–1866). On July 27, 1837, Stockhausen married Countess Clotilde Annette von Baudissin (1818-1891), one of 13 children of Christian Carl Graf von Baudissin (born March 4, 1790 at Gut Knoop ; † April 9, 1868 in Itzehoe ) and in Dresden his wife Henriette, née Kuniger, divorced von Gähler (born January 6, 1788 in Schleswig , † April 4, 1864 in Greifswald ) from the Knooper line of the Baudissin family . The couple had three children. In 1841, Count Kielmannsegg went to London as envoy, and Stockhausen took over his post in Paris, which he held until 1851.

Giacomo Meyerbeer and, above all, Frédéric Chopin , who dedicated his ballad in G minor op. 23 to him in 1836, were among Stockhausen's Parisian friends . Stockhausen also owned a “dedication copy” of the ballad, which was later owned by his son Ernst von Stockhausen (1838–1905), who worked in Vienna as a composer, music critic and music teacher. This emerges from his sister's letter to Johannes Brahms on December 3, 1877. Stockhausen's wife Clotilde dedicated the Barcarolle in F sharp major op.60 to Chopin in 1846 .

From 1852 to 1865 he served as the Hanoverian ambassador to Vienna , where he associated with Johannes Brahms and Joseph Joachim . From 1865 to 1866 he held the post of ambassador in Berlin .

When the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866, Stockhausen lost all his titles and offices. He then lived alternately in Florence , Paris and Dresden . He also spent a lot of time in Gmunden, where the former Hanoverian royal family, now the dukes of Cumberland, lived in exile. He died completely unexpectedly when he was paying homage to Queen Marie von Sachsen-Altenburg (1818–1907) in her villa. Pastor Josef Friedrich Koch's prayer for the dead under the decorated Christmas tree remained a lasting memory of the ducal family.

Stockhausen was buried on January 6, 1886 in Löwenhagen near Göttingen, the ancestral home of the Stockhausen family.

progeny

The Stockhausen couple had two daughters and a son, including the singer and patron Elisabeth von Herzogenberg .

Awards

literature

  • Antje Ruhbaum, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg. Salon - Patronage - Music Funding , Kenzingen 2009 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State and address calendar for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1836 , Hanover 1835, p. 54 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Date according to Eduard Maria Oettinger , Moniteur des dates , Volume 5, Dresden 1868, p. 91 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ For her see John Sayer: Rediscovery of a literary gem: Clotilde von Stockhausen's diary. In: Communications from the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 94 (2018), pp. 3-18 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Cf. Maurice JE Brown , Chopin: An Index of His Works in Chronological Order , 2nd, revised edition, London: Macmillan Press, 1972, p. 73: “Dedicated to M. le Baron de Stockhausen, Hanoverian Ambassador to France (father of Elisabet [sic] Herzogenberg, the friend of Brahms). "
  5. ↑ Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Elisabet [sic] von Herzogenberg , ed. by Max Kalbeck , Volume 1, Berlin 1908, p. 35 (digitized version )
  6. ↑ Das Vaterland, January 8, 1886, Tagesnachrichten p. 6, column 1 [1]
  7. ↑ Antje Ruhbaum, Elizabeth of Herzogenberg. Salon - Patronage - Music Funding , Kenzingen 2009, p. 225
  8. ↑ Order according to the Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover 1864, p. 20

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predecessor Office successor
Adolf von Kielmannsegg Hanoverian envoy to France
1841–1851 		Adolf Ludwig Karl von Platen-Hallermund
Adolf Ludwig Karl von Platen-Hallermund Hanoverian envoy to Austria
1852–1865 		Ernst Julius Georg von dem Knesebeck
Wilhelm von Reitzenstein Hanoverian envoy to Prussia
1865–1866 		-
personal data
SURNAME Stockhausen, Bodo Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and music lover
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1885
Place of death Gmunden