Carl Amenda
Carl Friedrich Amenda (also Karl Ferdinand Amenda ) (born October 4, 1771 in Lipaiķi , German: Lippaiken , Kurland ; † March 8, 1836 in Talsi , German: Talsen ) was a German-Baltic theologian and violinist and one of the most important and well-known Friends of Ludwig van Beethoven .
Life
Amenda attended high school in Jelgava (German: Mitau ) and studied theology at the University of Jena from 1792 to 1795 . He then traveled as a musician and gave concerts in Lausanne , Frankfurt am Main and Konstanz . In spring 1798 he arrived in Vienna , where he stayed until July / August 1799. There he worked as a reader for Prince Joseph Lobkowitz and as a teacher for the children of Constanze Mozart , where he met Beethoven. Then he returned to his homeland via Riga . From 1800 to 1801 he was court master in Wirben and married the Swiss Jeanette Benoit in the summer of 1802. From 1802 he was pastor in Talsi, from 1821 provost of the diocese of Kandau and in 1830 was appointed consistorial councilor.
His grave is located 3 km southeast of Talsi on a high hill and is one of the sights of the small town.
Since 2005 the "Amenda Music Festival" has taken place in Talsi every year.
Friendship with Beethoven
Amenda became one of Beethoven's closest friends during his stay in Vienna, and on June 25, 1799 he dedicated the early version of his string quartet in F major op. 18 No. 1 to him. The title page of the part for the first violin bears the inscription:
“Dear Amenda! take this quartet as a small memorial of our friendship, as often as you play it to yourself, remember the days we lived through and at the same time how deeply good you were and always will be your true and warm friend Ludwig van Beethoven. "
Both of them stayed in touch later and wrote numerous letters to each other. In his letter of July 1, 1801, Beethoven was the first to confess to Amenda that he was beginning to become deaf. Amenda described his friendship with Beethoven on January 15, 1806 in a letter to their mutual friend Andreas Streicher with the words: "I would have liked to dedicate my whole life to this person".
literature
- WS: Carl Amenda . In: The domestic. A weekly for Liv, Esthian and Curland history, geography, statistics and literature , vol. 1, no. 21 of May 20, 1836, columns 355–358.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Correspondence , Volume 1, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996.
- Juris Jansons: Kā rodas Oda priekam: Bēthovens un kurznieks Amenda . Likteņstāsti, Riga 2008, ISBN 978-9984-819-05-1 (translation of the Latvian title: How the Ode to Joy came about. Beethoven and the Kurlander Amenda ).
- Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 6-11.
Web links
- Portrait of Amendas
- Website of Talsen (Talsi) with the Amendas grave (German)
- Baltic Biographical Lexicon , Volume 1, p. 11 ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Short biography on the website of the German Cultural Association Ventspils
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl Amenda. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandenburg (1996), Volume 1, p. 48
- ↑ Brandenburg (1996), Volume 1, pp. 84-86
- ↑ Kopitz / Cadenbach (2009), p. 7f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amenda, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amenda, Carl Friedrich; Amenda, Karl; Amenda, Karl Friedrich; Amenda, C .; Amenda K .; Amenda Karl F .; Amenda Carl F .; Amenda Carl Ferdinand; Amenda Karl Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic theologian and violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lipaiķi , Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1836 |
| Place of death | Talsi |