Carl August Friedrich Westenholz

Carl August Friedrich Westenholz , also Karl August Friedrich Westenholz , Carl Westenholtz , also Westenholtz (* baptized June 20, 1736 in Lauenburg / Elbe ; † January 24, 1789 in Ludwigslust ) was a German singer ( tenor ), composer and court conductor .

Life

Carl August Friedrich Westenholz was a son of the organist Casimir Albrecht Heinrich Westenholz and a younger brother of Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Westenholz (1727–1796), from 1775 organist of the Jakobikirche (Lübeck) . He came to the court of Duke Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin as a pupil of Adolf Karl Kunzen ; from 1756 he was employed as a singer (tenor). In 1767 he became concertmaster and director of the court orchestra in Ludwigslust, and from 1770 he succeeded Johann Wilhelm Hertel as court conductor. As a composer he wrote sacred cantatas and oratorios , including the Christmas cantata The Shepherds at the Bethlehem Crib based on a libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler .

His first wife, Lucietta Affabili (1725–1776), whom he married in 1765, was an Italian soprano . In 1777 he married the singer Sophie Fritscher (1759-1838), who was also known as a pianist and composer of songs and piano pieces.

Of his children, Friedrich Carl (1756–1802), born out of wedlock, became a cellist and organist . The son Friedrich (1778–1840) became oboist at the Berlin court orchestra and composed concert symphonies , songs and piano music. The son Carl Ludwig Cornelius (1788-1854) became a violinist , pianist and composer.

Works

• The shepherds at the manger in Bethlehem. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch 1774 (composed 1765) ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11134959-6 , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )

literature

• Westenholz, Karl August Friedrich. In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 4th edition. Volume 7: Suvanny – Zysset. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 5026 (accessed online from De Gruyter ).

Web links

• Literature on Carl August Friedrich Westenholz in the state bibliography MV
• Literature by and about Carl August Friedrich Westenholz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Carl August Friedrich Westenholz  in the German Digital Library
• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Carl August Friedrich Westenholz list of works
• Westenholz, Karl August Friedrich at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ His place of death is not Schwerin, as it is sometimes called in the literature.
2. ↑ City Library (Lübeck) , Music A 8; after Wilhelm Stahl : Lübeck's music history . Volume II: Sacred Music . Bärenreiter, Kassel / Basel 1952, p. 103