Carl Ernst Bagge from Boo

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Carl Ernst Bagge from Boo

Carl Ernst Bagge von Boo , better known by his French name Charles Ernest baron de Bagge (born February 4, 1722 in Fockenhof , Courland ; † March 24, 1791 in Paris ) was a Swedish-Baltic composer , musician and patron from the Duchy of Courland and Semgallen He had been Prussian chamberlain from 1790 and lived partly from 1750 to 1782 and from 1782 to 1791 permanently in Paris.

Life and education

Carl Ernst was a student of Giuseppe Tartini . He came to Paris in 1750 and became a patron in the service of music. He has given concerts with well-known musicians and cultivated their contacts. These included, for example, Nicolas Capron , Pierre Gaviniès , François-Joseph Gossec , André-Noël Pagin , Federigo Fiorillo , Giovanni Giornovichi , Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain , Giovanni Battista Viotti , Luigi Boccherini and Rodolphe Kreutzer . For further musical education he was in England in 1778, in 1784 in Vienna and from 1789 to 1790 at the Prussian court, where he served as chamberlain to King Friedrich Wilhelm II . He returned to Paris in 1790 and died of mysterious circumstances that same year . The rumor of poisoning was spread among his acquaintances.

Musician

His musical abilities are described as follows: “He played the viola badly and the violin even worse, but considered himself a virtuoso of the first order and claimed to have invented a completely new method of violin playing, which slipped up and down with the same finger Pages, without any other application, should have passed ... "

Art patron

He was not only known as a music lover, but was also considered a true connoisseur and lover of the arts. He was distinguished by technical knowledge, brilliant taste and judgment, and was a sought-after art advisor. In his house on the Place des Victoires he used to give well-attended concerts . As far as his means allowed, he supported art and artists.

family

Carl Ernst B. was a descendant of the Swedish-Baltic aristocratic family Bagge von Boo . He was the son of the Courland Chamberlain Carl Bagge von Boo (1671-1747), who was married to Flora Charlotte Ferber (1695-1750) in his second marriage. Carl Ernst marries Josephine Maudry († 1763), whose marriage was childless.

Works

About Baron de Bagge

The Baron von B. is a short musical story by ETA Hoffmann that appeared in the sixth section of the third volume of the collection “ Die Serapionsbrüder ” in 1820 by G. Reimer in Berlin. The text was preprinted on March 10, 1819 in the " Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung ". The three protagonists are known from a letter from the author to Friedrich Rochlitz . The royal Prussian chamberlain, Baron Karl Ernst von Bagge, hides behind Baron von B.

Report by Leopold Mozart

Leopold Mozart met Baron Karl Ernst Bagge in Paris and wrote in his travel notes:

“I have to give Wolfgang a picture or a description of Baron Bache or Bagge (I don't know how he writes himself). He is, as far as I know, a poor baron from Prussia or the local area and married a very rich hatter's daughter in Paris. After all, all kinds of quarrels arose between them, and after we got home, the two married couples became involved in atrocities and such trials with each other that, as I heard, the woman was even supposed to have been put in a convent. He is a passionate lover of music. He always gave concerts in his house, and maybe still gives them. He also had a few people as two French horn players (among them was Heina), two Hautboists, a double bass, which he paid for at all times, but gave them little; but they could do it because it is permanent. In addition, he made do with all the foreign virtuosos who all came to him, since they could relax in the foreign city with his advice and [through him] could make further acquaintances. Even the Parisian virtuosos often come there; some, if they have something new, can try it there; others to hear strange pieces of music there because he is very keen to get new pieces of music; and finally they also come there to have the opportunity to hear new, foreign virtuosos "

- Leopold Mozart, travel records 1763 - 1771

Compositions by Baron Bagge (selection)

  • Concerto for violin in several instruments
  • Six concertanto quartets for two violins, viola and bass
  • Violin concerto for several instruments
  • 3. Synphony for violin, flute and bassoon
  • Cantata on the accession to the throne of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arrey von Dommer:  Bagge, Baron Karl Ernst von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 765.
  2. ↑ Arrey von Dommer:  Bagge, Baron Karl Ernst von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 765.
  3. ↑ Segebrecht in the edition used, p. 1541, 7th Zvu
  4. ↑ Segebrecht, p. 1221, 7th Zvo and p. 1681, 1st Zvu
  5. ↑ Segebrecht, p. 1541, 9. Zvu
  6. ↑ Arrey von Dommer:  Bagge, Baron Karl Ernst von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 765.
  7. ^ Leopold Mozart, travel records 1763-1771 , first printing of the complete sheets: Dresden (Oscar Laube) 1920. [1]
  8. ↑ Most popular works by Charles Ernest Bagge [2]
personal data
SURNAME Bagge by Boo, Carl Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Bagge, Charles Ernest baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Fockenhof , Courland
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1791
Place of death Paris