Carl Friedrich Weidemann (musician)

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Carl Friedrich Weidemann as Modern Orpheus , after a drawing by William Hogarth

Carl Friedrich Weidemann , also Charles Frederick Weidemann , Carl Friedrich Weideman , Carl Friedrich Weidmann , Carl Friedrich Wiedeman (* around 1704, † May 24, 1782 in London ) was a German flautist and composer who worked in London .

Life

Nothing is known about Carl Friedrich Weidemann's origins and training. Before October 1724 he came to London. In the spring of 1725 he played as a flautist in Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Tamerlano in the New Theater, Haymarket . When Johann Joachim Quantz came to London in 1727, Weidemann was already one of the city's leading flautists. He played as a flutist and oboist especially in Handel's orchestra and taught the game on the German Flute ( Flute ). Some of the flute parts in Handel's works were tailored to him. Ardal Powell thinks he could have been part of the musical / homosexual underworld of London.

In April 1738, alongside Michael Christian Festing, he was one of the founders of the Fund for the Support of Decayed Musicians and their Families , which later became known as the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain and which also supported Handel. For 1751, he was named one of three Governors of the Royal Society responsible for the line, organization and program of the year-end public performance .

As the successor to Giuseppe Sammartini , who died in 1750 , Weidemann took over the flute lessons of the future King Georg III as music master from Friedrich Ludwig von Hannover . After the accession of George III. In 1760 Weidemann was employed in the royal orchestra The King's Band of Musicians and was Assistant Master of the King's Musick under William Boyce . He was also responsible for the music for the royal birthday celebrations and wrote a number of minuets for court balls.

Weidemann remained unmarried. He lived to sublet near St. James's Place . He bequeathed his inheritance to the oboist Peter Philipp Eiffert ( bl. 1752–1785).

The countess's morning levee (excerpt)

The flautist in William Hogarth's fourth painting from the satirical series Marriage a-la-Mode , The Toilette or The countess's morning levee , is traditionally identified as Carl Friedrich Weidemann. Hogarth's satirical depictions were widely used as copper engravings . The flautist is positioned behind a fat singer, who is believed to be caricaturing the castrato Giovanni Carestini , and is positioned directly under a painting depicting the robbery of Ganymede . Georg Christoph Lichtenberg writes about it:

“Behind him stands our compatriot, the famous virtuoso on the German flute (that's the name of the flute in England), Weidemann. I should be very mistaken, or there is a kind of good-natured rascality lurking in the right corner of the eye as well as the corner of the mouth, which in the end, especially when taken together with the hawkish nose, takes over for the honest man. He seems to be smiling himself while blowing. In a society where every face and gesture is so full of laughing matter, it's hard to tell what he's smiling about once you assume he's looked away at the music. But it requires Mr. Weidemann's virtuoso honor to assume here that he has never looked away. But then there would be nothing left to explain the smile but a secret cost estimate for their mutual instruments. How much money did I pay for my flute, and what was the monetary value of the castrat paid for his pipe? Weidemann's face is not neutral. "

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Detailed explanation of the Hogarthic copper engravings

Recently, however, Bernd Krysmanski thinks this is a satirical representation of Frederick the Great .

The Enraged Musician (1741)

Weidemann is also the subject of another work by Hogarth: The Modern Orpheus shows him captivating his listeners while playing the flute on the street. Food, coins and other items are thrown at him.

It has also been assumed that Weidemann provided the template for the portrayal of the street Hautboist in Hogarth's satirical engraving The Enraged Musician .

Works

  • op.1: 12 solo sonatas for flute and basso continuo (ca.1737)
  • op. 2: 6 " Concertos in seven parts" for 1 to 2 flutes and strings (approx. 1746)
  • op. 3: 6 sonatas for flute (s), violin and basso continuo (1751)
  • op.4: 6 duets for 2 flutes (ca.1751)
  • op.5: Second set of 12 solo sonatas for flute and basso continuo (c. 1760)
  • op.6: 6 duets for 2 flutes (ca.1765)
  • op. 7: 6 "Concertos in eight parts" for 2 flutes, 2 horns ad libitum and strings (approx. 1766)
  • op.8: 6 quartets for flute, violin, viola and cello (1773)

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Friedrich Weidemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MGG2 does not give a date of birth
  2. ^ Ardal Powell: The Flute. Yale University Press 2002 ISBN 9780300094985 , p. 79
  3. ^ Pippa Drummond: The Royal Society of Musicians in the Eighteenth Century , Oxford Journals, 1978, pp. 268-289
  4. ↑ Hans Joachim Marx : The music at the English court of Georg III. , in: Göttingen Handel Articles XV. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014, p. 120
  5. ↑ Eiffert, [Peter?] Philip , in: Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans: A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Volume 5: Eagan to Garrett, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press 1978 ISBN 0-8093-0832-0 , pp. 45f.
  6. ^ Notes and audio files by Philipp Peter Eiffert in the International Music Score Library Project
  7. ↑ Franz Kottemkamp: William Hogarth's drawings ... With the complete explanation of them by GC Lichtenberg. Second improved edition, Stuttgart: Rieger 1857, p. 50
  8. ↑ Bernd Krysmanski: The only authentic portrait of the old Fritz? : discovered in Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode = Is the only true likeness of Frederick the Great to be found in Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode. Dinslaken: Krysman Press 2015 ISBN 978-3-00-050343-6
  9. ↑ Jeremy Barlow: The Enraged Musician: Hogarth's Musical Imagery. London: Ashgate Publishing 2005 ISBN 184014615X , p. 204
  10. ↑ List of works based on Grove (Lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Weidemann, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidemann, Charles Frederick; Weideman, Carl Friedrich; Weidmann, Carl Friedrich; Wiedeman, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist and composer in London
DATE OF BIRTH around 1704
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1782
Place of death London