Carl Siegemund Schönebeck

Carl Siegemund (Sigismund) Schönebeck (born October 26, 1758 in Lübben ; † April 22, 1806 there ) was a German cellist and composer . Most of the largely forgotten composer's works have been lost. His traditional compositions appear original and are reminiscent of Ludwig van Beethoven .

Life

According to his parents' wishes, Schönebeck was supposed to become a surgeon , but felt so drawn to music that he started taking lessons from the town musician of Lübben from the age of 14. Despite long years of apprenticeship, later also in Grünberg in Silesia , Schönebeck learned several wind instruments and violin largely self-taught. When a cello virtuoso came to Grünberg, he was so enchanted by his playing that he taught himself this instrument, which was completely new to him.

After just two years, the house chapel of the Count von Dohna in Kotzenau in Silesia accepted the young cellist. In 1780 Schönebeck became the town musician of Sorau in Niederlausitz. To further perfect his playing he traveled to Potsdam , where he heard the French cello virtuoso Jean-Louis Duport , and to Dresden to make music with the French cellist Jean-Balthasar Tricklir .

In 1787 Schönebeck moved to the chapel of the Duke of Courland in Sagan in Silesia . Four years later he entered the service of Count Truchseß zu Waldburg near Königsberg in Prussia . He stayed there for two years until he went to Königsberg and played there as a cellist in the orchestra and as an organist in a church. Four years later, Schönebeck and his wife tried to become farmers at Lübben - without success.

The cellist switched to composition and music lessons in his native city. In 1800 he performed his own works in Leipzig.

Schönebeck died in his hometown in 1806.

Works

Schönebeck composed operettas , duos for two cellos as well as for cello and viola , quartets, as well as concerts for cello, for flute, for French horn and for clarinet . Most of these works are lost.

literature

• Gerber, Ernst Ludwig: New historical-biographical dictionary of the Tonkünstler . Volume 4 (S − Z), Leipzig, 1814, ( Schönebeck's biography online )

Web links

• Schönebeck's works

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Paul Gerhardt Church (Lübben) : Church book . Funerals. No. 22/1806.
2. ^ Carl Siegemund Schönebeck, Duo concertants for two violoncellos, Opus 12 / 1-3, ed. by Folkmar Längin, H. Litolff's Verlag / CFPeters, 1980, foreword. See also the catalog of the German National Library, Carl Siegemund Schönebeck.