Christine Dorothea Salmon

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Christine Dorothea Lachs (called the Lachsin ; * 1672 in Hanover , † after 1716) was a German poet and librettist .

life and work

Title page of the opera "Der lachende Democritus" from 1704

Christine Dorothea Lachs was the second youngest of five daughters of the Electoral Saxon court conductor Nicolaus Adam Strungk . Like her sisters, she probably appeared in the Leipzig Opera , directed by Strungk . In 1701 she married the Regensburg pastor Johann David Lachs in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden , who died in 1709. For Georg Philipp Telemann, she translated three opera libretti from Italian into German:

  • The laughing Democritus ( Oper am Brühl (Leipzig) New Year's Fair 1704)
  • Cajus Caligula (Oper am Brühl (Leipzig) Easter Mass 1704)
  • Germanicus (Oper am Brühl (Leipzig) Michaelismesse 1704 and 1710)

According to the studies of the musicologist Michael Maul , the “Lachsin” turned back to the Leipzig opera business in 1710/11 after the untimely death of her husband. In 1710 she worked as a “Konsortin Döbricht” (= her brother-in-law, the opera entrepreneur Samuel Ernst Döbricht (1680–1751)) at the Leipzig Michaelism Fair in the reworking of the 1704 opera Germanicus . Maul attests to the three Telemann librettos mentioned with their "sometimes sophisticated challenges in terms of linguistic rhythm" as being "modern poems that certainly meet the visions of the young Telemann".

In 1715 Georg Christian Lehms , who from 1709–1710 himself was one of Telemann's librettists, dedicated a few pages in his lexicon "Teutschlands Galante Poetinnen" to the salmon woman. He wrote about her:

... There is so much
to say of her excellent poetry as of her splendid understanding / and her good conduite ...

One of her best known poems is

"The most beautiful inclination"

You ask / what can my Freyes Hertz be able to bind /
Because it cannot captivate a black eye or hair?
Could a beautiful body and foot not ignite me / Who
would otherwise easily put the chains on women?
So a red mouth would please me a little /
a pleasant look and a white hand?
But know / dear friend / of all these pieces
None of them have yet stolen my freedom from me.
I do not blame the praiseworthy gifts / Which
nature communicates to some people before others:
But he should also have beauty as like Adonis /
That / like Narcissus he rushes to the well:
So, in the minister, my heart cannot move /
That it can be tied up with a slave tape.
But what my breast knows how to lay the nets /
That is a lofty spirit and excellent understanding /
A well-spoken mouth / an easy-
going being / An awakened mind and unmoved faithfulness:
This is what my heart has failed to read in front of those.
Now say / whether my choice is to be criticized in this regard?

Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus ( Frauenzimmer-Lexicon 1715) and Johann Heinrich Zedler's Universallexicon, vol. 16 also brought articles on CD salmon to Lehms .

literature

  • Linda Maria Koldau : Women - Music - Culture. A manual on the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-41224-505-4 .
  • Georg Christian Lehms : Germany's gallant poetesses. To be found at Samuel Tobias stool. Printed by Anton Heinscheidt, Franckfurt am Mayn 1715, pp. 89–96 ( digitized from Wikisource).
  • Michael Maul : Baroque Opera in Leipzig (1693-1720) . ( Rombach Sciences, Voces series , edited by Christian Berger / Christoph Wolff, Vol. 12 / 1,2.) Text volume and catalog volume Freiburg i. Br. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7930-9584-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Maul: Baroque Opera in Leipzig (1693-1720) . Textband, 2009, p. 634.
  2. ↑ Michael Maul 2009, p. 640.
  3. ↑ Michael Maul 2009, p. 640. See also the time table on the history of the first Leipzig opera house . Maul 2009, pp. 37-41.
  4. ↑ Michael Maul 2009, p. 642.
  5. ↑ On the Lachsin see in particular Michael Maul 2009, Vol. I, VI / 4 and VI / 5.
  6. ↑ Read up on Maul 2009 Vol. I, p. 630 ff.
  7. ↑ cf. Maul 2009 Vol. I, p. 630.
personal data
SURNAME Salmon, Christine Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH after 1716