Christoph Ludwig Fehre

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Christoph Ludwig Fehre (born January 18, 1718 in Zehren , † October 28, 1772 in Dresden ) was a German composer and organist . Fehre was largely unknown until recently. He was only interested in musicology when it became known at the end of the 20th century that the so-called “schoolmaster's cantata” originated from him. This composition, which is often performed in today's school music , had previously been attributed to Georg Philipp Telemann .

Life

As a child he attended the Lyceum in Chemnitz . He received his first musical lessons from his uncle Johann Christian Gerstner (1675–1753). From 1727 to 1734 he attended the Annenschule in Dresden . In 1742 he applied unsuccessfully for the position of organist at the Dresden Frauenkirche . From February 26, 1754, he represented the organist of the Annenkirche in Dresden , whose office he took over in August 1757. After the destruction of the Annenkirche in the Seven Years' War (July 20, 1760), he took over interim services until 1769 in the Bartholomäuskirche and in the electoral painter's hall on Ostra-Allee . On October 8, 1769, he led the church music for the inauguration of the newly built Annenkirche.

Fehres brother David Augustin Fehre (born October 13, 1715 in Zehren , † November 1779 in Mitau ) was a harpsichord player and from 1739 music director of the ducal court orchestra in Mitau.

Works

The "Schoolmaster Cantata"

Fehres Cantata The schoolmaster in the singing school for bass voice, boys' choir and orchestra was considered a work by Georg Philipp Telemann until 1981 ( TWV 20:57). Today it is one of the most popular compositions for school use and has had a lasting impact on the image of the composer Telemann. Hellmuth Christian Wolff first expressed doubts about Telemann's authorship in 1981 ; they were confirmed in 1995 by Hans-Joachim Schulze . The incipit of the piece appears in a supplement to the Breitkopf catalog in 1768 under Fehres' name; without incipit, the title The schoolmaster in the singing school is also assigned to Fehre in the catalogs of 1770 and 1836.

Fehre composed the piece, first performed in July 1751, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his uncle and teacher Johann Christian Gerstner, who had been cantor first in Lommatzsch from 1701 , from 1711 to St. Jacobi in Chemnitz and finally from 1727 at the Annenkirche in Dresden . Several versions of the orchestral part have survived: on the one hand, the four-part string set, which is common in schools today; on the other hand, there is also a version with two oboes and two horns, which shows an orchestral movement that is already classically oriented and which is otherwise not found in the work of Telemann, who is a generation older.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fehre, Christoph Ludwig ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), in the Person Wiki of the SLUB Dresden.
  2. ↑ Gerstner, Johann Christian ( Memento from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), in the Person Wiki of the SLUB Dresden.
  3. ↑ Fehre, David Augustin ( Memento from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), in the Person Wiki of the SLUB Dresden.
  4. ^ Robert Eitner: Biographical-Bibliographical Sources-Lexicon of Musicians and Music Scholars of the Christian Era up to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century , Volume 3 ( Cochet-Flitin ), Leipzig (Breitkopf & Haertel) 1900.
  5. ^ Hellmuth Christian Wolff: Georg Philipp Telemann - 300 Years , Die Musikforschung 34 (1981), p. 49.
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulze, Der Schulmeister (TWV 20:57) - a comical cantata , in: Telemanniana et Alia Musicologia (Oschersleben: Ziethen, 1995), pp. 117–121.

literature

  • Steffen Stolz: Johann Christian Gerstner and the brothers David Augustin and Christoph Ludwig Fehre: a contribution to Saxon music history. Biographies, historical context, catalogs of works . In cooperation with the Ev.-Luth. Zehren Parish Office, Munich 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Fehre, Christoph Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Consume
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1772
Place of death Dresden