Clemens Hader

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Clemens Hader von Hadersberg , called Clementino or Clementin (* around 1655 ; † before February 14, 1714 in Saint-Cloud ) was a German-Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) of the Baroque . He was one of the few known castrati who did not come from Italy , but from Austria or Germany .

Life

The life of Clementin von Hadersberg is only partially explored.

From January 1, 1672 to March 1687, he worked as a soprano at the Imperial Court Chapel in Vienna . In addition to church music, he is most likely also to have appeared in operas and oratorios by the imperial conductor Antonio Draghi and perhaps also sang music by the composing Emperor Leopold I. However, there is little precise information because the names of the performers of operas at the imperial court were not recorded in the libretti at the time . There is evidence of his participation in the opera Il fuoco eterno custodito dalle Vestali (October 30, 1674), with music by Antonio Draghi , Emperor Leopold, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer . The stars of this production were the prima donna Giulia Masotti , and the castrati Vincenzino ( Vincenzo Olivicciani ) and "Franzl" (Adam Franz Günther, son of the organist Karl Günther at the Michaelerkirche in Vienna).

During his time in Vienna, Clementin Hader also had guest appearances on various other opera stages.

On a trip to Italy, he was in 1681 together with Georg Muffat in Verona in a military hospital in quarantine held.

In 1682 he sang in Munich in Agostino Steffani's opera Servio Tullio and in Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei's Ascanio in Alba . In May 1682 he appeared at the Teatro Ducale of Mantua in Giovanni Llimi's opera Ottaviano Cesare Augusto , next to Margherita Salicola , Francesco de Castris (called "Cecchino"), and the tenor Giovanni Buzzoleni . Since he was announced in Italian in the libretto as “Clementino de Nadersbergh” and “Musico di SMC”, he had already been ennobled by the emperor at that time.

During the Carnival of 1683 in Venice at the Teatro San Salvatore he sang the role of Bassiano in the world premiere of Llimi's I due Cesari . He was particularly admired for an aria with a concert trumpet and even in Paris you could read in the Mercure Galant that he had “... one of the most beautiful voices that the opera currently has”.

In 1686, Clementino again made a guest appearance in Munich at the wedding of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel and received a high salary of 1500 guilders. In the following year (1687) he officially entered the service of the elector until the end of his life.

At the Munich court he often sang in operas by Agostino Steffani, for example in Niobe in 1688 , regina di Tebe . During a state visit by Emperor Leopold I to Munich on February 5, 1690, an opera Eraclio was performed, the music of which was probably composed by Clementin Hader.

With the permission of Maximilian II Emanuel, Clementino was allowed to perform at other German royal courts and was practically passed around. In 1692 alone he sang in operas by Steffani in Hanover and was probably also in Dresden ; and in the same year he followed Maximilian II Emanuel to Brussels when he became governor of the southern Netherlands . Around the same time, Count Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck (the brother of the famous Aurora ) wanted to hire him as a music teacher for his daughters with Sophie Dorothea von Celle.

In 1693, 1695 and 1696 Clementino was again in Hanover to sing for Steffani.

When the Bavarian elector had to go into exile in Brussels and France in 1704 , Clementin Hader was one of the musicians who accompanied him. The singer died in Saint-Cloud near Paris before February 14, 1714.

According to Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1678), Clementin Hader had a “good voice” with a range from d 'to a' '. At the height of his career in the 1680s and 90s, the singer was in great demand and was mentioned in the Mercure de France in 1726 as one of the best singers of the Italian opera of his time because of his beautiful voice.

literature

  • Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Hader, Clemens , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2003/2012, pp. 1914–1915, online on online (accessed December 24, 2019)
  • Mercure Galant , March 1683, pp. 271–280, here: p. 279, ( online ; French; accessed on December 24, 2019
  • Robert Münster: Clementin (Clementino; Hader, Clementin; Hadersberg, Clementin von) , 1992/2002 , in Grove online (English; accessed December 25, 2019)
  • Colin Timms: Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music , Peyton and Barber, Oxford University Press, 2003, online as Google Book ; English; Accessed December 24, 2019)
  • Herbert Seifert: Hader, Clemens (Clementine). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .

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Individual notes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Hader, Clemens , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2003/2012, pp. 1914–1915, online on online ( access on December 24, 2019)
  2. ↑ The exact nationality is apparently not known, as the exact place of birth is apparently not known. If he was born in what is now Austria, which was part of the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation”, he was also a German at the time.
  3. ↑ Janet K. Paige: Sirens on the Danube: Giulia Masotti and Women Singers at the Imperial Court. … 2015, online , section 4.4.
  4. ↑ The French website Quell'Usignolo , which specializes in baroque singers , also mentions Clementino's participation in Draghi's I Varii Effetti d'amore in a female role . Unfortunately the author does not give an exact source for it. Clement Hader dit Clementino (also Clement, Clemens, Clementin, von Hadersberg, Hader von Hadersberg, Nadersbergh) , online at Quell'Usignolo (French; accessed on December 24, 2019)
  5. ↑ "Hader, Clemens (Clementin)", short bio in the Austrian Music Lexicon online ( accessed December 25, 2019)
  6. ↑ SMC = Latin Sua Maesta Cesarea , meaning "musician of his imperial majesty"
  7. ↑ List of artists on page 3 in the libretto online (accessed December 24, 2019)
  8. ↑ Ottaviano Cesare Augusto (Giovanni L Limiti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  9. ↑ Clement Hader dit Clementino (also Clement, Clemens, Clementin, von Hadersberg, Hader von Hadersberg, Nadersbergh) , online at Quell'Usignolo (French; accessed on December 24, 2019)
  10. ↑ This contradicts Kutsch-Riemens, who claim that he was ennobled by the Bavarian elector with the title "von Hadersberg" only after 1686-87. Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Hader, Clemens , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2003/2012, pp. 1914–1915, online on online (accessed December 24, 2019)
  11. ↑ German: "The two Caesars". I due Cesari (Giovanni Lenzei) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  12. ^ " Clement Hader, connu sous le nom de Clementin,, ... une des plus belles voix d'Hommes qui soit dans tous les Opéra (s) ". Mercure Galant , March 1683, pp. 271-280, here: p. 279, ( online ); French; Accessed December 24, 2019
  13. ↑ Colin Timms: Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music , Peyton and Barber, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 33, online as Google Book ; English; Accessed December 24, 2019
  14. ^ A b c Colin Timms: Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music , Peyton and Barber, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 60, online as Google Book ; English; Accessed December 24, 2019
  15. ↑ Mercure de France , 1726, p. 93, online (accessed December 24, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Hader, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clementino; Hader, clementine; Hader, Clement; von Hadersberg, Clemens; von Hadersberg, Clement; von Hadersberg, Clementin; Hader von Hadersberg, Clemens; Hader von Hadersberg, Clementin; de Nadersbergh, Clementino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian opera singer, castrato
DATE OF BIRTH around 1655
DATE OF DEATH before February 14, 1714
Place of death Saint-Cloud