Conrad Höffler

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Konrad Höffler with a quote from Beer, 1695

Conrad Höffler (also Konrad or Höfler) (born January 28, 1647 in Nuremberg , † August 19, 1696 in Weißenfels ) was a German composer and gambist .

Life

Höffler was the son of the yarn dyer Hanns Höfler and his wife Elena and was baptized on January 30th of that year in the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Lorenz . Höffler obviously grew up with Johann Philipp Krieger in Nuremberg. Probably both received part of their early musical training from the Nuremberg gambist Gabriel Schütz (* 1633; † 1710). In addition, both were musicians at the Bayreuth court before 1673 .

From August 29, 1673, the Höffler at the Ansbacher Hof, hired by Johann Wolfgang Franck, is contractually bound, but does not seem to have arrived by October 13, as Frank wrote to him on that day:

" Se. Hochfürstl. Your Highness asked, among other things, why you are not adjusting ... "

- Johann Wolfgang Franck

But Höffler was dissatisfied in Ansbach, the conditions at court that Franck had promised him did not correspond to reality. In 1677, Höffler and Krieger can therefore be found together again at the court of Duke August of Saxony-Weissenfels in Halle (Saale) after his resignation from the Brandenburg-Ansbach service on March 28, 1676 was granted. For the first time, Höffler is in the document collection appointment of the Capell master David Pohlens as well as those of all. Musicians belonging to the Princely Chapel on August 8, 1676 for Halle. There he receives 180 thaler salary and 65 thaler food . On November 2, 1677, Johann Philipp Krieger succeeded him as court organist and vice conductor.

When the farm relocated to Weißenfels in 1680, Höffler was one of the first new estates.

“ On December 23rd, 1680 […] […] Johann Philipp Krieger, as Capell-Meister á part, and […] Conradt Höffler, as Cammer and Instrumental Musicus […] ex anno et supra Christian Keyserling were accepted. "

One month after Höffler's death in August 1696, Johann Beer , his friend and godfather of one of his children, was confirmed by the high ducal government as guardian for the two sons who were left behind by their first marriage .

plant

  • primitiæ chelicæ, Or / Musical first fruits / In 12. Sviten Viola diGamba Solo with / its Basi, divided into different tones, arranged according to the most flourishing instrumental art / And / The most Serene Prince and Mr. / Mr. Johann Adolphen / moved to Saxony [...] to his most gracious prince and lord / to the most submissive honors dediciret and composiret / by Hoch- saider His Pass. Cammer-Musico / Conrad Höfflern / Noribergensi. Anno M DC XCV . (Nuremberg, 1695)

literature

  • Karl Heinz Pauls, Johann Schenck: viol compositions by Johann Schenck and Conrad Hoeffler , Nagel, 1973.
  • Silke Leopold, Bärbel Pelker: South German court chapels in the 18th century: An inventory , Heidelberg University Publishing, Heidelberg, 2014/2018, p. 8.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Klages: Johann Wolfgang Franck: Investigations into his life story and his spiritual compositions , Preilipper, Hamburg, 1937, p. 14
  2. ^ Walter Serauky: Music history of the city of Halle: Halbbd. 1. From Samuel Scheidt to the time of Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach , Olms, Hildesheim, 1971, p. 231.
  3. ^ Thomas Fritzsch: Conrad Höffler - Cammer Musicus and Violdigambist at the court of Duke Johann Adolph I von Sachsen-Weißenfels , Edition Güntersberg, Heidelberg, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Höffler, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höfler, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, gambist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1696
Place of death Weissenfels