Daniel von Sprewitz

t͡s Daniel von Sprewitz , completely Friedrich Heinrich Daniel (von) Sprewitz , Russian Даніилъ Шпревичъ (* 1773 in Rostock ; † 1844 in Hamburg ) was a German-Russian music teacher, publisher and coin collector .

Life

Daniel Sprewitz was a son of the lawyer Johann Christoph Sprewitz from Güstrow , tax advisor at the ducal law firm in Rostock . The officer Joachim Jacob (from 1803: von) Sprewitz († 1819) was his brother.

After initial studies in Rostock, he came to Erfurt and studied with Johann Christian Kittel at the University of Erfurt . After obtaining a doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1795 he went to Saint Petersburg as a piano teacher , where in 1796 he and his brother Wilhelm Ludwig Heinrich Sprewitz founded the Gebrüder Sprewitz publishing house . The music store and the publishing house were on Vasilyevsky Island on Neva Quay between the 7th and 8th line in house no. 46 (1796), on Isaak Square in the house of Titular Councilor I. Je. Sismarew No. 107 (1797–1799) and the Admiralty opposite in the London Inn No. 88 (1799). The publisher mainly published German compositions, such as the VI. Changes to the German religious folk song "Not so sad, not so much, etc." for the piano by Johann Christian Kittel, works by Kittel's students Christian Heinrich Rinck and Michael Gotthard Fischer as well as works by Daniel Sprewitz. In 1797 the brothers opened the first musical lending library in Russia on their premises .

From 1799 to 1829 Daniel Sprewitz worked as an honored piano teacher for high demands in Moscow , where he also taught Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Odojewski as a professor at the Moscow University affiliated noble pension ( Universitetskij Blagorodnyj Pansion ) . In 1805 Johann Nikolaus Forkel mentioned him as a music teacher in Moscow, who, like Johann Wilhelm Häßler, had been a student of Kittel and propagated the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in Russia and made Vladimir Odojewski known about it. On October 27, 1828, he was released into retirement due to poor health . In 1832 Sprewitz left Russia with his wife; so his track is lost .

He is, however, definitely identical with the important, but biographically difficult to grasp, Moscow coin collector and Imperial Russian councilor Dr. von Sprewitz († 1844), who lived in Hamburg in the 1830s and whose (second) collection was sold in Hamburg.

In years of collecting activity, Sprewitz had amassed a large and important collection, mainly of oriental coins that had come into trade as a result of the territorial expansion of the Russian Empire . In 1822 he was able to acquire a hoard of seven pounds of Kufic coins from the Mogilev governorate from a Jewish dealer . One part (310 coins) he sold to the new Asian Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, which was under the direction of Christian Martin Joachim Frähn , also from Rostock . In 1825 Frähn wrote the first catalog of the collection and in 1829 brokered a major purchase by the Tsar for the construction of a numismatic cabinet at the Imperial University in Charkow , where Bernhard Dorn had just received the professorship for Oriental languages. The proceeds allowed Sprewitz to return to Germany, where he settled in Hamburg.

Sprewitz still owned a rich collection of 1,018 coins, which he had Louis Loewe catalog in 1832 . From 1836 Sprewitz tried to sell the collection. In 1838/39 a description appeared in the Numismatic Chronicle , together with the information that Hermann Grote was entrusted with the sales negotiations in Hanover . At that time Sprewitz was living in Hamburg-St. Georg, Langreihe 110. After the death of Sprewitz, Frédéric Soret acquired a large part of the collection, kept some himself and brokered the purchase of 133 coins for the Oriental Coin Cabinet in Jena , financed by Grand Duchess Maria Pawlowna . Some of them have survived to this day.

family

Daniel von Sprewitz was married to Maria Ivanovna, b. Hesse. The couple probably had two sons, including the painter Nikolai (originally Bogdan) Sprewitz (1799-after 1869), whose best-known work is a portrait of Philaret Drosdow (1861) and whose son Aleksandr Nikolaevič Šprevič (1834-1884) was also a painter, as well as the pianist and music teacher Johann (Ivan Daniilevic) Sprewitz.

Awards

• May 12, 1819: Titular Councilor
• April 4, 1828: Russian Order of Saint Anne 3rd class, associated with personal nobility

Works

• Andante avec VIII Variations pour le clavecin ou piano-forte, œuvre 1er. St. Petersburg: Gebr. Sprewitz 1797
• Sonata pour le Clavecin ou Piano Forte très humblement dediée à Madame la Conseillère Dittmar née Mayer à Rostock. Opus II. Petersburg: Frères Sprewitz
• Deux Quintetti per pianoforte, 2 violini, alto e violoncello. St. Petersburg: Gebr. Sprewitz 1797
• Arrangements based on Haydn's symphonies
• Setting of oldest Russian poems by Kirschei Danilow. Moscow 1818

literature

• Christian Martin Joachim Frähn : De musei sprewitziani Mosquae numis kuficis. St. Petersburg 1825.
• Collection of Oriental Coins, belonging to Dr. de Sprewitz. In: The Numismatic Chronicle 1 (1838/39), pp. 202-205 ( digitized from JSTOR ).
• Frédéric Soret : Catalog de la Collection de medailles orientales du Docteur de Sprewitz; redigé d'après le catalog original de M. de Fraehn et publié comme manuscrit. Geneva 1846.

Web links

• Entry in the Erik Amburger database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptized on September 6, 1773 in St. Jakobi in Rostock Rostock, according to the entry in the Erik Amburger database
2. ^ Enrolled at the University of Rostock in 1743 , see entry in Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ So Felix Pourtov: graduates of German universities as a music publisher in St. Petersburg of the 18th century. In: Ekkehard Ochs (ed.): University and music in the Baltic region. (Greifswald Contributions to Musicology 17) Frank & Timme, Berlin 2009, ISBN 9783865961839 , p. 134; Daniel Friedrich Heinrich Sprewitz's matriculation is not proven in the Rostock matriculation portal .
4. ↑ Felix Pourtov: The audience of German music shops in St. Petersburg by the end of the 18th to the first quarter of the 19th century. Full text , p. 57f
5. ^ Digitized copy of the SLUB copy
6. ↑ Felix Pourtov: Graduates from German universities as music publishers in St. Petersburg in the 18th century. In: Ekkehard Ochs (ed.): University and music in the Baltic region. (Greifswald Contributions to Musicology 17) Berlin: Frank & Timme 2009 ISBN 9783865961839 , p. 135
7. ^ Heike Müns: Music and Migration in East Central Europe. (Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe 23) Munich: Oldenbourg 2005 ISBN 9783486576405 , p. 378
8. ↑ Letter ( memento of the original dated June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , see also Jana Zwetzschke: "- I am sure that I will learn to love him -": Studies on Bach reception in Russia. (Studies and materials on musicology 52) Olms 2008 ISBN 9783487139081 , p. 93.  
9. ↑ Felix Pourtov: Graduates from German universities as music publishers in St. Petersburg in the 18th century. In: Ekkehard Ochs (ed.): University and music in the Baltic region. (Greifswald Contributions to Musicology 17) Berlin: Frank & Timme 2009 ISBN 9783865961839 , p. 137
10. ↑ This results from the references in Boris Andreevich Dorn : The Asian Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg 1846, z. BS 259 and others
11. ^ Tobias Mayer, Stefan Heidemann, Gert Rispling: Sylloge of the coins of the Caucasus and Eastern Europe in the Oriental Münzkabinett Jena. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2005 ISBN 9783447048934 (Orientalisches Münzkabinett Jena ISSN  1613-9682 1), p. XIX note 54
12. ↑ New Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , No. 140, 2nd year, June 13, 1843, numismatics; Writings by Friedrich Soret (conclusion from No. 139) ( digitized version )
13. ↑ Boris Andreevich Dorn : The Asian Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg 1846, p. 256
14. ^ Christian Martin Joachim Frähn : About the oriental coin cabinet of the Imperial University of Charkow. In: St. Petersburgische Zeitung 1829, No. 43, and the like: The latest enrichments in Mohammedan numismatics. In: Ders .: Collection of small treatises on Muslim numismatics. Leipzig 1839, pp. 21–48, here p. 21 (with mention of the second Sprewitz collection in Hamburg)
15. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia, Edition 1903: Dr Louis LOEWE
16. ^ Hamburg address books
17. ↑ See also Stefan Heidemann: The project, the Sylloge, the inventory. , in: Tobias Mayer, Stefan Heidemann, Gert Rispling: Sylloge of the coins of the Caucasus and Eastern Europe in the Oriental Münzkabinett Jena. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2005 ISBN 9783447048934 (Orientalisches Münzkabinett Jena ISSN  1613-9682 1), p. XIX note 54 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) Correcting its earlier representation in Islamic Numismatics in Germany: an inventory , p. 117 
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19. ↑ Entry in: Russian Biographical Archive & Biographical Archive of the Soviet Union (RBA & BASU) ( Kondakov, SN: Jubilejnyj spravočnik Imperatorskij Akademii chudožestv 1764-1914. ); Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sprewitsch in Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 31, Leipzig 1937, p. 409
20. ^ Heike Müns: Music and Migration in East Central Europe. (Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe 23) Munich: Oldenbourg 2005 ISBN 9783486576405 , p. 405
21. ↑ See ranking table ; Awards according to Felix Pourtov: Graduates from German universities as music publishers in St. Petersburg in the 18th century. In: Ekkehard Ochs (ed.): University and music in the Baltic region. (Greifswald Contributions to Musicology 17) Berlin: Frank & Timme 2009 ISBN 9783865961839 , p. 137.
22. ^ Robert Eitner : Biographical-Bibliographical Sources-Lexicon of Musicians and Music Scholars of the Christian Era up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Volume 9, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1903 p. 235 .