David Heinrich Garthoff

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Cover of the cantata “From the deep I call Lord to you” (“The sixth penitential psalm a 8 Organo”) with Garthoff's autograph

David Heinrich Garthoff , also David Heinrich Garthoffen (* around 1670 in Bendeleben ; † August 1, 1741 in Weißenfels ) was a German composer , musician and educator .

Life

In 1695, according to the church book, Garthoff was oboist for Count Schwarzburg in Sondershausen. According to Jakob Adlung , Garthoff received his musical training as a bassoonist at the Merseburg court . Since the Duke of Sachsen-Weißenfels wanted him to be at his court, the Duke of Merseburg let him go with the promise that he would never play the bassoon again. Garthoff worked as an oboist at the Weißenfelser Hofkapelle until 1700 . During a shooting competition in the summer of 1700, he suffered a wound on his face from a stray bullet. The then Weißenfelser Hofkapellmeister Johann Beer reported about it like this:

"... I was with your friend my gracious lord [err] on the cattle meadow [near Weissenfels] at the bird shooting with a number of pewter scissors, briefly, went to the head man Barthen carelessly released his shotgun through which unfortunate shot, first of all Heinrich Davied Gartthoff, after which I was wounded in the most dangerous way ... "

- Johann Beer, 1700

The shot tore off David Heinrich Garthoff's lower lip and then hit Beer in the neck, who died on the ninth day after. Adlung speculates that this was the "divine" revenge, since Beer had persuaded Garthoff to play the bassoon again.

Because Garthoff could no longer play wind instruments, he became court organist in Weissenfels in 1702 and from 1711 also music director at the Augusteum Weissenfels high school . Adlung saw him at the Weißenfelder Hof in 1726.

More than 60 cantatas by him have survived, 41 of which are designated as "Spiritual Questions and Answers" and can be considered a large part of a complete year of cantatas.

Works (selection)

  • Cantata From the depths I call Lord to you 1700
  • Cantata Alleluja, thank you (cantata for bass, trumpet, 2 violins + bc)
  • Cantata Mass Lord Almighty God
  • Motet Herr, teach me to do (Motet for alto, bass, 2 violins and basso continuo) 
  • Motet Lord, I love the cities of your house (motet for alto, bass, 2 violins and basso continuo) 
  • German Mass in F major

literature

  • Jakob Adlung: Instructions for musical proficiency . Verlag JD Jungnicel Sen., Erfurt, 1758, p. 99f.
  • Gustav Heinrich Heidenreich: Church and school chronicle of the city and euphoria Weißenfels since 1539. Verlag Leopold Kell, Weißenfels, 1840, p. 79.
  • Roswitha Jacobsen (Hrsg.): Weißenfels as a place of literary and artistic culture in the baroque age. Editions Rodopi BV, Amsterdam / Atlanta GA, 1994, pp. 85, 110.
  • Wolfgang Ruf: The Courts of Saxony-Weißenfels, Saxony-Merseburg and Saxony-Zeitz in Music at German Courts, Changing Artistic Priorities 1725 - 1760. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2011, p. 232.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arno Werner: Municipal and princely music care in Weissenfels up to the end of the 18th century. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1911, p. 74.
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Herbert Seemann (Ed.): Yearbook of the Austrian Goethe Society , Volume 104/105 (2000/2001). Lit Verlag , Münster 2004, p. 157
  3. ↑ Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Archive for Musicology . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1968, p. 312.
personal data
SURNAME Garthoff, David Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garthoffen, David Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendelife
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1741
Place of death Weissenfels