Ernst Daniel Adami

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Ernst Daniel Adami (engraving by Johann Bartholomäus Strahowsky)

Ernst Daniel Adami (born November 19, 1716 in Zduny , district of Krotoschin ; † June 29, 1795 in Pommerwitz near Neustadt in Upper Silesia ) was a German bandmaster , organist , music teacher , writer , choir director , teacher and Protestant theologian .

Adami's father intended his son to be a skilled tradesman, but the son was drawn to literature and music. After his first private music lessons, he went to a grammar school in Thorn , where he sang in the choir. After graduating from school, he was recommended to work as an educator for the son of Count von Dohna -Wartenberg-Leistnau. After stints in Strasbourg and Königsberg , Adami went to the University of Jena as a theology student in 1738 , where he received the title of Magister Artium around 1740 , and returned to Zduny the following year. In 1743 Adami became the musical director of the Latin school in Landeshut . He held this position until his departure in 1757, when he accepted a pastoral position in concern that year. On August 18, 1760, Adami married Anna Rosina Predel in Zduny. There are no known descendants from this marriage. After several parish posts, Adami went to Pommerwitz in 1763, where he stayed until his death.

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music

Adami has left several musical works, including Reasonable Thoughts on the Triple Reverberation from the Entrance of the Adersbach Stone Forest in the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1750 and a philosophical-musical treatise on the divine beauty of singing in sacred songs at public worship services from 1755. In addition, Adami also composed several cantatas .

Local and regional studies

In addition, Adami published historical treatises about his Silesian homeland, especially Landeshut, B .:

  • 1751: " Unpredictable thoughts about the former hat on the so-called Burg-Berge near Landeshut in Silesia, and what else occurs on the same considerable amount of antiquities ... "
  • 1753: “ De Eruditis Landeshutta oriundis: or the learned state hat in Silesia; these are complicated descriptions of life by learned provincial keepers, who have sprung from its soft images and have made themselves known outside and in the fatherland through their merits, and who still show their diligence; collected from various credible documents as a contribution to the Silesian learned history "
  • 1753: " Attempt at a religious history of state hat in Silesia ... until 1635 "
  • 1756: " Freye's thoughts about the rare and worthy of consideration in a beech tree felled in 1755 at the State Shutt, with which the physical possibility of the same for the safe reasons of nature represents knowledge "

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ FamilySearch International
  2. ↑ Unvorgreifliche Gedancken on ehmahlige hat ... in the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
personal data
SURNAME Adami, Ernst Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, organist, music teacher, writer, choir director, teacher and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Zduny , Krotoschin County
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1795
Place of death Pommerwitz near Neustadt in Upper Silesia