Ernst Pastenaci

Title page of the printed sheet music from 1819

Theodor Ernst Leopold Pastenaci , partly also listed as Pastenacy (born March 12, 1794 in Gumbinnen ; † August 17, 1824 ) was a musician and composer.

Life

Theodor Ernst Leopold Pastenaci was born as the fourth son of the royal Prussian chancellery director Gottlieb Adolf David Pastenaci (1748–1808) and Charlotte Eleonore Pastenaci, b. Weger (1763–1847) born. He died on August 17, 1824 of spotted and lazy fever and was buried “with music” in the Altrossgarner cemetery in Königsberg .

He began his studies in Königsberg in 1810. Then he took a position as a private tutor in Lamgarben at Schippenbeil. He was there as a private tutor for the children of the von Egloffstein family. There he also gave piano lessons to the musically gifted Fanny von Egloffstein, to whom he later dedicated his waltzes.

He had composed several pieces of music (waltzes, piano reductions, scherzo) and sent them to Carl Maria von Weber on March 1, 1819. He received a detailed reply from him dated August 5, 1819, in which Weber half praised and half criticized his works. Despite Weber's advice, Pastenaci published his waltzes in Königsberg at Unzer as: Huit grandes Walses pour le Pianoforte composées et dedicés à Mademoiselle la Comtesse Fanny d'Egloffstein by E. Pastenaci Œuvre r. à Königsberg chez WA Unzer. 1819. After a partially negative review of these waltzes was published in the Allgemeine Musikischen Zeitung in December 1819 (XXI, p. 879), he justified himself by describing the waltzes as a youthful sin that he did not intend to publish. Weber's positive reply must have encouraged Pastenaci to suggest that his very talented piano student Fanny continue her training at Weber in Dresden.

At the end of 1819 he accompanied Count Egloffstein with his wife and daughter to Dresden. The main reason for this trip was to let Fanny Carl Maria von Weber enjoy her lessons. Pastenaci got to know Weber personally and on December 13, 1819, he entered the register of Fanny von Egloffstein ( Dresden City Archives ). He admonishes her to use the time with her teacher Weber. Weber noted in his diary that "Pastenazi" visited him on December 4, 1819. On December 5, 1819 Weber made a return visit to Count Egloffstein. On December 7th, 1819 Fanny Weber auditioned and began her lessons on December 31st, 1819. On December 10th, 1819 Pastenaci took one hour of lessons from Weber. On December 14th, 1819, Pastenaci was invited to tea at Webers again in the evening before he returned to Königsberg on December 18th, 1819. Count Egloffstein died suddenly in Dresden in January 1820. Fanny von Egloffstein then became Carl Maria von Weber's favorite pupil. She later married a Rittmeister von Mangold.

In Koenigsberg

In the spring of 1818 Pastenaci moved to Königsberg, probably also because Count Egloffstein was planning the trip to Dresden and no longer needed his services. He worked there as a music teacher and ran a lending library for music. This lending library was founded by Streber in 1793 and given to the musicians Hoffmann and Pastenaci. Together with the royal music director Carl Heinrich Sämann (1790–1860) and Johann Friedrich Dorn , Pastenaci founded a singing institute in Königsberg in 1818, the task of which was to perform church music from older and more recent times, “preferably those older works that have never been played in Königsberg Performance had come. ”On December 17, 1823, in the hall of the Kneiphöfischen grammar school, Handel's Alexanderfest was performed by the Singing Society based on Mozart's arrangement. The bass solo part was performed by Pastenaci, together with music master Wurst. This was probably the last concert that Pastenaci took part in until the typhus killed him. He owed the bookstore Gräfe und Unzer 199 thalers.

The singing club organized the funeral, which took place on August 23, 1824 with the participation of the choir. The text appeared in print under the title: Gesänge am Grabe of our friend Ernst Pastenaci, 23 August 1824, Königsberg: Hartung .

Works

In addition to the aforementioned print, there were 2 manuscripts of Pastenaci's compositions in the Royal University Library in Königsberg (estate of Friedrich August Gotthold) until 1945. See Müller (1870), p. 282. 1. Grande Caprice pour le Pianoforte composeé par E. Pastenaci. Ms in folio 15 pp. Caprice in Cdur. 2. 10 Variations pour le Pianoforte sur un thème de J. Haydn composeé par E. Pastenaci 1819. MS in Folio 7 fol.

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• I owe the extracts from C. M von Weber's diary to the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage; Information from the C.-M.-v.-Weber complete edition.
• Brief biographical information: In: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung . 1846, No. 8 February, p. 136.
• Carl M. von Weber: Complete writings . 1908, p. CVII.
• Fritz Gause: The history of the city of Königsberg i. Pr. 2nd volume, From the coronation to the outbreak of the First World War . Böhlau 1996, ISBN 3-412-09096-4 , p. 477.
• CH Saemann: About the development and progress of the Singverein founded in 1820 in Königsberg . Hartung 1845, Königsberg p. 5
• Erwin Kroll: Königsberg, city of music . 1966.
• EZA [Evangelisches Zentralarchiv] 0 611/11 +, p. 202, no. 13 and EZA O 1944 3+ (Altrossgarten death register), p. 84
• Müller, Jos .: The musical treasures of the royal and university library in Königsberg in Pr. From the estate of Friedrich August Gotthold: Along with messages from his musical diaries. A contribution to the history and theory of the art of music. A. Marcus, 1870 p. 282

Web links

• Letter from Carl Maria von Weber to Mr. Pastenacci in Schippenbeil in East Prussia. Digital text at Zeno.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (XXIII, 543)
2. ↑ cf. General Musical Newspaper XXVI, 105
3. ^ Result in G-Books